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A very uninteresting fact about energy saving light bulbs.

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    A very uninteresting fact about energy saving light bulbs.

    They emit x-rays and sitting under one for 100 yrs increases your chances of getting cancer by 0.00043%

    #2
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    They emit x-rays and sitting under one for 100 yrs increases your chances of getting cancer by 0.00043%
    yet another scare story by the luddites
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      #3
      It's also known they can explode with a force equivalent to 1g of military grade explosives if a lightning storm strikes nearby and they emit a high pitched sound that can make certain tribes in South America go partially deaf.

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        #4
        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        It's also known they can explode with a force equivalent to 1g of military grade explosives if a lightning storm strikes nearby and they emit a high pitched sound that can make certain tribes in South America go partially deaf.
        ha ha. Why do these people always concentrated on the negatives?

        What other form of domestic lighting can be softened by soaking in vinegar, then sucked into a hot milk bottle in order to amaze the grandkids ?
        exactly.
        Anyway the tribes in SA have it coming




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          #5
          Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
          ha ha. Why do these people always concentrated on the negatives?

          What other form of domestic lighting can be softened by soaking in vinegar, then sucked into a hot milk bottle in order to amaze the grandkids ?

          Hay???
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            #6
            EO - you have far too much time on your hands!

            but sound interestung what is the method for doing this?

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              #7
              Originally posted by original PM View Post
              EO - you have far too much time on your hands!

              but sound interestung what is the method for doing this?
              take a hard boiled egg.
              Soak in vinegar for three days
              Stand a milk bottle in ver hot water
              place egg in mouth of milk bottle
              As the air in the bottle cools, the egg will be sucked in
              when it dries out the shell will become brittle

              it works with little clipper ships a well.
              I think




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                #8
                Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                take a hard boiled egg.
                Soak in vinegar for three days
                Stand a milk bottle in ver hot water
                place egg in mouth of milk bottle
                As the air in the bottle cools, the egg will be sucked in
                when it dries out the shell will become brittle

                it works with little clipper ships a well.
                I think




                My Grandfather made a ship in a lightbulb!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                  My Grandfather made a ship in a lightbulb!
                  no tulip.

                  do you still have it ?
                  that would be brilliant



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                    #10
                    Wow cool, I hope my wife has enough vinegar in the cupboards.

                    Do you think a cat soaked for 3 days in vinegar would work?
                    Originally posted by cailin maith
                    Hang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar??

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