• zaperberry@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I’ll agree that just reporting it to the landlord is the best course of action.

    The rest of your comment is ignorant. You talk as if anybody who installs a pole in their house is a drug addict or is pimped out. Then you suggest purposefully injuring yourself over something the installer likely isn’t even aware is causing an issue just so they can be financially impacted and evicted.

    Maybe people don’t talk to their neighbours about living problems because of shitty hostile neighbours with ideas like yours?

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      7 hours ago

      Maybe you never experienced a ‘friend’s’ home with young children and a stripper pole in the living room, and a full fledged liquor bar in their kitchen.

      I really don’t need other people to tell what to expect from a stripper pole, as that’s not even the only place I’ve seen such shit.

      Anyways, thanks for your inexperienced advice. I’d rather those sort of people be far away from me.

      I avoided the Epstein files ya know…

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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        3 hours ago

        Pole dancing actually requires an incredible level of athleticism, and as such, is a pretty fun way to get in shape. Some people who install a stripper pole in their home will no doubt be the kind of people you describe, but that’s not the only kind of person who might install a pole at home.

        I know a couple of people who do pole dancing as a sport and have a pole installed in their home. They’re both people who seem like archetypical examples of people who have their shit together. For these people, installing a pole in their home is analogous to a weightlifter purchasing a squat rack so they can lift at home — basically just a way to practice without having to travel.

        I’m not trying to suggest that your caution is unwarranted — if I were the person in the OP, I would feel pretty anxious about knocking on their door about the problem, because it’d feel like a bit of a coin-flip: are they going to be the kind of person who has a full fledged liquor bar in their kitchen, or someone who engages pole-sport as a productive way to stay fit? Because one of those people would likely be much less easy to work through issues with.

        I guess my goal in writing this is to convince you that there are at least some people who install a pole in their home who are nothing like the archetype you’re envisioning. I’m not suggesting that they are the majority — I have no idea what the relative prevalence of these different archetypes are. However, they do exist.