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2smoothbooth

2smoothbooth

2smoothbooth

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Ok so here it is - i thought to myself "hey lets get a protein shake in the body", went to the fridge and the 2pints or so of milk i left has vanished. As you could probably guess this displeases me. In the past week or so i've also had some food mysteriously disappearing too and i'm pretty sure i know who it is.

So do i a) confront this person b) do something nasty to the food/milk and laugh when this person uses it or c) break some legs?
 
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Id say chalk it up to experience, not worth creating animosity/ a bad vibe in the whole house as the culprit is unlikely to admit to it anyway. Of course if this repeatedly happens its a different matter.
 
1) I bought a min-fridge (~ £20, does the job well for milk, beer or something exotic like Sainsbury's basic ham (o/t: I believe this ham would survive nuclear warfare, anyway))

2) Buy more milk, half for me.

3) Half for communal fridge. Salt it like you've never, ever salted before.
 
The bulk of all our food is communal and the stuff that isn't is usually labelled and we have the respect not to touch it, so I wouln't know, I've never had that problem :p

Burnsy
 
I normally notice if someone uses some of my stuff, I'll bring it up if I'm not happy.

I think now most people have brought it up a few times, we go to the shop and buy some if we need some. It's only a 10second walk away.


You should joke though, say you've been adding some sort of prescription drug to the stuff, help you with your allergy to milk or say you've got worms and you've been told by the doc you have to add your medicine to it :D


Or just go down the easy route and buy a mini-fridge. Something I may do next year at uni.
 
its like sh4dow said even if i ask this 'person' whats the chances he's going to admit to it. I don't mind if he scammed a bit of milk but the whole bottle :eek: unconscionable!

I do have a mini fridge but i use lots of milk for my protein shakes and being "mini" it won't fit! Its not a huge deal coz i'm over the misses' most of the time but i don't want him thinkin he can take what he likes anytime he likes
 
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is this in halls or in a shared house


if in a shared house then just have a quiet word - after all they're your house mate so should understand - i.e. "mate - I don't mind it if you just wanted a cup of tea or something but 2 pints is just taking the ****"

If in halls - screw em - might as well **** in the milk, lace with laxatives etc..

as a preventative measure you could put blue food colouring in it - doesn't affect the taste but no one else will drink it - though this could backfire and lead them to tamper with your milk

basically the best solution in halls is to get a mini fridge in your room and just use the communal one to chill beers etc.. when you're having a corridor party
 
2smoothbooth said:
Ok so here it is - come back from the gym earlier on today and thought to myself "hey lets get a protein shake in the body", went to the fridge and the 2pints or so of milk i left has vanished. As you could probably guess this displeases me. In the past week or so i've also had some food mysteriously disappearing too and i'm pretty sure i know who it is.

So do i a) confront this person b) do something nasty to the food/milk and laugh when this person uses it or c) break some legs?
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I'm in the exact same situation. One of the flatemate keeps stealing food nd using up all the milk and such like without replacing it.
Its been mentioned to her before but she wriggles her way out of it with sme feable excuses.
 
Get their tub of butter, empty and cut in half horizontally and then do a turd and place within the two halves, cutting butter off the bottom until it fits back in the tub. Next time they go for a scoop watch and try not to incriminate yourself by laughing too hard.
 
D.P. said:
I'm in the exact same situation. One of the flatemate keeps stealing food nd using up all the milk and such like without replacing it.
Its been mentioned to her before but she wriggles her way out of it with sme feable excuses.
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So whats your plan of action? :D i'm liking the laxatives idea...turd idea is also on the table!
 
2 possible solutions:

1) Buy skimmed, or pasteurised long life UHT milk. Yes it's rubbish and horrible - but once you get used to it, it's fine, and nobody else is going to want to use it.

2) Continue buying normal full fat/semi skimmed milk as usual, but pop the top and mix in a few drops of blue food colouring whenever you get a new carton home. It tastes no different, and nobody else is going to want blue milk on their food.

Both tried and tested, personally endorsed methods!
 
timbob said:
2 possible solutions:

2) Continue buying normal full fat/semi skimmed milk as usual, but pop the top and mix in a few drops of blue food colouring whenever you get a new carton home. It tastes no different, and nobody else is going to want blue milk on their food.

Both tried and tested, personally endorsed methods!
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Is it bad im thinking of buying blue food colouring, just for the hell of it?

Blue cereal would be immense.
 
A couple of years ago we had a guy who kept stealing our alcohol. We knew he used to return home ****** as a fart and drink anything in the fridge so we got a bottle of jack with a 1/3 left in it and ground up a load of laxative pills and dumped them in the bottle.....the rest is history :p
 
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