Re:U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (2009)
by iudqnolq on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:16PM
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> As per the pic in the article, she's handing her clothing in the front yard, which, even in a country where drying-by-hanging is the norm, is still considered tacky and stupid.
Not in Scotland. In smaller towns you'll even see poles installed next to the sidewalk to hang your laundry in public.
Re:U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (2009)
by lelanthran on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:43PM
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The country I was referring to wasn't Scotland.
After all, Scotland is an outlier in this regard - there's a number of non-third-world countries where people are regarded as trailer-trash (or the local equivalent) for hanging their clothing in the front yard.
Sure, but there's limits to what you can display on your front lawn without annoying the neighbours, no?
As per the pic in the article, she's handing her clothing in the front yard, which, even in a country where drying-by-hanging is the norm, is still considered tacky and stupid.[1]
Now, maybe she doesn't have a backyard, or maybe it doesn't have enough space, but the article didn't say so. They also pick a single quote used in the anonymous notes - "Don't want to see your underwear" (or something similar), without the rest of the anonymous note. My guess is that she has already had notes asking her to do this in the privacy of her backyard.
I wish they (or the woman herself) could have stated why it has to be the front lawn or nothing at all.
> This coming from the country where morons want to own a gun to protect their property and all other bs excuses, it's rather comedic.
[1] I'm 46 years old in said country, and I have never before in my life seen people hang their laundry on their front lawn. How common is this in Portugal?