Hmmm, the smell of gas... I repeat my last remark on this thread 

I happen to have a 70w Ceramalux Comfort lamp, but it's a low voltage/North American type. They are interesting lamps, but the White SON/SDW lamps definitely have a more incandescent-like look, whereas the Comfort looks more like an overdriven HPS lamp. Nonetheless, the Comfort seems quite comfortable to do work under.

Well, im gonna restrike this topic and tell you mine

Any discharge lamp starting.
Eol preheat tubes.
Finishing off a fluorescent tube on an instant start ballast, i like the swirling and it finaly losing vaccum.
The smell of gas.
Diesel engine stating in the morning.
Big generators starting.
Big air circuit breakers.
50 hz hum.
The sound of the old trams from my city.

We have lot of that going around in the US.   i have a grocery store called brookshire.  Being  prononce as Brook-sheer
 Ria as Texan called Jag  Jag-wire.   There a Texas town people get wrong is Mexia.  As it pronounce Meh- Hey-A.  English can be funny in some ways.  About closes feeling like UK in the US is the new england area with all them british names.

Also, the box of the Halonix blue 400w MH has a marking of three colour variants- red, green and blue.

Yeah that annoys me as well, my car does it and of course the reverse parking sensors activate as well, so when you're loading shopping in the back it's bleeping at you all the time..! 

Well you won't know until you light it, but I'd hazard a guess it's closer to orange than red, I've never heard of pink..! It will be interesting to see lit, anyway.

Reminds me of the American pronounciation of 'Jaguar' which sounds like 'jag-uwar' which always sounds awful to me, being a big fan of those cars (but never able to afford one, still, I can dream...)

By the way, it's 'Jag-you-are' 

I always remember US actor and comedian Greg Proops on British ‘who’s line is it anyway’, commenting on the word Nicaragua, and Clive Anderson being British kept saying Nic-a-rag-uare!, to which Greg kept reminding him it was ‘Nic-ararg-wuar’, saying, “unlike you British, we Americans don’t pronounce every single letter in the word”!  , that always makes me smile! 

I learned about the “Cheshire” pronunciation from the “Alice and Wonderland” story and also learned the “Hampshire” pronunciation by learning about the US state of “New Hampshire”. Additionally, I also learned about the correct pronunciation of “shire” in British counties by knowing the famous street in Los Angeles known as “Wilshire Boulevard”.