• @Retrograde
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    1211 months ago

    It is truly bizarre how Europeans never use screens, make it make sense!!

    • Ataraxia
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      711 months ago

      We had them in Italy. But we also didn’t have these weird windows. Also stop acting like Europe is a small town on an island.

      • @Retrograde
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        11 months ago

        I honestly don’t think of Europe as a small town, I promise- I’m just saying I’ve been in many brilliant countries across Europe and I swear to you that I’ve never seen a screen. Where is the spider protection, I ask you?!

        This should be particularly important, I think, in the Scottish Highlands, land of midges, who want nothing more than to feast on your flesh. Still, not a screen in sight, although I must admit you certifiably need a very fine screen to prohibit those pesky wee bastards. There seems to be a sort of gentlemen’s alliance though because it seems that the midge rarely enters a human dwelling, maybe out of fear of pure Scottish fury, but mark my words … they sit and wait.

        I will digress also that in our defense, Scots do use midge nets when camping unless we’re on our 10th Tennant’s, in which case it’s really no bother

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Its not like the few mosquitoes we have would be smart enough to enter my room through the sides of a lightly tilted window.