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What was the breaking point for modern British society where housing unwieldy and potentially hazardous electrical equipment in your living room seems like a completely normal and just thing to do?

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I guess you've never come across electric heaters or if you want to go into the bedroom electric blankets ( 5000 fires per year in the UK in 2011 )

Presumably it helps that these things have their own fire suppression systems, time of use tariffs are cheap, and everybody needs a win.

(I'll be putting mine outside)

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