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A planter for fake plants. Apparently it was a fad in the 50s and 60s.
holy shit how did you know that
Wish I could take credit, but it's good old search engine work. I searched for bathroom basins and came across several discussions of this same picture. Among all the jokes and random ideas was that link above that finally explained it.
Impressive dedication. Do you have an important task to do that you're currently procrastinating? Whenever I show similar levels of commitment to answering trivial questions, that's what is usually driving me.
I was winding down to go to sleep, so I put that off for a few minutes. I don't want to oversell the effort involved though. It was less than 10 minutes of refining search queries and scouring a handful of message threads for related info.
Or maybe I spend too much time online. :)
thanks :)
they used to live in one
Probably by image searching it, and finding the r/whatisthisthing post where both this pic and the joke are from.
Welcome to the internet.
I have been online since 1994. This picture is almost as old.
I had a house built in ‘71 and it had one