Although it is possible to make a light bulb that will last forever, I do understand that manufacturers have to protect their market. However, over the decades they have made giant steps backwards to the point where they are now taking the piss.
When I was a kid if you had a single100w bulb in a room then it would be too fucking bright. But now I have 2 fittings in my lounge, each one takes 4 bulbs. I use 60w bulbs, 8 of them to a total of 480w, and it still isn’t bright enough.
I’m not talking about the low energy shite, these are apparently proper fucking light bulbs.
Years ago you could buy one bulb and that would do you for a decade or so. Now the fuckers blow all the time. Not a week goes by where I don’t have to replace at least one.
Sometimes they just pop. Other times they explode, sending shards of glass all over the place.
Years ago you would seldom go out to buy a bulb, now I buy them in packs of 6 to keep a stock when needed.
The bastard manufacturers are churning out cheap, shoddy rubbish and raking in the money.
Nominated by: The Artful Cunter
You can buy “ old light bulbs” they are sold as decorative light bulbs. They last for years. Shit “green” light bulbs are the cd version of records. It’s not green, is shitter than the original and has been designed and promoted to take more of your money,with massive lobbying and corruption of the eu. Time to dump the whole shit and get back to sanity and lighting your home however the fuck you want to. Fuck the Tory party “ green” bollox
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Earth hour I turn them all on, and extra Christmas lights. A beacon in the night
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Those old light bulbs were made for 250 volts.
Then the mains voltage dropped to 240 volts so the old lamps lasted longer.
Then the mains voltage dropped to a nominal 230 volts, so the old lamps did even better.
Unfortunately modern lamps are built for 230 volts, which would be fine if the mains voltage was not up and down like a hoors drawers, sometimes by quite a bit if you are at the end of a line, because of all green energy spiking up and down every time the wind drops or a cloud covers the sun.
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Made in China?
Probably….
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I have felt for a few years now that my nighttime vision is failing.
It is NOT.
Low-energy bulbs especially are a con; they simply don’t produce decent amounts of light energy. I struggled to find a 100w equivalent in a well-stocked shop yesterday. Most of the offerings are equivalent of the old pygmy, fridge or oven bulbs. Utter shite.
Excellent and vital counting.
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All this Go Green bollocks, is just that – bollocks!
You buy so-called energy saving lightbulbs, which cost a packet and take an age to recover the cost that you bought them. But they fail way before then, so you have to buy more, which puts you at even greater disadvantage.
Then they try to force you take have smart meters, which don’t achieve anything other than telling you how much electric you use.
And despite of these energy saving items, and cutting back on electric/gas/water in order to save the fucking planet, the energy suppliers ramp up your household bills to cover the massive shortfall in profits due to people using less energy.
Cunts
And Greta Thunderbirds can shove a few 100W bulbs up her chuff. Its the own way she’ll ever turn herself on!
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It’s part of the multi faceted plan …we’re never allowed to get in front
MEGA CUNTS
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Teach me the magic of the Sun in a Bottle, young sorcerer!
Lightbulbs exploding? Get your mains feed checked out, sounds like uncontrollable surges.
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Indeed.
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You still getting those uncontrollable surges Ruff?
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There’s no place like ohm!
Yes, yes I’ll get my fucking coat. Cheers
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Nice to see you on the Inappropriate Horn march last week Cuntstable. Was that a rifle in your budgie smugglers or were you just pleased to see me?
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🎶 I’ve got an uncontrollable surge !
He’s got an uncontrollable …….
I’ve got an uncontrollable surge …..🎶
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Slap yer mammy, Jack!
Guten ubend.
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I’ve got a gut feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, that’s D E V O 🔺
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Are we not gender neutrals?
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We are P E D O
Would be the modern version 🤢
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I get mine from honest Abdul’s home emporium. They’re from Hungary, bright as the sun and last yonks but by fuck they eat up the juice.
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I’d (politely) question the sanity of anyone still using tungsten bulbs.
Don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I replaced every bulb in the house with LEDs – ok, they cost a fucking fortune but they take far less juice per lumen than those horrible quick-fail fluorescent energy savers, and, as the years went by, the manufacturers have made them more reliable. I even replaced the useless fluorescent panel light in the bathroom with an LED board – four times the light, hasn’t got dimmer in a year and, shock horror, cost about the same as the fluoro tube it replaced.
If you’re an idle cunt who doesn’t switch lights off, like me, LEDs are the way to go.
Oh, and do get an eye test. Not impossible that your eyesight’s fading out rather than the bulbs.
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We use those headtorches that potholers use.
Cheaper and more romantic of a evening.
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A romantic evening at yours involves Kendal mint cake and removing the boots, I’m guessing?
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Flask of Bovril and paste sandwiches Komodo.
But for large family gatherings I allow Mrs Miserable to bring in the solar lights from the garden and open a packet of pringles.
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Is that a euphemism MIS, the New Mills alternative lifestyle outdoor pursuits club, who said romance was dead. 😂
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I fucking hate those low energy bulbs. They’re rank. Get the eastern europeon, cold war produce vast amounts of CO2 type. They are great.
And remember if you break a low energy bulbs you’re supposed to vacate the area for 30 mins because if the toxic crao they’re made of. Look for the bulbs with unintelligible language then you know they’re not crippled by environmental friendly pish.
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I like a wax candle
Good enough for Charlie Dickens don’t you know
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Many bulbs now come from China and like most chinese consumer products are crap. They fail at an early age and commonly in spectaculer fashion i.e. they explode, often with sufficient force to break a glass lamp shade.Those tiny halogen bastards are amongst the worst offenders and are commonly sold on the net. Halogen bulbs are only slightly more efficient than the old incandescent tungsten filament bulbs which have already gone from sale anyway. LED lamps are incredibly efficient and also very long-lived. They are relatively expensive but due to their efficiency and longevity you almost certainly will get your money back and then some eventually.The subjective quality of the light from these various sources is a different matter. I have an old tungsten filament bulb which has survived in a little-used room and it always strikes me when I go in there what a pleasant light it gives compared to the newer sources.
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“…what a pleasant light it gives compared to the newer sources.”
A lot of that is to do with the very limited spectrum they give out, tri-phosphate Compact Flourescent Lamps being the worst offenders; you get three distinct wavelengths which combine to ‘replicate’ white but doesn’t come close. Cameras show it up particularly and aren’t fooled. Try taking a photo at night indoors under CFL lights and it’s washed with the dominant yellow/orange output. They also take 2 minutes to hit full ‘brightness’.
The internal circuitry is what lets go most often, the very cheapest of chinky componentry is used. Open up a dead one and admire the roasted cct board, the bulging capacitors ready to explode… fucking hateful things.
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You end up looking fucking Chinese when your squinting trying to read in about as much light as an eclipse.
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Good cunting. I’m fed up with lightbulbs which make the room darker when you switch them on.
I blame the EU. Cunts.
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Are you buying your bulbs from your local China shop arty?
I’ve switched all mine to LEDs and they are nice and bright, warm light, not daylight ones tho. They give off a weird light.
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I have tried the light bulbs from the Mercachina, fucking hopeless.
At least half of them are fucked before they are plugged in.
Doesn’t matter what bricolaje that I use. The poxy bulbs have a working life of a few weeks at best.
Nothing to do with my electricity or surges, and I don’t need my eyes tested.
Modern light bulbs are shite.
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Greta will have us with candles and nowt else yet.
Of course our Chinese friends will have chandeliers in every room.
A fucking swindle.
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LED bulbs throughout the house.
Warm white- they throw out a reasonable number of lumens with pleasant colour rendering and, unlike the old tungsten bulbs, they run cool so they don’t end up cooking the fittings.
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Heard about these?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4&feature=youtu.be&ucbcb=1
You can only get them if you’re a King!
You’re right about the colour….. The 6000k ones look a bit too blue to my eyes. 4000k looks good. I find the 2700k tungsten equivalent looks a bit yellow and dim.
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Used to buy my lightbulbs from B&Q. Not the energy saving type, lasted on average two or three months.
About 2 years ago drove past a Screwfix branch and decided to pop on to see what lightbulbs they had. Bought half a dozen energy saving bayonet candle bulbs for our front room chandelier, all still going strong.
Have subsequently purchased many more items from Screwfix, more variety and better quality than most other places. Have also saved money.
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Bulbs I get from Wilko are good too.
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I note that there isn’t one in the small cupboard under the stairs, Ruff. Just some knock off Gwyneth Paltrow vagina candles to darn my socks by.
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Just admit it LL, you’ve never had it so good!
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Indeed, its one up from the old dog basket at Fiddler Towers anyway.
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And you get free use of the thunderbox outside!
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The cunts want to control everything, even what fucking lightbulbs you use. More ale landlord we are fucking doomed. Fuck em, fuck em all.
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Fucking he’ll – Shaun Ryder on GB News right now, didn’t recognise him, looks like Captain Mainwaring!
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Captain Mainwaring who had been out in the sun for too long.
He did make me laugh though. Looks different but the same inside.
Fantastic front man. Respect.
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Looks more like that cunt Attenborough after a couple of bottles of Cockburns.
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On a slightly different thread (not bayonet or screw):
According to the UK TV industry magazine Broadcast, GB News peaked in its opening minutes with 336,000 viewers and averaged 262,000 viewers, meaning it outperformed the 100,000 who watched BBC News across the hour and the 46,000 who watched the British Sky News.
Must admit I didn’t realise how few people watched BBC and Sky, albeit at 8pm.
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And John Bercow has joined the Labour Party?
Hope he never gets a Knighthood, he deserves it.
What a pathetic knob head.
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He will be the same d-warf in politics as he is physically in real life.
His shouty, look at me, attention seeking ship sailed long ago, hence no seat in the House of Lords, like all the other speakers have had almost automatically, despite his desperate bitter complaining!
If the theatres to reopen around Christmas time there is a good chance he can get a small part (Did you see what I done there) in the new Snow White a pantomime 😉
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By Christmas, ‘Snow White’ will have been cancelled for reinforcing white supremacy and toxic masculinity.
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I heard that he used to date Princess Margaret.
He had a small part in Charlie’s Aunt.
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No seat in the House of Lords – that’s why he’s joined the Labour Party.
Starmer will have him in there before you can say “£300 a day + expenses”!
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It’s because his giraffe-necked, slack-minged cunt of a nutjob wife is a Labourite.
The belligerent m1dget needs to go and fist himself with a pair of dry hulk hands.
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Bercow said “the government needs to be replaced, and Labour is the only vehicle that can achieve that objective”.
Has he been away since the last election and doesn’t he read the new? Labour aren’t doing very well under Kweer Starmer.
Tory pensions minister Guy Opperman said “Labour are welcome to Bercow”.
A most excellent state of affairs.
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Little John Bercow has no political allegiance or ideology.
Just likes cushy jobs,
Bullying staff and doing what his wife tells him.
A odious toad and poster boy for why treason should merit the death penalty.
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Labour replace the Government. That’s a good one! Did you see they lost their deposit at the recent by-election?
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He has allegiance to the EU.
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While it suits.
If he had nothing to gain he’d not find Brussels on a map.
All politicos like the expenses, junkets, dirty deals, rentboys, of the continent.
Like fleas on a dog.
Sharks in chummed waters,
Maggots in a rotten apple.
Hes a little shit id happily drown in a bucket.
Never forgive
Never forget
(As the frog says)
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And he was biased toward Labour when he was Speaker. It was thanks to Labour votes that he was able to remain Speaker all that time.
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I do like how my phrase about people going and fisting themselves with a pair of hulk hands has been adopted by other members on here.
In some small way I like to think it has become like Fiddler’s “F**k off”, or RTC’s “This country is finished” or B&WC’s “I know naffink abaaaaht it” and that in some small way it will live on after I am gone.
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A jumped up, self-important, yapping liitle dog cunt.
Looks a cunt, sounds a cunt, acts a cunt…because you can’t deny nature. Born a cunt & will die the same.
Fuck him & his sjitty breheren !
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Fuck the poisoned dwarf, just been captive to Goggle Box. Total and utter shit we are fucked.
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According to Jemima Goldsmith/Khan, interviewing Bercowitz in the New Statesman, Simon Burns, then a Tory minister of state at the Department of Health, called him a “stupid, sanctimonious dwarf”. The much-repeated legend has it that the Prime Minister then turned this into a joke, telling a room full of lobby journalists that Burns’s driver had inadvertently backed into Bercow’s car in the parliament courtyard. Cameron supposedly said: “Bercow told Burns, ‘I am not happy!’ to which Burns replied, ‘Well, which one [of the Seven Dwarves] are you?’”
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The invisible post above contained the word “dw*rf”
Woe is me I have sinned..
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so back to light bulbs, I have sworn by LED’s by brother who at the time lived in the sticks in a quaint little wood fired cottage had those stupid bendy compact fluorescent things.
They do eventually illuminate, but they take some time to warm up, and his place was not warm.
On a number of occasions he made his way to the kitchen turning on the lights to make a drink and then discover that he had inadvertently navigated a minefield of dog shit left by the retired gun dog that he adopted.
The fluorescent ones are without a doubt shit, and can lead to injury due to their very poor startup light yield just as you go down the stairs ect.
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