Couch Surfing
Couch Surfing
I know most of you have heard of it, some of you have used it and some will use it one day... I have been rocking it awesomely in Europe... best way to see a city is with local, like minded people.
One thing I regret is not hosting anyone before I went traveling, but I am certainly looking forward to hosting people when I come home.
If anyone has any interest in showing off Melbourne proppa to a backpacker... then I urge you to join up to this... even if you aren't looking at traveling now, meeting other travelers will encourage you to, plus you do get to meet some awesome people... like Swedish backpacker chicks :noteef: but seriously if you have a couch spare sometimes... join up and host, show the real side of Melb, not the dodgy pub crawls that hostels show them...
ask if you are unsure exactly how it works, but I assure you it is very well set up with a great site... so it is very easy...
www.couchsurfing.org
One thing I regret is not hosting anyone before I went traveling, but I am certainly looking forward to hosting people when I come home.
If anyone has any interest in showing off Melbourne proppa to a backpacker... then I urge you to join up to this... even if you aren't looking at traveling now, meeting other travelers will encourage you to, plus you do get to meet some awesome people... like Swedish backpacker chicks :noteef: but seriously if you have a couch spare sometimes... join up and host, show the real side of Melb, not the dodgy pub crawls that hostels show them...
ask if you are unsure exactly how it works, but I assure you it is very well set up with a great site... so it is very easy...
www.couchsurfing.org
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i must be getting old becoz tbh i cannot think of anything worse than getting up to go to work each day and stepping around a sleeping backpacker
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i have been cooking and cleaning while my host has been at work... so think about coming home to a yummy international dish for din dins and having the cleaning done! Plus its only for 2 or 3 nights usually...
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domestic reach arounds from a sqrl?!
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I find this very hard to believe... :noteef:quick wrote:i have been cooking and cleaning while my host has been at work...
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yeah so couchsurfing is awesome...
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Chees mac does not count as cooking steve.quick wrote:i have been cooking and cleaning while my host has been at work... so think about coming home to a yummy international dish for din dins and having the cleaning done! Plus its only for 2 or 3 nights usually...
In fact i remember something you said a few months ago
quick wrote: i just dont like gay herbs n shit
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whatever... as if cooking 4 chicken parmas and 4 eggplant parmas from scratch for 8 people doesn't count as cooking, plus I make pasta vege bake from scratch as well... no packet, own cheese sauce is awesome, the hint is seeded mustard and chives...kronz wrote:Chees mac does not count as cooking steve.quick wrote:i have been cooking and cleaning while my host has been at work... so think about coming home to a yummy international dish for din dins and having the cleaning done! Plus its only for 2 or 3 nights usually...
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x2gnat wrote:i must be getting old becoz tbh i cannot think of anything worse than getting up to go to work each day and stepping around a sleeping backpacker
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
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tbh, wouldn't of expected more from you 2 anywaymrj wrote:x2gnat wrote:i must be getting old becoz tbh i cannot think of anything worse than getting up to go to work each day and stepping around a sleeping backpacker
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quick the free spirit
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hahagnat wrote:i must be getting old becoz tbh i cannot think of anything worse than getting up to go to work each day and stepping around a sleeping backpacker
cosigned
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Ah mac n cheese and chicken parmas, classic international dishes!quick wrote:whatever... cooking 4 chicken parmas and 4 eggplant parmaskronz wrote:Chees mac does not count as cooking steve.quick wrote:i have been cooking a yummy international dish for din dins
but yeah, my girl and i were looking to couch surf in Portugal when we couldnt find a place to stay in Lagos.
We have a spare room at our place in St Kilda but its full of expensive gear, dont know if i could trust complete strangers tbh, especially if i have to leave and go to work while they have the run of the house.
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x4fooishbar wrote:hahagnat wrote:i must be getting old becoz tbh i cannot think of anything worse than getting up to go to work each day and stepping around a sleeping backpacker
cosigned
There's enough free-loading ingrates in my life already (not including Deviant.)
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its amazing how much trust is given... I am going to Prague on Sunday and the host will only be there the first night, I will be house sitting by myself for the rest of the week... we have talked a bit via email and text, but still... shitloads of trust in the system, great to see...
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huhuh.
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manchmal... soms... ibland... a vecas... joskus... tokidoki... neha... sometimes...
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you would have thought a root is inclusive. do you swap undies too?
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couchsurfing is great. yes you can root them
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quick wrote:i have been cooking and cleaning while my host has been at work... so think about coming home to a yummy international dish for din dins and having the cleaning done! Plus its only for 2 or 3 nights usually...
never done that our house
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yeah steve, do you get to hold trashy after-parties at their house too?
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full on Dan... it is Berlin we're talking about lol
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we are thinking of putting a couch up for surfing.
will it be all weirdos like quick, or are some of them ok people?
(sorry quick i just wanted to use that joke, i havent been able to in a while, so i apologise for it being at your expense, i'll get the next one in)
will it be all weirdos like quick, or are some of them ok people?
(sorry quick i just wanted to use that joke, i havent been able to in a while, so i apologise for it being at your expense, i'll get the next one in)
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fuck you CoB, fuk u and your random witt!!!
but seriously, all types like to travel to aus... good thing is, you wont be putting up with any lazy australian backpacker bums... just german, swedish or dutch
but seriously, all types like to travel to aus... good thing is, you wont be putting up with any lazy australian backpacker bums... just german, swedish or dutch
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Funny thread.... good on you Quick, but no chance I'd be doing it tbh. I like to feel comfortable in my own place wether at home or abroad.
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man, what a bunch of middle class khunts!
im with you quick, we hosted a few dudes last year, cos my housie mark had travelled all through europe on couchsurfing & wanted to share our place.
We have a couch in a sideroom to the kitchen kinda, so they slept there, they cooked yummy foods for us, bought alcohol, and were generally good to have around! plus it was usually only for a night or two, and then one or two on the way back from wherever they were travelling in Oz.
I joined a while ago, but couldnt find anyone in Borneo
and depending on the destination, id totally do it!
but i seem to go places that are cheap to stay anyhow, if you are in europe, australia or the states its a great idea!
im with you quick, we hosted a few dudes last year, cos my housie mark had travelled all through europe on couchsurfing & wanted to share our place.
We have a couch in a sideroom to the kitchen kinda, so they slept there, they cooked yummy foods for us, bought alcohol, and were generally good to have around! plus it was usually only for a night or two, and then one or two on the way back from wherever they were travelling in Oz.
I joined a while ago, but couldnt find anyone in Borneo
and depending on the destination, id totally do it!
but i seem to go places that are cheap to stay anyhow, if you are in europe, australia or the states its a great idea!
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yeah, this thread is jokes, the rest of mbc definitely keeps it real, straight from the ghetto yoghetto kitty wrote:man, what a bunch of middle class khunts!
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imo we should have a classless society more
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well my comment was joke.fooishbar wrote:yeah, this thread is jokes, the rest of mbc definitely keeps it real, straight from the ghetto yoghetto kitty wrote:man, what a bunch of middle class khunts!
couchsurfing is an awesome concept.
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i only surf on couches with 1200-thread count egyptian cotton sheets
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fixed bruvJAMESSSS wrote:AVING A BUBBLE BARF
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backpackers smell funny
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this thread just got real funny
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fooishbar wrote:i only surf on couches with 1200-thread count egyptian cotton sheets and proper peng sniff, yougetme?
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scene
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bunch of hipsters imo
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Hmm, I don't think 'middle class' is the right pejorative here...
Pretty sure all my very working class extended family couldn't think of anything worse than some (likely middle class) bum traveller staying with them for free. Jesus, they've disowned me for going to uni (uni = what, you think you're better than us? You think you don't have to work like I do? You think you can just get shit for free?)
More a hippy vs square thing imo.
(I'm all about the paid sublets. Can't stand the thought of shit for free unless it's family/mates, and even then, you pull your weight.)
Pretty sure all my very working class extended family couldn't think of anything worse than some (likely middle class) bum traveller staying with them for free. Jesus, they've disowned me for going to uni (uni = what, you think you're better than us? You think you don't have to work like I do? You think you can just get shit for free?)
More a hippy vs square thing imo.
(I'm all about the paid sublets. Can't stand the thought of shit for free unless it's family/mates, and even then, you pull your weight.)
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shame Retzie... shit for free exists... and its fukn nice, u do have to pull your weight but its still a free service that works well... no free loaders, people in it, are people that earn it and work it good, everybody wins, people who do this are not in it for the free bed advantage only..
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skeen.fooishbar wrote:i only surf on couches with 1200-thread count egyptian cotton sheets
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Squiz your outlook is very much because you are currently a traveller, you may well have the same outlook if you were not doing this, but in this day and age, of course people would be cautious about doing something like this. I think its completely reasonable that people are not willing to open their home to a complete stranger, fair cop really.
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I WAS KIDDING ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS COMMENT
just for the rekkid.
just for the rekkid.
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kevin rudd is using his position to couch surf i think...
that is all he wanted to do, crash on random country delegates' couches
*nods*
that is all he wanted to do, crash on random country delegates' couches
*nods*
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