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Before the introduction of indoor plumbing, there was the humble wash tub, a simple, portable basin which, as the name suggested, was primarily used for bathing and cleaning. As they were meant to be portable, they were made of thin pieces of tin or similar metal, and therefore were not particularly heavy--unless you filled them with water, in which case they carried quite a bit of weight; not exactly something you'd want to be in the way of. And yet in Japanese media, such washbasins find themselves windborne and lofted in the direction of some poor unsuspecting schmuck.

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Before the introduction of indoor plumbing, there was the humble wash tub, a simple, portable basin which, as the name suggested, was primarily used for bathing and cleaning. As they were meant to be portable, they were made of thin pieces of tin or similar metal, and therefore were not particularly heavy--unless you filled them with water, in which case they carried quite a bit of weight; not exactly something you'd want to be in the way of. And yet in Japanese media, such washbasins find washbasins--regardless of whether they are filled with water--find themselves windborne and lofted in the direction of some poor unsuspecting schmuck.

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