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People who leave their curtains open in the suburbs

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  • #52
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    frosty123 wrote: »
    The Dutch do that all the time, lived in Holland for a spell...could write a book about what I saw everything from drug taking, yoga, domestic violence to a couple having sex, I kid you not

    If you close your curtains in NL the neighbours would get suspicious, think that you are building a bomb or something.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    CrankyHaus wrote: »
    I actually never copped that this was done deliberately to show off the house.

    "Look on my works ye mighty and despair" doesn't exactly come to mine when you're looking at an unpainted concrete yoke.

    I assumed it was pure laziness.

    It might be laziness in some cases, but looking at some of the new MacMansions down home, a lot of them have hired landscaping but have (seemingly deliberately) avoided anything that obstructs the house.

    Annoyingly, they're all built to the same paint-by-numbers design, so they're not even adding anything to the architecture of the area. Once you've seen one of these concrete & PVC piles, you've seen them all.


  • #54
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,025 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    It might be laziness in some cases, but looking at some of the new MacMansions down home, a lot of them have hired landscaping but have (seemingly deliberately) avoided anything that obstructs the house.

    Annoyingly, they're all built to the same paint-by-numbers design, so they're not even adding anything to the architecture of the area. Once you've seen one of these concrete & PVC piles, you've seen them all.

    I would have assumed the “clearing” of the front area around the house was to provide the owners with a nice view of the countryside without, the downside being the general public getting a nice view of within.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    Lived on an estate years ago. The boyfriend of the woman opposite used to “come home for lunch” and then proceed to have very enthusiastic and energetic (not to say athletic) sex with her in the front room; no blinds, curtains, net curtains or, as far as we could see, any other precautions.

    We took to holding up the sort of scorecards you see on Olympic skating competitions or Dancing with the Staff programmes, which he could see as he scuttled (well, limped, mostly) back to work at 1.55pm. I think the highest score I ever gave was 9.5 - just couldn’t bring myself to give him a ten, even though it looked like he had “given her a ten”, on a couple of occasions*!

    Maybe you could try this approach??

    * no, I’m not jealous. Not jealous at all, OK??


  • #56
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,811 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Lived on an estate years ago. The boyfriend of the woman opposite used to “come home for lunch” and then proceed to have very enthusiastic and energetic (not to say athletic) sex with her in the front room; no blinds, curtains, net curtains or, as far as we could see, any other precautions.

    We took to holding up the sort of scorecards you see on Olympic skating competitions or Dancing with the Staff programmes, which he could see as he scuttled (well, limped, mostly) back to work at 1.55pm. I think the highest score I ever gave was 9.5 - just couldn’t bring myself to give him a ten, even though it looked like he had “given her a ten”, on a couple of occasions*!

    Maybe you could try this approach??

    * no, I’m not jealous. Not jealous at all, OK??


    You’d give them 9.5 , after he’d give her , one.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    I would have assumed the “clearing” of the front area around the house was to provide the owners with a nice view of the countryside without, the downside being the general public getting a nice view of within.

    Yes, that's true. Also, building a house is expensive and landscaping is usually the last thing people can afford to think about.

    I'm only referring here to a subset of people who do make a lovely effort with their gardens, but for some reason leave their place completely exposed to very unappealing regional roads. As complaints go, I realise this is only a minor issue, but some of these houses are a real blight on the landscape.


  • #58
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    No one is on display, is there someone out there who pays rent or a mortgage but can't afford to buy cheap net curtains?
    I don't understand why someone would want anyone watching them in thier front room all the time,
    Please burglars look at my 4k 60 inch TV.
    I understand very large windows in kitchens, front rooms
    are in style at least according to any TV program
    like grand designs etc


  • #59
    greenspurs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,676 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    and you have no problem holding the camera in your left hand ? …………..
    Is it not too shaky ?
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    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



  • #60
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,620 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    The simplest explanation is usually correct, people have got used to living very close together and don't notice they are on view anymore.


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  • #61
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,620 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    There is a more serious aspect to this as well.

    When my husband was working from home he was always conscious of closing the window even in the very hot weather we had, if he was having a meeting.

    I have overheard what must be a confidential financial and legal issue being discussed by a neighbor who was working from home seemed to have forgotten they had the window open.


  • #62
    Yellow_Fern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    mariaalice wrote: »
    There is a more serious aspect to this as well.

    When my husband was working from home he was always conscious of closing the window even in the very hot weather we had, if he was having a meeting.

    I have overheard what must be a confidential financial and legal issue being discussed by a neighbor who was working from home seemed to have forgotten they had the window open.

    It is a real issue. With some of the more ultra efficient buildings its really obligatory to open the windows all night long to prevent overheating.


  • #63
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Most country houses have a wall or fence. Around em.
    The point about living in rural areas is very few people can see you unless you live close to a road.
    I know someone who lives in a house. The front driveway is about 500 yards long.
    A car might pass by maybe once every 20 minutes.
    Not everyone needs lots of bush's in front of the house.
    Every house is different in rural areas


  • #64
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Sure that's nothing op, I've had couples riding, doing drugs, stripping and even die on the back of the bus......

    2 junkies banging each other on Christmas Eve 2017 and many people including kids upstairs but it didn't stop them....


  • #65
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Yellow_Fern wrote: »
    Has anyone tried that one way reflective film for windows? Would it look weird in a front room?
    Yes.




    Depending on which way round you put it.


  • #66
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    It might be laziness in some cases, but looking at some of the new MacMansions down home, a lot of them have hired landscaping but have (seemingly deliberately) avoided anything that obstructs the house.

    Annoyingly, they're all built to the same paint-by-numbers design, so they're not even adding anything to the architecture of the area. Once you've seen one of these concrete & PVC piles, you've seen them all.

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