Millennials will never understand the clicking followed by the drowsiness
Clunk… clunk… clunk… WOOPH!… creak… creak… creak…
The ignition on ours failed so you’d have to try and light it with a match. The large flame after a lot of gas built up used to scare the shite out of me
The blast of gas and heat that comes off them when u first fire it up
Steamy socks on the cloths horse.
Don’t let the dog sleep too close!
Ah shur they were super!
90s kid, this was a permanent fixture in the kitchen in winter until I was 11 as we had no central heating. Also I bought one myself in the uk in 2015 as the flat I moved into in November had no heating for the first 6 weeks of living there. I do find them oddly pleasant
Did anyone else randomly put a bowl of water under it thinking it made it all healthy?
“Clunk – click click click – turn the gas on! It is on!! Click click wooooof keep it pressed! I am I am. Okay how many bars? 3 I’m fkn freezing……. Nope don’t remember them
The Senicide Euthanasia regulator 2000.
Thats more an 80s model
80s kids like me saw them only in the posh houses
Did ye hold a slice of bread in front of it and make toast?
Have one in the garage , use it when I’m out working there. Puts the temperature up a bit
And the spiderwebs being burned after lighting it for the first time in ages
I’ve mine wheeled out
That smell of burning dust after not using it for a few months
Jesus I’ll never forget the humidity from those super sers!
Toaster
Ah yes, carbon monoxide poisoning, hello darkness my old friend
Have one sitting in the hallway ready to go.
Jaysus they were great boyos them!
I’ve one of those yokes heating my room right now.
It’s not quite of that vintage, probably about 20 years old. And yes I’ve got a carbon monoxide alarm.
Jesus my nan had that exact bloody one! I remember having this fired up beside me in my nans sitting room in the early mornings before the fireplace was cleaned out and lit again, watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the telly and eating a bowl of Coco Pops.
Rolled in? It was the center piece of the kitchen all year round.
Used to get dressed in front of it in the winter.
When it hadn’t been used for a while you’d smell the dust burning first.
It never left the room it was the only source of heating in darndale in the 80s no central heating no fireplace no nothing, to this day still love going to bed in a cold bedroom, cold sheets and then becoming nice and cosy tucked in, couple of me dads coats thrown in on top of the bed , 🥲😍
Yep, memories of us 3 kids huddled around it on a cold winter’s morning before school. Only the one panel on though to save the gas! Two if it was absolutely baltic out!
Belter of a yoke. Wee mug of schald in your hand sitting beside it. Sound out hai
Wheeled one out today ready for the powercut
80s kids would see it as a sibling because the brutal heating and complete lack of any insulation meant that these were a necessity from October to May
Bought a house in 2010 and my poor oul ma bought us one for the kitchen 😆 pretty sure it’s still out in the garage somewhere.
Winters all through the late 80s and 90s I stood in front of one of these getting dressed for school. Magnificent altogether.
I used to live in this poxy Celtic tiger era apartment with fuck all insulation and shitty storage heaters. Bought a superser. They’re actually the job. Eventually bought a house and moved. Got a fresh canister for him today for backup. Great yoke. Smells like headache.
sitting Infront of something like it right now haha fair toasty
The oul lad coming out of the shower…his towel dropping and him bending to catch it…his bare arse meeting the hot metal grill on the front….ah memories
Melted the side of our vinyl couch one winter morning as i had it pulled too close while warchin out the window for the school bus. Jeez, got some belt of the wooden spoon for that 😅
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Millennials will never understand the clicking followed by the drowsiness
Clunk… clunk… clunk… WOOPH!… creak… creak… creak…
The ignition on ours failed so you’d have to try and light it with a match. The large flame after a lot of gas built up used to scare the shite out of me
The blast of gas and heat that comes off them when u first fire it up
Steamy socks on the cloths horse.
Don’t let the dog sleep too close!
Ah shur they were super!
90s kid, this was a permanent fixture in the kitchen in winter until I was 11 as we had no central heating. Also I bought one myself in the uk in 2015 as the flat I moved into in November had no heating for the first 6 weeks of living there. I do find them oddly pleasant
Did anyone else randomly put a bowl of water under it thinking it made it all healthy?
“Clunk – click click click – turn the gas on! It is on!! Click click wooooof keep it pressed! I am I am. Okay how many bars? 3 I’m fkn freezing……. Nope don’t remember them
The Senicide Euthanasia regulator 2000.
Thats more an 80s model
80s kids like me saw them only in the posh houses
Did ye hold a slice of bread in front of it and make toast?
Have one in the garage , use it when I’m out working there. Puts the temperature up a bit
And the spiderwebs being burned after lighting it for the first time in ages
I’ve mine wheeled out
That smell of burning dust after not using it for a few months
Jesus I’ll never forget the humidity from those super sers!
Toaster
Ah yes, carbon monoxide poisoning, hello darkness my old friend
Have one sitting in the hallway ready to go.
Jaysus they were great boyos them!
I’ve one of those yokes heating my room right now.
It’s not quite of that vintage, probably about 20 years old. And yes I’ve got a carbon monoxide alarm.
Jesus my nan had that exact bloody one! I remember having this fired up beside me in my nans sitting room in the early mornings before the fireplace was cleaned out and lit again, watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the telly and eating a bowl of Coco Pops.
Rolled in? It was the center piece of the kitchen all year round.
Used to get dressed in front of it in the winter.
When it hadn’t been used for a while you’d smell the dust burning first.
It never left the room it was the only source of heating in darndale in the 80s no central heating no fireplace no nothing, to this day still love going to bed in a cold bedroom, cold sheets and then becoming nice and cosy tucked in, couple of me dads coats thrown in on top of the bed , 🥲😍
Yep, memories of us 3 kids huddled around it on a cold winter’s morning before school. Only the one panel on though to save the gas! Two if it was absolutely baltic out!
Belter of a yoke. Wee mug of schald in your hand sitting beside it. Sound out hai
Wheeled one out today ready for the powercut
80s kids would see it as a sibling because the brutal heating and complete lack of any insulation meant that these were a necessity from October to May
Bought a house in 2010 and my poor oul ma bought us one for the kitchen 😆 pretty sure it’s still out in the garage somewhere.
Winters all through the late 80s and 90s I stood in front of one of these getting dressed for school. Magnificent altogether.
I used to live in this poxy Celtic tiger era apartment with fuck all insulation and shitty storage heaters. Bought a superser. They’re actually the job. Eventually bought a house and moved. Got a fresh canister for him today for backup. Great yoke. Smells like headache.
sitting Infront of something like it right now haha fair toasty
The oul lad coming out of the shower…his towel dropping and him bending to catch it…his bare arse meeting the hot metal grill on the front….ah memories
Melted the side of our vinyl couch one winter morning as i had it pulled too close while warchin out the window for the school bus. Jeez, got some belt of the wooden spoon for that 😅
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