Meet Jeb, a roommate from hell originally posted on SomethingAwful.com ages ago: http://www.wyseguys.com/blag/shitty-roommate/meet-jed/
First thing I thought of when I read the title!
Worst Roommate Ever
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jian Yaaaaaaang
I get the reference, but you can't joke on here! People here seem to be really serious professional guys.
No, you got it wrong. They love jokes, but they have a super-sophisticated sense of humour that the unwashed masses have absolutely no hope of matching.
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#113The author of ZeroMQ wrote a book on recognizing people like this, and more importantly how to get yourself out of prison they’ve put you in. The action plans have helped me. The lucky ones in the NYmag article here did many of the things he recommends. Free PDF here, look for the hard to find “read” button. https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details
Wow thanks for the reference! I got burned by such people several times. Although I must admit that faaaar milder than written here! In any case Pieter Hintjens is genius!
> In any case Pieter Hintjens is genius!
Sadly Pieter was a genius :(
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#114The kind of tenancy laws I read in articles like these, sound absolutely idiotic. If you let someone into your home, and they aren't on the lease, you should be able to kick them out anytime they overstay their welcome. If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven't paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out. As a forme…
Quickest way possible to get rid of them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L1DTIIO
Sure, but then you become a tenant yourself, and you no longer get a choice of roommates. Sorry - cellmates.
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#115The author of ZeroMQ wrote a book on recognizing people like this, and more importantly how to get yourself out of prison they’ve put you in. The action plans have helped me. The lucky ones in the NYmag article here did many of the things he recommends. Free PDF here, look for the hard to find “read” button. https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details
I'm sure this will be unpopular, but: I once had a psychopath like this turn up in my life. Like a lot of these stories, it escalated slowly, one creepy / inappropriate thing at a time. There really is a frog in hot water effect in play here. If you haven't experienced it, it might be hard to understand why someone let themselves be in that situation at all. What I don't understand, however, is why people don't deal…
You don't understand why people aren't willing to commit felony assault?
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've known people to label others as psychopaths in order to relieve guilt over their own behavior...
Yes, and especially, I don't know if a psychopath would cower in their bed. Psychopathy goes along with a diminished sensitivity to pain and a generalized dissociative state, and I'd expect after a high-stress event, this dissociation to be extremely pronounced possibly to the point of total detachment from their environment. Psychopathy is a "fight" response to stress, coupled with a extreme impairment to self-imagi…
>Maybe the were pretending to cower because that's what they thought this chump wanted to see.
To the point of intentionally defecating all over themselves? That sounds far-fetched for anyone, psychopath or not.
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#117This sounds eerily close to David Peritz's shenanigans in california: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/berkeley-sarah-... edit: but way crazier. Good grief.
I didn't realize the simple matter of not having an address on checks was such a red flag.
I have never seen an address on a cheque. Sounds like a really bad idea to me (privacy etc). Since when was that a thing, and what banks should I be avoiding?
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#118The kind of tenancy laws I read in articles like these, sound absolutely idiotic. If you let someone into your home, and they aren't on the lease, you should be able to kick them out anytime they overstay their welcome. If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven't paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out. As a forme…
If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven't paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out.
I hear this and I think "You probably don't know what it's like to be in that situation."
It's often temporary, so a little flexibility fixes the problem.
But yes, sometimes you're right. You just phrased it in a bit of an inhumane way.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and especially, I don't know if a psychopath would cower in their bed. Psychopathy goes along with a diminished sensitivity to pain and a generalized dissociative state, and I'd expect after a high-stress event, this dissociation to be extremely pronounced possibly to the point of total detachment from their environment. Psychopathy is a "fight" response to stress, coupled with a extreme impairment to self-imagi…
>Maybe the were pretending to cower because that's what they thought this chump wanted to see. To the point of intentionally defecating all over themselves? That sounds far-fetched for anyone, psychopath or not.
I took it as an exaggeration.
This story is not presented in away which is sympathetic at all. We're taking it as a given a person deserves a serious physical assault, and then invited to enjoy the idea of their assault.
It reads as a kind of revenge fantasy.
Whether it is true or not, the preoccupation with the humiliation and defeat of this person; the duty-bound self-justification of what has to be done. The enjoyment of physical violence and the expectation that others will be impressed by this display of physical violence.
Nothing here is very healthy.
Conceivably there are serious predators of people who can be deterred by violence. I don't think this post communicates this point, rather, something more disturbing about its author.
The paralipsis of " While I don't revel in this ..." is revealing.
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#120The kind of tenancy laws I read in articles like these, sound absolutely idiotic. If you let someone into your home, and they aren't on the lease, you should be able to kick them out anytime they overstay their welcome. If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven't paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out. As a forme…
Quickest way possible to get rid of them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L1DTIIO
Reads like an ad.
There's no need for such an item, much less this specific one.