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AIBU to think this is absolutely disgusting and unecessary.

548 replies

Gettingbysomehow · 07/06/2023 12:50

So this happened a few miles away from where I live.
Call me old fashioned but I think this is totally inappropriate and somebody should have called the police.
I have been a naturist for 40 years but the old fashioned kind who doesn't think dangling your genitals in front of families and young children who have gone for a meal is at all appropriate.
I would question why they found the need to do this. There are plenty of naturist clubs in the area.
People go to naturist clubs to get an all over tan and be a member of an organisation that usually has a pool and cheap membership.
My non naturist friends think I'm being stuffy and ridiculous am I?
Diners shocked as naked pair enjoy meal in Burnham-On-Sea pub

Diners shocked as naked pair enjoy meal in Burnham-On-Sea pub

Diners at a Burnham-On-Sea pub say they were shocked after a naked man and woman walked into the bar and were served a meal.

https://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/diners-shocked-as-naked-pair-enjoy-meal-in-burnham-on-sea-pub/

OP posts:
Ponoka7 · 07/06/2023 13:14

Reading a few other reports, people wanted to leave, but they wasn't going to be refunded for the food they'd ordered, which is wrong. I wonder if all the men who support the woman's right to be naked also support breastfeeding in public. It's outside our norm in our society, so people should be refunded etc if someone naked is allowed in.

HoldingTheDoor · 07/06/2023 13:14

I wonder if TNR was only ever arrested in Scotland? I'm curious now.

CaloundraBlues · 07/06/2023 13:15

I don't want to be eating a meal and have a dick or a minge come walking past at eye level whilst doing so. Can't believe they weren't asked to leave

whynotwhatknot · 07/06/2023 13:15

apart from anything else isnt it unhygenic to sit down with nothing on

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 07/06/2023 13:16

Ponoka7 · 07/06/2023 13:14

Reading a few other reports, people wanted to leave, but they wasn't going to be refunded for the food they'd ordered, which is wrong. I wonder if all the men who support the woman's right to be naked also support breastfeeding in public. It's outside our norm in our society, so people should be refunded etc if someone naked is allowed in.

Quite

There is an active thread right now about a mum bf in a pub getting nasty comments off strangers

FourTeaFallOut · 07/06/2023 13:16

Fuck sake. I don't know what would be worse, watching a pair of annoying attention seekers mooning their way through a bar, or sitting on the chair that used after them. Pair of tits.

dancinginthesky · 07/06/2023 13:18

I wouldn't want to eat my dinner next to naked people- I wouldn't know where to look and probably assume they needed a psychiatric hospital admission and be very worried for them

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 07/06/2023 13:19

I wouldn’t find it disgusting, but I’d think the couple were rather juvenile-minded exhibitionists, who’d enjoy a ‘shock’ reaction.

As children I’m sure my dds would simply have found it the funniest thing ever.

TedMullins · 07/06/2023 13:20

Yes it's attention seeking and unusual but I really couldn't get worked up about this. Naked bodies aren't inherently sexual, rude or threatening. I hope they sat on towels though.

HecticHedgehog · 07/06/2023 13:21

@MistyGreenAndBlue the same way they would determine intent for murder or suchlike.

I'm not defending them btw. Just this is what the law says.

AnnaKareninnit · 07/06/2023 13:22

FourTeaFallOut · 07/06/2023 13:16

Fuck sake. I don't know what would be worse, watching a pair of annoying attention seekers mooning their way through a bar, or sitting on the chair that used after them. Pair of tits.

Pair of tits 😬

I wish this had happened when my DC were younger. They'd have been killing themselves laughing.

SgtCatherineCawood · 07/06/2023 13:23

I am interested about the quote "During our break away we were naked most of the time"

I wonder what circumstances they deem it necessary to put clothes on? To get showered maybe 🤣

KimberleyClark · 07/06/2023 13:23

SlashBeef · 07/06/2023 12:53

I honestly feel there's some sort of fetish aspect when people inflict that on unwilling members of the public.

Of course there is. Pure exhibitionism.

JudgeJ · 07/06/2023 13:24

Nordicrain · 07/06/2023 12:52

I mostly think this is funny and just can't get worked up about it. I don't have the hang ups about nudity that most British people seem to have though.

So totally acceptable in every other country in the world, it's just British people who have hang ups about hang downs? You really are naive, in many parts of the world 50% can't even put the hair on their head on display!

Riapia · 07/06/2023 13:26

It was possibly a piece of performance art intended to provoke discussion. If so it has been successful judging by this thread.
Art may take many forms.
😉😁😁😁

JudgeJ · 07/06/2023 13:26

FourTeaFallOut · 07/06/2023 13:16

Fuck sake. I don't know what would be worse, watching a pair of annoying attention seekers mooning their way through a bar, or sitting on the chair that used after them. Pair of tits.

Pair of tits.

Not mention a load of balls, a total cock and bull story.

Lockheart · 07/06/2023 13:27

TedMullins · 07/06/2023 13:20

Yes it's attention seeking and unusual but I really couldn't get worked up about this. Naked bodies aren't inherently sexual, rude or threatening. I hope they sat on towels though.

Pretty much this.

Being naked isn't a fetish, and the human body is not disgusting.

I'd find it strange but not appalling. I'd rather they restricted it to nudist-friendly venues but as others have said, they weren't doing anything illegal. If someone isn't breaking the law and is leaving me alone then it's up to me to leave if I have an issue.

babyproblems · 07/06/2023 13:27

SlashBeef · 07/06/2023 12:53

I honestly feel there's some sort of fetish aspect when people inflict that on unwilling members of the public.

I also think this. I think there is some sort of fetish for all naturists tbh. It’s really just not an essential element of life!!! Don’t understand it at all

stbrandonsboat · 07/06/2023 13:28

It's undignified and distasteful. They're clearly exhibitionists 🙄

Thesunwillcomeoutverysoon · 07/06/2023 13:29

I imagine hot gravy could have posed an issue..
As a vegetarian I would have been put off my lunch being subjected to a dangling sausage..
Grim I tell you.

girlswillbegirls · 07/06/2023 13:31

Fraaahnces · 07/06/2023 12:52

Sounds both chilly and impractical too. Hot grease spilling all over the bits could lead to terrible injuries.

😂😂

Famzonhol · 07/06/2023 13:32

5128gap · 07/06/2023 13:00

So many special people these days who simply have to 'express themselves' by drawing the maximum amount of attention they can. Nothing remotely remarkable about them, so they have to breech social norms to get noticed. Its extremely tiresome and intrusive for other people, as much as you want to myob, they make it nigh on impossible for you to ignore them. They need to grow up, and the pub needs to give over trying to appease this nonsense.

You articulated what I would have liked to say.

HoldingTheDoor · 07/06/2023 13:33

Naked bodies aren't inherently sexual, rude or threatening.

It's context dependent though. They can be sexual, rude and threatening. Clearly many people found The Naked Rambler threatening. I've worked in care and saw plenty of genitalia and it was honestly just like an arm to me. I didn't think anything of it. But a client opened the door to me while he was naked once and that felt completely different. That felt potentially threatening and made me extremely uncomfortable.

You would expect to see naked people in a swimming pool changing room. That's normal and natural but I certainly would not expect to see naked people in a restaurant. That changes things entirely.

Famzonhol · 07/06/2023 13:35

Context is key.

People who think they are above the social norms that others generally tend to follow - for that reason alone I would find them tiresome.

FictionalCharacter · 07/06/2023 13:35

5128gap · 07/06/2023 13:00

So many special people these days who simply have to 'express themselves' by drawing the maximum amount of attention they can. Nothing remotely remarkable about them, so they have to breech social norms to get noticed. Its extremely tiresome and intrusive for other people, as much as you want to myob, they make it nigh on impossible for you to ignore them. They need to grow up, and the pub needs to give over trying to appease this nonsense.

Yep. This is where excessive pandering to "inclusion" gets us. Some people think it's their right to do anything they want anywhere, and the rest of us don't have a right to say no.
Freedom of expression eh? What exactly are they expressing other than flaunting their need to make other people annoyed or uncomfortable?
As a customer I'd be voting with my feet. I don't want to sit on chairs that other people have sat on with bare arses and genitals.

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