Just to be clear, your first instinct upon reading this story was to call the murder victim, a 64 year old man who had rented a room in his personal residence out to a clearly unstable individual, a “parasite.” You call him this without knowing anything else about his financial situation. Perhaps he needed the modest rent money to cover critical expenses such as taxes or medication. Perhaps he personally witnessed the tenant continually blow large sums of cash on medieval weaponry or other non-essential pursuits rather than pay rent and had afforded him multiple opportunities to catch up on payments. Using literally dehumanizing language against this murder victim seems totally inappropriate to me unless you’ve got more damning information than the fact that he rented out a room in his house.
But what kind of majority is needed to decide the question of whether something is a strictly internal affair?
This has always confused me a bit. So, in American, does the word “roommate” just imply someone who you share a home with, not specifically someone you share a room with?
In English we’d probably use the word ‘lodger’ in this case (for someone is renting from a landlord living in the same building), or housemate/flatmate for someone you share a rented home with.
On the “are all landlords scum or just most of them?” topic, I guess a landlord who is renting out rooms in their own house is less likely to be a capitalist parasite, but can still be a crappy landlord (and can be crappy in ways that a faceless corporation can’t).
Yes. Sometimes you’ll hear the word “housemate” in the U.S., but usually
“roommate” (outside the context of college and university) is the generic term to describe someone who shares the entire home (including common areas) as well as contributing to the rent (or, if one of the residents is the owner, the mortgage) payments.
What may lead to your confusion is that there’s sometimes a “senior” partner in the “roommate” arrangement (e.g. a person whose name is actually on the lease who’s subletting a bedroom and access to the common space), and further confusing things are variations based on personal relationships (e.g. letting a friend or relative crash in a guest bedroom and asking them to pay a little toward the rent or mortgage every month). In general, though, to be or have a roommate after college is a way of making ends meet in an otherwise unaffordable real estate market.
My landlord is actually a charity and provided that I pay every month the rent they are nice and happy.
On the other hand having a nosy landlord downstairs could be an hassle
Don’t need to tell me mate 
I’m almost 40 and live in a shared, rented, house.
Renting a 1-bed place would basically double my rent, and as for owning a house, ha!
People make fun of Jimmy McMillan, but his party’s single issue is really one of the most pressing ones in most large and desirable cities in the West.
That’s just because they wouldn’t look half as good with that same facial hair arrangement…
Human right it is not. This is not a discussion on US Constitutional rights.
Punchline: the house is on Asylum Ave. in Hartford. No joke.
My first thought was Snow Crash, with Hiro dealing with Raven:
Hiro is mortified by this idea. "Is that why everyone was telling me not to fuck with Raven? They were afraid I was going to attack him?"
Squeaky eyes the swords. "You got the means."
"Why should anyone protect Raven?"
Squeaky smiles, as though we have just crossed the border into the realm of kidding around. "He’s a Sovereign."
"So declare war on him."
"It’s not a good idea to declare war on a nuclear power."
But yes, whoever it was handing out a sword to this idiot is no basis for a system of government.
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