BudgetLightForum.com: Humanitarian forum of the year!

BudgetLightForum.com: humanitarian forum of the year!

BudgetLightForum.com should receive a humanitarian award for leading folk from darkness into the light. No flattery – just fact! BudgetLightForum.com dispels the fear, uncertainty and doubt nefariously spread about viable alternatives to the hyped lights – the lights where the large colorful graphic giveth and the fine print, errors and omissions taketh away, i.e. mega lumens for a nanosecond of turbo mode, immediately followed by a lunar eclipse mode forever and a day.

“All the world’s indeed a stage

And we are merely players

Performers and portrayers

Each another’s audience

Outside the gilded cage”

Flashaholics can lead a noob to Surefire but it’s an awfully big drop-in pill for a budgetarian to swallow. The hands shake uncontrollably, while trying to enter the credit card data. You try to restrain the hands and the eyes blur and cross…uncontrollably. You politely ask someone to assist you in the purchase and you suddenly experience a severe onset of Tourette Syndrome, which compels you to interject socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks about the flashlight you have been pressured to buy. While groping for a ray of hope – one, single, solitary lumen at the end of the CPF tunnel - you inadvertently reach for a Jim Beam, which miserably fails to induce the courage required to “pull the trigger.”

Call it Surefire “STICKER SHOCK” syndrome! After seeing the Surefire MSRP, you decide which bodily organ you want to trade for a used one. And you never forget that Big Sista, Mother Superior, Super Duper Admin Moderator, on another flashlight forum, said that “Surefire has a lifetime warranty and your kidneys don’t!” It may not have been those exact words but that’s the implied, nuanced essence of their ham-fisted bottom line. She must use a crenulated bezel toothbrush to remove all the soot from her inflammatory breath.

Whilst on the way to search for an oxymoron – a budget Surefire, I lurched, swayed and almost sank to the bottom for a Malkoff Valiant Little Twisty 2xAA. But BudgetLightForum.com, like a lighthouse for noobs lost in the sea of CPF darkness, caught my attention in the nick of a tumultuous time. All my questions had been asked and answered by others on BudgetLightForum.com! Why ask why? Get a SolarForce L2M; don’t worry; be happy.

Being a Lithium, Li-Ion, LED flashlight noob, I had never heard of Solarforce nor of the fundamental flashaholic equation: 2=1, 1=0. One Malkoff Valiant Little Twisty 2xAA equals zero flashlights and two Solarforce flashlights equal one good flashlight. And several Solarforce flashlights can be had for the price of one Malkoff Valiant Little Twisty 2xAA. And I get to keep my kidney, thanks to BudgetLightForum.com and Solarforce.

I have a strong forward bias for AA NiMh. It’s not that I loathe Lithium or Li-Ion. I can switch to lithium in small, mandatory doses. It’s the charging apparatus of Li-Ion that offends inherently safe sensibilities. Ostensibly, Pila and AW bring peace of mind, until a kidney begins to quiver in anticipation of being sacrificed for those two combined.

I salute BudgetLightForum.com for humanitarianism and for not trying to repeal Joule’s law, nor trying to amend Kirchhoff’s currents through the nodes, or Kirchhoff’s voltage across the elements, by converting a simple light torch into a vent w/flame CPF blow torch.

“Living on a lighted stage

Approaches the unreal

For those who think and feel

In touch with some reality

Beyond the gilded cage.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXjnVICb3I

Ummm...welcome to BLF?!! Nice post!

Welcome to BLF, Limelight! Your credit card will still sweat and your bank account will still suffer but you will have a lot more torches to show for it...and knives...and multitools...and paracord...etc...

Wicked post, in the good way.

nice post

XD

Inspiring and poetic. Very nicely done...Welcome to BLF!


"No flattery – just fact!"

I love it! Welcome to BLF.

What the....

asd

Great first post!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsmIKpxDy_k <- Limelight..welcome to blf

I prefer Red Barchetta ...

http://youtu.be/TtYfmUFwPEM

Very entertaining first post though , welcome Limelight

+1

Way to jump in. Welcome

LOL, very nice first post indeed! welcome and enjoy your time among friends with an addiction :)

Very nice introduction :bigsmile: Welcome to BLF!