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Do You Draw Your Blinds?

  • 19-06-2015 01:02AM
    #1
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭


    I normally do, but now for this few weeks in the summer I leave them open, nothing better than looking out the window and seeing the faraway glow of the setting or rising sun. And in an hour and a half or so, the dawn chorus will start, love this time of year. So AH, are your curtains open or closed?

    *obligatory Backwards Man thread reference song*

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDlrRQ6Yzis


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  • #2
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    More importantly, does the carpet match them?


  • #3
    LadyFenghuang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭LadyFenghuang


    My bedroom blinds are closed.


  • #4
    LadyFenghuang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭LadyFenghuang


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    More importantly, does the carpet match them?

    No I am a bleach me up scotty up kind of girl!


  • #5
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    More importantly, does the carpet match them?
    I'm all laminate or tiles, apart from the odd rug or mat. The good room is maple though.


  • #6
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    It's a hard world to get a break in, all the good things have been taken.


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  • #7
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    I do indeed, I don't want the neighbours gawking at my nudey activity


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    I do indeed, I don't want the neighbours gawking at my nudey activity
    Like the neighbours would even look at ya!:rolleyes:

    :pac:


  • #9
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    I only have curtains in the sitting room. I close them at 10pm cos that's when the cat goes to bed :D (seriously)
    I generally live in the kitchen. No blinds. It does get a bit creepy in the winter but in summer, it's lovely. I keep promising myself that I'll go to bed before the dawn chorus...maybe next year :)


  • #10
    LadyFenghuang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭LadyFenghuang


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It's a hard world to get a break in, all the good things have been taken.

    Yeah but think of all the good things not yet made!


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Chucken wrote: »
    I only have curtains in the sitting room. I close them at 10pm cos that's when the cat goes to bed :D (seriously)
    I generally live in the kitchen. No blinds. It does get a bit creepy in the winter but in summer, it's lovely. I keep promising myself that I'll go to bed before the dawn chorus...maybe next year :)
    You're a bit like meself, the thought of anybody looking in at our lumpy wrinkly bits is nothing more than wishful thinking!:pac:


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  • #12
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    I'm not allowed sharp implements so I use crayons.


  • #13
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Like the neighbours would even look at ya!:rolleyes:

    :pac:

    They'd have the binoculars out :pac:


  • #14
    LadyFenghuang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭LadyFenghuang


    The view from windows at sunset at this time of year can be spectacular though. Peach Pinks!


  • #15
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    LadyFenghuang wrote: »
    The view from windows at sunset at this time of year can be spectacular though. Peach Pinks!

    Amazing aren't they?

    You can see through them and everything!


  • #16
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    I bought 2 blinds for the kitchen once....this just reminded me to see if I still had them. Yep, there they are, under the stairs in the boxes they came in :D


  • #17
    LadyFenghuang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭LadyFenghuang


    catallus wrote: »
    Amazing aren't they?

    You can see through them and everything!

    It's really moving to see. Like an amazing piece of art. Pink Peach beautiful skies. :-)


  • #18
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    Not until we're going to the leaba.


  • #19
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    I've always loved looking out my window at the moon. It always makes me feel all wild and happy inside:)


  • #20
    LadyFenghuang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭LadyFenghuang


    Summer wind wrote: »
    I've always loved looking out my window at the moon. It always makes me feel all wild and happy inside:)

    Especially on a full moon! :-)


  • #21
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    I prefer to paint them actually.




    Hehehe.

    Oh no, my joke was taken :(


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  • #22
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I leave the windows, blinds and curtains open pretty much all day when I'm home but I close them all at sunset.

    Not too worried about privacy, the blinds are those venetian yokes so you can leave them open to let the light in and still not have people looking in.


  • #23
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Nim wrote: »
    I leave the windows, blinds and curtains open pretty much all day when I'm home but I close them all at sunset.

    Not too worried about privacy, the blinds are those venetian yokes so you can leave them open to let the light in and still not have people looking in.

    Venetian blinds are a curse. You ever watch old black and white films? The baddies are always filmed in the shade of venetian blinds to show they are ambiguous, conflicted, and . . er. . baddies. The goodies are always in full view of the sun, to show they are . . goodies.

    If I were you I'd dump them blinds right now this minute, you're no Robert Mitchum my boy, no siree Bob!


  • #24
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    I leave the blinds in the kitchen down but keep the window open if it's warm. My neighbour can see right in on me and I don't fancy parading around while I prepare my outstanding cuisine and crack open cans of cheap cider.


  • #25
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    eternal wrote: »
    I leave the blinds in the kitchen down but keep the window open if it's warm. My neighbour can see right in on me and I don't fancy parading around while I prepare my outstanding cuisine and crack open cans of cheap cider.

    You little tease


  • #26
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    You little tease

    These cupless bras ain't gonna see themselves.


  • #27
    The Dogs Bollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭The Dogs Bollix


    Leave them open. Hope the kids next door aren't out playing and look up to my upstairs bedroom. Not that I'm always naked. But the other day I was coming out of the shower and I couldn't care less about the curtains. I couldn't see the kids out the window so I think it works the same. They can't see me.


  • #28
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    The Dogs Bollix wrote: »
    Leave them open. Hope the kids next door aren't out playing and look up to my upstairs bedroom. Not that I'm always naked. But the other day I was coming out of the shower and I couldn't care less about the curtains. I couldn't see the kids out the window so I think it works the same. They can't see me.
    That won't be tolerated in AM-ER-ICA.


  • #29
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Sitting in bed now...windows and curtains open. Will be the same in December, I love me air.


  • #30
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Venetian blinds are a curse. You ever watch old black and white films? The baddies are always filmed in the shade of venetian blinds to show they are ambiguous, conflicted, and . . er. . baddies. The goodies are always in full view of the sun, to show they are . . goodies.

    If I were you I'd dump them blinds right now this minute, you're no Robert Mitchum my boy, no siree Bob!

    Cleaning venetian blinds? Holymotheragodno!! :eek:
    eternal wrote: »
    I leave the blinds in the kitchen down but keep the window open if it's warm. My neighbour can see right in on me and I don't fancy parading around while I prepare my outstanding cuisine and crack open cans of cheap cider.

    Oh I leave the door open all day when I'm cooking. Might help the neighbour that's very proud that she doesn't cook. She also doesn't own a cat :mad:

    Cheap cans of cider? *Cheers* :D


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  • #31
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    eternal wrote: »
    These cupless bras ain't gonna see themselves.

    need pics :pac:


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