Harry, William, Kate
Ever lived with a guy without benefits? A flatmate? Relative? Boyfriend’s mate or relative? Can be tricky. Just like any flatmate relationship can be, granted. But there’s something,…unique about living with a man when there’s no romance to smooth over any crusty edges.
The latest couple about to take on this challenge is…Kate Middleton and her soon to be husband Prince William. They’re moving in with….Prince Harry. Or rather, he’s moving in with them.
Kate Middleton does have form in this area. She lived with William as flatmates – along with a couple of uni friends – before they started dating. Channel 9 reporter Alissa Warren has also lived with her partner’s brother. She writes…..
“Living with a man can be trying at the best of times.
Living with a man and his brother is like living in a bubble of fart gas with dirty dishes.
And believe it or not, Prince William and Kate Middleton are about to create their own bubble.
The almost-newlyweds plan on sharing their first marital home – a place full of romance, bonking and flirtatious giggles over calling each other “wifey” and “hubby” – with Prince Harry.
Living in a one-way love triangle. Hmm. Disaster? Or dreamy?
When my husband and I were engaged, we shared a house with my brother-in-law, Jim.
During this time, I learnt: Jim loves mates, his brother, family, work and footy.
William, Kate & Harry
I also learnt: Jim is surprisingly hairy and can leave behind a little trail of carpet. Jim farts. A lot. Jim washes his sheets when he remembers. Jim likes to spend his weekends lying on the couch watching David Attenborough. Jim doesn’t mind if no one vacuums. Ever. Jim eats a lot (like, everything). Jim’s burps could cause significant seismic activity.
I wonder if Kate’s ready to find Harry’s ginger pubes on the bathroom floor? Or to have his mates hang out at their place after a big night out and yell the Top Gun song in her kitchen?
The problem with living with your brother-in-law is that you can’t nag at full speed. You can only nag at around 40% capacity. But you make up for that by nagging at your husband for not nagging at his brother. Needless to say, there’s a lot of, um, ‘nagging tension’.
My girlfriend Sarah, currently lives with her husband and brother-in-law. She says it’s really hard, “I feel like it’s a constant Sarah Vs ‘the family’ situation”. Last Sunday, Sarah and her husband walked up the road to get some brekky (anything to get out of the house). The cafe was fully booked. So, they walked home. They opened the door, only to find porn on the TV and the sound of her brother-in-law bolting up the stairs and slamming the door.
Sarah’s still in shock. Her husband thinks it’s funny.
Is Kate ready to stumble over Harry’s private DVD collection? Or accidentally bump into his on-again-off-again girlfriend in the bathroom?
The scariest part about living with your brother-in-law is that it gives you a rare insight into what your husband was like before you came along. Envisaging that? Hmm. Me too.
But, I’ll be completely honest, apart from the rather astonishing noise and air pollution – I really enjoyed it. In fact, I was quite emotional when we parted ways. I even shed a tear. I remember sitting on the couch, as a small gust of wind blew Jim’s unique ‘pubic tumbleweed’ down the hall, thinking “sure, I’ve learnt a lot about Jim … but I’ve also learnt a lot from Jim”.
In the year we lived together, I learnt: how to be more relaxed about cleanliness, how to cook the best chicken shnitzel, how to make an unhealthy (but delicious) toasted cheese sandwich, how to care for Teflon coated pans and how to get pubes out of crevices.
You never get to know family quite like you do when you are sharing a house (and a toilet … and a fridge). So to the young royals – all three of you – if living together doesn’t drive you crazy, it’ll bring you closer. And when it comes to family (especially yours), surely that can only be a good thing.”
Have you ever lived with a man you were not romantically involved with ? What did you learn?
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I learnt that living with hubbys best mate many years ago that I couldn’t win a silent war on toilet roll preference as in, should the paper go under or over…he liked under, I liked over and everytime one of used the.toilet, we would change it back to how we liked it. It went on for months with neither of us saying a word!
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What is WRONG with him? Over is the only way.
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We were a house of 4 females, two moved out and one of the new housemates was my remaining housemate’s boyfriend. He rented a room instead of us getting a 5th housemate, which worked out well as we had a no Xbox in the living room rule! It was no different to having a female housemate really, he did eat more than the rest of us but so? Have had absolutely lovely male housemates before that, it didn’t occur to me that there’s anything strange about living with a man you don’t sleep with!
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I lived with a friend for 12 months who was a guy, and his girl friend was one of my best friends. It had it’s ups and downs I was pretty lucky that his mother had taught him how to cook and keep the toilet seat down. but he wasn’t so up to scratch on the cleaning, he could do it but chose not to. he taught me many things and I taught him many things, but in the end it was a good thing that we moved out and into different places because we argued like mad and we nagged each other all the time. but now we are great friends.
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I have, and what I learned was that any boyfriends I brought home were extremely jealous and suspicious of my flatmate’s and my friendship. Possibly his girlfriend, too. There was absolutely nothing going on, but I think it’s confronting when your other half isn’t yet living with you, and it appears you’re spending more time with some other guy simply because you’re living with them.
What they didn’t see was that we really didn’t spend a lot of time together at all, as neither of us were really home at the same time that often
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I just read a line from the story above to my sister and she asked me
“Aren’t they moving into a castle?” When I had recovered from my giggling fit, (It’s not every day someone asks you in all seriousness whether people moving house are moving into a Castle!) it actually made sense that they most probably WILL be moving into a castle so I don’t think the normal issues will be much of a problem.
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Hey – I was half way through reading the comments on this story and 3.0 suddenly appeared. Wow!
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When my boyfriend and I first moved in together, we were sharing a house with his best mate and a bloke they met through another friend. All I can say is it was hell! My boyfriend was great with the housework, but I swear the other guys didn’t even know what a tea-towel was before I came along.
Needless to say there were fights. I’d nag at the boys, they’d ignore me, so I’d nag at Andrew to nag at the other guys because “they’re your mates not mine!”
It actually got to the point where the stress from the complete disregard for hygiene had me seeing a psychologist, and more than once my relationship came just one word from completely falling apart.
My boyfriend and I moved into our own place just under a month ago and couldn’t be happier. We’ve stopped fighting, and I’ve stopped being stressed all the time. I’ve also realised it is a LOT easier to keep the house clean if you don’t let it get dirty in the first place.
All I can say about sharing with guys is that I will never EVER do it again!
[Edit] Something else I just remembered, before I met my boyfriend I was living in a share house with six other girls. It’s a really hard call to say who was worse the girls or the boys… The girls didn’t leave quite as much stuff laying around but what they did leave was certainly more disgusting!
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When hubby and I first got married my brother lived with us for a year. I loved it. He cooked, he cleaned, he mowed… our house has never looked so good. We would have in back in a minute if we had room – that was a baby and a half ago!
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Given the size of house we’re probably talking about, I don’t think sharing it will be an issue or that they’ll even bump into each other. It’s likely there’ll be a separate kitchen and definitely a separate bathroom arrangement.
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“I wonder if Kate’s ready to find Harry’s ginger pubes on the bathroom floor?”
This line made me laugh but then I stopped reading for a minute to ponder pubes. Yes, really I did. I’ve never given them much thought before but now I have questions.
Questions like – Are Harry’s pubes really ginger? Is the line about the curtins matching the carpet really true? I can’t say I’ve ever seen a red head naked so I’m not sure.
Why is it that guys pubes fall out in such great numbers that they can make pubic tumbleweeds? Are girls pubes stuck on better or is it just because lots of us shave/wax/clip ours off that we don’t notice when they fall out?
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He’s going to kill me for this, but my ginger love’s pubes are redder than the hair on his head. So Harry’s may well be ginger.
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Same with mine, but more of an orange. Burnt orange on top, then bright neon orange downstairs
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Well, since you’ve asked. You know how read hair often fades as a person gets older, turns a sort of mousy brown? Pubes don’t do that, they stay bright orange so a person with even a bit of red in their hair will probably be all red below the belt.
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need the edit function! ‘red’ not ‘read’.
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my partner once shared a house with a guy who would put used condoms in the recycling bin IN THE KITCHEN. i am not kidding! Exactly how he thought they would recycle them I do not know…
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Ewwwww, ewwwwww, ewwwwww … I have no words … that is simply feral.
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I reckon the worst thing about sharing with most non-partner males is that they hog the best chair, the remote, etc. only surrendering them when a more Alpha male with some status in their eyes enters the house. And despite the fact that most men say the opposite is true, men like to state their position on something (eg what to have for tea, what to watch on telly), then call you argumentative if you don’t immediately fall in line, so you’re left to be called a nag or to fume in silence. Or to go out. Alot.
Once my own brother moved in with my partner and I and occupied the couch for approximately 6 months. Full length, legs akimbo. As well as ponging up the entire house with overdone deoderant and eating more than his fair share of every meal ever cooked after saying “nah, I won’t be around enough, I’ll just make do”, when asked if he’d like to take turns cooking.
But he was nothing compared with the zine-loving, hairy Russian who believed in bathing once a week. His list of things *never* to do included: washing clothes, washing sheets, cleaning his room, cleaning his beard, cleaning his teeth, cleaning under his fingernails, cutting his fingernails. Aside from that, he was one of the most polite people I’ve ever met.
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i bet moving in together means they are living in separate wings of a palace!
god i so know what you mean about only nagging at 40% capacity! it is so like that when you have visitors.
and they say they are not having staff. i would love to know their definition of staff. i bet it doesn’t include housekeepers, cleaners and nannies if and when.
ps. alissa i have decided to have a royal wedding party after all. really, i was always going to, i was just in denial. i LOVE weddings. i managed to sit through fred and mary’s TWICE!! am hoping some of the regular MM food bloggers (phoodie, LPC etc) will come up with a worthy menu!
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ooh I’m doing a royal wedding watching event too!
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Does anyone know why Harry is moving in with them?
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He isn’t ACTUALLY moving in with them. It’s a bit of an excuse for an article.
They will have to stay in the same residence (Clarence House) when they are staying in London. Given that most of Will and Kate’s time will be spent in North Wales near the RAF base Will is stationed at and Harry’s time is spend at the Air Corps base, its unlikely they will ever spend that much time together in the one house.
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Somehow I don’t think they will have to share a bathroom. And I think that if I was engaged to Prince William I would be able to afford to pay someone else to pick up the pubes from the bathroom floor. That’s just the way it is.
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Many years ago I used to stay over at my boyfriend’s house. He had another male flatmate. One morning after my boyfriend had gone to work I got up to also get ready for work and walked into the living room to find male flatmate having a lovely wank to Aerobics Oz Style! I told my boyfriend (in confidence) but he thought it was hilarious and told male flatmate that I had told him. We were rather arkward around each other for a while after that. Good times…
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sometimes i despair for the male species
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Bahahaaa – that’s hysterical! Confirms my suspicion that some men will toss off to anything. Imagine what he’d do with Olivia’s “let’s get physical” film clip.
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Must’ve been in the days before a man joined Aerobics Oz Style? Or not?
“Do the grapevine!”
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I lived in house of 6 one year – 4 girls, 2 guys. Thank god we could separate some of the living space. The guys had their own separate bathroom, and they cleaned it so infrequently the toilet bowl actually turned green. And I mean green green. Of course, once it reached this stage, they didn’t want to use their bathroom anymore, so guess what? Instead of cleaning it, they just started using ours.
Definitely relieved to have left that share house!
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Not only will Kate basically live in a palace, she will be future Queen. I can’t really see the Queen picking red pubes out of the shower plug. It will be one of the ten thousand servants.
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Girly – this is so funny. LOL. Thanks for reading.
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I had 26 flatmates in my days at uni – up to four at a time. All of them were women except for one, and he was the cleanest and most hassle free of them all. His room was always tidy, he cooked and always cleaned up afterwards and was the only one who ever cleaned the bathroom.
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Has anyone seen the size of the newlywed house? I’m sure Kate would never have to see Harry (or his pubes) if she chose not to…
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Exactly what I was thinking. I would imagine that the royal residence has enough toilets that Kate won’t even have to share with William, let alone Harry.
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My husband and I have been married for 4.5 years. His brother has lived with us for nearly half that time, including when my eldest daughter was born and when my mum was living with us for 2 days a week to help with the kids while I worked. I could fill a book with how annoying he was (worst incident is a toss up between finding out he was using kitchen implements to help nair his back and introducing me to a girl he had brought home at 3am while I breastfed the baby), but when he moved out I misses him. Even though he’s the same age as me I kind of think of him as my adult child.
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I once lived with my mum , sister and her partner because they needed a flat mate and my sister was having her first baby.She loved it but after a while her partner went a bit insane hehe.
But if we didn’t live there , they would have had to get a stranger to live with them and they had live in nanny’s living with them !
I now live with my boyfriend and he is cleaner than I am , he even takes out the rubbish ! He is a keeper.But he always leaves the toilet seat up and last time I fell in.
I would not want to live with his sibling ( she hates me now anyway ) . Why on Earth Kate and Will want to live with Harry ??
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when we have equality “of the sexes” then the toilet seat will not be a falling in issue….
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Do women approach the toilet backwards or something? How can you not notice the toilet seat is up? And how hard is it to put it down if it is?
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I am nearly blind without contacts so when I wasn’t wearing them I do not see those things.
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Haha. Happened to me in the middle of the night once.
I’m still scarred!
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I lived with 4 guys at one stage, all of us 20yrs old. …
One of those guys is my husband now and we were a couple at the time hence the reason I even contemplated the move. We found this massive house that had 5 bedrooms (so there was even a spare one for extra mates to crash in – joy) heaps of living space and a massive yard leading down to a little pontoon on the river that backed onto the houses on that road. It was great, though the funniest thing was that we had 3 fridges – lots of food went in mouths there let me tell you. I think I spent half my time there in utter astonishment at what appeared to be a circus act in food disappearance each day.
The other half of my time was spent trying to study for uni whilst fielding questions about girls; blocking out the noise from parties or drinking sessions or video game playing; being asked to cook (no); being asked to go get takeaway (no); being asked to call the pizza delivery guy for them (no….ok, if you buy) and waking up some mornings to random women in my kitchen. Then one of the other guys started seeing one of these girls seriously and she moved in as well. Cue annoying make out sessions in the living room, in other people’s bedrooms (WTF?) and just randomly wherever and whenever the mood took their fancy. Like the time they were cooking dinner and then disappeared to their bedroom, leaving pots boiling away and mince burning in a pan.
Ironically it was the addition of this particular woman that caused arguments between all the guys and led to everyone going their separate ways. Living with the guys themselves was kinda fun mainly from a totally random conversation perspective, its funny the things you find yourself discussing unexpectedly.
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I have never lived with a man I’ve slept with.
However, depending on which way I’m facing when I get buried, and hevean forbid I’m buried with a ukulele, you never know what assumptions a archaelogist will make.
Also, more on topic, I’ve been living with my in-laws for six months and they’re staying another year. THey are going to be helping out with the twins, so they’re welcome to stay.
Could I live with my wife’s brother or sisters. I’m pretty sure, no chance.
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I’ve lived with heaps of blokes as flatmates and overall, it’s been no worse or better than women. Nothing that gender has been able to explain?
But my best flatmate experience was that of two blokes and I. Then a third later on. Like my other male mates, they are lovely guys.
It was nice to experience more evidence – at close range – to counteract the BS from the males in my actual family.
Lucky me
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I could NEVER…
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“You can choose your friends but not your family”?
I was so over living with my brothers when I did move out of home, the last thing I wanted was to live with a man who didn’t care about fresh sheets and appreciate a clean house. Eww there is nothing more gross than pubes in the bathroom, wee around the toilet seat (always up) and general grit and ‘man grime’ in your own home. When I met my husband, I was so relieved to find that there were men out there who were clean and tidy (and still manly). Granted – he’s not perfect, and he doesn’t do an much cleaning as me, but when I do it- he respects it, helps keep it clean and tidy- and he loves fresh sheets just as much as me! Thank goodness we are the same like that. But if we had to have a mate of his, a sibling (either sex) or even one of my family members living in our house that weren’t the same as us it would just drive me completely nutty and I would be an absolute ‘washer woman’ wife…which I do not like to be! It’s so bizarre how your own family members can have such different standards to you, I wonder often if it is nature or nurture…all raised the same way with the same parents the 3 of us couldn’t be more different in the cleanliness stakes! Hence the saying, you can choose your friends not your family!
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Some people might say you have a fresh sheets fetish. Not me, I add – each to their own, I say. My point is, “tidy”, “slobby” are subjective concepts. There is no right or wrong (within reason, of course – untidiness should not be confused with unhealthy filth). Each person’s view is different. It depends on their upbringing and their genetic predisposition. That’s all. Thanks for hearing me out. You may add your ‘outraged’ and sarcastic comments below.
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“That’s all. Thanks for hearing me out. You may add your ‘outraged’ and sarcastic comments below.”
Defensive much?
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Funny isn’t it? (Def. NOT funny haha!)
You’d think you’d be able to do some precision weeing with a penis.
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Living with boys is a circus.
They do not know what a vacuum is.
They eat out of pots and pans.
They live in underware on the couch.
They are obsessed with Xbox.
They drool over boobs on tv.
and they cut their toenails and leave them on the coffee table.
Currently looking for a new place to live.
Criteria: no xbox, no sports addicts and someone who can watch the news instead of the simpsons.
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Rose, you had me at toenail clippings. Heaven help you. I wish you luck. x
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“Sticks and snails and puppy dogs’ tails” – old folk rhyme.
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Classic expression: “pubic tumbleweed”, a very eeeeewwwwwww but hilarious visual (*still rolling around laughing out loud*
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What a misleading article.
They will only be staying with Harry when in London (at Clarence House – which is Charles and Camilla’s official residence). Most of the time they will be in North Wales where William is stationed with the RAF. They are already living there, and its a rented farmhouse rather than a royal residence.
So it’s only when they stay in London, which apparently isn’t often.
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And I highly doubt that Kate will have to share a bathroom with Harry – sure there is more than one in the house!
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Hi L. I hear what you’re saying. As for me, it wouldn’t matter if I lived with an extra man full-time or part-time. He’s still there … and for many, so are the dirty plates and the skiddies. Hmm. That’s a bit gross. Thanks for your comment. Hv a good wkend.
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details schmetails
we are not talking about nuclear reactors in japan, it is a light-hearted look at living with men who are not your partners.
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I’m pretty sure they’ll be living in a house the size of a small nation and will have plenty of space from each other… I’m also fairly certain there will be no nagging involved- they’d be paying people to clean the house!
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Many men (maybe 51%?) are slobs. Many women (51%?) are anal about keeping the house tidy. That’s why mixed house shares are often interesting. See under “Marriage” and “Housework – do Men do Their Share?”, blah blah.
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Women would NOT be uptight about cleaning if Men pulled their weight!!
That’s what annoys me the most. It’s not like we want to nag or we want to spend hours folding washing but it’s one of those cases where it won’t happen otherwise. Hence the resentment and great divide!
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I would have cacked my guts out laughing if i’d busted the BIL with porn….and then i probably would have reminded him of it every chance i got to shit-stir him about it, but hey, thats just me.
Also – in Alissa’s byline? She is not the only woman ever to put on weight whilst breastfeeding…i did too! I put it down to too many carbs to compensate for the no energy due to sleep deprivation…but hey, i’m 1 kg off being my pre-baby weight now so go team me!
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LOL – walking in on the porn! Classic!!
Prince Harry living with Kate & Wills? What the? Surely he is wealthy enough for his own place?!
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Why is that funny? It wasn’t funny that defence cadet was busted having sex on Skype, so why this? (They’re not the same, true, but not THAT different.) Double standards – I ask you respect the guy’s right to privacy when it comes to sexual activity, please ladies. Have some respect for the wankers of the world.
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A man getting busted wanking by his flatmates and a woman being broadcast online whithout her knowledge whilst having sex are two VERY different things. I really hope yo are just trying to get a rise out of people and don’t actually believe the garbage that you just wrote!
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I would say walking in on someone watching porn in the lounge room of a share house is massively different to someone being filmed having sex without her knowledge. How can you compare the two?
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No , of course it’s not exactly the same, as I already observed. Obviously the cadet case is far worse. I’d add that neither of these cases is funny. Yet in each case a person’s privacy is breached in a way that insensitive people seem to find amusing. That’s all I’m saying.
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If the guy didn’t want his privacy breached, perhaps he should watch his porn in his bedroom.. Not in the livingroom of the house that he shares with two other people!
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I think any sexual act should be done in your room if you share a house unless you know exactly when people will be back.
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Not funny? Are you serious?! Walking in on your flatmate watching porn is hilarious! Like someone said, if he wanted privacy he should have been watching it in his bedroom where the likelihood of someone walking in on him would be slightly less remote, if non existent.
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If there’s no-one else in, I see no reason why one of God’s flock can’t whip it out in the kitchen for a quick beating, if that so pleaseth him. Amen
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I agree that there is a frenzy developing about the “big day” but I think that Harry and William have been allowed to live a much more “normal” life than many other Royals, and if they are all going to live together (in remote Wales) then good on them. I’m sure Kate would have the final say about their living arrangements anyway. She seems like a pretty level headed girl. Interestingly, all those years ago, Princess Anne chose to give her children NO royal titles, and bring them up as “normal” (all-be it upper crust)
Once the wedding hoop-la is over, leave them all alone to get on with their lives, however they choose to live it.
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Why do you care? They’re just snooty aristocrats from the upper classes. Well, he is. Not her so much.
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You clearly care enough to comment so many times on a post about “snooty aristocrats” so why can’t Pattipiano?
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I’ve been raising serious questions about (i) the sexual politics of privacy-invasion while a person is engaged in a sexual activity; (ii) the ethics of publishing paparazzi shots, and (iii) the difficulty of men and women living together when they often have totally different values regarding housework. Why shouldn’t I also raise the issue of Royaltyporn? Jeez, give a chap a break!
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Well if you want to attack someone for sharing their views then I can attack you for sharing yours. Pattipiano shared her opinion and she has the right to that. She cared enough to comment, so did you.
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This article is just a flimsy excuse to publish yet another photo of Princes Harry and William and Kate Thingy. ROYALTYPORN, in other words. I guess when one of them dies in a car crash after being chased by paparazzi in a few years time, you’ll be coming on all high and mighty and morally superior about those bad, bad photographers – whose work you would NEVER stoop to using.
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ah good old Salvatore Sillitoe, how i’ve missed your humorous name and even more humorous comments
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I’m rather fond of my name. My grandfather was the novelist Alan Sillitoe. My mother is Italian. Hilarious, isn’t it?
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Wow is that true?
He had an impressive body of works upon his death last year and I’m sorry for your loss of your grandfather, unless of course, I am a gullible idiot.
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Glad to hear, Nadia. We’re very proud of his achievements.
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And yet, here you are. Glad you clicked Sal!
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My pleasure Rick. Always happy to oblige
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I lived with a mate for 2 years – we’d been friends about 2 before that and remain friends today (12 years later). I’m a godmother to one of his children and his wife and I are good friends. About 8 years ago she asked me about our relationship during that time and it was really nice to be able to assure her that we’d never crossed any lines – that our friendship had always been platonic. We pitched and shared the grocery shopping, cooking and we had a cleaner come through the house so there was never any issues about me having to ‘keep house’. It was honestly a wonderful period in my life. I think women can absolutely share with men – related or not – so long as there are boundaries, the expectations are clear and there’s a level of friendship amongst the house-mates.
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Wow that sounds pretty rare but pretty cool. It’s sad to say but usually the old harry met sally adage applies and yet neither of you guys did at all.
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I feel sorry for the porn guy in the story! It’s his house too and they were supposed to be out. Fair enough to have a go at it.
I lived with my boyfriend, a girl and a guy and it was soooo much better than when I lived in a house with 3 other girls. All the people were close friends of mine, but in the girl house we fought. One of the girls was really anal about things, I’m tidy but relaxed about it. Notes were left reminding us to clean more or chastising us.
The next house with boys in it added balance. Boys are generally way more relaxed about things. Sometimes too relaxed but that is way better than super anal. I would rather help pick up after someone to raise them to my standards than be receiving notes about not meeting someone elses.
Only problem was that I developed a crush on my guy housemate while living with my boyfriend, who sensed it and disliked the other guy. Complicated.
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“I feel sorry for the porn guy in the story! It’s his house too and they were supposed to be out.”
Agree. Good to see someone here with some human decency.
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Yes, my god, how dare someone arrive home earlier than expected and have the audacity to walk into the TV room as if they lived there. Oh, the humanity.
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haha Lulu that cracked me up!
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i’m sorry, but gross. I don’t have a flatmate anymore thank god, but if I came home and found him whacking off in front of the tv with the same hands he would then use the tv remote control with, then thats a deal breaker!!
There is nothing wrong with people who like do this, but in a shared space, no freakin’ way. Do it in your room!!
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Ugggghhhhh. My brother in law lived with us for two different stretches, about 9 months and about 12 months. All three of us found it stressful but it was hard to argue against the family bonds.
I quite like him so it was nice to have him around about 60% of the time, and it was certainly nice to have a witness to back me up when my boy was being unreasonable, but a lot of the time it was quite stressful because the two of them would get on each other’s nerves so easily and blow up.
Basically just having someone else in our space (where we’d been alone together for 2 years previously) created tension, and made it difficult to express that appropriately. Never underestimate the luxury of being able to have an argument with your other half in the freedom of the living room rather than having to retreat to the bedroom.
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ive been offered a room to rent and would be sharing a house with 2 guys. I went on a date with one of the guys and didn’t follow it up with another date…don’t think it would be a good idea to move in with him haha. Kinda sounds like fun to live with guys tho. I’m still at home, just another gen Y mooching of the parents (joking, I’m the favourite child
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I lived with my boyfriend and his best friend for 2 years. My boyfriends best friend was awesome to live with. He did the dishes, kept the house tidy and we often sat up late chatting when my boyfriend was on nightshift. There was never any chance of lines getting crossed because he is gay.
We only moved out a year after having our son because our son’s toys were taking over!
One thing I did learn from it was when two guys live together that’s an open invitation for all their mates to come over on the weekend.
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I live with my in law at the moment. Will send this on to him. Very funny.
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I lived with my brother and his wife for a week before getting the hell out. (My brother is a body builder and cracks it over a dropped sock, so I couldn’t stand it)
Plus he couldn’t handle my puppy crying.. and smacked her really hard on her little face. I was completely traumatized by that.
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That’s so not ok. Glad you got out, you did the right thing by your little defenceless puppy.
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It sure isn’t. I sat on the floor and cradled her, because the look she gave me broke my heart. Leaving her there to go to work drove me insane because I hated her being alone with him.
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your brother sounds pretty abusive. that’s rspca call time.
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ughhhhhhhhh I lived with three different guys last years. Only one of them was slightly hot and really cool (he wasn’t the problem), but the other two were completely retarded.
Living with men is certainly difficult, but not because of sexual tension.
Young men (18-23 the ages of the men I was living with) are gross, argumentative, cranky, and most of all chauvinistic! Besides the one goodie, the other two were just…. ick!
A few years ago I lived with a 17 year old guy, and that was most of the time, but things got a little crazy. He would walk around naked, sneek into my bed when he couldn’t sleep (non sexual) and would dump all his silly girl problems on me and expect me to fix them, not to mention he would eat me out of house and home! I was more his mother rather than his flatmate/friend
Men are crazy when you aren’t romantically involved with them! You have to clean them, look after them, do their dishes and their washing. It sucks.
I would never live with guys again unless I was either romantically involved, or if they were all my concubines.
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“I was more his mother rather than his flatmate/friend.”
So it’s normal for guys to crawl into bed with Mummy while seeking advice about gf problems?
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Groan
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doesn’t your brain hurt trying to be trolly to every post??!
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I am about to move out with my male best friend into a two bedroom flat. He’s also good friends with my boyfriend, so even though I got a few strange looks at the idea of moving out with my friend instead of my boyfriend (the reason being at 22 I feel to young to live with a partner), I’m hoping it will go smoothly. We’re quite similar in terms of lifestyle and interests, and also go to the same university and work at the same organisation. However any advise from people who have experienced the living with a male friend situation is welcome!
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From the very beginning, make sure you do equal chores. You are not his mother. Some men will expect that women do all the housework and seem quite confused when they don’t. If you can get that sorted you should be right. Oh and make sure you have clear rules about boyfriends/girlfriends staying over etc.
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I moved in with my husband (boyfriend at the time) and 8 other Australian men in a 3 bed house in London…yep..it was fun and smelly, some of them had no sheets on their beds.ever.
When we moved out I forgot my new, shiny cosmetics bag in the bathroom, full of new products. very sad. We went to Australia (meet his family) for 6 months, then USA (meet my family) for 8 months, then decided to do the UK thing again…went back to our old place in London to see the guys that were still living there, I go to the bathroom and there sitting in the same spot, covered in dust, more than a year later was my untouched cosmetics bag
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I think Harry’s a bit hot. If I were William I wouldn’t be happy with the arrangement. Especially as Kate seems so keen on it.
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LOL.
Agree, Harry is Hot.
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When I first moved countries to be with my fiancee we spent the first 6 months of married life living with his two roommates. That was 10 years ago, and we’re still married
It wasn’t as bad as it looks on paper. They were nice guys, easy to get along with (one was a high school friend who, as my husband put it, was so laid back he was practically horizontal). However there were still some cleaning issues, not to mention the Playboy mags in the bathroom . . . and then they laid down green felt in the foyer and hallway to establish a putting green to practice on . . and the other roommate who chugged revolting body building drinks to make up for being short . . but overall it was a pretty good arrangement.
We might have done turned the high school friend off marriage though – he’s the only one in the group not hitched yet!
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I have also lived with my brother-in-law, but it this case, I was the interloper.
When I suddenly needed somewhere to live, my sister and her husband invited me to stay with them while I got myself back on my feet. It was a great experience and a big learning curve for him – suddenly living with two girls when the only female he had lived with before marrying my sister had been his mum when growing up!
Even though the initial plan was for me to stay for 6 months, I was there for nearly 18. Everything was going really well, we all got along famously, but I was feeling ready to stand on my own two feet, and more importantly, I decided to leave while things were still fantastic between us. They were shocked when I announced that I had found my own place – and sad too!
The lesson? Make sure you get out while the going is good!
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