They Can’t Change a Light Bulb? Really?

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“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.