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If you've seen this kind of gas lamp, you're at least from the generation born before the 1980s! (i.imgur.com)
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[–] comador@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Waking up in the middlle of the night and needing to pump more air into the can just so you can see enough to find your way to the bathroom...

Or grabbing the handle at the wrong angle and accidentally touching the glass for a lovely 2nd degree burn needing some butter on it...

Or taking a big whiff of that black smoke it makes after being lit...

Yeah, I'd rip the insides of that one out and replace it with an LED and battery tyvm.