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On my walk to work I get and give many a "good morning" all the time I have dirt beneath my feet.
Once on tarmac we are back to ignoring each other.
On holiday the topless ladies would happily walk along the sand displaying their wares.
Once they put foot on a tarmac slipway they would cross their arms to cover themselves but let it all hang loose once back on the sand. (Not that I was watching!)
Probably don't like being followed by yourself from the beach to their apartment.
When I was a kid my dad & his mate took me, my two sisters and his mates son to a nudist beach near Lowestoft.*
The naturist section was between two groins (fnar, fnar) I remember a man walking his dog along the beach and getting to the first groin, removing his clothes, walking across then putting his clothes back on when reaching the next groin. People just like boundaries I suppose.
*it's statements like this that makes me understand why i sometimes worry about my mental health.....
I’m wondering what point is being made here, normal conventions dictate that going nekkid is just not appropriate outside of certain specific locations; that’s how people are.
It's about behaviours that change because of irrelevant surroundings. It's an interesting post tbh and if you're a thinker, just adds to the list of "humans are weird" conclusions.
The naturist section was between two groins (fnar, fnar)
Two groynes also? 😉
On a train journey it take two announcements of a delay (the initial announcement, and then after everyone has called whoever is going to collect them from the station, the announcement that the train is now running even later) for everyone to start talking to each other.
Admittedly they're only talking about the last time that they were on a train that was delayed. But suddenly we're all pals with the people we were pointedly ignoring for the last 5 hours.
I see the OP point though. But it’s everywhere - for example I wouldn’t walk into my father in law’s house with my knob hanging out of my trousers but wouldn’t stop to think if I was stood next to him having a pee in a public toilet.
I see the OP point though
Yeah OP its time to think about something else.
With regard to the nudist beach above, I expect he had to put his clothes back on as it wouldn't be permitted outside of a designated area.
The phone thing is curious ...I have found myself intently studying my phone although the reality is i am just swiping back and forth to avoid the possibility of having to talk to other people...when did i become scared of interaction and what am I missing because of this convenient gadget to hide behind? 😳
Context innit.
Although I wet myself at craigxxl s reply
Well its an interesting point OP for sure.
But Humans are by nature Group focused, it's easy to absorb the group mentality when in specific locations/environments and these aren't really conventionally transferable.
Walking nekkid in Town would be frowned upon because everyone else is clothed, yet on a nudist beach most are nekkid..
Same with phone swiping, most in Town are either on or holding a phone and hence you copy and assimilate..
Perfectly normal behaviour... but take a distinct type of behaviour out of context and it becomes "wrong" or "odd"
On a train journey it take two announcements of a delay (the initial announcement, and then after everyone has called whoever is going to collect them from the station, the announcement that the train is now running even later) for everyone to start talking to each other
I talk to strangers on trains all the time.
They just need to know sometimes,that everyone else is not as excited about them being on shore leave. 😉
I see the OP point though. But it’s everywhere - for example I wouldn’t walk into my father in law’s house with my knob hanging out of my trousers but wouldn’t stop to think if I was stood next to him having a pee in a public toilet.
Someone had a moan, including full "won't someone think of the kids" about one person he'd seen having a pee "in a built up area" at an MTB event I was at recently.
I did think, don't those children ever go into male toilets? I hope that the ground was soft wherever they were peeing, it seems that that's the accepted border in this thread - or at least the OP - between totally acceptable body part reveals and the very breakdown of the fabric of civilized society.