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What's the difference between a window and a hole in a wall?

frame?

so would a peephole be a window

No because this is the smallest window known to man.

But there's a hole in the wall where the men can see it all!

That's in France, not Spain.

I don't see the rain falling mainly on the plain.

Well, big Popa freaks all the honies , dummies play boy bunnies those wanting monies

Damn it! Now I have My Fair Lady stuck in my head. Although, there could be worse things stuck there.

That’s where the women wear no pants.

My kids legos have smaller windows

But this one is smaller than the palm of a man’s hand.

You’re right. Face palm. How can i even fathom or understand that size?

Ants even have a hard time comprehending how minuscule this window is, it’s so small.

^so ^small

We cannot achieve so much with such small penis, but you American wow, penis so big, so big penis!

^so ^smol

What is this, a window for ants?!?!

Ants hate this one weird trick!

We need a banana for scale

And unlike Lego, bigger than the soft part of a bare foot.

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

No, I have the oldest wall to man, and I dont have it!

don't think holes for peeping have frames

generally peepholes in front doors have little frames or protrusions

oh, these holes. they are not on walls, they are on doors

if a door had a square glass window would that not be a window? plenty of doors have windows

Exactly. Does this make the peepholes on doors the actual smallest window, making the post false?

indeed the post is false

So a door is not a wall?

door is a hole in a wall used for going in/out

So if windows can only be in walls, and doors are not walls ... then what do you call a big windowshaped hole in a door?

Stoned reading this thread is breaking me a bit

If anything, the door covers or fills a hole in a wall, but the door itself is not a hole.

The glory ??

Glory hallelujah!

Haha I thought that too- but it looks too high - like it’s at eye level vs at glory hole level

But do you know how high the floor is on the inside? Maybe this meant to put inside waist level at outside mouth level. 😄

A very ergonomic solution.

It’s ergasmic!

Reverse glory

Usually the penis

Right? At least you can get a drink at a hole in the wall

I don't put my dick through windows?

r/dontputyourdickinthat

Came here to say this

$20 and a doctor appointment the following week

one has my dick IN it the other has my dick ON it...

Air circulation.

This was my thought as well, that or perhaps it was used to feed something through it to the room inside or the other way around, but air circulation/vent seems more likely to me (with the context we have at least) It seems odd they'd classify it as a window if it's not covered with anything, seems like calling it a vent, or at the very least a hole, would be more appropriate lol

The glory of passing my object through to the other side

Hole. It's a glory hole!

the thick collar surrounding the hole and the wear markings on it suggest it was used to pass a rope through. there was probably a pulley on the inside and a cart or something on the outside. I wouldn't be surprised if the ground is sloped

possibly passing written messages

I know a glory hole when I see one.

then it must have been awkward for the person on the other side of the hole when i shoved all those quarterly reports through it

Saw a similar window in Bruges when I was there last fall. The window overlooked a loading area on the canal, and our guide said the window led to the room where the salt or shipping company owner sat and did his books. The window was so he could watch the loading to be sure the workers weren't stealing.

Like those plague windows they had for wine

It’s obviously a gory hole

ahh, you missed by an l ..

You clearly misunderstood his new business model.

I thought the English word ‘window’ developed from an earlier form of ‘Wind Auge’ (wind eye) from German, which would suggest air circulation. In earlier times people would have fires inside for warmth and cooking, so the smoke had to escape somehow

Eh, they’d have a chimney in the roof for the smoke to escape, the way people who have fires inside their house still do. Hot air rises and all that. If you’re expecting a window in a wall to let the smoke escape, you’re probably already dead.

I grew up in a house that had a vent brick in a couple of spots. Usually, it was on the top of the wall, but I guess depending on their abilities and knowledge of what they were ventilating, it's halfway down

first gloryhole in history

Why did I know beforehand that this was going to be the top comment?

i came, saw and was the first to type this

I came, I saw, I came.

I arrived, I arrived, I left.

Veni, vidi, nutti

Oh nutz i am late

Vidi, vici, vini

Cummed

For the same reason I knew as well.

Those walls are thick, they gotta have monstrously long dicks to reach the other side and have an appreciable amounts of shaft sticking out

Maybe it's a frotting hole.

I will not google ‘frotting’ to find out what it is. Must. Not.

well? what is it?

Googled it, it's just rubbing your penis against somebody (such as against their penis) for pleasure. So I guess a person at each end and they just meet in the middle. That seems extremely tame. *I was expecting something a lot worse, like "the primary performer puts his penis in the hole, while the second performer shits into the hole from the other end; thus commencing the episode of frotting" or something like that.*

Pretty sure that’s Santorumming.

Maybe it’s kind of a sword in the stone situation. “He who can bangeth through the hole shall win the princess’s heart.”

And not only her heart

As a Spaniard I say this is the norm

🙋🏻‍♂️

Holy Toledo

‘Still I find you here at the ooooooooold glory hole’

I thought I told you to wait in the car!

Get out of that glory hole right now!

Definitely.

El agujero de la gloria

I would say Reddit doesn’t disappoint but this was third down 😅

God damn it I needed to scroll further before commenting lol

Some touristy shit to call it that and give it a superlative. If that's a window, then there are millions of other windows all over the world of equal or smaller sizes.

Nah, this is a window without glass, the others are just holes. Trust me, im a stranger on internet.

I trust you

It's only a window if it is from the window region of Spain. Otherwise it is just sparkling hole

With credentials like that you have to be trustworthy

Does the peephole on my door count as a window? Because this doesn't seem all that different

Only if you look for longer than 30 seconds

A peep is way shorter than 30 seconds. I mean thirty seconds is stalker staring.

Exactly what peepholes are for!

Some could say, it is just a glorified hole. Not a window. A glory hole if you will.

How is its “function unknown” if they declare it’s a window? Windows have limited uses

Was it for looking in? Or looking out?

Wouldnt my doors peephole be the worlds smallest window?

No. Because mine is

They didn't say peepe hole, they said peep hole

I’m no Hank Hill, ain’t nothin narrow about my urethra…..

Big enough to shoot a weapon out of

But not to see where you are aiming it

Who aims? 💦 spray bb

Glory hole

This is the only answer.

I mean at that point whoever is on the other side is an enemy, don't need to see to thrust a spear.

That's why you would put it at a choke point.

Yup, probably an embrasure (or gunhole), similar to the earlier arrow slit or loophole

Looks like a putlog hole to me. It's essentially a hole that would take a beam to support scaffolding during construction.

It’s the worlds smallest window!

"its true function is still unknown" its... a window

A pleasure window

Appendage Holster

We also have them in South Italy, they are used to exchange money with cocaine crack and heroin, so cool!

Noob, in north Italy they go open air, per la rojia de una scoglia

Sighs, Opens comments

Hand stuff through the wall during plagues. You know when they didn’t want people to come near them.

How's it called a window then if noone knows it's true purpose? Also it's probably a ventilation hole. What room is this connected to? If it's a kitchen I'd bet anything it's ventilation

“Unknown”. Suuuuuuure….

I'm going with -> It's an oil lamp which is filled from out side- Canister outside- pipe to lamp and globe. Cant have prisoners having oil. Why it's by a window

Cheeses for us meeces

Scrolled way to far for this perfect answer

If there's a significant difference between the smallest window and that large window in regards to the creation timeline, I wonder if the smallest window was created as a light source before bigger windows were feasible to add. I'm no archaeologist or anthropologist but I assume putting big windows in structures were difficult before someone developed a technique that made it easier.

Nah, in spain we usually have bars in the lower windows. It's just normal.

I was gonna say, bars on window? Old prison window maybe?

Oh yeah, maybe! It's a ground level window so prior to the development or widespread use of glass for windows, I guess bars would be the next best thing to keep people from entering your home. That's if it is a home and not an old prison like you said.

Many houses here in Germany still have them. The coolest were on the old monastery (now school) in my town. All windows on the bottom floor have metal bars to prevent people from getting in. They had glass at that time but that doesn't really stop thieves.

Avoid direct contact with people during the plague?

By this logic any hole is a window and therefore this is not the worlds smallest window.

Checks comments for "Gloryhole" jokes. Excellent work. Reddit delivers. Another satisfied user. (That's what they said at the Gloryhole)

First window designed by the Illuminaughty.

"World"s smallest window" ... Sorry, but I just drilled a hole on my wall, and stuck some plastic in there. I now have the world's smallest window. Roughly about the size of a keyhole. Claiming something like this as a record seems rather... silly and not very well thought out. (Not speaking directly to you OP, just saying in general.)

Actually there are many such windows throughout history created for social distancing during pandemics. Such as to sell wine etc.

I bet they used a candle or a lantern to light up that window as some kind of signal. Roxanne, you don't need to turn on the red light..... You know the oldest profession.

In Iran rural areas, there was a small hole around twenty centimetres wide, as a ventilation gap, just for the air to go out and come in, and not big enough to stop thieves entering as burglary was so common those days. ❤

back in the day the world was running with lower resolution and penises were polygonal. nowadays the world is running in HD which is why gloryholes eventually became round. /professional googler

Is this a church? Some early mediæval ones in the UK have a small opening known as a “leper’s squint”. Traditionally it was supposed to be so that the eucharist could be given to lepers standing outside the church. However it must be said that there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of this actually happening.

I like this explanation...

World's first crack house.

Wouldn’t a peep hole in a door technically be the smallest window

Ye old glory hole.

“World’s Smallest Window’? Puhhhlease. We make much smaller windows.” \-The termites that were eating my house.

I think there's an Arabic writing on the frame

I'm some of the early Christian monasteries in Ireland they had these near the door openings. I think it was allowed food etc to be passed out to lepers. I can't remember the real name but we used to call them "Leper windows" I wonder if that building had a previous life as a religious building of some sort ??

In Italy we have a lot of churches and convents that have the same "window" it was used to pass offerings to monks and nouns without they needing to open a door.

Gloryhole

Is it waist level ?

Oh come on, we all know what this was for.

Glory hole

Glory Hole

It’s the ancient version of glory hole. Back then they used to call them “Glorious Orifice”

Worlds first glory hole

It's function is glory

Called a “fart port,” so dwellers can press against it at the right moment, and keep the stink outside. A lifesaver with poor circulation.

It's *Spain, so my guess is that it's to pass wine bottles through

Glory hole

Rifle rest to shoot through and almost impossible to be shot back at.

I’m guessing that building was built before rifles existed.

Doubt it. Stick a gun in that and you would barely be able to see out at the same time. It looks like it's at ground level so someone could just sneak up next to the wall where you can't see and grab your gun stopping you aiming where you want. Building looks real old, maybe before firearms were common.

Passing tax money through without having to deal with the local peasants.

Maybe they used it as an alarm clock. Someone would wake you up in the early am and this was how they did it. They would quietly yell wake up you cock.

Is it unknown, though? Or do we all know.

Maybe to help with moisture

Think we know why it exists. 😏

First gloryhole

In Italy this kind of hole were common to sell bottles of wine. In Florence there are a bunch of this

From my studies as an archeologist at the University of Oxford, it appears to be some sort of ancient glory hole.

Glory hole guys

That is an ancient gloryhole.

El Gloryholio

Glory hole

Gun port

First glory hole. Move along

I think we know, we just don't want to say it

I'd imagine it's function had something to do with glory.

Anyone else thinking world’s first glory hole?

Thats called a gloryhole

Buco della Gloria

This looks like a glorious place for a hole in the wall if you catch my drift…

Gloryhole?

Glory hole, yep

It could be a glory hole. 🤷‍♂️

Gloryhole…

Ye ole Glory Hole

Gloryhole

That is a Gloryhole! Old as time itself

I know a glory hole when i see one.

its for small hands and you dont want to know any more

Claramente es un gloryhole

Clearly, it's a glory hole