Everybody always presents laundromats in tv shows and movies as this sexy place where you meet horny singles who aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash.

But in real life, that just isn’t true. The laundromat has angry people who don’t want to be there, and nobody EVER has sex, or takes their clothes off.

So why are laundromats always presented like that?

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    6 days ago

    You must watch very different movies than I do. I immediately envision something dank and dark with flickering lights.

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    6 days ago

    The laundromat has angry people who don’t want to be there,

    I live in a college town. The laundromat nearest me has a bar.

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    6 days ago

    The scientific reason is that the 350 watt drum connected to the dryer motor vibrates at 55 hertz which stimulates the female solar plexus. This creates a chain reaction and urges males to assert dominance and proceed with a mating ritual. When you combine this with the enticingly large sums of cash at a typical laundromat, you can see this is a devastating combination. The scantily clad hot body people is a side effect, not the cause.

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    Because people who never needed to use an annoying thing like to imagine and romantize how they would use it. Completely ignoring reality.

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      I hate how tv seems to be written by people who have no idea how regular people live. Like how in tv shows, people pop in on someone at home and person is fully made up and dressed, and their homes are always spotless. You pop in on me unexpected and I’m going to be in my boxer briefs, angry that I’m being disturbed, and there are kids toys and laundry all over the living room

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        4 days ago

        I always found it funny how writers portray themselves as upper middle class in New York living in in apartment only the top 1% of writers can afford when the reality is the opposite.

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    In my town, junkies hang out at the laundromat begging for money. The cops show up regularly and haul them off. I saw prostitutes outside of it once, too

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              5 days ago

              Congrats on being privileged to never need to go through that hell, and talking down to those who did.

              I don’t need to justify myself to you, but my response to the other poster was completely valid. If he’s using terms like “meth zombies” and denigrating public facilities that allow addicts to enter because of their presence then he deserves every ounce of contempt he gets.

              I’ll accept a thank you for the explanation but any other response will result in a block.

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                5 days ago

                Theres a difference between addicts and junkies. Junkies have my empathy but I really understand why someone wouldn’t want to spend prolonged times in the same space with one.