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Re:U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (2009) by iudqnolq on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:16PM (#33129503)
> 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.

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Re:U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (2009) by lelanthran on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:43PM (#33135350)
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.

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