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Posted: 2/6/2006 11:33:04 PM EDT

My roomate is a dirty person by nature. Its annoying, but somewhat acceptable since my roomates and our friends are in the 21-24 age range. Empty 40 bottles and fast food wrappers on the floor are commonplace here, but the dirtieness (spelling?) has reached the point of my roomate not showering. If this wasn't bad enough he usually passes out without his shoes on the couch and recently the stank of unwashed feet has been rubbed into it. Thankfully for me chain smoking has killed my sense of smell, but my friends and other roomate will point it out while at the apartment or when smelly roomate visits a friends place. How the hell do I tell him to clean up, subtle hints don't work and my friends have seriously considered having an intervention. After killing half a bottle of freebreeze I'm reaching the end of the rope. Any hints?

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:34:37 PM EDT

[#1]

Hints?

Why not just tell him?

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:35:04 PM EDT

[#2]

Be direct....also let him know that, unlike him, you expect to get laid at some point in your life and his stank is preventing it from happening.

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:35:15 PM EDT

[#3]

Do you stare at him while he showers?

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:35:50 PM EDT

[#4]

that could actually be a very bad sign that he is having emotional problems.

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:39:32 PM EDT

[#5]

Since hints didn't work, deal with it head on.

"Dude! What the fuck is your problem? We're all a *bit* piggy but you've turned into a skank-assed HOG, you reek and and you're making it impossible to live here. Clean up your act, LITTERALY, or else."

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:43:46 PM EDT

[#6]

"Do you like hanging around mens locker rooms?"

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:44:19 PM EDT

[#7]

Pour a 5 gallon bucket of soapy water over him when he's sleepin and throw him a scrub brush....yuk!

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:48:01 PM EDT

[#8]

OR just spray him down with right guard when ever you walk by.

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:50:47 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Hints?

Why not just tell him?

Everytime I try to tell him he just laughs about how dirty he his and doesn't actually do anything about it.

USGI_45, he may have emotional issues, but this is a lazy issue. After work his first priority is getting wasted, this causes him to be running late in the AM so he won't have time to shower. Once he comes home he won't shower then cause the only thing on his mind is getting wasted. Its a vicisious and very smelly cycle.

Posted: 2/6/2006 11:52:21 PM EDT

[#10]

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Posted: 2/7/2006 12:04:22 AM EDT

[#11]

You need to move out.

Posted: 2/7/2006 12:47:32 AM EDT

[#12]

When he's sleeping coat him in a fine layer of Oust. Kills the bacteria that causes the odors :)

Posted: 2/7/2006 12:56:07 AM EDT

[#13]

Once he gets wasted, drag him outside and hose him off. Its winter, so he'll get the message PDQ. If not, he catches hypothermia and the cold keeps the smell down.

Either way its a win!

Posted: 2/7/2006 12:59:36 AM EDT

[#14]

Follow him around with a can of Lysol, spraying everything he touches.

Get a gas mask at the surplus store and wear it whenever he is home.

Throw his shit out on the front lawn and burn it.

Get a new roommate.

Posted: 2/7/2006 1:00:18 AM EDT

[#15]

Had a roomate in college who's feet were a microbiologist's nightmare...and he always slept with his feet outside the sheets.
You literally had to bellycrawl thru the room to avoid the stench.
He got one warning:
... but he finally saw benefits of washing his feet thoroughly before bedtime, in addition to shower time.

Posted: 2/7/2006 1:17:04 AM EDT

[#16]

Is he growing dreads or anything like that? Those can be some stinky folks after they haven't bathed in a while.

Maybe hes just plain lazy. Most normal folks outgrow the no-showering thing earlier in life when it impacts on their social abilities.

Posted: 2/7/2006 1:19:46 AM EDT

[#17]

TC brings up a point...best slap some patchouli on the guy and buy him a wardrobe made entirely out of hemp, including those stupid bead necklaces that look like they are made out of rope.

[cartman]....They wanna save the world, but they just smoke pot and smell bad....[/cartman]

Posted: 2/7/2006 1:23:29 AM EDT

[#18]

He gives up showering.

You give up refraining from changing the locks.

Posted: 2/7/2006 1:48:15 AM EDT

[#19]

Gross. I'm disgusted just thinking about it.

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:23:55 AM EDT

[#20]

A few friends, giant scrub brushes, lye, and a firehose should take care of the problem.

Kharn

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:44:31 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
that could actually be a very bad sign that he is having ~~emotional~~ MENTALproblems.

Been there, done that. Run!

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:55:17 AM EDT

[#22]

When I was in the Boy Scouts we were very close do doing this to one guy who did not shower after 4 days in camp. We were going to be there for 2 weeks and we were not going to take it any longer.

Posted: 2/7/2006 4:33:50 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Hints?

Why not just tell him?

Everytime I try to tell him he just laughs about how dirty he his and doesn't actually do anything about it.

USGI_45, he may have emotional issues, but this is a lazy issue. After work his first priority is getting wasted, this causes him to be running late in the AM so he won't have time to shower. Once he comes home he won't shower then cause the only thing on his mind is getting wasted. Its a vicisious and very smelly cycle.

Can't have a beer in the shower? When I was in college on football game days we weren't allowed to shower or brush our teeth until we had at least one beer. Then when you took a shower you had a full beer when you went in and it better be empty by the time you got out. House rules for game days.
Point is if he is wanting to get waisted in can drink in the shower.

Posted: 2/7/2006 4:45:03 AM EDT

[#24]

Dude,
He needs help. Personal Hygiene or the lack of is one of the stages of emotional despair and depression. What are his sleeping habits? How is he doing in school?

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:00:07 AM EDT

[#25]

throw him in the shower over time he passes out

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:03:10 AM EDT

[#26]

I was going to say to tell him to clean up his act or you're going to throw a bucket of water on him in bed every morning, but it's a good point that there's probably something wrong with the kid beyond being stinky.

Quoted:
that could actually be a very bad sign that he is having emotional problems.

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:03:34 AM EDT

[#27]

Gee, a benefit of heavy smoking.

I'm starting to feel a little queasy just imagining what your place must smell like.

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:06:37 AM EDT

[#28]

your living with a hippy. toss him out or move.

Posted: 2/7/2006 5:32:38 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Had a roomate in college who's feet were a microbiologist's nightmare...and he always slept with his feet outside the sheets.
You literally had to bellycrawl thru the room to avoid the stench.
He got one warning:
... but he finally saw benefits of washing his feet thoroughly before bedtime, in addition to shower time.

Blanket party, eh?

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