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Answerman - Why Does Everyone In Anime Use Clotheslines?

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While a device to capture the heat in a dryer exhaust could be invented it likely would not be cost effective except in very cold areas. The air coming out of a dryer pretty much must be vented to the outside. It is very humid and is full of dryer lint.

We had a dryer that vented inside. It was attached to a plastic bucket with a couple of inches of water in it. The idea was to catch the lint on the water with the hot air going into the laundry room. We ended up having to scrub the back wall with an antifungal agent and an amazing amount of lint collected in the room. I had to get the dryer moved to an outside wall where it could be vented properly.

I'm not sure what surprises me more:

1) The utter banality of some of the Answerman questions (I daren't even open the "Why do anime characters send emails instead of texts?" column for fear of succumbing to excess excitement);

2) The fact that no matter how banal, these questions get answered;

or

3) The fact that these banal questions and answers invariably generate pages of earnest discussion.

I eagerly await the column that answers the burning question of why there are so many anime scenes with ice cubes settling in a glass.

It is a well known fact that escaping prisoners, resurrected humans, migrating or newly formed aliens, and others who's transformation sequences leave them naked will all steal clothes off drying lines.

I've never used a clothesline except for times when I helped out my grandmother, and here in Maryland I'm definitely living in one of those "damp most of the year" states, with our humid summers and wet/snowy winters. At best, I'd maybe be able to line-dry for about half the year if I wanted to (and living in a small space with wall-to-wall carpeting makes indoor drying impractical).

WingKing wrote:

I've never used a clothesline except for times when I helped out my grandmother, and here in Maryland I'm definitely living in one of those "damp most of the year" states

Fellow Marylander here.

LadyKuzunoha wrote:

WingKing wrote: I've never used a clothesline except for times when I helped out my grandmother, and here in Maryland I'm definitely living in one of those "damp most of the year" states Fellow Marylander here.

Living in the Puget Sound basin, all I'm gonna say is y'all don't even know what damp is.

Here, it can be 55 degrees and raining pretty much any day of the year - New Years Day or Fourth of July, doesn't matter. I've watched Independence Day fireworks with a heavy jacket on and a mug of hot chocolate in hand.

I eagerly await the column that answers the burning question of why there are so many anime scenes with ice cubes settling in a glass.

Talking about the everyday situations of different countries and cultures can easily spark as much discussion as talking about the macro concerns; They show how various people think & live and this subject is generally interesting to other people.

Discussions like this are even important because they fill in the entire picture. Think of medical masks in Japan and how differently they are used and treated there than how they are in English North America; Think of central heating and how ubiquitous that is over here vs. how it is in Japan: Knowing these things paints the picture of how things really are, letting you understand and interact with the country/culture's art better. You can't always get these answers just from watching and sometimes it is actively a bad idea to try. Imagine The Simpsons being used as a serious educational tool on American culture and society without context.