Duh. I get it now. This is weird because I tried to answer twice and the first time the wrong thread appeared when I clicked on reply so I cancelled, but 2nd time it looked like the right thread. Now I read it and it is the wrong thread (and a totally different one at that)! Very bizarre. Time to call it a night for me! :o)


>>I forgot about the lightbulbs in the caves and tunnels! :o) They had it rough towards the end, didn't they? Some surrendering to eat only to get shot. Or waiting to throw yourself under a tank and never finding a tank. I thought it did a good job of dispensing stereotypes. Although there were instances of killings on both sides, they showed that many on both sides felt prisoners of war should be treated humanely and fairly. Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya were probably the best actors in that movie.
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>Umm, my point was that you answered in the wrong thread ;).
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>Look below. All the way below.
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>>>>Many were made to boost support for our soldiers. Others focused on specific battles or fronts or were made to make money only and tried to depict what they thought Americans would buy. I think there were some that were pretty balanced though:
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>>>>http://www.worldwar-2.net/world-war-2-on-film/world-war-2-on-film-index.htm
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>>>>I don't know of any other country whose movies are any different. You're blaming America because we didn't make movies that showed every battle everywhere by the allies? Are you serious? there are plenty of documentaries out there that do. There are some entertainment movies of course, made by all countries (especially ours) which depict the allies, but many are specifically geared to the country that makes them. Japan is the worst. They try to rewrite history. How is America different? Our movies dramatize for effect and sales, but at least history is not rewritten. Movies are NOT how Americans are educated Terry. Sadly it appears that much of Europe is educated by movies that are solely made for entertainment purposes (based on these posts).
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>>>>Letters from Iwo Jima is solely about the Japanese view of a specific event. Not the entire war. Not all fronts. Just like other movies. But because you haven't seen it you discount it and countless others.
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>>>Now I think I know everything there's to know about different types of lightbulbs.
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>>>>>>>>The thing that annoys me with most of the electric/electronic/mechanical stuff is the multitude of standards. While for mechanical it does make sense to have different standards for different sizes, having six types of fittings for just halogen lightbulbs is nonsense. Which is another reason I went to swirl bulbs (or neon - which they more or less are, I just can't and don't care to remember their commercial name) - they fit in the same place where the hot bulb was, no need to rig anything.
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>>>>>>>Are these those white, twisted tubes, that use far less lecky and last longer, so favoured by the green movement? I've never heard of a swirl bulb.
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>>>>>>That's an expression I picked this week and liked it immediately. Short, descriptive, to-the-point, unambiguous (unless you thought I'd say "and they look even better when swirls are in full blossom").
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>>>>>But that doesn't answer my Q or explain what they are.
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>>>>>>> BTW, did you know that whereas you have screw-in bulbs over there ours are mainly a "bayonet fix" (push in and twists), but we do have screw-ins, mainly from habitat tat :-)
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>>>>>>But then do the bayonet fix ones plug into the trafo (the high voltage transformer), or straight into the 110/125/220/whathaveyou volts?
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>>>>>We have 230 over here
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>>>>>>The screw-ins have their own transformer and starter. I had one back home, sized like chopstick, above the kitchen sink (ah, nice bluish tinge ;).
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>>>>>I was referring to all bulbs in general, and there is a bayonet halogen fitting that's different from the others.
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>>>>>>Does that mean that when you want to switch to one of these, you need to replace the whole fixture (or at least the socket)? If that's the case, I'd rather skip them and go straight to LEDs.
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>>>>>That's what I want to know: the LEDs have the same conical shape (like a landing module) as the halogens, and the same bayonet, so would fit in the halogen light socket, but I don't know if they'd work. The main hal fitting we have has the trafo in the ceiling rose, with the bulbs on branches. Also i want to replace the ceiling spots in the lounge but didn't fancy going halogen there too, so now I know a tasty alternative for totally replacing those lights in LEDs.