barricade the door when you go to sleep.

Umm... I have lots of questions for you.

1. If you make manies playin da pokerz why for you live like an animal with an abusive owner in bad floppy housE

2. are you such a degen that you let people move in wit' you without even meeting them or at least doing a credit check

3. If answer to number two is yes then can I move in wit' you?

tell them you will move out and want to take some pics to remember that lovely dinner you guys had

1. What's a flophouse ?

2. Yeah, you prolly gon' get raped, probably by Dana using various "tools"

why can't you get pics of roommates from the sex offender registry and post them here, iyo?

$11 for a pic of dana to improve this thread

I lawl'd. Remember if you drop the soap and you feel something by your butt, do NOT back up...I repeat DO NOT back up.

I'm not sure if you were kidding or not, but this is actually a pretty good idea. There's gotta be at least a 20% chance or so that at least one of them is registered. I spent about 5 minutes on the sex offender site searching but if they are on there, I can't find them because I don't know their last names and I don't know where they "officially" live. Once they receive some mail here, I'll be able to see their last names and this might work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse

First off, I'm not ballin' out of control.

But I'm not exactly poor either.

I'd have to write about 1000 words to really answer why I choose to live below my means and in the end, a lot of people here wouldn't really believe me and the rest would just think I'm weird. Let's just say that it's a lifestyle choice. Four years of philosophy classes in college kind of f-ed up my head and I know longer believe that owning a place of my own where I can collect "stuff" is going to make me happier than being mobile.


(see above wiki article on flophouses--it wasn't my choice)

Well, I'm obviously going to leave this area soon. Where do you live? Wanna make a poker team? We can sit at the same tables and take all the maney. The F do.

This is not so far off from what I might try. I constant walk around outside with my camera taking pictures of the area. Before I leave, I could probably just walk inside this place still taking pictures saying I want to remember this place and justify taking a picture of them.

^ Wow. Crazy skills.

Best. Gimmick. Ever.

tbh, I've slept in slightly saner homeless shelters, Tapok.

1-bedroom or studio apartment FTW.
w/ a friggin' deadbolt on the door.
Not much of a stretch lifestyle-wise.

Or wtf, get a tent and build a fire pit. Very +EV rent-wise, except 4 occasional visits by the cops. Also, GL trying 2 argue philosophy w crazed meth heads.

Dude, it sounds like you only went halfway with whatever philosophical lifestyle choice you made, if you want to live in a flophouse but you're going to start crying every time you find out someone's been to prison.

This is a good idea. Put a big piece of furniture in front of the door. I think the risk of fire is less than the risk of rape/beating/murder.

Now that I think of it...they probably smoke various drugs in a semi-conscious state. Pretty high risk of fire. Umm...!

That's what I thought, too. With a generator, a tent, and some form of wireless internet service, you could live in the woods and just worry about getting raped by bears instead of humans.

UPDATE: 3/13


I'm not sure why Dana believes that all the food in this house is communal, because it's not. That's not how it generally works in a flophouse. We aren't a family. Buy your own damn food. Just because we happen to share a refrigerator doesn't mean you can just start eating food that you didn't buy. </rant>

Anyway, Dana made pasta tonight with my noodles and made way too much again and shared it with our neighbor, Tom. None of us ate together though so I was spared the weird conversations. The food just sat out and we all ate at different times.

When I was done eating in the common room, Sam walked in and asked if I wanted to smoke a joint. I took a rain check. I don't really smoke very often anymore and I definitely can't be high on Saturday nights because that's when I play a lot of poker.

I felt bad about declining because he just seemed like he was trying to be social, but we started talking about weed a bit and then I think I earned some cool points with him when I showed him the bong I built a month ago out of a Gatorade bottle. (I think I actually like building bongs more than I like smoking.)



Sam starred at the bong for a little while and then went on the strange rant where he tried to convince me that the best way to use a bong is to put ice chips and red wine in it. When I asked him why red wine was better to use than water, he said, “Just trust me, dude. It's better.”

Anyway, I think I'm on his good side now. I'm still a little creeped out about the bathroom incident a couple nights ago, but I think I have dramatically reduced my chances of getting raped in the near future.

Can't rape the willing. Accept your fate; relax and enjoy yourself.

Seriously, if you have the money, move out now!

At teh very least take a trip to the hardware store and buy a latch. Of course, they will steal your **** when you leave teh house.

i am enjoying this thread.

this.

I hope you rinsed all the piss out before you made that bong.

tbh id be less worried about your safety and more a about being robbed (as in personal effects, and bankroll)

that being said Jolan approves this thread and it is good to see a solid thread for once (in a long while)

seriously dude, aren't friggin' gatorade bottles the best piss holders for teh pokerz! I'm a fan of "simply orange" Yeah I have a big bladder

first off, good for you for being all zen and hippyesque and whatnot... kudos.

so also if you think that being mobile makes you a happier person that's cool, but your physical well being and safety go a lot farther to keeping you mobile as opposed to "Stuff" ?

Have you ever heard of storage space units?... I mean, that's where all the serial killers keep the parts LDO.

It would be fun to start a poker house w/ you. I live in NYC and my roomie may be moving out etc. I am a crazy bankroll degen and someone who knows their crap may be helpful in me learning some damned bankroll management so I can make manies! but as I am not good at following up w/ things I'll probably forget and just take a nap and dream of "gullanian writes some letters" thread.

Best to you sir!

also pics of white trash folk please.

p.s. If you were really all philosophical and crap you wouldn't beyotch about the beyotch using your food.

I only came for the Asian thread savers LDO

It really pisses me off when people eat the food I bought. You are obviously going to have to stop buying food for the remainder of the month and eat more subway. It will save you money rather than buying food for your two new roommates and the neighbor. That is straight up bull****. Man I get aggravated by that. I had a similar situation.

Buy a car adapter for your laptop, buy conversion van, travel the country searching for free wireless.

Rape sam before he rapes you. That should stop things being awkward. Good luck.