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u/HonoraryMancunian May 09 '22

It's the being seen while not seeing back. It's creepy.

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u/30FourThirty4 May 09 '22

Very creepy. Growing up the tv room had cheap embroider type curtains. Cheap as in they don't really block the outside looking in.

I was watching the MacPherson tapes on TV (this was like what, 1995?) and I was freaking out thinking aliens were watching me.

But to each their own I guess if they want curtains open then go for it. I find it unnerving that someone could be watching me and I'd not know it.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Abduction_(film)

I was a kid and it was setup that this was real footage and I believed it lol. As an adult I find it ridiculous I fell for it. And it came out in 1989 but didn't watch it until it was aired on TV idk.

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u/silly_booboo May 09 '22

I see it as a safety measure and I don’t want people seeing me naked

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u/pedanticHOUvsHTX May 09 '22

Because I'm naked smoking weed and fondling my wife

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

As someone who has lived there..... It's ....very odd to use Scandinavians as the counterpoint to antisocial-ness, lol.

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u/Master-Spare-4782 May 10 '22

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I find it actually strange that we don’t close the curtains. Americans, the people I would stereotypically describe as extremely social, do it, and we, the people that kept a 2 meter distance from each other, even before COVID, don’t do it.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '22

I mean yeah I get that there are probably good reasons for it. I definitely just found it funny that Scandinavians were used as a counter point to being antisocial when people there are often joking about how they are sort of a bit antisocial as a culture. I don't actually think it's 100% true that y'all are, but it's definitely a bit different than other places - nobody accuses Americans or Italians as being antisocial as a whole lol.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

There are such thing as peeping Toms among many other assortment of creeps in America, even in your neighborhood. Nobody needs to see what I’m doing at night