Re: Oh dear ... :-)

[harryagain]

I didn't think that it was possible to make CFLs look worse or less stylish

>than they already are. And then a link to the "Plumen" range at >lightbulbs-direct.com dropped into my in box ... > > Arfa

I would have thought the days of CFLs were numbered now that cheap LEDs are starting to appear anyway.

[Brian Gaff]

Ornate? I seem to recall some of the first ones of these were bloomin heavy as well as they did not have electronic ballasts, just a huge lump of iron ie a choke. I had a bayonet holder give way under the strain once, and it could have knocked somebody out had they been standing underneath. Brian

[fred]

In article , Arfa Daily writes

Clearly designed by someone from the woman pulling up her panties drawing 'joke' era . . . .

Dire indeed.

[PeterC]

At the end of an article in the BMJ about 15 years ago: "Why use a candelabra when a carrot would do?". Perhaps because it's not in the same glass?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

We agree on something. ;-)

[Huge]

There's a video of this, somewhere. The glass breaks.