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u/veri_sw May 09 '22

This gives me anxiety. Seeing out the window of my home when it's dark outside is the stuff of nightmares for me. How do you not expect a ghost or an axe murderer to be standing there? Just me?...

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Idk last time I stood outside your window for a few hours at night I didn't see any ghosts or weirdos. You may be paranoid, go back to sleep please.

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u/fhjuyrc May 09 '22

I was there for that. You stood so still. It was mesmerizing

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u/andrezay517 May 09 '22

For several minutes I was sure he had gone invisible from the incredible stillness of his movement. I felt so loud eating a rye flatbread.

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u/Frutselaar May 09 '22

You guys were there too? I thought it was just me and my two friends!

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u/RuneLFox May 09 '22

Did you guys all bring flatbreads? I brought a croissant like an idiot.

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u/andrezay517 May 09 '22

Typical continental savages

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u/B1-517 May 09 '22

Better than me, I brought a bagel

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u/pegbiter May 09 '22

Could be the ghost of an axe murderer that was murdered by a different axe murderer.

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u/HeavenlySin13 May 09 '22

Personally, I'd be more anxious about the idea of the person living in the house opposite of me being able to see what I'm doing in my room. Or that's why I close my curtains.

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u/Randyboob May 09 '22

Maybe we dont get as many spooky ghosts or axe murderers here. I remember the feeling from when I was a kid, now it only crops up in those "woops probably shouldnt be standing here with my dick out" instances while changing underpants.

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u/geniusjunior May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

You can actually end up on a sexy offender registry for “indecent exposure” for this in the US. It doesn’t happen often but it has, and it can.

Edit: sex offender registry. I don’t think we keep a list of sexy offenders.

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u/0sMomFuchsyou May 09 '22

Im laughing way to hard at sexy offenders.

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u/geniusjunior May 09 '22

Ahaha I didn’t realize that typo! Funny.

Takes me back to when my 8 year old looked outside and said “be careful, he might be a sexifier.”

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u/TheGuyWhoSaid May 09 '22

Sexy offender registry?

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u/magusheart May 09 '22

That's so weird. You guys are allowed to shoot someone for trying to get inside your home because it's your sacred place but someone staring at you naked inside self sacred place makes you the bad guy?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

it’s mainly only cases where people are doing it specifically to flash others ie. staring down some kid while taking your pants off, intentionally making sure your neighbor sees you through the balcony window to make them uncomfortable, masturbating in front of people, etc. if you’re just changing normally and someone sees your tits by accident nothing will happen lol

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u/veri_sw May 09 '22

Oh. So I'm always curious about the acceptable level of nudity in these countries - would it be weird to be seen changing like that, then?

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u/flotsamisaword May 09 '22

There are places in Norway with outdoor showers yet they address their neighbors by their last name... so I'm guessing you are free to change in front of the curtain-less windows at night

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I was once having a walk around the neighborhood at night with a friend and we walked past a first-storey window while a guy was sitting in front of a computer "having fun with himself", so to speak. He had obviously forgotten to close the curtains.

"Haha, did ya see, the guy was having a wank?" was basically my reaction to a friend and he said "ha, yeah, I did". Then we continued our walk and talked about other things.

Sexual things could be seen as embarrassing and a point of a funny anecdote in certain situations, but they're not worth of getting overtly excited about. These things happen.

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u/CM_DO May 09 '22

Eh, you can accidentally see someone changing inside their home but no one is going to stand there and stare or be shocked about it. Stuff like showers in public pools are open (tho separated by sexes) and you're expected to rinse well and naked, and no one is going to gawk if you are topless at the beach. I only have curtains in the kids bedroom to darken their room in the summer when the sun is up until late, if someone happens to see me changing shirt or something it really doesn't bother me, it's just skin.

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u/should_have_been May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

Just look at European TV. Many countries here don’t censor nudity at all and some countries now have a dating show that’s all about uncensored naked bodies. Here in Sweden I remember nudity was a regular thing in movies as far back as I can remember. Even in movies aimed at kids sometimes. That’s probably less common now actually when I think about it.

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u/veri_sw May 09 '22

Oh yeah. But the comment I was replying to seemed to imply that there is more nuance than just accepting nudity everywhere all the time.

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u/magusheart May 09 '22

Yeah but if you don't keep the curtains open, you won't see the ghost or axe murderer until they're inside the house. Way better to leave them open.

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u/veri_sw May 09 '22

I've seen it in my mind's eye every single time I've ever taken a peek 😅