Bulbs / Miliband

[webofevil]

Possible bad news for migraine sufferers: Energy-saving light bulbs could trigger migraines [BBC]. Those fluorescent darkbulbs that take about quarter of an hour to reach their semi-luminescent state, one of which led me on new year’s eve to misread, albeit at a distance, a product on my esteemed colleague’s bathroom shelf as “Foaming Fascist Wash” (rather than “Facial”), turn out to be not only annoying but actively harmful for a select few.

My concern is that the government (1) seem to take at least four years to absorb new information anyway and (2) are puritanical enough at heart, even without David Miliband heading Environment any more, to press ahead with banning normal light bulbs with no regard to what that could do to migraine sufferers. Prove me wrong, envirowonks!

Incidentally, now that “the Mil” has inserted himself into this post, I am slightly disturbed by the number of my female acquaintances who have A Bit Of A Thing for the Foreign Secretary.

[Poll #1114522]

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Still, I think that only goes to show that this is a question deserving of national debate.

It does indeed. I also seem to remember doing a poll about the relative hotness of Blair, Brown and a hybrid of Brown's head on Blair's body but can't find it now.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> a hybrid of Brown's head on Blair's body

I liked Frankie Boyle's idea that George Bush wouldn't have realised without being told that we had a different PM; he'd just have assumed that in the interim Blair had put on a bunch of weight and suffered a mild stroke.