http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57853 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 15:18:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57853#post-167736 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:53:33 +0000 roybland 167736@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Older people are being warned that the currently popular Vatican Stoves will not adequately heat their homes during cold weather.</p> <p>'The stove has recently received a lot of television advertising,' said a spokeswoman from the consumer group Which?, 'and its Italian manufacturers have received an unprecedented number of orders.'</p> <p>Age UK point out that the stoves are only effective where large numbers of elderly men congregate in a sealed room and even then the wearing of fancy women's clothing is recommended.</p> <p>The stoves also need an elaborate chimney to remove the black and white smoke it produces which tends to attract large crowds outside the user's home.</p> <p>Which? also warns that the Vatican Stove's preferred fuel of discarded ballot papers may be hard to obtain on some garage forecourts. </p>