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  • 2021-04-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Should Hotel Guests Always Put Coins in the Sink? (en)
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  • Here's Why Hotel Guests Should Always Put Coins in the Sink is the text in an online advertisement that’s been making the rounds since at least November 2020. This was not the first such ad about hotels on which we reported. We previously published a story about a similar ad that read: Why You Should Always Put a Towel Under Hotel Door. Readers who clicked on the ad about putting coins in a hotel's bathroom sink were led to an 80-page slideshow article. Its headline read: Use These Hacks the Next Time You Stay in a Hotel: The picture from the ad finally showed up on page 28. The ad about coins in the sink and the one about putting a towel under a hotel door both appeared to imply some sort of ominous safety concerns: The article simply advised hotel guests to grab some plastic and coins to clog the sink for washing clothes. We'll leave it up to readers to decide if they consider it sanitary to wash clothes in a hotel sink with coins and plastic. Also, bathroom sinks typically come with stoppers that can be used to hold water in the basin. The ad in question appeared in a previous submission on Reddit's r/savedyouaclick subreddit. The top-voted comment read: Why coins??? Why not just a regular plug? This is insane. Another user jokingly replied to the comment with: ALWAYS put coins in the sink! Perhaps one thing we recommend always doing is avoiding ominous clickbait ads that lead to 80-page slideshow articles. (en)
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