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I've just got a place to stay for next in a really nice part of dublin, for a dirt-cheap price. I'll be sharing a flat with some Algerian randomer. My attic room doesn't have a door on it, understandably, which is fine, since he has the downstairs and I have upstairs. However, I had a bad thought last night. He had said that it's definite that he'll be getting broadband in the gaff, since he "sells a lot of stuff on ebay". Were he not algerian, and a bit shifty-looking, I wouldn't be concerned, but I suddenly thought last night - what if i come home one day, and he's made off with my all my shit, my laptop, my server (with my music, which is my life), my sound system.... What can I do? |
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the relevance of the bedroom not having a door, by the way, is that I therefore cannot lock my door when I go out in the daytime. The post sounds slightly racist, I'm not.. I'm just concerned... I have nothing against the guy and I'm sure he could very well be well sound and nothing will happen, but i do have my reservations |
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upload a virus and destroy his computer... no computer, no ebay! happy household. |
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a lot of people really do sell a lot of stuff on ebay. |
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seriously tho, i've lived in a sharehouse for 2 years now, and some dodgy people have come and gone... thus far tho, the worst thats happened is an implied late night molesting which worried me enough... nothing has been stolen... apart from coffee etc.. heh |
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buy a door :P |
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set boobie traps |
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me too, late night molesting is the worst that has ever happened and I am going to make sure i never take it much further than that. |
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i don't think the problem is that the guy uses ebay since i've never seen an auction for "all the stuff in this guy's room" before. i think the problem is that you don't have a door. |
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no the problem is that he is algerian and algerians are terrorists of the muslim flavor who sell peoples stuff on ebay. |
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a door is a difficult one though. it would have to be fitted horizontally.... i might make one myself out of plywood. i dunno. |
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Actually, check his ebay rating...if he is selling loads of shit like kidneys, livers etc. then worry. |
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you've seen auctions for laptops, PCs, sound systems, and suchlike though, have you not? |
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ha :D |
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set up a trip wire to the entrance of your room that notifies you via text message whenever someone enters. |
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trade him in for a solid looking white guy, then you'll never have to worry about getting ripped off. |
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insure your stuff. is that possible? maybe install a hidden camera? alternativley you could threaten him with a knife and say "if you touch any of my shit then i'll detonate the bomb that i implanted in you last night" |
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steal his stuff first!!! and sell it on eBay |
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once he sees the footage it will be too late. besides, he'll probably steal the camera too. "i fucking knew it!" |
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i like raz0rblade_uk's idea. threaten him, come off as being sorta insane. he won't touch your stuff. |
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tell him you have nothing against him, you're just being racist. |
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He will probably turn out to be legit. Does he lock his door? And yea whether he is a theaving git or not house insurance is a bloody good idea, make sure they have a "new for old, replacement policy" |
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Backup your stuff and hide it somwhere. If, by that small .0001% chance he IS evil, you don't want to lose your work just because it's on your harddrive and you don't have any backups. Rasec's plan is sound, too. |
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anyone want to make 500gb available to me then, to back my stuff up onto? :s i think everything will be ok... i do think i'll make a makeshift door with lock though |
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Tell him you are planning on stealing some stuff and putting it on ebay but you dont know how it works. ask him what he thinks of that |
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i'll guard you're door while you sleep or are out, for a minimum of 3euro per hour...deal? |
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500 gig..? sounds like someone should've started making back-ups a bit earlier..! :P (460Gb is pr0n, isn't it?) |
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you need to divide your data into 2 categories: unique (like photos, essays, drawings, designs, music by yourself, stuff you won't be able to get back) and not unique (lol, can't remember the proper word for it. data that you can get back easily, i.e. music, well known software, games etc...) once that's done i'm sure you'll be able to fit it all onto a few cds or something |
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The post sounds slightly racist, I'm not.. I just suspect him because he's Algerian. |
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do the crusher do the crusher you turkeynecks everybody's doing it |
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i've got nothing against algerians, it's just unfortunately that they have a predisposition to theft. |
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That's a lot of giggery you silly goose! Still, don't DVDs hold like 15-20 gigs of data or something? I've got hundreds of CD-Rs laying around (well not laying around, they're actually meticulously arranged), haven't used DVD-Rs though so I dunno, don't quote me on what I just said. It doesn't seem like it would be THAT daunting, or maybe I'm wrong. Don't you have any kind of backup for it or something somewhere? Like a parallel hard drive or set of hard drives something? I've got a stack of old saved hard drives I use just in case hell breaks loose. But he'd steal any backup harddrive, too! I can feel it, I don't trust this Albanian bastard either. Or Armenian or whatever you said he was. |
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a dvd-r is about 4 gigs, you lovely guy. |
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but even then - if you weren't living with a filthy thieving foreigner, wouldn't you just be worried about losing 500Gb of valuable data because you never back up? you know, what with computers crashing, HDs spontaneously disintegrating, that kind of thing. |
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4, I was close, it's not like I thought they held 1000 gigs or something. Still, that's like 125 DVDs, which is nothing, child's play. He won't find any buyers for THAT, lemme tellya. And I find backing stuff up to be a very rewarding and fun process. |
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You just couldn't help yourself could you?! Racist bastard.. |
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life is too short for all of this |
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but really. has he done anything that might indicate he would run off with your stuff except that he says he sells things on eBay (which is what a lot of people do on there) and he was born in Algeria? |
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I'm not racist, I just hate Algerians. |
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sleep with one eye open... |
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He's met him once. And that's all: he's Algerian and likes ebay |
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I'm always awake with one eye sleeping. |
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maybe his market is more along the lines of porcelain figurines and dolls |
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that would be gayBay. |
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if you create a makeshift door with a lock that might be awkward. because he'll obviously ask why, and you'll be all like i don't know. and it will be awkward. i think the answer is- go to the european equilvalent of kmart and buy some lockable storage to put all the important stuff in. |
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And then Alberian-boy will be all like ''why you gots tuh have locky box, why not you trust me?'' and it will be awkward. Face it, Redrum is damned if he does, damned if he don't. |
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Don't live with strangers. I'm poor as hell and am able to live by myself.... entirely... by myself. I'm lonely. Do any strangers want to come over? |
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You have nothing to worry about. Ebay doesn't profit from crime or anything so they do a bang up job helping enforce the law. |
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Just tell him what you think about it. |
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use duct tape. |
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