New York Hotel…
I’ve lately been writing about some more serious topics so I decided to mix it up a bit with something kind of ridiculous.
Cool thing is that when it comes to learning English, you can learn just as much from totally ridiculous stuff as you can from learning about more serious topics. Of course it’s essential to be able to discuss pretty much anything, if you truly want to say your English is “good”.
By the way, I’d suggest never saying your English is “fluent”. It sounds super weird. For some reason, the word “fluent” seems to be used a lot more by non native speakers than by native ones. It’s better to say “it’s not bad” if someone asks. If you say “it’s really good” it looks like you are bragging and showing off, even if your English is amazing.
Anyway…..
I was playing around on Facebook and someone posted a link to the article below. It’s about a hotel in NYC (New York City). (By they way, you can actually say the letters (N.Y.C) to describe New York City, just like you can say “L.A” for Los Angeles.
For example, you could say, “I lived in N.Y.C for 2 years before moving to L.A”
….. This is a luxury hotel made up of all windows. One weird thing is that people can see inside the windows as well as outside. This includes the people who are using the bathroom (and bedroom…)
I’ve personally never seen this hotel myself and think that just a bunch of “Peeping Toms” took these photos and made an article about it, but it’s pretty scary to think that people can be taking videos and photos of you doing anything. I like a bit of privacy and I would guess that the hotel guests do too. (Although, I’m sure the view outside from the rooms is great!)
In case you were wondering, a “Peeping Tom” is a person who tries to watch other people doing private stuff. Peeping Toms usually try to see other people when they are naked.
A father could say to his daughter, “Don’t change (your clothes) near your bedroom window, there are a lot of peeping Toms out there”
You get the idea.
I’m curious, would you stay at a hotel like this? Do you believe it’s really how they are describing in the article, or do you think these were photos taken from far away from a peeping Tom? (Remember, these are supposed to be from the 18th floor. I can’t imagine how people on the street could see them)
Here is the article: NYC Hotel
I admit, it’s a bit ridiculous, but kind of funny. Love to hear your thoughts!
September 20th, 2012 at 6:18 am
Hotels such as the NYC Hotel in this article are just hard to believe. It’s ridiculous to learn that the government has so far not taken any sort of looking into the matter even after these kinds of stuffs have very quite often come in the headlines.
September 20th, 2012 at 7:59 am
Well, people watch xxx at work or at home 24/7 . I don’t think people in general are going to have a peek at those windows from quite a distance below in order to satiate their sexual urges. A lot more funny things happen on the beaches of Europe or Thailand for normal onlookers. After reading this piece of article only one sentence comes to mind, ” only in America.”
September 20th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
really it is strange hotle..
September 20th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Exactly ! It could happen only in America. People don’t know what else they should make up. What the world is going on? I think people like to make money on others stupidity. For example: “Did you hear about the hotel? You can go potty on the top floor of the building, and at the same time you can have a beautiful view of the city. Isn’t it amazing? Yeah, let’s take a shit in the hotel!!!
September 21st, 2012 at 4:19 am
I think they wanna make money on others cariousity , there are some people who want to experience sth new, where is better than America . Every thing is possible there!
September 21st, 2012 at 4:32 pm
i have read a book with a headline just like what is mentioned in this article. In that book ,which is known as ” stable” , theres was a dictatorship which wanted to have all the people ,and even their most private stuff, under control .so all houses where made from glass . these 2 are so similar to each other ,may be just by accident
but i cant stand neither that dictatorship,nor this hotel . i nesd some kind of privacy in every occation of my life !
September 21st, 2012 at 4:42 pm
That sounds a little weird!!! I personally would rather to keep my privacy. News like that makes headline these days and it is interesting to note that such news can be found just in U.S.A.,I have no idea why!!!! Anyway, I think that hotel managers do all their best to draw attention of tourists particularly in today’s tough patch. They are about to do anything to make money.
September 21st, 2012 at 4:54 pm
I think we must respect to the rights of humans. It is awful to be peeping toms. When we do not respect people, they do not respect us. I do not like to know and stay in this hotel. I am sure the manager of this hotel was not inteligent.she/he can not increase his/her profit because a minority of people stay in this hotel.
September 21st, 2012 at 5:21 pm
I like this kind of articles..
Really i can’t live in place like that cose i need my private time..
September 22nd, 2012 at 6:14 am
The idea is new. There are actually no walls between you and your neighbors and you can watch each other doing anything from watching TV to taking a bath. I would definitely take a room in this hotel if all my neighbors are hot cheeks
Shervin Coldblue
September 23rd, 2012 at 4:27 am
It’s all the same when u use your laptop and there are hackers like peeping toms! the world is about to become a glassy world and that’s it!
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:28 am
oh my god.It’s unbelievable.Even it’s frightening to imagine this situation.
October 2nd, 2012 at 11:28 pm
It sounds very strange to me, but I think it is very interesting to evaluate how the people think in other place. For me the idea is not good, but the freedom to aprove this, is fantastic!!!
October 9th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
I think it maybe very interesting see this hotel.
October 10th, 2012 at 12:17 am
i would say i rather to stay outside than inside. This is very weired when the bathroom is visible from outsider. that make me wondering anyone would ever used that bathroom in the building?? whoever had this idea that had successfully grab people’s attentions.
April 1st, 2013 at 10:43 am
The design is another important aspect, how can creative to meet the requirements of the “urbanization” image and meet the requirements of the reality of the market, will become a challenge for designers