How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

[Apache]

This may appeal to anyone who regularly visits web forums (I found it on another forum I visit)

How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

1 to move it to the Lighting section.

2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs

5 to flame the spell checkers

3 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to

condemn those 6 as stupid

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb"

is perfectly correct

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this

discussion to a lightbulb forum

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs

and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy

the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique

and what brands are faulty

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected

URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this

group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all

headers and signatures, and add "Me too"

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot

handle the light bulb controversy

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about

light bulbs"

18 who trip over each other in their rush to say "repost!"

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

 

[Andy™]

do we have we have enough members to be able to change a bulb lamp?

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and just for patch, here is the other one, freshly brought back to life

 

[betty swollocks]

+ 4 to argue if the light should have been rcd protected in the first place

+ 2 to ask for a photo of the light

+18 to whinge the bonding needs to be upgraded

+11 to comment on how the original lamp was installed by a 5ww

 

[revjames]

Only one Rev - but the lightbulb must want to change......

 

[paul b b]

1 to hold the LAMP! and 100 to pick the house up and turn it round

 

[Andy™]

1 to hold the LAMP! and 100 to pick the house up and turn it round

or in case of Admins shed workshop, 1 to hold the lamp, and 1 to operate the motor to turn the building

 

[Apache]

Oh the humanity - a re-post

 

[ProDave]

And the moderators to tell us to start a new thread to discuss the fact that a BULB is something you plant in the ground, and what you have in fact changed is a LAMP.

 

[kerching]

Hmmmmmmm,

refering back to my post #23 of 18th Feb 2011 [cos I can't work out how to link to it] here you are...

Nope, as ever, you are all WRONG!

The correct answer as we all know [deep down] is 1

The electrician/forum member just takes hold of the lamp/bulb and holds it in close proximty to the fitting. the entire job/worksite then revolves around him.....

.................. :coat