That's a great bit of history! Thank you.Prior to gas CH, many families in the UK, US and Europe supplemented their coal fires / wood burners with paraffin heaters; they were popular from about 1900 right upto the 1960's. The UK manufactured "Aladdin" was a popular heater during this time. In Japan the majority of homes still use paraffin (kerosene) to heat their homes and domestic water and the technology continues to evolve. Japanese homes, in the main, are not insulated and are built to be drafty (cold winters but hot humid summers) they tend to only heat the room they are in and mostly use kerosene heaters. My understanding is they are also still popular in some US states, although happy to be corrected on this, if not the case now.
What manly things did you do today?
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Yes, they are still popular, though not typically used for home heating, unless there is a power outage. You see them used in shops and garages during the wintertime quite often, as wood stoves have fallen out of favor around here.
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I remember those as a kid. Our local hardware store had a paraffin pump INSIDE the store. You can guess the rest. We got rid of our heater right after the hardware store burnt down!
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Glad you didn't blow yourself up in the process! Still, so long as it's Man 1 : 0 Grass then it's all good even after injury time
Yes, I did. The pressure level on the boiler did go down a bit, but it seems fine. I'm not about to start messing around with it, in any case. I tend to leave things like that alone if I am not familiar with them. I am no gas engineer by any stretch of the imagination, lol.
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I waxed my nostril hair today, does that count as a manly thing to do, well it's done now anyway! 
Paul.
Paul.
Wax removal or wax styled like those hipster moustaches?I waxed my nostril hair today, does that count as a manly thing to do, well it's done now anyway!
Paul.
Either one is cool.
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I let the wife put up her feet today and drink cider in the garden while I fired up the Weber kettle and cooked a lot of meat. Bloody tasty it was too. Just hope no vegans were triggered by the smell of barbecued chicken and steak. Nah just kidding. Up yours vegans.
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Split some wood today, enough for about 5 or 6 days burn in winter. That's me now got about 8 cubic metres of fairly tight stacked wood and 16x 25 kg bags of smokeless coal. Chickens were a pain, nearly had to have roast chicken for tea.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm all right.. etc, etc.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm all right.. etc, etc.
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I'll never look at Salvador Dali's moustache in the same way again now! Grade 1 premium nose hair?!
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Did you use one of those "grenade" things? They look pretty manly. Although I was slightly disappointed to discover they're just solid metal with no trace of HE inside. OK so it makes it a bit less hazardous twatting one with a geet big mallet but you have to deduct one manliness point for lack of lethality and derring-do.Split some wood today,
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Naw, just a big roughneck splitting maul. Don't have to hit the wood hard it splits quite easily. Does not have to be sharp as well.
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I have removed a couple of posts containing language that offended some. The discussion of gender dysphoria seems to have run its course. I think we should keep it that way.
Thanks.
Thanks.