“I can’t imagine what I did wrong!”
One in five adults in the United Kingdom can’t change a light bulb or boil an egg, according to a survey by an insurance company (https://studyfinds.org/change-lightbulb-household-chores-study/).
What can we say? Do you know how to change a light bulb? How many ways are there to make a mess of it? We’ll leave boiling an egg for another time: don’t want any brains fried here.
There’s really only one way to change a light bulb. I won’t insult my readers by describing it.
How does a modern nation with a zillion schools and millions of homes that rely on light bulbs to provide light wind up in such a state of ignorance? Imagine having to pay an electrician to unscrew an old light bulb and screw a new one in.
Suddenly it seems so much easier to understand how they’ve wound up with a socialist prime minister.
Well, that really tears it. When I remember all the things I did as a four year old kid, like picking chickens, shelling peas, watering animals and washing dishes while standing on a box inn front of the kitchen wood stove, how are these people surviving even with modern “conveniences”? Wow.
Maybe they just sit in the dark.
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Beyond words ignorant.
I find this disturbing. What has happened. When I was in high school, being able to do your own auto repairs was something we took pride in. Changing a lightbulb was child’s play. Anyone who couldn’t do that would be pitied if there was a good reason that they couldn’t and despised if it was because they were too lazy to learn such a basic task.
I’ve seen this, however. I’ve met people who could program comm equipment with their eyes closed but had no grasp on how any number of day to day things work.
I really don’t see how anyone can NOT change a light bulb. How many times, as a little child, did I see my father or my mother change a light bulb.? I never had any interest in or aptitude for mechanics; but changing a light bulb is only slightly harder than opening a door.
What I don’t understand is the lack of motivation to try to be self sufficient, even in such a mundane matter. My parents had to hold me back from such things until I was old enough to be able to do so safely. I can’t do everything, and there are many things I can’t do, but I at least try to do for myself if it’s possible and practical.
I recalled recently reading people making laughing, yet shocked, comments about all these videos made by black people in their homes, with the beeping in the background, and how this was so common among black people, but no other ethnic group. In response to the people commenting under the content creator’s videos, the typical response was, “my hallway just beeps all the time.” They don’t know what the beeping is, where it’s coming from (other than the hallway), why there is a beep, and don’t know how to stop it.
I was many of these before I figured out what people were talking about.
It was their smoke detector, needing a new battery.
At least with a light bulb, I might need to ask “what type of bulb?”
Ignorance can be fixed. Stupidity can’t.