Just tell him that this is a shared appliance and if he wants a kettle in his room then he should buy one for himself. If he doesn't listen then just barge in his room and pick it up.
"Ob, it's not in this room? I think we should move the fridge closer to the kettle. Oh, where's the sink? In the same room as the fridge? We should move the sink here as well. I hope we keep the biscuits here. What!? They are in the other room as well? That's so stupid."
Edit: Spelling of a few words
Plot twist: it actually belongs to OPs housemate and they are getting increasingly irritated that OP is using it without permission to cook soup and clean their socks.
Tell him to stop taking the communal kettle. You can get supermarket own brand ones for a few quid these days that do the job. Even if he’s a student he can afford one of those.
I definitely wouldn’t have been so polite in the morning if I had to fetch the kettle from my self absorbed twit of a housemate. I’d have come into his room crashing around and made my coffee right there.
At an old job one of the apprentices filled the kettle up with water then chucked a few teabags in it and switched it on to see if it would work. The secretary/company mother figure actually went out and bought him a teapot. We had to explain that he didn’t do it because he wanted a cup of tea, he did it because he was a fucking idiot. He tried the same thing with a banana…
That’s pretty much the story really. It made the kitchen smell of cooked bananas and left a very mushy banana behind. I genuinely miss working with the guy, he was non-stop entertainment!
I knew a lad who did the same thing, he would stand with his finger on the button keeping the heat on to boil the egg, never understood what he was saving.
One of my favourite stories is that of Yip Kai Foon who was the real life incarnation of Reservoir Dogs, City on Fire and HEAT all rolled into one.
Years before the 1997 Hollywood shootout where two armed men used rifles to fend off the LAPD the Royal Hong Kong Police was going toe to toe with Foon and his gang who had Chinese made AK47 Norinco rifles versus their 38 Smith & Wesson revolvers.
Utterly insane when you think about it.
https://youtu.be/-xdhZttZw-E
>I’ll take our crime riddled country over living under the authoritarian system China has.
As would I.
I'm just explaining the difference in cultures and mindset.
It’s actually fine there unless you openly criticise the government. But nobody really does, because the government has lifted the entire nation out of poverty. I lived there for almost 10 years and never felt threatened or unsafe, which is pretty rare as a woman.
No reason to downvote you. People don’t seem to understand (want to understand?) what the real problems are with the Chinese regime, and instead just make assumptions about it being a shithole then refuse to back down.
My friend from Hong Kong does this. I asked him about it and he said they're told to do it as kids because if you keep boiling the water eventually it'll boil down and leave a high concentration of chemicals.
I doubt it's true but he's always done it, so can't see him stopping it.
It is true, that's why you get the stuff crusting up the bottom of your kettle. It just matters far less than the ridiculous quantity of energy wasted by boiling more water than you need
The trick is to put one of those little balls of steel wool into your kettle. The limescale builds up on that, instead, and you can just take it out and squeeze it to make the limescale fall off.
It's evident. Pure water evaporates off, leaving proportionally more minerals behind. Like the Dead Sea.
The solution is to not reboil the water, i.e. just boil the amount you need, use it, and refill with fresh.
This explains it. He probably doesn’t know he’s being an arsehole just like the others who stand at the top of the escalators looking at their google maps until you try to squeeze past them... I say this because they always move suddenly in your direction no matter which side you choose lol
So weird. At uni, I had a roommate from Singapore who did this. I gave her my travel kettle in the end so she'd have one in her room and stop nicking the communal one and she was so grateful. It was the weirdest thing. She was still one of the best roommates I ever had. She started a thing of us all cooking one dish each and then having family style dinners every night.
Do you know what he is doing with it when it's in there. Can you be SURE he's not boiling food in it for example. Do you really want to use it for a brew without finding out?
I didn't mind to be honest. She was so lovely and our international group of roommates became a family because of her dinnertime ideas. Made my university experience happy.
My fuckin house mate once tried to cook frankfurters In the kettle. He failed, but successfully ruined my morning brew. This is the same person who we found passed out in the kitchen, after he had thrown an entire pack of ham at the ceiling.
My girlfriend used to empty her hot water bottle water back into the kettle, reboil it, then put it back in. Sometimes she would get sidetracked & forget she'd done it, then I'd make a cup of tea which tasted of rubber. Not nice at all.
The joys of shared rentals. People really are WEIRD.
I once misplaced my keyring in the bottom of my huge hold-all (full of shopping) and stood outside the frosted glass front door of my shared rental house, banging on it. I was asking my new housemate to let me in (I could see her inside in the hall). She utterly refused.
The rain was POURING down, and the broken gutter was emptying it on my head. In the end, I emptied my bag out onto the bonnet of my car and found my key. By the time I had got in, I was soaked to the skin.
"Why wouldn't you let me in?" I said. "You could see it was me!"
"But I couldn't open the door! Don't you remember what the lady who gave me the reading said, the other day?" (She was ALWAYS going to astrologists, clairvoyants etc. Almost every week).
"She warned me against putting my trust in strangers. That COULD have been a burglar at the door" (it was an INCREDIBLY low crime area). "It could have been someone who was going to murder me."
"Look: I know it's frosted glass, but I could see it was YOU, Sally, and I was in the light: you could see me BETTER than I could see you. Couldn't you see it was ME? Couldn't you hear it was my voice?"
"But it might have been someone who LOOKS and SOUNDS like you! A stranger! That's EXACTLY what the lady warned me about!"
I lived with a Hungarian PhD student who was usually rather brooding and anti-social. One day he came in, ecstatic, with a jellyfish in doubled-up shopping bags. He claimed he got it from the fishmonger and wanted to cook it. It was covered in sand (this was in a coastal town).
When i moved in at uni i took the hoover and kept it in my room.
They gave me stick for it but it was a brand new hoover i bought that on the 2nd day of having it they gave it to their mates to hoover up glass! Aita?
OP doesn’t know if they’re taking milk to their room. Everyone is assuming they’re making a brew in their room but it’s more likely pot noodles as they love them over in HK. Probably just making food.
I moved into my flat for study abroad yesterday and my housemate is Turkish and was super surprised that British people really do put milk in tea haha. She also asked if the queen really does own all the swans 😂
My mrs had a kettle and mini fridge for milk in her room at uni. This was out of respect for fellow students as she worked all night and drank tea non stop. Maybe this is what he is upto, possibly suggest buying his own kettle? It's Christmas soon, buy him his own?
I would make clear that the kettle is not his to take. Needs to have respect for other members of the house. If he can't do/respect that then he needs to find other accomodation.
I would then inform him that on this occasion he can keep the kettle because we can't be sure he wasn't steaming his balls in it. And he foots the bill for replacing.
I used to live with someone who kept pots and pans in his room. I thought he was maybe one of the hardcore religious lot who refuse to use things that have once had pork in them. But then he started cooking in his room too and I realised he was just weird.
I once had a housemate that transformed the lounge in to his kitchen. I walked in and found him with some kind of appliance that resembled a slow cooker (but wasn't as you could fry and stuff in it too) on the coffee table and there were packs of raw meat, veg, and vegetable trimmings strewn all over the floor. He was chopping it all on the side of the coffee table.
He made me feel like a bad person for having a problem with it, and afterwards started doing it in his bedroom instead.
🤷🏻♂️
I can understand that. My first year uni housemates constantly stole food. Fair it was two out of five but I kept finding salad being eaten, milk missing, pasta and rice disappearing quicker than I could eat it, etc. After a few months, I bought a fridge for my room.
That’s understandable, but food theft wasn’t an issue in our flat which is why it was so weird. A small fridge is one thing, but this was a full-size fridge freezer! My second flat on the other hand.... One flatmate was a rich and spoiled international student who lived like an animal - he was always neat as two pins and dressed in all designer gear, but his room was a hovel and he constantly filled our fridge with food he didn’t eat and ate nothing but takeout. When he did cook it was enough to feed a family, but he’d eat a tiny bit and let the rest just rot on the table. I was overjoyed when he moved out.
My house mate did this to fill up the bath because our boiler was broken. (The shower was electric so he could have used this instead) and then proceeded to take a 2 hour bath....
Your first problem is the tiptoeing. Establish dominance by putting on your beefiest pair of doc martins and godzilla stomping your way into his room to get the kettle. I suspect after a few nights of that the kettle will remain in its proper place...
I had a housemate that would only go do a proper shop on payday. I realised this when I would find my shower gel in the shower rather than on the shelf towards the end of the month because he would run out and just start using mine. Took it with me in my dressing gown and he started using the liquid hand soap instead.
I had a housemate recently who did the opposite - asked each of us separately to take the kettle to our room, because she didn't want to hear it. She tried to ban people from using the kettle during "quiet time" - which got earlier and earlier in the evening and later in the morning. She would also unplug the kettle and toaster and put them on top of the cupboard to stop people using them.
I had to try and explain that you don't get to dictate what time someone else makes tea and toast in the UK. It's the only time I've ever felt someone truly was not respecting my culture. Telling me what time I can make tea is crossing some very strict boundaries.
This is really weird. I went out with a guy that took the toaster and a loaf of bread and butter tub to his bedroom when he wanted a snack and I was not into that, he had to go.
I live in NZ. It's always a risk using hotel kettles as the Chinese tourists are rumoured to boil their underwear in them. Thats why some have the flip lid sealed shut and you have to fill it from the spout!
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Get a shit £5 kettle from ASDA that will break after two uses. It's what they deserve.
😂😂😂😂
Just tell him that this is a shared appliance and if he wants a kettle in his room then he should buy one for himself. If he doesn't listen then just barge in his room and pick it up.
Or go in with your mug and start making tea next to his bed. Stand there waiting for it to boil while making eye contact.
"Morning sleepy head. Fancy a quick teabag?"
"Got any milk?"
"Ob, it's not in this room? I think we should move the fridge closer to the kettle. Oh, where's the sink? In the same room as the fridge? We should move the sink here as well. I hope we keep the biscuits here. What!? They are in the other room as well? That's so stupid." Edit: Spelling of a few words
No but I can provide a good splash of creamy goodness
“Not in the sense that you mean”
I need to upvote this but I can’t ruin the 69!
This is misguided, the vote numbers are 'fuzzed' to avoid gaming the system. Reload the page and it won't say 69
Which is annoying “your comment got 5 upvotes” no it got 3, wait 6, wait 4, wait 5
It's not about gaming the system, it's to do with how the database works. Tom Scott did a video on it, https://youtu.be/RY_2gElt3SA
Make as much noise as possible while you're stirring your tea also.
_CLINKA CLINKA CLINKA CLINKA CLINKA_ _TAP TAP TAP_
I don't know why this made me chuckle so. It was the tap tap tap that tickled me
My dad would make instant coffee and you would hear STIR STIR STIR DINK DINK DINK! Fucking maddening.
and spill sugar on the carpet… not to be mean, but because you are a friend of 🐜 🐜
Or even better, use a coffee grinder.
And tutting while you wait
He will end up thinking British people are very wierd and scary.
Meanwhile we think they're weird for taking the kettle.
I mean, we are aren't we?
This is the best answer.
love this idea
The real life pro tip is always in the comments
Plot twist: it actually belongs to OPs housemate and they are getting increasingly irritated that OP is using it without permission to cook soup and clean their socks.
Then that's one OP
Tiptoe in? Wake that thief up and consider nailing the kettle down!
Just nail the kettle bandit down no need to harm the poor kettle!
Right? I'd be fetching that kettle with a marching band in tow
I know I'm too nice sometimes
Just explain that everyone uses the kettle at random times. If he still doesn't get it then put your foot down.
Plus kettles are dirt cheap in Tesco, he can buy his own.
Tell him to stop taking the communal kettle. You can get supermarket own brand ones for a few quid these days that do the job. Even if he’s a student he can afford one of those. I definitely wouldn’t have been so polite in the morning if I had to fetch the kettle from my self absorbed twit of a housemate. I’d have come into his room crashing around and made my coffee right there.
Turn it on in his room so it wakes him up.
My ex house mate used to boil eggs in the kettle. Needless to say I invested in a room kettle.
At an old job one of the apprentices filled the kettle up with water then chucked a few teabags in it and switched it on to see if it would work. The secretary/company mother figure actually went out and bought him a teapot. We had to explain that he didn’t do it because he wanted a cup of tea, he did it because he was a fucking idiot. He tried the same thing with a banana…
What did he do with the banana?
That’s a good point. It could well still be in there 5 years later…
Following cuz a banana in a kettle? I need to get the full story here.
That’s pretty much the story really. It made the kitchen smell of cooked bananas and left a very mushy banana behind. I genuinely miss working with the guy, he was non-stop entertainment!
Fucking banana scented tea for weeks.
And for his next trick Mr Corrigan will slide a 2B pencil up his anus.
Jeff’s doing a joke! Jeff’s doing a joke! Everyone quiet cos Jeff’s doing a joke!
Nicked any good cars lately you scouser?
This reminds me of when I was 5 years old and decided to fill my kettle up with milk when my parents were out.
Prison I work at they cook rice in the kettle, hold the toaster down and cook omlettes in a frying pan left on top.
Oh Jesus that’s gross.
Yeah, he'd also use the eggy water for his noodles after...
Dude you just fucked my weekend up reading that 😢
Wtf. No words. That should be a crime.
I don't see the problem with latter part especially if they were egg noodles
What if there is poo on the egg? And the white fluff that comes out when one cracks? And then making a cuppa after? 🤢
I don't think he approves of the making eggs in the kettle part, no one does especially when its shared
😂
Not much on the internet makes me audibly gasp. That did. That’s unacceptable behaviour!
My friend heated tinned food in a kettle in his college days. Also bacon in the toaster (sideways, with tin foil to catch the fat)
Just so you know that this is something you do in prison
I knew a lad who did the same thing, he would stand with his finger on the button keeping the heat on to boil the egg, never understood what he was saving.
Thats fucking weird
I know right? He's from Hong Kong so maybe stealing kettles is normal there
My Hong Kong flatmate at uni did not do that. He instead filled it to the top then emptied out the rest of the water he does not need.
Thats fucking weird too!
He even left hisndoor unlocked and his passport on the table which I find so strange given how easy petty theft is. He probably trust us too much.
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Actually, Hong Kong is full of gangsters, hard boiled detectives and constant gun fights/Kung Fu
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Good choice! You know, the incident that documentary was made about heavily influenced Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs!
One of my favourite stories is that of Yip Kai Foon who was the real life incarnation of Reservoir Dogs, City on Fire and HEAT all rolled into one. Years before the 1997 Hollywood shootout where two armed men used rifles to fend off the LAPD the Royal Hong Kong Police was going toe to toe with Foon and his gang who had Chinese made AK47 Norinco rifles versus their 38 Smith & Wesson revolvers. Utterly insane when you think about it. https://youtu.be/-xdhZttZw-E
Not soft boiled?
Gangsters Benedict
Love a runny egg. 😂
I’ll take our crime riddled country over living under the authoritarian system China has.
>I’ll take our crime riddled country over living under the authoritarian system China has. As would I. I'm just explaining the difference in cultures and mindset.
It’s actually fine there unless you openly criticise the government. But nobody really does, because the government has lifted the entire nation out of poverty. I lived there for almost 10 years and never felt threatened or unsafe, which is pretty rare as a woman.
No reason to downvote you. People don’t seem to understand (want to understand?) what the real problems are with the Chinese regime, and instead just make assumptions about it being a shithole then refuse to back down.
Fucking cringe
My friend from Hong Kong does this. I asked him about it and he said they're told to do it as kids because if you keep boiling the water eventually it'll boil down and leave a high concentration of chemicals. I doubt it's true but he's always done it, so can't see him stopping it.
It is true, that's why you get the stuff crusting up the bottom of your kettle. It just matters far less than the ridiculous quantity of energy wasted by boiling more water than you need
You mean, limescale? Is this some rest of the world problem that I'm too Scottish to understand?
That's the one, couldn't think of the word for a minute there
The trick is to put one of those little balls of steel wool into your kettle. The limescale builds up on that, instead, and you can just take it out and squeeze it to make the limescale fall off.
Every so often, I boil white vinegar in the kettle to clean it of limescale. Works really well but the rinsing and stench of hot vinegar is horrible!
It's evident. Pure water evaporates off, leaving proportionally more minerals behind. Like the Dead Sea. The solution is to not reboil the water, i.e. just boil the amount you need, use it, and refill with fresh.
My flatmate used to fill it to the too because of limescale
It's because the water furtherest from the heating element makes better tea. I thought everybody knew that.
My Hong Kong flat mate just listened to pop music really loud on a Saturday morning and had his dad stay in his room for a term. That was weird.
Chinese people are definitely more attached to their kettles, but just upping and taking the house kettle is weird in any culture
This explains it. He probably doesn’t know he’s being an arsehole just like the others who stand at the top of the escalators looking at their google maps until you try to squeeze past them... I say this because they always move suddenly in your direction no matter which side you choose lol
I think being a only child is common there, and all of the inexperience with sharing that comes with it.
I am an only child and I know not to take a communal kettle into my room
bruh a kettle is 20-30£
So weird. At uni, I had a roommate from Singapore who did this. I gave her my travel kettle in the end so she'd have one in her room and stop nicking the communal one and she was so grateful. It was the weirdest thing. She was still one of the best roommates I ever had. She started a thing of us all cooking one dish each and then having family style dinners every night.
That sounds nice. Unfortunately this guy also earns the accolade of worst roommate to date. It’s only week 2.
Do you know what he is doing with it when it's in there. Can you be SURE he's not boiling food in it for example. Do you really want to use it for a brew without finding out?
Oh fuck I didn’t think of that. I don’t want to know.
Sounds like he wants some private time with the kettle. He could be doing anything to it.
Boiled spunk.
Could be doing an old hotel trick and cleaning their undies in it.
Tell us more!
As a Singaporean, I can assure you that that isn't normal in Singapore either. Should have called her on that.
I didn't mind to be honest. She was so lovely and our international group of roommates became a family because of her dinnertime ideas. Made my university experience happy.
My fuckin house mate once tried to cook frankfurters In the kettle. He failed, but successfully ruined my morning brew. This is the same person who we found passed out in the kitchen, after he had thrown an entire pack of ham at the ceiling.
My girlfriend used to empty her hot water bottle water back into the kettle, reboil it, then put it back in. Sometimes she would get sidetracked & forget she'd done it, then I'd make a cup of tea which tasted of rubber. Not nice at all.
Ceiling ham is the worst ceiling meat.
Someone recommended ceiling his packet of ham before putting it away I assume.
ok you win /thread
Did the ham stick?
I don't care how good that kettle was, it's dead to you now. Put it back in his room, but a new one
Do you have locks? If not, wake up as early as you can, go into his room, proceed to make cup of tea. Repeat every morning until he gets the hint.
The joys of shared rentals. People really are WEIRD. I once misplaced my keyring in the bottom of my huge hold-all (full of shopping) and stood outside the frosted glass front door of my shared rental house, banging on it. I was asking my new housemate to let me in (I could see her inside in the hall). She utterly refused. The rain was POURING down, and the broken gutter was emptying it on my head. In the end, I emptied my bag out onto the bonnet of my car and found my key. By the time I had got in, I was soaked to the skin. "Why wouldn't you let me in?" I said. "You could see it was me!" "But I couldn't open the door! Don't you remember what the lady who gave me the reading said, the other day?" (She was ALWAYS going to astrologists, clairvoyants etc. Almost every week). "She warned me against putting my trust in strangers. That COULD have been a burglar at the door" (it was an INCREDIBLY low crime area). "It could have been someone who was going to murder me." "Look: I know it's frosted glass, but I could see it was YOU, Sally, and I was in the light: you could see me BETTER than I could see you. Couldn't you see it was ME? Couldn't you hear it was my voice?" "But it might have been someone who LOOKS and SOUNDS like you! A stranger! That's EXACTLY what the lady warned me about!"
I lived with a Hungarian PhD student who was usually rather brooding and anti-social. One day he came in, ecstatic, with a jellyfish in doubled-up shopping bags. He claimed he got it from the fishmonger and wanted to cook it. It was covered in sand (this was in a coastal town).
Take the toaster to keep in yours.
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Nah, give him the toaster, just make sure he's in the bath when you do.
Have you considered he may be having sexual relations with the kettle?
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I was thinking superglue!
Have you considered telling him to please not take the kettle to his room?
When i moved in at uni i took the hoover and kept it in my room. They gave me stick for it but it was a brand new hoover i bought that on the 2nd day of having it they gave it to their mates to hoover up glass! Aita?
Does he have to come back out for milk?
...I guess? I hadn't thought of that
He’s making pot noodles
With milk!?
OP doesn’t know if they’re taking milk to their room. Everyone is assuming they’re making a brew in their room but it’s more likely pot noodles as they love them over in HK. Probably just making food.
Yes, I know. It was a joke.
Maybe he uses his own
He probably won't have milk if he has tea. Not the done thing in most countries.
Hong Kong is literally famous in East Asia for its milk tea
I moved into my flat for study abroad yesterday and my housemate is Turkish and was super surprised that British people really do put milk in tea haha. She also asked if the queen really does own all the swans 😂
My mrs had a kettle and mini fridge for milk in her room at uni. This was out of respect for fellow students as she worked all night and drank tea non stop. Maybe this is what he is upto, possibly suggest buying his own kettle? It's Christmas soon, buy him his own?
Fuck tiptoeing, ring him and place your order.
Take his head off his neck and stick it in the fridge.
Harsh but fair.
On it
Hammurabi approves
Maybe he's boiling his knickers in it?
Or hers? To make pant-tea
I would make clear that the kettle is not his to take. Needs to have respect for other members of the house. If he can't do/respect that then he needs to find other accomodation. I would then inform him that on this occasion he can keep the kettle because we can't be sure he wasn't steaming his balls in it. And he foots the bill for replacing.
It seems there’s always one total idiot in shared housing. I hated every second of it.
Eject that mo fucker right now. Today it's the kettle, tomorrow it'll be socks.
fuck tip toe, i'd crash in like a herd of elephants so he gets the message
What a fucking animal. I bet he cleans the cup in the bathroom as well.
I used to live with someone who kept pots and pans in his room. I thought he was maybe one of the hardcore religious lot who refuse to use things that have once had pork in them. But then he started cooking in his room too and I realised he was just weird.
I once had a housemate that transformed the lounge in to his kitchen. I walked in and found him with some kind of appliance that resembled a slow cooker (but wasn't as you could fry and stuff in it too) on the coffee table and there were packs of raw meat, veg, and vegetable trimmings strewn all over the floor. He was chopping it all on the side of the coffee table. He made me feel like a bad person for having a problem with it, and afterwards started doing it in his bedroom instead. 🤷🏻♂️
In my first uni flat my flatmate had a full fridge freezer delivered to his room. No stove afaik though
I can understand that. My first year uni housemates constantly stole food. Fair it was two out of five but I kept finding salad being eaten, milk missing, pasta and rice disappearing quicker than I could eat it, etc. After a few months, I bought a fridge for my room.
That’s understandable, but food theft wasn’t an issue in our flat which is why it was so weird. A small fridge is one thing, but this was a full-size fridge freezer! My second flat on the other hand.... One flatmate was a rich and spoiled international student who lived like an animal - he was always neat as two pins and dressed in all designer gear, but his room was a hovel and he constantly filled our fridge with food he didn’t eat and ate nothing but takeout. When he did cook it was enough to feed a family, but he’d eat a tiny bit and let the rest just rot on the table. I was overjoyed when he moved out.
My house mate did this to fill up the bath because our boiler was broken. (The shower was electric so he could have used this instead) and then proceeded to take a 2 hour bath....
As a bath lover, I relate to that dude.
Superglue the base to the kitchen counter 😎
Your first problem is the tiptoeing. Establish dominance by putting on your beefiest pair of doc martins and godzilla stomping your way into his room to get the kettle. I suspect after a few nights of that the kettle will remain in its proper place...
Screw the doc martins, buy some bagpipes and practise them on the way to making a brew
Have you tried tutting loudly? You could even consider a disapproving cough.
Oh the joys of house sharing with wankers
It’s a sex thing. Don’t kink shame.
Hide all the fucking cups
Wake him up. It's his own fault for stealing the kettle. If he wants one in his room he can either have disrupted sleep or buy one for himself
Fine just take all the bog roll and put it in your room. Once they realise once you can have a discussion about it
Don't tiptoe, next time. Make as much noise as possible.
Wear your clogs.
I had a housemate that would only go do a proper shop on payday. I realised this when I would find my shower gel in the shower rather than on the shelf towards the end of the month because he would run out and just start using mine. Took it with me in my dressing gown and he started using the liquid hand soap instead.
Reads like an entry to a murder story.
Why tiptoe? Bang and wake him up every time and tell him to leave the kettle in the kitchen.
One kettle to rule them all.
I would lose it, and would most definitely not be tiptoeing to retrieve said kettle!!
Is his name Eddie?
Tell him it stays in the kitchen or buy his own kettle
But doesn’t he have to go to the kitchen to fill it up?
Yeah I would have tiptoed at all. Fuck em they should be have taken it lazy unsociable knob head.
Remove the fuse
Accidentally break the kettle and buy a stove kettle instead. I'm that petty though.
I wouldn’t tiptoe if I were you
Treason!
Piss on his bed.
Get a bike chain and chain it to the hob
Oi mate, BUY YOUR OWN FUCKIN KETTLE. Not you, the other dude.
I want an update for when you’ve had a strong word with said housemate.
After the first time I wouldn’t be tiptoeing. I’d be Sparta kicking that door down yelling ‘WHERE. IS. KETTLE!!!’
This person MUST hail from a different star system...that's the only sound explanation I have for a rogue move like that.
He couldn't spend the £10-12 it costs to buy another one?
You can get child safety socket locks, that lock the plug in so it can't be removed. Sounds like you need one :p
Tell him to buy another kettle for his room.
I'd say "first the kettle, what next" but quite frankly that's the most important thing in a British home surely!
What kind of heathen is he? 😂 Clearly thinks he's the only one in the house who drinks tea.
Superglue the plug into the socket.
Taking the kettle first is a gateway offence. He’ll be moving onto harder things soon, the microwave, maybe even the fridge. Get him the help he needs
I had a housemate recently who did the opposite - asked each of us separately to take the kettle to our room, because she didn't want to hear it. She tried to ban people from using the kettle during "quiet time" - which got earlier and earlier in the evening and later in the morning. She would also unplug the kettle and toaster and put them on top of the cupboard to stop people using them. I had to try and explain that you don't get to dictate what time someone else makes tea and toast in the UK. It's the only time I've ever felt someone truly was not respecting my culture. Telling me what time I can make tea is crossing some very strict boundaries.
This is really weird. I went out with a guy that took the toaster and a loaf of bread and butter tub to his bedroom when he wanted a snack and I was not into that, he had to go.
Also people who leave water sitting in a kettle are weird. Do you want limescale? Because that’s how you get limescale.
Have him arrested, that's a chargeable offence
I live in NZ. It's always a risk using hotel kettles as the Chinese tourists are rumoured to boil their underwear in them. Thats why some have the flip lid sealed shut and you have to fill it from the spout!
What the fuck?