Weird Flex of having a Fireplace

If it's an open fire why is there flex? unless it's an electric fire with a flex. Maybe it went out during the storm due to a power cut, meaning there's nothing wrong with the flex 🔥

Can’t take your comment about gas being better to cook on seriously now. You don’t even know what an induction hob is.

My dishes are clean. They get dirty when I use them then I clean them. Normal life.
Your opinions are based on ludicrous assumptions about things and people.
My granny would have called you ‘ ‘someone who thinks their farts smell of roses’

how’ll light me fag? 😁

Confusing title for sure, seems like flex may not refer to electric flex ….

Leaving the flex confusion aside, I do like a good wood burning stove, recessed if possible although I'm told a free standing stove on the hearth gives out more heat 🔥

That is likely halogen, definitely not induction. I have gas and induction in the same hob and the induction is better, except for when using a wok.

Did a quick poll in the office (ok, just 6 people of various ages from twenties up) and no one knew flex was a different word for boast.

Probably because it is one of those "older" used phrases that does seem to be making a bit of a comeback.

Maybe it hasn't filtered to them yet.

Will "Take my wife's name out of your mouth" Smith used it in his song Getting Jiggy With it. Or whatever that shíté was called.

That must be nearly 30 years old.

It is used a lot in the gaming world now, so maybe younger people have rediscovered it.

People have gloated that because they had solid fuel during the power outage didn't effect them and how useless modern heating is.

Have they? 2 comments on the Journal? The Journal comments section is made of 50% cranks and 50% of people winding up the cranks. Again I wouldn't be taking the comments sections of any online "news" seriously. I certainly wouldn't be getting perturbed enough to start a thread about it.

Objectively solid fuel is messy and hassle.

So is having real grass. But there is a value in it. Do you see the point?

People have said they prefer a drafty house with an open fire than a modern A rated property with modern heating. Fine for their personal choice but objectively the better option is the A rated property. To say the old property is better for heating is to deny reality

Link?

People have gloated that because they had solid fuel during the power outage didn't effect them and how useless modern heating is.

People you have met in real life or cranks in comment sections?

I helped a lady load water into her car last night, she has had absolutely nothing since Friday. No water, light, heat, cell coverage, contents of fridge and freezer perished.

She did volunteer that they had a stove which allowed the family a bit of comfort and to congregate in one room.

A sliver of comfort in her no end date misery.

At no point did I think, What a gloating bitch.

Primarily because I am not psychotic.