Do you shut bathroom window so neighbours don’t hear?

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Not a Troll but feel annoyed by neighbours comment.

It’s been warm, we have most of our windows open, including the bathroom.
Neighbours moved their patio a couple of years ago, so now have a seating area pretty much in line with our bathroom window. I did feel a bit odd one morning the first year, as I sat doing what comes naturally, and heard neighbour scraping the cereal out of their bowl, but figured it was their choice to site the patio there.

Went to the loo earlier -just a wee- I was bursting so it was a bit louder than normal I suppose, when I heard neighbours talking and one said ‘oh great, we get to listen to that again’.

I was ‘WTH?’ Are they expecting us to keep our windows closed so we don’t offend their sensibilities whilst we are using our loo?

So, do any of you close the window so neighbours don’t hear you, or just accept it’s part & parcel of living side by side? In our last house we heard our neighbours when we were in our garden & never gave it a second thought. Are we inappropriately using our bathroom?

Plenty. I still don’t care if someone hears me wee in my own home. It’s a neutral activity from my point of view.

My garden table and chairs are under mine and the neighbours bathroom windows ( which are fairly near to each other)
Neighbours are five students who have first floor window open constantly winter and summer. I can sometimes hear the shower running but have never heard them on the toilet. If I did it wouldn't bother me one bit.
My window is also open through the summer and I've never heard anyone else in our house on the loo, again, wouldn't bother me if I did

All of these commenters saying they'd proudly amplify their bodily functions noises, have you no dignity?

Bodily functions are inherently undignified. I've no idea why MN is so fussed about them. I mean, the majority of women on here have given birth with a partner watching yet get angsty about hearing someone piddle. Why?

I honestly never gave a second thought in our last house when I heard the neighbours peeing if I was outside. Some of you have really strong thoughts about this so you will be glad to hear I have been shutting the window every time I’ve been to the loo, I have thought maybe I should be more like 6 year old DD and sing away whilst on the loo, that would at least provide them some entertainment.
Thanks for the input, and the amusing suggestions!

Indee we all have bodily functions. I am strongly reminded of Jonathan Swift's poem, The Lady’s Dressing Room, in which a man, Strephon, sneaks into the dressing room of his sweetheart, Celia.

This is just a part, after he has found the chamber pot under her bed:

Thus finishing his grand survey,
Disgusted Strephon stole away
Repeating in his amorous fits,
Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits!
But Vengeance, goddess never sleeping
Soon punished Strephon for his peeping;
His foul imagination links
Each Dame he sees with all her stinks:
And, if unsavory odors fly,
Conceives a lady standing by:

When I was little I asked my mother if the Queen went to the toilet. She, smiling, told me that of course she didn't. She ate and drank, but the things that ordinary people did in the toilet were taken away by magic, by God. She was not a royalist.

Instead of closing the window, run a tap. My mum always done this when she was in the bathroom and I didn't understand why till I was much older 😆

What a waste of water

I'd be getting a huge jug and pour water into the loo.

Honestly, there’s a price to pay for not being able to afford a mansion with extensive grounds - you have to put up with the noise of neighbours living a normal life.

I wouldn’t try to disguise a thing.

I always close my bathroom window when I use the loo. It's a private bodily function and I don't particularly want to share that with my neighbours or passers-by.

Every few weeks, there's a thread on MN about neighbours who copulate loudly, with open windows. Most posters suggest ways to let them know their gasps of delight can be overheard, from anonymous notes slipped through the letterbox under cover of darkness, to theatrical moaning or playing Je t'aime at top volume. This situation is very similar, and your neighbours comments are probably intended to let you know in a non-confrontational way that they can hear you and they'd rather not.

There's no need to inflict this not-very-pleasant sound, and the images it conjures up, on other people - especially not when they're eating. Since your neighbours have a patio near your bathroom window and you know they can hear you, why subject them to this? They probably moved their patio there because it gets the sun. Please let them enjoy their al fresco breakfast on the patio in peace!

I’ve got ibs if the windows open I often wouldn’t have the time to close it and more fool anyone who moved a patio close to a bathroom window.

Lucky my bathroom window faces a neighbours bathroom window. Maybe a game of poo pong 😂

Even if the neighbour didn’t know before they moved the patio they do now so it’s still their own fault choosing to sit and eat breakfast knowing they could hear something they take issue with any moment.

No I wouldn't its my house but there weirdos commenting

My house is a mid terrace with a side return which is big enough for a table and chairs, as is my neighbour's house, but neither of us use it to sit out in. Mine and my neighbours' bathrooms both overlook the side return.
Having once heard their visitors having a shit, and they ours (probably), we both shut our windows when we're weeing or crapping then open them again afterwards. Neither of us is keen to overhear the other on the toilet.