Living with parents kind of puts the kibosh on dating?

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22 Jul 2018, 10:13 pm

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Again, I've worked for the majority of a decade among technology companies & every last one of them scoffed at the idea of paying me enough to get by, if anything.

You mean they want you to work for free? Your employers suck man.


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22 Jul 2018, 10:17 pm

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this f*****g god forsaken idiotic moronic stupid pointless boring town is so expensive, you pretty much have no choice but to live with your parents or have at least 4 roommates.

You should move to a town which is cheaper and more exciting.


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22 Jul 2018, 10:22 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
this f*****g god forsaken idiotic moronic stupid pointless boring town is so expensive, you pretty much have no choice but to live with your parents or have at least 4 roommates.

You should move to a town which is cheaper and more exciting.


moving takes money which i don't have

i'd need a job there....which i don't have



in other news: the sky is blue.


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22 Jul 2018, 10:26 pm

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it's kinda hard to get romantic with an FWB or a spouse when the parents are sleeping in the next room.

Unfortunately parents don't always remain in their own room. They have a tendency to barge in. Just because they knock it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to wait for permission to enter. If you tell them not to come in they may come in and ask why not.


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22 Jul 2018, 11:56 pm

Kiprobalhato wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
this f*****g god forsaken idiotic moronic stupid pointless boring town is so expensive, you pretty much have no choice but to live with your parents or have at least 4 roommates.

You should move to a town which is cheaper and more exciting.


moving takes money which i don't have

i'd need a job there....which i don't have



in other news: the sky is blue.


Methinks 'tiny houses' are going to get a lot more popular among people like us in the near future.


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22 Jul 2018, 11:58 pm

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Again, I've worked for the majority of a decade among technology companies & every last one of them scoffed at the idea of paying me enough to get by, if anything.

You mean they want you to work for free? Your employers suck man.


Not much respect to be had even where I am seen as some tech savant wunderkind.


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23 Jul 2018, 1:52 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
it's kinda hard to get romantic with an FWB or a spouse when the parents are sleeping in the next room.

Unfortunately parents don't always remain in their own room. They have a tendency to barge in. Just because they knock it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to wait for permission to enter. If you tell them not to come in they may come in and ask why not.


Flatmates do this to. I hate people, life really does seem like a punishment.



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23 Jul 2018, 2:21 am

cberg wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
this f*****g god forsaken idiotic moronic stupid pointless boring town is so expensive, you pretty much have no choice but to live with your parents or have at least 4 roommates.

You should move to a town which is cheaper and more exciting.


moving takes money which i don't have

i'd need a job there....which i don't have



in other news: the sky is blue.


Methinks 'tiny houses' are going to get a lot more popular among people like us in the near future.


Not for me I hope


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23 Jul 2018, 2:25 am

hale_bopp wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
it's kinda hard to get romantic with an FWB or a spouse when the parents are sleeping in the next room.

Unfortunately parents don't always remain in their own room. They have a tendency to barge in. Just because they knock it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to wait for permission to enter. If you tell them not to come in they may come in and ask why not.


Flatmates do this to.


Indeed they do. Don't have flatmates either.


hale_bopp wrote:
life really does seem like a punishment.


Sometimes I wonder if our world is actually the Hell of another world.


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23 Jul 2018, 2:32 am

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23 Jul 2018, 2:52 am

hale_bopp wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
it's kinda hard to get romantic with an FWB or a spouse when the parents are sleeping in the next room.

Unfortunately parents don't always remain in their own room. They have a tendency to barge in. Just because they knock it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to wait for permission to enter. If you tell them not to come in they may come in and ask why not.


Flatmates do this to. I hate people, life really does seem like a punishment.

I bought a lock for my door, has a key hole on other side and only I have the keys.



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23 Jul 2018, 3:34 am

sly279 wrote:
hale_bopp wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
it's kinda hard to get romantic with an FWB or a spouse when the parents are sleeping in the next room.

Unfortunately parents don't always remain in their own room. They have a tendency to barge in. Just because they knock it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to wait for permission to enter. If you tell them not to come in they may come in and ask why not.


Flatmates do this to. I hate people, life really does seem like a punishment.

I bought a lock for my door, has a key hole on other side and only I have the keys.


I should have done this in my last flat. Then maybe half my stuff wouldn’t have been stolen. Too trusting, too nice. People don’t deserve nice. It’s what life is teaching me.



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23 Jul 2018, 5:20 am

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:roll: You people need to either get thicker skins or develop your own senses of humor.

But if you really feel that Bea is bagging on you, stop trolling her, and report her.



seriously i see nothing funny about bashing dateless guys.

i have an aspie friend who moved out of the US since he couldn't sustain himself there, not even with two degrees. he managed in europe, after a lot of struggle. his dating prognosis is the same as it ever was, that is - nilch.



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23 Jul 2018, 6:43 am

Two years ago, I lived at a place where I could lock my room from outside, but not from inside. Funnily enough, a female friend of flatmate mistook once my room for the bathroom in the middle of the night and was about as shocked as me when she saw my obese silhouette in the dark, turning around in bed to face the door. Since that night, I made sure to block the door with a couple of heavy suitcases before going to bed, so at least any forceful intruder would topple them like dominoes and hopefully wake me up with the noise in time to reäct.

Now I live at a place where I can lock my room from inside, but not from outside. Distrust of one's flatmates is frowned upon.

I've never lived at a place where I was clearly allowed to have sex, unless, perhaps, if my sexual partner had also been a tenant (yeah, like she'd care to follow the rules if she actually wanted to have sex with me!—when you're used to obeying the rules because there's not much else worthwhile you can do, you keep forgetting most people aren't pathetic losers like you); however, most of my flatmates had no trouble having healthy, vibrant (yeah, I've often heard the vibration) sex lives. Go figure!


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23 Jul 2018, 8:48 am

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I see people living with one or both parents wanting a girlfriend/boyfriend, pretty often on here.

To me, that would be something of a deal-breaker. Do you agree?


I couldn't agree more. My dating prospects greatly improved after I moved out of home. Living by yourself is ideal. It's so convenient to have a place to take your date home to and then you can both have some private time together :wink:


I rent from my parents and have had next to no problems with getting laid. Where there’s a will, there’s a way! :mrgreen:


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23 Jul 2018, 9:03 am

If you have your own entrance, it makes it much easier.

I don't believe Sly has his own entrance.

My mother and I couldn't get along, even though I paid about 1/3 to 1/4 of the rent for the apartment which we were sharing. I had to leave; otherwise, who knows what might have happened....