Lightbulbs!

[ghanimah]

Have there been any EU banning curvy banana stories recently? They were always good fun, if totally bollocks.

Not quite false,

Yet it now turns out that, by the EU's own admission, there were rules specifying the maximum permitted curvature of bananas. Now, Commission Regulation Number 2257/94, which lays down that bananas must be "free from abnormal curvature of the fingers", is to be scrapped.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/11/12/bent_bananas_not_a_euromyth_after_all

[genf_stfc]

on the light bulb thing, i just moved into a new built house, which came with all energy saving bulbs in it.  they actually don't seem too bad, they come on fairly quick. However, one in the kids room is a bit bright so i wanted to replace it with a smaller one, which was fine as i still have one of the free british gas ones from the old place.

  I then find out that all the new bulbs in the house have not two but three bayonet lugs - sort of aranged in a T shape, but the top of the "T" bit isn't in exactly the same place as the two lugs on a normal bayonet - plus obviously all the light fittings only fit these bulbs.  I can't put any old bulb in (even if i try modifying one with some pliers....) and i have never seen these bulbs with three lugs anywhere before or in any shop since.  so short of replacing all the light fittings, not sure what to do.  I'm willing to blame euro madness gone mad.

[flammableBen]

Sounds more like the you should blame the people who built your house who probably have some sort of deal with the company who make weird shape bulbs.

[donkey]

Couldn't give a shit about the lightbulbs.

Although, if that were true...why did I write this?

[Ironside]

Wicked, just got home and British gas have very kindly sent me a box of four of these new bulbs!

That's me sorted for the next decade then, I'll even take them with with me when I move.

[axs]

I've got Energy saving ones in my house and they come on as soon as you flick the switch.

[Simon Pieman]

Not quite false,

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/11/12/bent_bananas_not_a_euromyth_after_all

I don't think it was an outright ban, just a categorisation. Anyway, I think the original story was that they were trying to ban straight bananas when in fact it was the opposite. So I think it shows just how silly and muddled it all is