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Older gen Z here, I remember these really strongly.
People always forget gen Z was alive for these kind of things and I’m starting to think nobody realizes how old we actually are. Most people you think of as gen Z are only really on the younger end of gen Z. Some of us are in our late 20s now and also struggling to understand kids these days.You’re not in your late twenties if you’re Gen Z. Gen Z is like 2001 onwards.
Gen Z is 1997-2012. The oldest of us are 27.
That’s dumb. Surely millennials have to include people born in 2000
Also I am a Gen Z. You aren’t.
The generations are determined by what the biggest common experience they all have is (at least, that’s how it’s supposed to be.)
Millennials are millennials because they all remember the turn of the millennium. anyone born 1997 or later wouldn’t remember it, which is why the generation line was drawn where it was.
There are people who find that weird and prefer to call anybody born after 2000 gen Z because they were born after the turn of the millennium, so there’s a sizable amount of people who’ve taken to calling anybody born 1996-2000 a “zillennial” as a compromise. I use the term sometimes, but only when I need to demonstrate to somebody that there’s no clear difference between a young millennial and an older gen Z.
That’s cute how you think you’re old.
I never said old? Quick edit, I meant “how old” as in people have a misimpression of our age, not old as in “oh we’re so old.” People think gen Z is just a bunch of teenagers who couldn’t possibly share any experiences with them.
What I remember most about them is that they were extremely effective as unintentional bug zappers. The SMELL of instantly vaporized burnt moths in the room is something I’ll likely never forget.
Around 2004 we had some people over for a card game night. We were all sitting on our house’s big terrace, where we had also put this type of lamp. The terrace was open to the outside and the lamp attracted a large amount of bugs, which would burn and start to smell, the same smell you are remembering.
To stop this from happening, my brother decided to put a kind of glass plate on top of the lamp as a cover. Initially this worked great and the smell was gone.
10 minutes later, the glass had gotten so hot that it exploded violently, shooting shards of glass all across the terrace. It was a lesson learned.
I’m tall so sometimes I was the first person in ages to discover a bug graveyard at someones place.
Oh yeah! I forgot.
I had one of these! I want to say it was purchased in the late 90s and lasted until around 2006 before I finally threw it in the garbage lol! They definitely were not stable and once it fell over the bulb would usually break around 50% of the time… Also once it fell over or even if it just got moved a little bit all the parts that screwed together would get loose and the lamp would stand crooked and wobble until you tightened it all back up again!
Threadlock worked well here.
I don’t doubt it! I did not know what thread locker was in 2002 though…
Occasionally a bug or a Nerf dart would end up in ours and you’d smell a gross burnt aroma 😅
I used to put my socks on these as a kid cause it’d warm them up. I ended up forgetting them one day and there was a fucking roaring fire coming out of the top of the bowl within minutes.
Those things have been around since the 60s
That I did not know.
Well you wouldve had to be there heh. Just shows that style is cyclicle
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.
the insects were just the bonus poison/psychic hybrid damage
All the halogen/fluorescent/etc bulbs before LED were super hot if you didn’t let them cool down for a couple minutes.
But really, who under 40 ever waited for them to cool down? Nobody had time for that.
Doubles as fly killer. Remember hearing a couple zap on that fucking food service light
Ah, the smell of freshly burnt bugs. We once had a giant moth catch on fire which shot several inches above the top of the lamp and set off the smoke detector. The apartment reeked for days.
I almost burned a neighbors house down by forgetting about a piece of cloth I put on that badboy for mood lighting.
Mood lighting lol.
Remember? I still have it!
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.
Until 2019 for us damn cats broke it. Now I have a lamp photographer use for a lamp.
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
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Never had one. Didn’t know anyone who had one. Is this an American thing?
Definetly an American thing. First time seeing this lamp.
I saw one of the bulbs burn out once, four inch flames straight out of the top.
Yeah we never had one (poor} but I remember hearing that they caused their share of house fires
