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xwindows  wrote:
>On Thu,  16 Jul 2026,  The Free Thinker wrote:
>>GUREZB CBG
>
>Correct,  finally!  
>
>>the only name I know such devices by: tea urn
>
>Oh,  I have never heard of this term before.  

Huh,  it might be a British term.  Seems they're advertised as "Hot
Water Urns",  not to impose on your choice of drink.  Mind you I
don't have hot drinks at all.  

>>Actually the tea urns I mainly know are huge stainless steel ones
>>that sit tucked in the corner of old halls and other public
>>buildings seemingly forever.  
>
>You mean,  kinda like the photograph at the top of this article?  
>
>
>i.e.  

That's it,  though the ones I've seen tend to be narrower and taller.  

>I have seen this heavy-duty all-stainless-steel type too,  but only in
>the sort of catering/snack-break area of fancy event venues.  
>Never checked their brand names though.  

As a child I was always interested in any 'machine' tucked in a
corner of some place,  so I think I gave a lot of them an excessive
amount of attention while my parents dragged me around markets
inside old town halls in small Australian towns.  

>For less-fancy public places that even provided hot water at all,  
>I would normally see it either in a form of plasticky white/gray
>"water cooler" that have second/combined "hot water" tap;
>or the home-use device that I depicted in the challenge.  

I've seen them in use much less often than just tucked in a corner,  
maybe near a similar-age portrait of the queen in the 1960s.  Some
halls in tiny country towns have a bit of a "land that time forgot"
aesthetic,  to which the unloved tea urn often contributes.  Though
my mother has recently taken to attending "high tea" events at a
hall in a small town,  and that hall's urn is put to regular use for
that.  More modern hot water dispensors probably exist over here
too,  I just haven't noticed them,  let alone had cause to name them.  
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