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But this time, we are taking you on a trip to the past that shows how our households have changed beyond recognition since the '70s. And trust me, in most cases, it's for the better. Take a chip pan, for example-these crazy fire agents that produced the best chips on the planet your mom can probably still taste in her mouth would keep homes on the brink of tragedy, and yet people adored them.
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Thanks to the Memorial Device Twitter page that shared this illuminating guide, we now have the full list of the 40 greatest '70s household dangers all posted in order. Both nostalgic and utterly terrifying, they make you wonder whether people back then had less of a sense of health and safety. Or if it's us who live in an overly protective mindset.
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Anyhow, I prefer the latter one. This post may include affiliate links.
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#1 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago My mum set the kitchen on fire using one of these- we first saw the flames through the serving hatch into the dining room. Luckily the local Fire Chief and his son, a fireman lived next door to us. 26 26points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #2 memorialdevice Report POST Nannychachi Nannychachi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Making the opening smaller results in a quicker draw on the coals which gives a quicker hot fire. 45 45points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #3 memorialdevice Report POST R L R L Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I still use ours. 74 74points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments Bored Panda reached out to the authors behind the Memorial Device Twitter page who shared this viral thread which listed 40 dangerous things that were casually used in '70s households. Introducing themselves as "a band from Airdrie," a town in Scotland, the creators said that their account was inspired "100% by the book 'This is Memorial Device' by the genius Scottish author, David Keenan." They added that "You will have to read the book to really understand the account." #4 memorialdevice Report POST AnimalsRuleHumansDrool AnimalsRuleHumansDrool Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago What is it?
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55 55points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 Here's the bizarre video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQcGIZioqQE&t=4s&ab_channel=FunFinder
memorialdevice Report POST wow that's fantastic wow that's fantastic Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago "police! there's a stalker-" "ma'am, it's the fbi" 10 10points reply View more comments #6 memorialdevice Report POST Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) My grandma had a manual mangle (wringer).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQcGIZioqQE&t=4s&ab_channel=FunFinder
memorialdevice Report POST wow that's fantastic wow that's fantastic Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago "police! there's a stalker-" "ma'am, it's the fbi" 10 10points reply View more comments #6 memorialdevice Report POST Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) My grandma had a manual mangle (wringer).
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Before the advent of washing machines with a decent spin cycle, my mum had a spinner, which was basically a small washing machine drum mounted vertically and it did a better spin to get more water out. 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments When asked how they came up with an idea to create the guide to all the miscellaneous stuff from the past, the creators said that it's just one of many countdown lists on the "Memorial Device" account.
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"But it's the one that most people seem to identify with," they said and added that it may be because it's "Proper working-class history." #7 memorialdevice Report POST Natalia A Natalia A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ahh, memories!! 12 12points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 memorialdevice Report POST Donkey boi Donkey boi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I nicked the red bulbs out of our and used then in my bedroom light fitting.
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The whole street thought my parents had started a brothel. 56 56points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #9 memorialdevice Report POST DC DC Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I used one of these in 2014, 2015 in Berlin, because I couldn't afford a decent place to be ... so I lived in the basement of a guy who was too old (>90) to take out the trashy and broken furniture.
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16 16points reply View More Replies... View more comments We also asked if they can imagine anyone living with some of these crazy household objects these days, the authors said that they in fact experienced "the bathroom ceiling heater in Whitby last week. Switched it on-nothing happened.
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Came back later and it was glowing hotter than the sun. And it was fitted above the bath."
The band added that they're "Big fans of the coal effect fire and the immersion heater, along with the working-class shower," and found "drawing the fire as total madness." "As is buying a full-size crossbow from the Kays catalogue on HP," the Memorial Device concluded. #10 memorialdevice Report POST Laura Jones Laura Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago they gave out fantastic heat but the gas bottles when full were so heavy and it gradually went up in price to a ridiculous level 7 7points reply View more comments #11 memorialdevice Report POST Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Still exist.
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Still used. 113 113points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 memorialdevice Report POST Andi Andi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago could i just add that we all carried knives and no one got stabbed 51 51points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #13 memorialdevice Report POST Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ouzo gave me a terrible hangover. 18 18points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago these are still used and are for sale new 53 53points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #15 memorialdevice Report POST Natalia A Natalia A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago People are so overly cautious. Unless you put your fingers in there (and you'd have to be stupid to do that), what would go wrong?! 61 61points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #16 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The Striker- not very cool like a Chopper striker-60...c384b4.jpg 9 9points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 memorialdevice Report POST Alex K Alex K Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago how can it get caught in your ribcage? would it run amok around your organs?
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wtf :D 46 46points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 memorialdevice Report POST Natalia A Natalia A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was awesome!!
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Never used it as a weapon though! 50 50points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 memorialdevice Report POST Redfox Redfox Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I had these.
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Whacked myself in the nose so hard I thought my nose had gone to the other side of my head. I obviously did not learn co-ordination nor skill.
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72 72points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago the 'shower' in most British households back in the 80's 39 39points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago nicely mixed into a tune by the Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E 10 10points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #22 memorialdevice Report POST DC DC Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That wasn't really frowned upon until the nineties. All my friends' parents, mine, and basically every adult we knew smoked in his house, his car, everywhere. Children's rooms ...
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not that often, but sometimes, too. 36 36points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #23 memorialdevice Report POST Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Still done. In some countries, people do this to make extra money.
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29 29points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 memorialdevice Report POST Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago My dad had one of these for the greenhouse.
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13 13points reply View more comments #25 memorialdevice Report POST Rain WhiteBuffalo Rain WhiteBuffalo Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago OMG I miss these shoes. I want a pair right now!!
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I remember having a pair in every color they offered (tan, white, navy and black). I loved these!!!
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52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 memorialdevice Report POST Tài Trần Tài Trần Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago In Viet Nam we have "shop gun" too.
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It's a brand name of condom. xD 8 8points reply View more comments #27 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago apart from amusing whilst going down stairs these were a rubbish toy 27 27points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 memorialdevice Report POST Dhukath Dhukath Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago 70s & early 80's when appliances didn't come with a plug fitted!
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12 12points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 memorialdevice Report POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago If it ripped out the hair by the roots their claim wasn't fake.
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15 15points reply View more comments #30 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago your younger brother's urine at best. A brown submarine discovered at worst. 59 59points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #31 memorialdevice Report POST JuJu JuJu Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Pfft...just a matter of training. 30 30points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #32 memorialdevice Report POST Bacony Cakes Bacony Cakes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago ?!?!?!? 8 8points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #33 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago the originals look like trimmed twigs. 18 18points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #34 memorialdevice Report POST Dhukath Dhukath Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Worst when your foot can off and the whole thing sprang up and smacked you under the chin! 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago good old Viz characters 9 9points reply View More Replies...
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View more comments #36 memorialdevice Report POST WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Only in dysfunctional families would these be used a lethal weapon. The rest of the world used them to throw them at dartboards.
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44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #37 memorialdevice Report POST backatya backatya Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago you mean Big shits 4 4points reply #38 memorialdevice Report POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago the door handle trick worked...at giving children dental PTSD 34 34points reply View more comments #39 memorialdevice Report POST Natalia A Natalia A Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago We do this in Cyprus for new year's.
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You clean the coin, wrap it in foil and drop it in the cake batter. Everyone knows it's there so they're careful:) 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #40 memorialdevice Report POST M O'Connell M O'Connell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Leaving a battery on an unregulated charger is something a moron would do.
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1970s or otherwise. 12 12points reply View more comments Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing!
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I didn't realize I was living on the edge. 19 19points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Don't get why people feel the urge to declare a lot of these items deadly or lethal.
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Yes, they might not be up with our modern safety regulations, but in those days people had common sense and they knew how to handle equipment that could pose a danger. Today you even have to warn that ingesting bleach doesn't cure Covid-19. 17 17points reply nicholas nolan nicholas nolan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago People died, Wil.
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People died. That’s why we have safety regulations today. 17 17points reply Load More Replies...
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WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) In the 1950's no people died because of eating tide pods of ingesting bleach. No one would even think about it, And that's whu we have those idiot safety regulations that you have to warn people that drinking paint can be lethal or that paint stripper isn't quite the same a face scrub.
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5 5points reply Fluffy Griffin Fluffy Griffin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Tons of people have drunk bleach in the past and died for it. This article I found with a quick Google, written in 2010, said in one year there were 50,000 cases of bleach being ingested and 8 people dying.
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3 3points reply Something Something Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The warnings about drinking paint are CYA. It costs nothing to print it and has the potential to save from one lawsuit among millions of customers. 2 2points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago If you had a lick of common sense, the '70s were no more dangerous than last week.
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3 3points reply Jace Jace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Common sense has never been common. 1 1point reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Unfortunately, that's true. 0 0points reply First Name Last Name First Name Last Name Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago People using electric blankets in the bathtub deserve it, tbh.
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1 1point reply Hugo A-niro Hugo A-niro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nonsense . total b.s 0 0points reply Jace Jace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago People that don’t believe in regulation think it comes along arbitrarily, and not because of actual triggering events.
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Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's a pretty naïve thing to say. People did not have more common sense just because things were more dangerous. People didn't drive slower when seatbelts weren't mandatory and they drove drunk more frequently when it wasn't illegal.
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My parents had a gasoline heater in they student flat. It regularly blew the lid off in a small explosion when you didn't follow the exact way to fill it.
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Of course people died from things like that! 3 3points reply Hugo A-niro Hugo A-niro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Some of this stuff is European not seen in nyc -2 -2points reply Alloydog Alloydog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The paraffin heater and chip-pan were two of the most common causes of house fires in the 70s.
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They sort of died out with more houses getting central heating and electric deep-fat friers. However, most of the others in the above list were that bad.
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3 3points reply COCO puff COCO puff Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I never seen or heard about several products named in the article. And I am OK with that :)))) 9 9points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's pretty UK-centric.
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5 5points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST Kenny Kulbiski Kenny Kulbiski Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I have an electric blanket.
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Try to take it and I'll attack you with my deadly manual egg beater. I didn't realize I was living on the edge.
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19 19points reply WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Don't get why people feel the urge to declare a lot of these items deadly or lethal. Yes, they might not be up with our modern safety regulations, but in those days people had common sense and they knew how to handle equipment that could pose a danger.
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Today you even have to warn that ingesting bleach doesn't cure Covid-19. 17 17points reply nicholas nolan nicholas nolan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago People died, Wil. People died.
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That’s why we have safety regulations today. 17 17points reply Load More Replies...
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WilvanderHeijden WilvanderHeijden Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) In the 1950's no people died because of eating tide pods of ingesting bleach. No one would even think about it, And that's whu we have those idiot safety regulations that you have to warn people that drinking paint can be lethal or that paint stripper isn't quite the same a face scrub. 5 5points reply Fluffy Griffin Fluffy Griffin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Tons of people have drunk bleach in the past and died for it.
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This article I found with a quick Google, written in 2010, said in one year there were 50,000 cases of bleach being ingested and 8 people dying. 3 3points reply Something Something Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The warnings about drinking paint are CYA. It costs nothing to print it and has the potential to save from one lawsuit among millions of customers.
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2 2points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago If you had a lick of common sense, the '70s were no more dangerous than last week. 3 3points reply Jace Jace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Common sense has never been common.
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1 1point reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Unfortunately, that's true. 0 0points reply First Name Last Name First Name Last Name Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago People using electric blankets in the bathtub deserve it, tbh. 1 1point reply Hugo A-niro Hugo A-niro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nonsense .
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total b.s 0 0points reply Jace Jace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago People that don’t believe in regulation think it comes along arbitrarily, and not because of actual triggering events. 0 0points reply F.
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H. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That's a pretty naïve thing to say.
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People did not have more common sense just because things were more dangerous. People didn't drive slower when seatbelts weren't mandatory and they drove drunk more frequently when it wasn't illegal. My parents had a gasoline heater in they student flat.
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It regularly blew the lid off in a small explosion when you didn't follow the exact way to fill it. Of course people died from things like that!
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3 3points reply Hugo A-niro Hugo A-niro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Some of this stuff is European not seen in nyc -2 -2points reply Alloydog Alloydog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The paraffin heater and chip-pan were two of the most common causes of house fires in the 70s. They sort of died out with more houses getting central heating and electric deep-fat friers.
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However, most of the others in the above list were that bad. 3 3points reply COCO puff COCO puff Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I never seen or heard about several products named in the article. And I am OK with that :)))) 9 9points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's pretty UK-centric.
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