Originally posted by EladarHow often do you change bulbs?
We are talking adults here.
Everyone in my family, including my children, know how to change a light bulb.
Pretty helpless adult who must rely on others to change a light bulb.
I am sure most people could change a bulb, what I am saying that it is not unusual for families to divide up such tasks so that some members simply never have to. The stat that surprised me in the OP was the number who know how to change a tyre on a car (or say they know). I know several women who can't drive, and even more that have never changed a tyre.
23 Apr 17
Originally posted by twhiteheadWomen are helpless are they not?
How often do you change bulbs?
I am sure most people could change a bulb, what I am saying that it is not unusual for families to divide up such tasks so that some members simply never have to. The stat that surprised me in the OP was the number who know how to change a tyre on a car (or say they know). I know several women who can't drive, and even more that have never changed a tyre.
24 Apr 17
Originally posted by twhiteheadThen there is the problem of line voltage, 110, 220, and more. Put a 110 bulb in a 220 socket, poof.
To be sure, buying a light bulb is much harder than changing it. My house has a mix of screw fittings and bayonet fittings and I have always forgotten which I need by the time I get to the shop. In addition there is a wide range of choice in terms of brightness and colour.
But then the new florescent and LED bulbs last so long its not exactly a common chore.
24 Apr 17
Originally posted by sonhouseWell hopefully, they won't be selling the wrong type around here. But I have blown a PC power supply or two in my time.
Then there is the problem of line voltage, 110, 220, and more. Put a 110 bulb in a 220 socket, poof.
12V bulbs can be found, but they have different fittings.
Florescent tubes can also be a problem. They come different lengths which aren't perfectly standardised. My aquarium needs ones that are about a centimetre shorter than the ones found in the shops. Probably China has a different standard.
Then there are plugs.
30 Apr 17
Originally posted by EladarThe people of Poland have come up with a workable solution, albeit very inefficient at that. They have one person holding the bulb to the socket and two others turning the ladder. It seems the people of the UK are not quite of the same calibre intellectually as the Poles. Blimey!! The lights out and how do those engineers expect us to put a bulb in the socket with all those bloody ridges in the socket and the end of the bulb?
https://www.studyfinds.org/change-lightbulb-household-chores-study/
How can this be?
30 Apr 17
Originally posted by DeepThoughtHard to keep up with those rules.
Normally it is the Royal "we", so in the possessive case, the Royal "our".
If they'd put half as much effort into dental care as they do into arcane royal bylaws, they wouldn't look like the 'before' pictures for orthodontist ads.
30 Apr 17
How many at RHP does it take to change a light bulb. It takes at least 3.
It takes one to suggest that a light bulb needs changed, it takes another to declare that the former person is lying because it works just fine, and yet another to suggest that that light bulbs are but an illusion and don't really exist.