How many millennials does it take to change a light bulb?

[Binkie The Clown]

Apparently, 6 out of 10 millennials don't even know how.

[Historic NY]

1. It is scary......

basic life skills. They got cell phones just ask Google how!!!

[world wide wally]

3. But do they know the number for 9-1-1 ?

[bdtrppr6]

2. There has always been total

dumbasses amongst us. Now it gets chased and spread as news on some kind of media channel. If kids are totally stupid, I'm looking at the parents first of all.

My 10 year old knows how to change the oil in our car. Is shared knowledge a thing of the past? I'm trying to make my kid's life a little easier by passing along some basic fucking brains. Can't change a light bulb? Give me a fucking break.

[struggle4progress]

4. Whoa, dude! That is, like, dumb! I'm sure I knew how to do that back in my hippie days, except,

y'know, we didn't want to support the electric company because it was run by plastic establishment people over the age of thirty, and also we had to solve the more immediate problem of the munchies

Nowadays, of course, one of the five or six hundred apps somewhere on my smartphone will do that, if only I can remember which one

[lapucelle]

5. The mind reels...N/T

[tblue37]

6. Maybe it's not that they don't know how, but that they are simply accustomed to

someone else always taking care of buying the bulbs & putting them in.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. And With CFL's and LED's. . .

. . . the bulbs might last 5 or 6 years and it hasn't come up yet.

[OriginalGeek]

8. I've been replacing all our bulbs with LED bulbs

so far so good - Haven't had to replace one yet whereas I was replacing a bulb or three a month before. So whenever an old bulb goes, LED goes back in.

A couple I've replaced with smart LED bulbs. I looooooove turning the lights out with my phone lol.

oh, yeah, my daughter is a millennial and makes me change her bulbs.

[Skittles]

9. am I the only old f*** who likes millenials?

I genuinely enjoy talking to them and getting their outlook on stuff! D

[Aristus]

10. No. I do, too. I think young people today are wonderful.

Sure, there are some disengaged kids among them. Every generation has them.

But I love the general optimism of the millenials I have met; it's especially uplifiting considering the likelihood that the 'each American generation has it better than the preceding one' paradigm is over.

They seem very progressive, very open. They don't seem to have the hang-ups and prejudices of the older generations.

[Skittles]

13. you nail it, Aristus

I learn from them (OMG it's like they were born with computer chips in their heads), and I consider it a BIG compliment when they ask ME for an opinion or advice

[Boomerproud]

15. The millenials I'm around are extremely conservative and self-absorbed.

They hate Boomers.

[hunter]

11. This is the 21st century. If you are still replacing light bulbs you're not doing it right.

High quality LEDs are going to last longer than compact fluorescents, and some of those have lasted a very long time.

We've still got some high quality compact fluorescents I installed in the 'nineties.

The cheap compact fluorescents of that era were horrible. Bad color, took forever to warm up, dimmed over time, or failed in a year or two. (If I put on my tinfoil hat, I think the coal companies created them so people would switch back to energy wasting-incandescents.)

All our lighting is either compact fluorescent or LED. I don't miss the annoyance of incandescent light bulbs burning out with a flash and a pop when I turn them on, or conventional fluorescents flickering, especially when the fixture is on the ceiling.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Oh please. You can't get to ceiling fixtures without a ladder

and many people don't have even a step ladder. I call maintenance to change the fluorescent light in my kitchen because it's too high and I'm not going to spend $60 on a full size ladder to change a bulb once a year.

[Binkie The Clown]

14. I own my own home and don't have the luxury of "calling maintenance", and wouldn't call if I did.

I also do my own plumbing and electrical repairs. Two months ago I replaced the ballast in my florescent ceiling fixture in the kitchen. My dad taught me how to rewire a table lamp when I was 6 years old, and when I was 10 we built a two-tube shortwave radio from scratch. I've always repaired my own TVs radios, and computers. In high school I took an auto shop elective and have never had to pay a car repairman since, and that includes replacing U-joints, engine bearings and piston rings.

I helped my dad remove walls and install doors when my parents remodeled their house. When I bought my own house the only stairs to the daylight basement were outside, so I cut a hole in the floor of the laundry room, moved the laundry facilities (including plumbing and electrical) downstairs, and built an indoor staircase. I've re-tiled bathroom and kitchen floors, replaced carpets, put in a new kitchen sink and faucets, dug up and replaced the sewer pipe to my septic tank, re-wired my water pump, etc. etc. etc.

I cut my own hair and bake my own bread. Last week my sister paid a fortune to have the shrubs in her yard pruned, while I pruned the maple tree and all the shrubs in my own yard in one day. If I can do that at age 72 I don't see why some kid can't be bothered to change a light bulb. I look at my own grown grandkids and their significant others and I see young, able-bodied people who are helpless because they lack the basic skills of daily living.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, one of the reasons why so many people were able to survive is that they knew how to feed themselves and provide for themselves. Kids today know nothing about feeding themselves beyond how to drive to McDonald's, and where the frozen dinners are in the Safeway.

If our own economy collapses and we enter another "great depression" a lot of people are going to starve to death for lack of any useful survival skills.