Lister or Rimmer as a bunk mate. Which would you end up killing?

[Baz]

While Lister would probably be the best person to go for drinks with on a Saturday night down the pub, and Arnold Rimmer is undoubtedly a sad neurotic gimboid, I would much prefer to share a room with the latter. Lister would end up garotted with one of his own guitar strings.

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[TheLeen]

Tough call. I think I’m exactly in the middle between Lister’s slobbiness and Rimmer’s anal-ness. I’d be equally annoyed with both of them. I’d switch every other month.

[Jonathan Capps]

I’ve already lived with a messy scouser and that worked just great because I was just as messy. So, yeah, Lister all the way.

[Tarka Dal]

By default Lister. You couldn’t kill Rimmer as he’s already dead.

… go on somebody raise the point about his anuerism in Series VI. You know the one that was never mentioned again.

[Seb Patrick]

I’m not a murderer.

[JamesTC]

I?ve already lived with a messy scouser and that worked just great because I was just as messy. So, yeah, Lister all the way.

As have I, my brother, does that count? Anyway I would probably pick Rimmer because he is clean and would mostly keep to himself as would I.

[ChrisM]

I’m quite messy myself (haven’t vacuumed my room in… a long while. I keep meaning to but the wash-pile keeps building up and drooping out of the wardrobe onto the floor and… oh you get get picture.) That being said, I probably wouldn’t be as messy if I shared a room with Rimmer.

I’d prefer to share a bunk room with Lister though(although he would gross me out with some of his habits.) Someone arrogant and stuck up like Rimmer would get on my nerves and I’d feel I need to tip-toe around him. He’s a great character though.

[Baz]

>? go on somebody raise the point about his anuerism in Series VI. You know the
one that was never mentioned again.

Wasn’t that supposed to have been all a false alarm ‘cos Lister had been mucking around with the computer to hide the stores shortage? I know it wasn’t in the programme, but I’m sure I’ve heard that/seen that somewhere.

[pfm]

> I?m not a murderer.

Tell it to the judge.

[Danny Stephenson]

Wasn?t that supposed to have been all a false alarm ?cos Lister had been mucking around with the computer to hide the stores shortage? I know it wasn?t in the programme, but I?m sure I?ve heard that/seen that somewhere.

[Farnsworth] Eh, Wha? [/Farnsworth]

[hummingbird]

Lister would drive me crazy – far too loud and messy, and he’d never bloody shut up. You wouldn’t get a minute’s peace.

Rimmer I’d find irritating, but without Lister to wind him up he’d be more bearable. He’d also keep more to himself, and that would suit me fine. Plus his character evolves more over time, so he has the capacity to change (not that Lister doesn’t, but the change isn’t so dramatic).

But if had the choice I’d rather have Kryten. I hate ironing.

[Mnoooah]

Both. Rimmer might die a little bit sooner because I am more bothered by arrogance than untidiness, but I’d axe murder them pretty quick.

[Jo]

>I?ve already lived with a messy scouser and that worked just great because I was just as messy. So, yeah, Lister all the way.

Luckily I’m somewhere in between messy and tidy – as in I have fits of total tidiness. Ian will explain this to you I’m sure – it’s best to just go along with it when I get into cleaning mode :oP It never lasts long :oD

[Jo]

Although I don’t know why that’s lucky… I wasn’t paying full attention to what I was typing, apparently my subconscious must think it is.

[Ian Symes]

It’s lucky for me, you do all the cleaning. :oD

[Jo]

Except the washing up, I don’t do washing up…

[Danny Stephenson]

“You make ze tea, I do ze vashing-up”

[Ben Paddon]

I’m quite keen on doing the washing up. Gives me time to think.

[Dave]

Fork it.

[Seb Patrick]

“Look, that’s what we agreed when we first came. You do the cooking, I’ll look after the plants and the goldfish.”
“Yeah? And what did you make me cook on that first day?”
“Er… sausages! It was a Tuesday!”
“Yeah? Sausages AND…?”
“… sausages and plants and goldfish!”

[Ben Paddon]

Sidenote: A few years ago, I once wrote a Red Dwarf fanfic which started with Lister looking through Rimmer’s personal files on the computer. He found an inordinate amount of smutty Babylon 5 fan-fiction. I don’t know why, but that’s the sort of thing I’d imagine Rimmer doing with his spare time.

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

I could see him getting pissy about ‘ships. “Are you mad? There isn’t the slightest bit of evidence for that pairing in canon!”

[ChrisM]

He found an inordinate amount of smutty Babylon 5 fan-fiction. I don?t know why, but that?s the sort of thing I?d imagine Rimmer doing with his spare time.

Surely, Babylon 5 would be too cool for Rimmsey. (Unless you accept that insulting comment from Tim in Spaced 2.) Oh wait. SMUTTY B5. Yeah, perhaps… Ivanova in a thong would probably do wonders for Rimmers, erm… you know….

Come to think of it, I remember advertisements for B5 uncut back in the day involving a naked Claudia Christian clad in nothing but her legs. (I.e. she was sitting on the floor with her legs drawn up in front of her hiding her… assets.) I’m not making that up.

[Tarka Dal]

> a naked Claudia Christian clad in nothing but her legs.

She was clad in nothing but legs?

[ChrisM]

>She was clad in nothing but legs?

Pretty much. That was the horror version.

[Mnoooah]

Oh fanfiction, definately. It would have been de rigeur for him had it been common back in the day.

[Mnoooah]

In fact, come to think of it, what are the odds that Rimmer would be a scientologist?

[Seb Patrick]

Low. He’s a Seventh Day Advent Hoppist.

[Pete Part Three]

I’d say he’s pretty lapsed these days since he no longer believes in God. TBH, Scientology does seem more up his street. Although he’d still rather blame his hang-ups on his parents than SOUL SAPPING SPACE PARASITES.

[ChrisM]

>Low. He?s a Seventh Day Advent Hoppist.

I always thought it was strange that misprinted Bible had TWO misspelling of the word ‘hope’.

Twas a good joke though.

[Mnoooah]

>I?d say he?s pretty lapsed these days since he no longer believes in God. TBH, Scientology does seem more up his street. Although he?d still rather blame his hang-ups on his parents than SOUL SAPPING SPACE PARASITES.

Yeah, that’s what I meant, at some point he says he doesn’t believe in his parents’ religion but he wouldn’t dream of knocking it. He *is* all about the aliens though. Just realised though, he’s cheap, and Scientology ain’t. That explains that.

[Rushy]

I would be much happier with Rimmer. Lister only had trouble with Rimmer because he’s as anal retentive about defying authority as Rimmer is sucking up to it. 

I’d get a pair of earplugs for the Esperanto nights and be hunky-dory.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I’d opt for Lewis Pemberton given the choice 

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