Most millennials don’t know how to change a light bulb, a survey has revealed.
A shocking 84% of people aged 18 to 24 said they were incapable of completing the relatively simple task.
In addition, 74% said they didn’t have the confidence to assemble a piece of flat pack furniture.
They said they would rather pay someone else to do it in case they “muck it up”.
The poll was carried out by website Airtasker, which provides a service for those seeking to outsource everyday tasks.
It also found that 82% of young people don’t feel confident enough to clean their car.
Almost eight out of ten (79%) said they would not try to paint a shed and three-quarters said they didn’t know how to defrost a freezer.
Meanwhile, 73% said they couldn’t fix a curtain rail, while two-thirds said they couldn’t put up shelves.
Those behind the poll found that young people lack basic DIY skills because they live with their parents for longer than previous generations.
No one can change a light bulb. They’re made that way. What are you supposed to change it into? A TV remote.
No…no…. best to leave mother nature alone.
Where do they find the people they polled?
Do they ask mom to have them come up from the basement to talk to them?
“well … there is that ‘turning the ladder’ in the proper direction thing”
~ AOC
Just imagine asking them how to get to Carngie hall….
Every once in a while these pathetic sort of people surprise me when I thought I’d heard it all.
Don’t know how to change a light bulb? When my son was nine he assembled an etagere straight from the box. At some point when he was in elementary school, I accidentally threw the keys on the roof and he got them down. He has defrosted a freezer multiple times, helped me put up curtains, clean out and re-organized our storage and helped me paint furniture, dealt with the newfangled TV antennae and the ridiculous amount of wires, studied YouTube videos for hours at a time to get better at the Rubiks Cube algorithm, and recently he started a summer job that had him working some hellacious hours in the last week of school. It was hard, but he made it.
Much of this I didn’t teach him; he figured it out or looked it up. (OK, so he still hasn’t noticed the dirty laundry I refuse to do, even though he steps over it to get to his room, but hey, we all have our limitations.)
And yet these privileged morons can’t changed a bleeding light bulb. Really that actually makes me angry.
…AOC can TOO change a light bulb, @ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!
…she just holds onto it, and waits for the world to revolve around her…
lazy? They’ve just been coddled. What else do you expect from so many fatherless families?
Wait until they feel my boot up their ass.
So it’s not just my feelings.
I actually am surrounded my clueless morons.
oh god…
“84% of millennials say they can’t change a light bulb”
Which explains why they can’t see the light.
So, can we conclude that Gen-X’ers were worse than normal parents? Apparently, on average, they did a lousy job preparing their kids and failed to launch them on schedule.
Imagine what kind of parents these 18-24 year-old’s are going to make.
The human population is bifurcating. Zoological history suggests the dumb branch will eventually eliminate itself.
This is why the future belongs to the Chi Comms.
…let’s not gloss over this “…, I accidentally threw the keys on the roof…” thing, @Red Hand of Boo… since we’re discussing millenial behavior, we would be remiss to skip over those that RAISED the millenials, and THIS sounds like some interesting backstory indeed…
@Supernightshade, no, not really. My son said, “Toss” (the keys), and I did but in a total dork way because I had a load of Costco stuff in one arm. So they went up in the air but I’d done it with too much force and they went to the roof.
In this case, can’t means won’t.
Imagine when we need them as soldiers when the volunteer military needs reserves? The future is the chi comms’, and all its tyranny. Our future is trannys.
Change only comes from within. First, the light bulb must WANT to change.
Another reason to consider a career in the skilled trades. These inept dweebs of today are helpless when they put their computers aside.
They probably cross thread their toothpaste tubes they’re so helpless.
“AVERAGE millennial,” eh…
Well, FIRST you gotta check, and make sure the SOCKET is good. Stick your tongue where the bulb goes, to test it. 😉
Show me a kid who who can’t do very basic mechanical
chores and I’ll show you a kid who has an asshole dad.
Thus the interest in useless liberal arts degrees.
Snowflake: “Alexa, how do you change a light bulb?”
Alexa: “You are kidding me, right?”
Actually with LED light bulbs there is little reason to change them anymore.
But, yeah… it starts with the parents and in many cases it starts with hobbies.
Make a train layout and wire it… with Dad.
Make a few airplanes and trim them out… with Dad.
Work on a car… with Dad.
Fix and outboard engine… with Dad
Learn to be creative with Mom & Dad.
Children are a reflection of their parents
What does this tell us of the parents?
Millennials would have grown up with CFL bulbs, which weren’t great, but didn’t need to be changed as often as incandescent bulbs. Now with LED bulbs the children that are growing up now will likely have years of their life where they never see an adult change a lightbulb. A lot of lamps have the bulbs built in, so there’s a chance that in the future adults will change out the whole lamp and not know a lightbulb used to be a field replaceable unit. Even some light ceiling fixtures come with integrated, non-replaceable LED bulbs in them. None of this makes these people stupid any more than someone who only works on modern cars wouldn’t know right away how to replace a carburetor. Or how I wouldn’t know how to safely manintain a wood fireplace or care for carriage horses. But my wiser older relatives don’t know how to set up a home automation system while I do. Younger people will know how to do things we will never know. No reason to look down on them.
Well, first off they polled people who come to a website that outsources menial tasks. So there’s the polling population that gave responses.
Skewed much?
Necessity is the mother of invention, and I would add the mother of desperation when you can’t find someone to do it for you. But, yeah, I could see a bunch of lazy kids sitting in the dark — and cursing it — rather than consulting YouTube.
I can’t relate to their condition, though, since I was the kid who “fixed” all kinds of things: a movie projector, vacuum cleaners, a toaster, etc. Some people are just natural tinkerers. 🙂
For some reason I think this poll was trolled.
Red Hand of Boo, glad you explained the “…, I accidentally threw the keys on the roof…” thing! haha
“Imagine when we need them as soldiers when the volunteer military needs reserves?”
The term ‘meat shields’ comes to mind. Always a way to make them useful if you put your mind to it.
@Boo
That kid is a self starter. Would be nice if more were like that.
Is it a boy lightbulb or a girl lightbulb?
Which way does it want to change?
This problem will take care of itself.
Most millenials, and many other Americans, have no idea where their food really comes from.
I knew PhDs who had no clue where eggs came from
O.K. Google
MAY 27, 2019 AT 8:26 AM
“Snowflake: “Alexa, how do you change a light bulb?”
Alexa: “You are kidding me, right?””
…I actually ASKED Alexa, and it came back with “Sorry, I don’t know that one”,
…and that’s why the KIDS don’t know it, EITHER, if it isn’t easily searchable on teh Interwebs, it’s like it never existed…
Supernightshade — You have one of those spy thingies in your house?! Even when I’m working at clients’ homes, I unplug it.
ANON
Some of my kin – Pile i Higher + Deeper. But since “they aren’t Americans “(GWB) they worked the fields , as I did, to get th $ to go to college. I have no doubt they all know not only when’re eggs originate, but how to hang a bird after killing (to drain) how to pluck, ….
They “may not be American” but they know how to survive – inspire of their education!
For some reason I reminded of the power out, stuck on the escalator joke.
AbigailAdams
MAY 27, 2019 AT 12:10 PM
“Supernightshade — You have one of those spy thingies in your house?! Even when I’m working at clients’ homes, I unplug it.”
…I have a Fire tablet I use to read Kindle books. Other than that, it’s just a toy. I ask it if it’s spying on a regular basis, though, and it says “No”, and I’m SURE nothing made by leftist would LIE…/s
If you ask Google Assistant how to change a lightbulb it gives you a page with step by step instructions. Millennials only have to ask Google, they’re very good at finding instruction videos on YouTube.