"The infamous clothesline question. . . " smh

Cosmo

Okay... i'll be serious, here...
I never machine dry my shirts. T-shirts, buttons whatever... I hang dry them. Int the washroom, where the washer is. I hung a cheap shower curtain rod across the short width of the room and hang them on plastic hangars (the metal one will rust). Granted, not Spring fresh, but, they do dry.
The shirts seem to last longer.

Jeanwah

chadwick wrote:

had a g/f who had this kinda clothesline. it was a brast to hang out laundry & pull the rope

I have this.

Jeanwah

PJ_Soul wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

I guess it all depends...
On what is hung out to dry. Our brains picture a 1950s type Harriet Nelson stringing up lilly white bedsheets on a breezy sunny day... that's not reality.
Ever see people's sheets? They look okay on the bed because it's indoors and it under the blankets and comforters... but, they can be kind of nasty. Don't believe me? Do some laundry atr you local laundrymat and catch a glimpse of some of the shit they are folding... especially the kid's sheets.
You won't see Harriet Nelson hanging those things up.

Yeah, to me most hung laundry just looks ratty. May as well be old rags hanging all over the place.

I'd still like to know how someone's laundry in their yard infringes upon you. I don't care what people's laundry looks like, it's their yard, it's their stuff and it has nothing to do with anyone else.

Cosmo

Jeanwah wrote:

chadwick wrote:

had a g/f who had this kinda clothesline. it was a brast to hang out laundry & pull the rope

I have this.

...
I like that old, iron pulley look. i might use a pulley like that to hang my bicycles from the ceiling in my garage.

PJ_Soul

Jeanwah wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

I guess it all depends...
On what is hung out to dry. Our brains picture a 1950s type Harriet Nelson stringing up lilly white bedsheets on a breezy sunny day... that's not reality.
Ever see people's sheets? They look okay on the bed because it's indoors and it under the blankets and comforters... but, they can be kind of nasty. Don't believe me? Do some laundry atr you local laundrymat and catch a glimpse of some of the shit they are folding... especially the kid's sheets.
You won't see Harriet Nelson hanging those things up.

Yeah, to me most hung laundry just looks ratty. May as well be old rags hanging all over the place.

I'd still like to know how someone's laundry in their yard infringes upon you. I don't care what people's laundry looks like, it's their yard, it's their stuff and it has nothing to do with anyone else.

When did I ever say that I think it infringes upon me? Or that it's even my business? I just said that I don't like how it looks. Is anyone even actually reading what I'm posting? Or are some of you here only to pick a fight?

Jeanwah

PJ_Soul wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

Yeah, to me most hung laundry just looks ratty. May as well be old rags hanging all over the place.

I'd still like to know how someone's laundry in their yard infringes upon you. I don't care what people's laundry looks like, it's their yard, it's their stuff and it has nothing to do with anyone else.

When did I ever say that I think it infringes upon me? Or that it's even my business? I just said that I don't like how it looks. Is anyone even actually reading what I'm posting? Or are some of you here only to pick a fight?

Well, since you ask, you're the only one who's defended the bylaws against them and you do see them as eyesores... Not to mention that I asked you this question back in the beginning that never got answered.

ETA: I know you don't like them. I don't like piles of cars in some people's yards. It doesn't matter, it's their yard, they should be able to do what they want, so my opinion means nothing. It doesn't affect me otherwise. I would never say that people shouldn't be allowed to store broken cars on their property, nor anything else for that matter. It's not there for me to look at and have judgment.

PJ_Soul

Jeanwah wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

I'd still like to know how someone's laundry in their yard infringes upon you. I don't care what people's laundry looks like, it's their yard, it's their stuff and it has nothing to do with anyone else.

When did I ever say that I think it infringes upon me? Or that it's even my business? I just said that I don't like how it looks. Is anyone even actually reading what I'm posting? Or are some of you here only to pick a fight?

Well, since you ask, you're the only one who's defended the bylaws against them and you do see them as eyesores... Not to mention that I asked you this question back in the beginning that never got answered.

ETA: I know you don't like them. I don't like piles of cars in some people's yards. It doesn't matter, it's their yard, they should be able to do what they want, so my opinion means nothing. It doesn't affect me otherwise. I would never say that people shouldn't be allowed to store broken cars on their property, nor anything else for that matter. It's not there for me to look at and have judgment.

I may have defended that bylaw indirectly, but I also said that I would never act to show my support for it either. Yes, I see it as an eyesore. But there are a lot of things I see as an eyesore. It doesn't mean that I think it is an infringement, nor that I think it's my business.

However, while this particular issue doesn't relate, to say that people can just do whatever they fuck they want as long as it's on their property is absolutely ridiculous. Because something like a front yard car graveyard or whatever DOES infringe on other people. It affects their own sense of comfort where they also live, and it lowers their property values. And in some cases it can pose a danger to others. Saying that anything you do shouldn't affect your neighbors who are actually sharing your living space with you to an extent seems super selfish to me, and particularly unneighbourly.

rollings

I personally like old fridges in backyards... or on backporches

....... or even on the high second-story backporch. Yes, that is my favorite spot where I like to see an old fridge or twelve.



Good morning. my name is refrigerator the bird bath

Cosmo

Look on the bright side... it could be worse...

rollings

much worse

rollings

now wait.

yours is worse

Hugh Freaking Dillon

PJ_Soul wrote:

I may have defended that bylaw indirectly, but I also said that I would never act to show my support for it either. Yes, I see it as an eyesore. But there are a lot of things I see as an eyesore. It doesn't mean that I think it is an infringement, nor that I think it's my business.

this is not defending the bylaw indirectly:

PJ_Soul wrote:

That said, I'm in support of bylaws banning the hanging of laundry outside where it can be seen by others.

PJ_Soul

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

I may have defended that bylaw indirectly, but I also said that I would never act to show my support for it either. Yes, I see it as an eyesore. But there are a lot of things I see as an eyesore. It doesn't mean that I think it is an infringement, nor that I think it's my business.

this is not defending the bylaw indirectly:

PJ_Soul wrote:

That said, I'm in support of bylaws banning the hanging of laundry outside where it can be seen by others.

*shrug* I wouldn't call that defending.

electronblue

I think it would be sad having a yard without a clothesline.
My elderly neighbors use their clothesline and my fence ~

pandora

I'm through with covenants, neighborhood by laws and dues, monthly newsletters,
financial reports, but mostly the gossip! :twisted:

Hanging all that up to dry...

Hoping to be in an old fashioned neighborhood or on a country road
some acres from a neighbor...

big sky to die by

Hugh Freaking Dillon

PJ_Soul wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

That said, I'm in support of bylaws banning the hanging of laundry outside where it can be seen by others.

*shrug* I wouldn't call that defending.

ok, differing opinions on wording I guess? to me "supporting" is the same, if not more than, defending.

lukin2006

Thirty Bills Unpaid

lukin2006 wrote:

I have zero problem with that shirt hanging there... but does the backyard require an effort?

electronblue

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brianlux

I say clothes hanging on a line way up high off an apartment building in NYC once in around 1964. Early 60's radicals?