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Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (→Real Life: deleted entry about tower in Prague. There is an Eiffel-inspired tower in Prague -- w:Petřín Lookout Tower -- but it is ''taller'' than the Eiffel Tower, not 1/6, and no version of the "nighttime bath under Communism" seems to exist elsewhere on the net.) |
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* The infamous kitchen-tub of NYC urban legend. A lot of New Yorkers claim that a friend of a friend once went to a party in a tiny apartment where the bathtub was in the kitchen. Fairly plausible—most Manhattan apartments are small and many are strangely laid out, though it seems unlikely that there are hundreds of apartments with kitchentubs and they're all rented by people who like to throw house parties. |
* The infamous kitchen-tub of NYC urban legend. A lot of New Yorkers claim that a friend of a friend once went to a party in a tiny apartment where the bathtub was in the kitchen. Fairly plausible—most Manhattan apartments are small and many are strangely laid out, though it seems unlikely that there are hundreds of apartments with kitchentubs and they're all rented by people who like to throw house parties. |
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* There are still places where people's homes don't have bathtubs or shower stalls, in which people bathe in portable tubs filled via hose or bucket. Unless it's a warm day, this is done indoors in whatever room has sufficient space. |
* There are still places where people's homes don't have bathtubs or shower stalls, in which people bathe in portable tubs filled via hose or bucket. Unless it's a warm day, this is done indoors in whatever room has sufficient space. |
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* In Prague, there is a a 1/6 scale replica of the Eiffel Tower. Under Communism, nobody wanted to go up there, and one of the maintenance employees hauled a bathtub onto one of the lookout floors and (allegedly) took baths at night looking down onto the city. |
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