Reply to: RIP: light bulbs in HAB towers

[HairyArsedBloke]

In case Hector is looking.....

Pound shop! Pound shop! You posh bastard.

I'm so poor I dream of going into a pound shop.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Just don't try turning them off and on, they don't like that. Give them a few minutes and they usually brighten up a bit.

n.b. 100W incandescent light bulbs are 4 for a £ in the Pound Shop. Also spotted in there was a 12 shot disposable camera for £1, WTF.

What are "contractors living in houses with £20k kitchens and LEDs for everything." doing in the pound shop?

[TimberWolf]

I am amused by people saying they don't like these new bulbs because they don't work with dimmers, but I dislike them because they are dimmer!

Just don't try turning them off and on, they don't like that. Give them a few minutes and they usually brighten up a bit.

n.b. 100W incandescent light bulbs are 4 for a £ in the Pound Shop. Also spotted in there was a 12 shot disposable camera for £1, WTF.

[TinTrump]

Lighting very important for setting the mood when wooing. You don't want a lady to feel like she's under a spotlight when seated on the sofa with a glass of wine. If you look like HAB's avatar it's even more important to be able to tone down the light; actually just switch it off.

For more courting tips, please see "School for Scoundrels" with Terry Thomas, Alastair Sim etc.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I am amused by people saying they don't like these new bulbs because they don't work with dimmers, but I dislike them because they are dimmer!

[d000hg]

What a load of whinging. Stop buying cheap low-energy bulbs, you're supposed to be contractors living in houses with £20k kitchens and LEDs for everything.

And yes you can get dimmable low-energy bulbs, but I don't recall more info than that.

[RichardCranium]

I've found these great light bulbs in B&Q. They are marginally cheaper but they do use 5x the electricity that normal ones do and, when they are on, they run red-hot. The other downside is you have to replace them about four times as often.

How many do people want?

Are those the bright ones, that have a constant light level, that you can throw in the bin, that use normal light fittings, that fit inside existing light shades, that work with dimmer switches, that come in different colours, that cost 'marginally cheaper' where 'marginally cheaper' = 32p instead of £2:49, that work first time out of the box, that come in a thin lightweight box of up to eight rather than in 100g of multi-layered corrugated cardboard, that don't require specialist disposal methods, that are made of simple and plentiful and potentially recycled materials?

I'll have a gross of TEUs, please.

[Alf W]

I've found these great light bulbs in B&Q. They are marginally cheaper but they do use 5x the electricity that normal ones do and, when they are on, they run red-hot. The other downside is you have to replace them about four times as often.

How many do people want?

[OwlHoot]

Slight tangent; although I've mostly moved over to energy efficient ones they weren't compatible with dimmer switches ...

Yes it's a real pain. I have ten low-energy miniature flourescent bulbs in the chandelier in my sitting room. Looks ridiculous, but the idea was to save ellecy.

The trouble is this works off a dimmer switch, although the poxy bulbs don't and they regularly go pop. Far from being long-life, they last about as long as a may fly.

I wonder if LED bulbs work in dimmer switches.

[TinTrump]

Slight tangent; although I've mostly moved over to energy efficient ones they weren't compatible with dimmer switches so retained a stock of old style bulbs too. I did hear that maybe that problem had been resolved. ACan anyone confirm that?

[MPwannadecentincome]

Try looking at LED bulbs - expensive but come in all sorts of daylight, softlight, coloured, still not as bright as a real 100W though. I haven't tried any though.

I've been using the Philips Turbo 100W equivalents, they turn on quick and give quite a bright light, I have them in the kitchen.

[xoggoth]

Never mind HAB, you can have a good swear on your twitter.

Those half price garden solar garden lights form Homebase are good. I brought 500 of them and we stick them all out on the patio during the day. In the evening we bring them in. Free lighting.

Incidentally, scientists have discovered that swearing really does turn the air blue. In a study, a bunch of students were told to sit and shout C*, W*, A* over and over and there was a perceptible upshift in the wavelength.

[EternalOptimist]

I do hope you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself for that.

have you ever had a brilliant joke that you waited years and years for the right opportunity to crack ?

me neither

[RichardCranium]

when my last proper bulb broke, I got the missus and all the kids to hold it with me. It now works again.
we found that many hands make light work

I do hope you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself for that.

[BrilloPad]

when my last proper bulb broke, I got the missus and all the kids to hold it with me. It now works again.
we found that many hands make light work