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  1. My in-laws, who have had a less fortunate upbringing than I, often say to ill-behaved children, "Am gonna gi' thee some fist!", which disgusts me, not just in terms of the threatened violence, however faux that might be, but in the guttural Sheffield dialect they use as well.
  2. Oh right - I thought you meant the little dichroic reflector types.
  3. But some get over it, and others never do!
  4. You don't have to put up with minature halogen ones. There are direct replacements: http://www.bltdirect.com/products.php?cat=2078&nm=Energy+Saving+Halogen+Lamps
  5. I disagree strongly with this. We have some CFLs that are slow to brighten, but we have others that are just fine. It depends on the brand and type. Unfortunately, B&Q and others insist on stocking only the 'warm' white ones, which seem pretty poor to me alongside the 'cool' or 'daylight' varieties. The OP is sensationalist and ignorant, and fails to recognise the health effects of pollution from burning 5-8 times as much fuel for the same light with yesterday's bulbs! Instant-on, high-brightness filament bulbs are, and will remain, available as direct plug-in replacements for the old-fashioned filament bulbs. See here: http://www.bltdirect.com/products.php?cat=2078&nm=Energy+Saving+Halogen+Lamps . They are called halogen bulbs, and can be found easily. They are not as efficient as CFLs, but will satisfy you and are a bit cheaper to run. So you see, you are completely wrong, and so is the OP! Anyway, LED bulbs are now available from places like John Lewis, and although expensive at the moment, will obviously become cheap as chips very quickly. These offer better than 40 years of continuous use, with instant-on full-brightness, dimmable and slightly better efficiency than CFLs. As far as your dimmer switches are concerned, you can get replacement switches for less than 30p each in B&Q, so stop moaning! Well done EU, it's about time!
  6. Yes, it's way better to have 3rd party than nothing, and that's what the law and society rightly demand, but it's still daft to drive with only 3rd party if the car has significant value because you stand to lose it all in one simple accident that could happen to anybody!
  7. Mmmm, the R22 'beta' - sounds worrying! Are beta aircraft anything like beta software in terms of reliablity?
  8. Are rescued hens going to be any good for egg laying? It seems unlikely that they'd have been made redundant without good reason.
  9. He would have known that the cover he had for this car, if he had it at all, was only 3rd party, so it was pretty daft to drive it anyway!
  10. Let me challenge that: cows are a much greater source of greenhouse gasses than motor vehicles etc., and are largely responsible for global warming, we are told. Therefore, if we don't eat them, they will stand there in their fields, burping and farting, causing chaotic weather and failed crops! I say eat them all now!
  11. It's likely to do better in peat. They're just putting that on the label to be PC, and probably to qualify for some European environmental grant of some kind!
  12. That's crazy! All that expensive and unreliable technology so that women can be subjugated by their husbands!
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