Microblog Memes

The candle that burns twice as bright will burn your fucking house down

I had one of those in my bedroom all the way until about 2021.

Those things have been around since the 60s

Well i walked over to the other room to check but mine doesn’t have that bulb/disk on the pole

I'm pretty sure the lamp my parents had in the late 90s/early 2000s was the one they moved into the house with in the late 70s, there was none of this fanciness in our house

I do not. I lived in a house that had ceiling lights and chandeliers in every room, so we didn't have any lamps other than a couple desk lamps.

I remember it being a PITFA to change the bulbs, though. Two of the chandeliers were in awful places. 1 was at the top of the central ceiling which was essentially 3 stories from the floor and the other was directly over the stairs, where you couldn't really position a ladder safely.

I've still got one, but I converted the bulb to the equivalent of a 100w LED.

I still have one lol

Girl I was dating in the mid 2000’s was sleeping with one of these lamps in her dorm room. One of those desks on the floor and bed up top bunkbed setups and her pillow fell onto the bulb needless to say the pillow got really nicely burnt. Luckly it didn’t catch fire

They also made great pretend/play jousting lances, though all the insects that were dead inside of it would get all over the place as you swung those things around, but still, good times (at least until you got caught doing that).

And changing the bulb on one of those that newly burned out was like trying to work with lava.

My sister and I once caught a paper airplane on fire from one of these, got scortchmarks on the couch under it

They also drew about as much current as a hairdryer. (Kidding - it was closer to a desktop PC, though.)