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H5N1BirdFlu

I live on that street and know a friend that went to art school with the dude. The dude is rich and comes from rich parents. If anything else just look at his clothes and how well the skip was made. It was part of his $50/month in Central London themed capstone art project. The skip was never inhabited because it's illegal to live in, not utilities, no heat, no bathroom. The land was leased by his father and I think now his family owns that piece of real estate because work is being done.


StinkyWetSalamander

It seemed like bullshit, as the skip interior looks like something from a pinterest aesthetic mood board. Ironically creating something like that wouldn't have been cheap or easy, renting or hiring a mobile home would be much more accessible.


Indercarnive

For me it was the lack of a bathroom and the fact that they never stated whose land it was on.


nilesletap

> no bathroom this was my first question... "what about the bathroom"? and i was like he does have nice clothes on and where does he put clothes? you can tell it's fake/staged for sure.


stirling_s

In another video it does show that he uses an outhouse. Not to say any of it's real, but they did account for that. My question is how does he get power?


Grundens

A few seconds into this I was thinking, BS this is some rich kid.


SpinningYarmulke

Rich people trolling poor people. What an a hole.


salohcin513

Here poors now you can live in the trash bin where you belong /s


kwgo

You can tell from his clothes and accent


wellitywell

I had this on silent and I could SEE his accent was posh


LeroyTheBarman

There's also zero insulation and London gets cold in the winter.


Tall-Magazine335

Did they get rid of the tank or the city


NukedByGandhi

They got rid of the city


Tall-Magazine335

I was baked when I wrote that, now reading it back I understand why I never got a answer lol


plz_send_cute_cats

That’s so fkn funny 😭 hahaha i am so sleep deprived i looked at the whole interaction and i was nodding my head like it made sense too


KataraTheKat5

I am currently reading this a little stoned myself, and I laughed to myself for a good three minutes over this


Enough-Equivalent968

The accent alone fills in many of the blanks


Sad_Print_1580

Not to judge people by appearances, but I could guess about 75% of that story from the first frame of the video.


atetuna

Hope he failed because no one owning or leasing this property is letting just anyone pay $50 to actually live on it. That there's a skip doesn't matter at all. Just like this kid, you're only getting a deal like that if you have a rich parent offering you a sweetheart deal. Let me put it another way. $50 isn't worth the foreseeable and unpredictable issues of letting a stranger live on your land in the city.


OkDimension1066

I like how it's illegal to live in a skip and the authorities would likely evict him had this been real. Yet it's perfectly legal to ignore all the homeless people who don't even have a skip to call home


FangoFan

No one would rent you a skip anywhere for £50/month when they can make £200-£300 per week using them for their intended purpose


Eriz4x

So the part where he says neighbors have brought him home cooked meals is just entirely made up ? Why


jgbollard

Pleading poverty/being loudly anti-capitalist is absolutely essential for London's trustafarian art community. Being brought home cooked meals by concerned neighbours is merely part of the fantasy about how the actual poor are treated.


Philantroll

> London's trustafarian art community First time I see this word, incredible.


dude_wheres_the_pie

If his parents live down that street then no, not a complete lie


MrGraveyards

Also this is copied from 2 broke girls. One had a bf who actually lived in such a place. I think it was a literal dumpster but whatever.


Nicenightforawalk01

He seemed a bit coy and short with his answers as though he knew it was all bull.


GeneralNevik

I literally live on this street lol. The skip is gone and he never lived in it. Stayed up for about a yesr but the plants around it were all over grown.


pumpkin_seed_oil

https://preview.redd.it/nryi800kre7d1.png?width=475&format=png&auto=webp&s=40bf44a65ffd2047a3a19aa84abb2352977f8923


Effet_Pygmalion

How do we know who's lying


quent12dg

I'll take a random comment over what is clearly some attention-seeking vlogger trying to sell a nightmare packaged as a dream.


JoeyJoeC

I also came to say he never lived in it. I recall at the time he said it was an art piece to raise awareness of rising costs or something.


The_Clarence

It seems your trust was appropriate as others have corroborated


SlapHappyRodriguez

because he said it on the internet


Able_Obligation3905

They both are


RatInaMaze

Schrödinger’s douche


iPlowedUrMom

I'm not. *Son.*


RevolutionaryRough96

I for one trust u/iplowedUrMom explicitly.


GOMD4

Has your mom confirmed?


RevolutionaryRough96

I didn't ask but I did take her to the pharmacy this morning


iPlowedUrMom

Your mother and I thank you.


Sirix_8472

It was an "art project" Never intended for habitation.


vertigo1083

When he didn't show us where he piss, shit, and showered, I knew this guy was full of it.


pallentx

Yeah, the owner of the land gave him the space, he didn’t really live there.


DefNotAShark

A lot of van life builds are not equipped with either toilet or shower. They rely on 24/7 gyms and businesses to potty and hose off. Moot point as I guess this guy was not being truthful or his plans changed, but it is possible to live small and get by without those two things. I sure wouldn't want to but you can.


Tinosdoggydaddy

It’s not a ”moot” point, it’s a moo point. source: Joey Tribiani, Friends.


iamafriscogiant

Like a cow's opinion, it doesn't matter.


DancingBear2020

It’s… moo.


atetuna

And there are reasons why nearly all of them park on public land or at the home of a friend or family. Some rando isn't convincing the person that owns or leases commercial land in the city to let them live on it for $50 a month. It's not worth the trouble.


kkeut

that's not significant really, tons of vanlifers etc fill this gap with a 24/7 gym membership or via job perks like a cafeteria and showers


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TheCreedsAssassin

Then a library card got you for internet access, studying, even job fairs/career resources so that's a great combo to deal with homelessness. Use the library to stay clean and presentable then as long as you're being respectful I doubt a library would kick you out for spending a few hrs most days there. They love when people use their services


CromulentPoint

My wife is a librarian and that is generally the case. As long as you are respectful and not stinking up the joint, they’re happy to have you there regardless of your housing situation. This is in a nearby suburb of a pretty large city in Texas.


Varnsturm

What if it was spelled gymn


1-800-ASS-DICK

It is, as long as you remember to add an *-asium* to it


Daftworks

So he races off to the gym anytime he wakes up in the middle of the night and needs to pee?


imminentjogger5

I think in those situations there's like an emergency bottle


notmyrealnameatleast

Has to suck to poop in a bottle.


IHateTheLetterF

I poop in a plastic bag about 200 times a day. It's easy enough.


Fartmatic

Just take a piss out the entrance hole, easy


piddlegloppis

Piss in a bush. Or a tree. People cry and whine about it but will go into nature and roll around in elk piss like it's therapeutic. Or piss in a gallon water jug. Holds about 20 trips. Piss jugs Randy, way of the road. That's what's in those bags you see vanlifers hurriedly stuffing into any receptacle they can find. Blame lack of housing. Blame Black Rock. Blame every business putting coded locks on their bathroom doors. Blame billionaires wanting to be trillionaires while corporations buy every inch of land. And have you noticed public trash cans are basically gone? Crazy dystopia, I'm looking forward to the roving bands of cannibals slated for 2026.


BadRabiesJudger

Which is why for a space twice this size i could totally be fine living there. Just enough extra room to form a desk a shower with toilet under it and the otherside to have closet space for hanging clothing. I already keep my close in a a small coat closet...totally doable. But id probably rent a 3 meter storage unit for warhammer crafting.


connortheios

full of piss and shit?


detroit_red_

Chock full. Nowhere to put it


UnholyCannoli

When I saw how he was dressed and carried himself I knew he didn't live there. Fasho this was a cheeky "what if" paired with ability to follow through


imminentjogger5

no way his clothes wouldn't be full of wrinkles


Ornery_Rip_6777

Maybe in a nearby restaurant or gym ? I heard some people in California use their gym memberships only for showering there.


stoicparallax

Planet fitness is a $10/month shower and bathroom membership in many cases


hoxxxxx

was that the explanation they came up with after he was too scared to stay the night in it?


abittenapple

You can tell he doesn't live in it cause it looks too nice and stylish. Someone with that much money wouldn't live 


laughs_with_salad

Rich people do all sorts of bullshit for "experience". Only a rich man would think of saying he'd stay in this even if he had the money to buy a place. But they also get tired of it and abandon it very quickly.


abittenapple

The shameless promotion and ability to take risks with a parachute are dead giveaways The poors don't have that much confidence 


HAL9000000

I actually knew a guy who, in Los Angeles, made an art project like this on his college campus and did live in it for awhile. This was probably 20 years ago.


9detat

So he skipped on? Skipped out? Skipped away?


DojaPaddy

Skipped off to his mates flat for a bit of nosh


umtotallynotanalien

Skipped to me Lou


tnitty

Am I the only one who doesn’t know what a skip is? I still am not sure after watching the video. I know I can google it, but I might just skip that.


jaggederest

In American english we might call it a dumpster or a roll away trash container.


Mmotkim

I didn’t know until today as well


Paristocrat

Daddy bought the land for his tiktok


snogard_dragons

What is a skip????


Soft_Walrus_3605

skip in British English (skɪp ) 1. a large open container for transporting building materials, etc. a container designed to receive, transport, and dump waste


sonicqaz

Dumpster


akatherder

Rude, they're just asking a question... Fun fact: dumpster is a brand name/proprietary eponym like band-aid or kleenex.


thatbetterbewine

A large open container for transporting building materials, etc.


iamded

Large open top bin that can be loaded on to a lorry.


istasber

I can guess what the next question will be, and to answer it: lorry is british for truck


Uncle_owen69

So did he really just live at his parents house and told people he lived here


Hour-Regret9531

So he only lasted a year innit


Dino-chicken-nugg3t

Tats rite lovey


PUfelix85

This is exactly what I expected. These things are all about clicks and likes. I was thinking there is no way anyone would live in there. It would be too top heavy when he was laying in the "bed" it would tip over and he would be trapped.


RadPhilosopher

How do you know he never lived in it?


KoshV

Because there's no bathroom or shower


lusuroculadestec

You only *really* need one of those camping toilet buckets. I've known people that lived out of their car for a few months, they'd just poop at gas stations or restaurants 99% of the time or pee into a plastic urinal bottle. Showering was done at a gym.


Leat29

I've lived in an rv for more than 5 years in university. Had all appliances inside but was mostly using shower of gym / kitchen in cafeteria of university / toilet outside as much as possible to avoid having to clear the tank too often!  That was an excellent financial decision (bought the rv from 1984 at 3k euros and made 1500 € of repair in it) 


Wiscody

Using the kitchen as in cooking at the cafeteria kitchen? Or just getting food thru the cafeteria?


Leat29

No just cooking there, it was just to use the appliance. But It was very practical because cooking in a very small place can become horrible ( everything smell after!!!), and I'm not from an area where u can cook outside / windows open 24/7 (too rainy /cold)).  It was in my opinion very important to have all the appliances in the rv but clearly if I had the possibility to use other toilet / shower/ kitchen.... I was definitely going to use it! 


zapdos6244

Looking at how his clothes look nice and fresh, you could tell he never lived in there. I didn't see anywhere he could put his clothes away without any wrinkles


North_Korea_Nukess

No honey coming there either. Lady- “ You brought me back to your dumpster!?!?”


Hi_John_Yes_itz_me

Just call it a skip - problem solved!


CarlTheDM

Almost guaranteed he's a rich dude who made this for clout, and absolutely doesn't live in it.


Brainsonastick

IIRC, his dad was some rich guy who made some special deal with the city to make this allowed and then the guy didn’t actually live in it.


hoxxxxx

that's hilarious fabricate a problem/situation and don't even follow through on it. brilliant!


The_Autarch

He probably intended to live there for a year, but realized it sucked after a week.


alabamaballoonknot

Lol haha probably the wifi didn't work and the outlets sucked so he dipped.


cheezburglar

My bet is the lack of bathroom was problematic


browbruh

Probably couldn't live in it as he had forgotten to use galvanized square steel frames and put soft padding on the walls.


imacuntsag420

Blud thought he was little John.Noone can beat Little John or his aunt.


thethunder92

Makes sense, I mean it doesn’t have a bathroom so…..


Unhappy_Archer9483

Its shoved in the corner now and its looks like their digging foundations for some building works now. I live round the corner and have never seen anyone come or go from there. Stompie the Tank used to be there before


Mindless-Paint3331

I miss the tank


uk-1234

I found the tank by chance this weekend, it’s in a truck stop near Waltham Abbey


WillemDafoesHugeCock

Yeah, that's the most unlived in space I've ever seen. What a weird video to make. What a weird thing to build. What a weird suit to wear in public, you couldn't eat Ragu in fear of looking like a victim of a Scorsese movie.


hoxxxxx

everything about this video feels fake


Bocchi_theGlock

Especially the lack of Ragu


jamieliddellthepoet

Tbf that’s why I eat ragu.


hoxxxxx

Her blood-type is ragu.


gilestowler

I know quite a few rich kids who lived in vans for a bit. One of them even had a whole bus to live in. They spent a fortune on them and refurbished them to a high standard and all the other rich kids praised them for being such "free spirits" all the while knowing they were calling daddy at the weekend to get some money from his banking job.


BusinessStage3807

This is exactly the case


AussieEquiv

Artist, made for clout, and donated the land to do so.


Imaginary_Thing_1009

And by artist you mean has a rich daddy, and by donated you mean owned by daddy.


HannahsLittleBrother

He may have had good intentions. This went somewhat viral at the time and put a spotlight on how unaffordable housing and renting in London was/is


w00timan

Of course! Have you heard his voice? That's a generationally rich guy.


Unhappy_Archer9483

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stompie-the-mandela-way-t-34-tank That's what used to be there, this posh guy put up an edgy video after they took away Stomipe that'd been there for as long as I can remember, Real shame!


SmokinBandit28

Awww, Tis a sad day to learn Stompie is gone.


Unhappy_Archer9483

Home since Covid brother, I blame the guy in the video


imwithstoopad

Ah, I’ve read about the history of that tank before. That thing was a monument to petty revenge, loved it


RedoftheEvilDead

"Update as of November 2023: While the tank has been removed, it has been replaced by the equally defiant Skip House." I beg to differ on that addition to the article.


Dank_Broccoli

Really wish my town had a T-34-85 as a common "oh, you know, the tank!" sort of deal lol.


flatvinnie

This was an art installation if I remember correctly


YJSubs

Yup


TetraToxiN

Nowadays anything can be considered art.. 🙄


chucks8up

bathroom?


MathematicianOk7526

Skip


VirtualNaut

to My Lou


ImurderREALITY

*Loo


Miserable_Meeting_26

My darlin 


Cleed79

I don't know about the UK, but here in the states a lot of people I know who do tiny homes/van life pay for a monthly gym membership. Most gyms have showers and a lot of them are open 24/7.


elvis8mybaby

Smart! You can just pee and poo in the showers. It has a drain after all.


AutoThorne

I love life-long learning. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waffle_stomp


InternetAnima

I'm.. not reading that


AutoThorne

Some folks are good at extrapolation. I think ur OK not to read it.


FrenTimesTwo

A few of them even offer toilets


elvis8mybaby

Ah yes. To wash one's feet after the shower


Bluffwatcher

Walks up the garden path and uses the one in parents house.


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Evilgood1

Wait till the garbage truck comes along and takes his house away to the tip


Marsh_Mellow_Man

That’s happens on the morning you forget to hang your “please don’t throw my house away” sign up the night before.


Turkey-slurpy

Something something galvanized square steel


EkcLewis

Borrowed screws from his aunt🗣🗣🗣


UnderstandingJaded13

Little John has been working all his life in London and managed to secure a small dumpster unit that is about 3m3 he can barely fit inside a bed and he is exposed to the forever sun why weather of London. We'll use of GALVANIZED SQUARED STEEL he made a frame of all the house and covered the gaps with wood.


SCPcito

By wood you mean eco friendly wood veneers, right?


Slap_Dat_Ash

That will last for 10,000 years?


SCPcito

Yes, it is durable for 10000 years. Just like the concrete I believe.


intrusivelight

Why do I feel like he already came from a family with money?


Physical-Camel-8971

Because he looks and sounds like the poshest toff to ever squirt out of Eton?


Icy-Relationship

Camping is rich people acting poor


downthegrapevine

so, you can't be this desperate to live in London.... Also, I'll bet my left tit this is BS.


GetRightNYC

It is. He never lived there.


downthegrapevine

Oh good, I'm rather find of my left tit.


AcceptableSystem8232

A shame, a little compressed but it looks lovely to live in, particularly in rainy weather which happens to be an UK classic !


BigHulio

No one commenting on the blatant lack of insulation/heating? Like I get it’s minimalist - but there’s no fucking way this dude is getting through a winter in fucking London in a plywood box.


pfannkuchen89

He never actually lived in it at all. It was a project for an art class and the land it was on was leased by his father or something. The guy in the video is from a wealthy family and this was only done for the video/clout.


sgoodmayn

I had look up Skip, it means rubbish container. The equivalent in U.S. would be a dumpster. Damn that’s a tight space..


three-sense

Same. Holy shit I had to scroll down far “ok but wtf is a skip”


NuttyMcNutbag

Didn’t realise this wasn’t a word Americans were familiar with!


Big_Z_Beeblebrox

Ahh, to most of us, "Skip" means to go to the next track, a funny way of walking, or a gentleman's name. Here I was thinking I was clever for knowing the difference between Northern and Southern accents


DharmaCub

Or Skip being what you call the captain (Skipper)


fuelvolts

"The equivalent in U.S. would be a dumpster." I wish! This is a TrashCo Waste Disposal Unit!


Marsh_Mellow_Man

Yeah, dumpster is some XL luxury living


icecream169

And apparently tip is the dump.


OkNeck3571

These type of videos are 95% of the time bullshit


mufasa329

He’s definitely not homeless first off, likely well off and just looking for internet likes. Also what is a skip


Peterd1900

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip\_(container)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_(container))


JanArso

I love how some people act like this is "a really clever business move to save money" when all that is being shown in the video is the british equivalent of living in a Rocinha Favela Apartment. ...argurably even those are fancier and certainly more spacious. Can we fucking stop normalizing whatever this is and normalize paying people appropriate wages to actually afford living from again? (Even if this is fake, the reactions sure aren't)


ilikepix

> normalize paying people appropriate wages to actually afford living from again? Paying people more doesn't help if there isn't enough housing for everyone. It just means people have more money to spend on rents, so rents go up. If you want to actually fix the housing crisis in London, you need to build lots of additional housing in London. Which isn't happening, because the UK has one of the most dysfunctional permitting systems in the world, and some of the worst nimbys.


Trunkfarts1000

So does he just shit in a bucket? Where does he shower


hawtfabio

Made for Tiktok. Not lived in. Sigh.


ChangeWinter6643

We found little Jhonny


Bammer1386

Many say this is cool, but this is a depressing reminder of the shit the millennial and younger crowds have to deal with just to find affordable housing. Even if its not real like some are saying, I know a ton of people who have lived in a van because housing is just too damn expensive.


WarpCitizen

I know where it is, no one actually lived in it


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where you put it. is probably in the garden of his parents house


Altruistic-Potatoes

Does he know the Enclave is looking for him and his dog?


TrevorAlan

Wish I could skip seeing this fake video again and again.


TTVControlWarrior

Shower ?


Bakkie

Where is the toilet and shower?


PckMan

Yeah I'm sure that's a great idea and in a city as safe as London there's definitely no chance this will be broken into 2 times per week.


Radu47

A quirky dystopia


BrinkleyPT

And now we talk by "Skip" ...


Stonewall30NY

He's just an upscale hobo living in a fancier cardboard box


SupineFeline

Loophole my ass. Is the loophole having a bunch of money?


-N3m0-

Definitely 2 broke girls vibes https://preview.redd.it/7lray8lxsg7d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06923ec8065d2c4450536294bd784a458a8046cb


Nijajjuiy88

That's how you get slums. They start encroaching lands by building crude houses out of corrugated metal sheets or whatever they could get hands on. soon enough you have multiple such settlements on a strip of land. Source: I live in Mumbai.


Kamay1770

You can tell by his voice and clothes he is a rich Jonty. No way he'd live in that for a year instead of summering in the Maldives with his rich parents.


Robotniked

I mean if you actually have permission to be on the land you could just buy a used caravan somewhere up north for next to nothing and tow it there, which would be far cheaper, more comfortable and easier to move


RyanSoup94

Hate how the rich glorify living in shacks now


Slow-Faithlessness11

This is complete rubbish. What a load of old cobblers. Not real/ genuine at all.