Advice Needed - Student Son's housemate threatening violence !

[MyUserName]

Also: clubbing is for losers. HTH.

WTF?

[NotAllThere]

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Also: clubbing is for losers. HTH.

No. Clubbing is for seals.

[doodab]

You signed up to live with total strangers because you had no friends? Or they were friends and you didn't know they were druggies?

Quite normal in the first year of Uni. Generally nobody has any friends at that point, making new ones is part of the journey.

Also: clubbing is for losers. HTH.

And seals.

Edit: I was too slow...

[d000hg]

Final year at Uni came back at Xmas to find the house we were renting was full of mould / damp and after sticking it for a while had to move out as we were all ill. Three of us went seperate ways as mid term so landed up being offered a room in a shared house with people I didn't know, who turned out to be students with drug issues.

Eew. Although Sas still wins, you were living in a dive student house to begin with

Quite normal in the first year of Uni. Generally nobody has any friends at that point, making new ones is part of the journey.

Ah, I'm used to proper unis where you live in halls/colleges the first year. I don't personally think living out in your first year is a good way to do things, living away from home is a big enough step towards adulthood!

[MarillionFan]

Eew. Although Sas still wins, you were living in a dive student house to begin with

Ah, I'm used to proper unis where you live in halls/colleges the first year. I don't personally think living out in your first year is a good way to do things, living away from home is a big enough step towards adulthood!

I got kicked out of halls.

[bobspud]

Wow I take a week out to actually work and all hell breaks lose

Looks like OH mixed his medication up badly. Way to go farm boy...

Advice for Platypus.
Violence is not going to help matters in a place where your son has to share a house full of knives with this moron... and you have to sleep sometimes.

Housework is always down to the person that has the lease tolerance of tidiness...

Simple advice : buy plastic spoons and paper plates and agree to disagree.

[doodab]

Ah, I'm used to proper unis where you live in halls/colleges the first year. I don't personally think living out in your first year is a good way to do things, living away from home is a big enough step towards adulthood!

Most "proper unis" also have large shared houses or "halls" that are divided into multiple flats.

Of course, some of us had lived on our own for a bit before we got to uni and didn't need babysitting

[d000hg]

Most "proper unis" also have large shared houses or "halls" that are divided into multiple flats.

Halls aren't the same as flats. Halls are halls.

Of course, some of us had lived on our own for a bit before we got to uni and didn't need babysitting

You did a Gap Yah? How progressive.

Part of the point of Uni is teaching you how to live as a real person, so snide comments about babysitting are rather lame really. The majority go straight from home (who cares if you didn't) so it makes sense the first year DOES hold your hand a bit. Starting uni life by being dumped in a house you've never seen, in a town you may have never visited, with people you never met, isn't sensible. That's the whole point of halls... you get a room or share a room and get to know people in a slightly 'managed' environment before taking the plunge into adulthood the next year when you know people.

[sasguru]

I got kicked out of halls.

Thus nicely proving my original point. Well done.

[Old Greg]

You signed up to live with total strangers because you had no friends? Or they were friends and you didn't know they were druggies?

Either way, the company someone keeps can tell you a lot about them.

Also: clubbing is for losers. HTH.

Remember: only users lose drugs.