LONDON — Are you handy enough that if a lightbulb went out in your home you’d be able to change it? Believe it or not, one in five people aren’t so skilled. In fact, a new survey of people in the United Kingdom finds not only do about 20 percent of people not know how to change a bulb — the same number aren’t sure how to boil an egg, either.
The British insurance company Aviva recently released their annual Home Report which detailed, among numerous findings about how people do work around the house, relatively common tasks that people encounter. The company surveyed 2004 people across the UK in February and March about their habits and roles at home.
In addition to just one in five not being able to change a lightbulb or boil an egg, the survey found that nearly a third of the participants couldn’t cook any meal on the fly. And if someone were to spill a portion of their meal on their clothes or on the floor, only 59 percent would know how to get rid of the resulting stain.
Only 37 percent could change a flat tire.
The findings were even surprising to the folks behind the study.
“As a nation we tend to take pride in our ability to do things ourselves in and around the home, so it’s a surprise to see there could be a skills gap in places,” says Aviva Propositions Director Adam Beckett in a press release. “That said, we also know that people lead busy lives, so while we enjoy doing things ourselves, we also appreciate the opportunity to leave things to a professional from time to time, particularly with some of the more challenging jobs.”
Interestingly, while 50 percent of those surveyed said they learned how to do a home task on their by trial and error, plenty of people are turning to the internet for help, especially millennials. The study found four in 10 people aged 25 and under prefer learning do-it-yourself chores online. That’s more than twice the number in the age group who turn to an actual book for help.
Here’s a look at the polled tasks and the number of people who indicated they could successfully complete them:
| Â Task | Percentage who feel confident doing this task |
| Boil an egg | 81% |
| Change a light bulb | 79% |
| Cook a complete meal without using a recipe | 69% |
| Read a map | 66% |
| Sew on a button | 65% |
| Unblock a sink | 62% |
| Remove a stain from a carpet or clothing | 59% |
| Change a baby’s nappy | 57% |
| Wire a plug | 57% |
| ‘Bleed’ a radiator | 53% |
| Check oil levels in a car | 53% |
| Put up a shelf | 47% |
| Put up wallpaper | 39% |
| Change a flat tire | 37% |
| Change a washer on a tap | 30% |
| Fit tiles | 22% |
Click here to read the entire report, which broke down the findings by age groups and revealed many other interesting results.
I bet every one of those incompetents knows how to apply for govt assistance.
Nah they use their puppy dog eyes to garner sympathy so some one with half a brain will do it for them.
No, they dont, but they will be walked by the hand all the way through that process until they know every way to get more.
liberals
LEFTists … why name them with a word based on liberty when they do not support liberty.
Lets say someone was very ‘liberal’ when it came to spending other people’s money.
Politically correct leftist indoctrination is all schools/colleges are good for any more.
Yes. This is EXACTLY where globalist socialists want the average person; ignorant and cowed. Unwilling and unable to complete any task outside their little realm of indoctrinated, controlled “expertise”. The problem is that this makes western society an extremely brittle construct. If we go off the rails for any reason, a much larger percentage of people will die because of a lack of basic skills and mental toughness.
Yepper ! Ya dont educate slaves !
Well, I bet American women can out twerk a British woman!
More like 4 out of 5.
The problem is that it’s young adults who don’t know how to do anything. They weren’t educated. They were indoctrinated in liberal ideas.
Most of the skills listed are those that actually end up taught by mothers and fathers to their children. However, in the UK of modernity, far too many children actually end up raising them selves under the inept guidance of governance. The family is the most basic unit of both societies and economies by human nature. Leftist progressive liberals unknowingly trample all over families in the culture and the Jewish and Christian religions dominant in western cultures. The results manifest themselves by having social structure destroyed by wholly dependent, ignorant, selfish, narcissistic, egotistical citizens that tend to be violent, immoral, and irresponsible.
Unknowingly? Really, really?
All true except the “unknowingly” Liberal mayhem is purposeful and evil. BTW, it’s the same way here in some parts of the USA.
Yes. The most essential component/tenet of Liberalism/Socialism is to deny personal freedom/independence.
Absolutely correct. Nothing at all “unknowing” about it – it’s at work 24/7, and it’s a deliberate and intentional agenda, an agenda to control every aspect of peoples’ lives and destroy critical thinking. That’s the meat and potatoes of political correctness.
My guess is that the one in four who can’t change a lightbulb are either Obama or Labour supporters.
Q: How do you change a lightbulb in public housing?
A: Call your MP.
How many snowflakes does it take to change light bulb ? One to hold the bulb and 10 to turn the ladder.
Q. How many Venezuelans does it take to change a light bulb?
A. What difference at this point does it make? The power is still out due to
lack ofbad government planning!How many Venezuelans does it take to change a bulb? None. First there are no bulbs to change, second there are no bulbs to replace them with, third there is no electricity!
How many? One to steal the bulb from the evil company that won’t give all people access to quality, affordable lighting; one to install the new bulb; one to make a propaganda video of the triumphant proletariat; and one to decry Capitalism for the light going out (when the nationalized electric company messes up the grid).
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They nationalize every successful business, thinking they’ll have money rolling in. Unfortunately, none of them understands how to run a business, so said money/revenue dries up. All they do is redistribute wealth, not create it.
Actually, they totally destroy it.
Just one, to pull the trigger on Maduro.
The power is out there because of socialism. Eventually in the end this is what happens with communism..
You end up starving in the dark with nothing.
Communism begins with a gun in your face, Socialism ends with a gun in your face. Just look at what is happening in Venezuela.
Just what if Venezuela had a Second Amendment as we do ????
Totalitarians don’t honor Constitutional commitments, so it wouldn’t make a difference if Venezuelans had the right to bear arms.
yes…..all traces back to the moment thy discovered that other people’s money had dried up.
Quoting Margaret Thatcher are you ? Jolly good on you sport.
Look at the bright side. Socialism is the foremost weight-loss diet ever devised.
The problem is, if you disagree with them, your weight goes down to zero…
See! Bad government ….planning.
bernie sanders wants to bring venezuelan management techniques to America.
of course, he never had a full time job unti he was 40
Did you know that before 40 Bernie wrote porn books, the cheezy paperback kind ?
Ugh
So? everyone has at least one redeeming virtue.
If you call being mayor of Burlington VT a real job.
Exactly
Only the weirdly deranged state of Vermont could have elected that doddering old lip-bibbling ninny. The people of that state are a national embarrassment and should be forcibly expelled from the union without delay.
Q. How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Zero. The Microsoft CEO just declares darkness the new industry standard.
As a 25 year computing professional – this made me laugh so hard I snorted. So true.
Heard that before. Thanks for repeating it. So true, so true.
just declares it earth day
Change a light bulb? Nonsense! That’s a HARDWARE problem, you snowflake!
Forgot it takes two more to google ladder and light bulb.
I crapped on that flag
You’re short a few people .. like who is going to call the bulb racist for not changing itself, and who is going to call the government for assistance?
….who is going to call the bulb racist for producing only white light.
I don’t like backlights because they’re not very bright. Is that rayciss?
dats rayciss!
Dat be rayciss, fo’ shu!!!
dats raycissisms – maxine waters
white light matters
One of the stars of Nicolas Cage’s movie “Gone In Sixty Seconds” was the blacklight they used to read the shopping list….!
I thought you were going to say one to perceive it as a micro-aggression and 9 to help him get to a safe space.
Ha Ha Ha , a brilliant post !!!!
Only takes one woman to change a light bulb. She just holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.
…A woman liberal. Conservative women are family oriented. It only takes one of them too, because they know the world does not revolve around them, so they change it themselves.
They say that’s how Bill Gates changes a light bulb!
I thought the answer was 2 – 1 snowflake to cry that the lightbulb is destroying the evironment and 1 NON snowflake to actually change the light bulb????
1 – the snowflake holds the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around him/her!
1 – the snowflake holds the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around him/her!
….in the dark while on a Microsoft Windows computer….!
In related news….
Q. How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Zero…because the Microsoft CEO just declared Darkness ™ the new industry standard.
So they will be sitting there a really loooong time!
I thought the name of the company is Microsucks
No, only two. One to hold the light bulb, and one to call in a conservative who knows how to do it.
Oh, wait a minute, it is three: One more, to organize a protest march against the conservative and his ilk for not anticipating the problem and changing the light bulb in advance.
But it doesn’t end there, you also need a whole support network and counseling group for the person who had to make that phone call. Then you also need a ghost writer to help write an account of their horrible ordeal and a PR firm to set up a speaking tour regarding the responsibilities of making a phone call. It goes on from there. It takes a tribe, or a village, or a town or something, you know.
How do I know I live in a conservative city?
I noticed that there are city light bulb changers who go out on a regular schedule and change streetlight light bulbs….
Light bulbs that have not gone out yet….
Like clockwork.
This survey is amazing.
This is what years of liberal control of the Education system gets us all.
They can’t change the light bulb, only remove the old one because they can only turn the new one to the left…
Best one yet!
+ 1,000,000
Q. How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?
A. CHANGE IT??? They don’t know HOW! Now if you want someone to scr*w a light bulb….
Dependent on the state from diapers to Depends. These people are slaves and are too ignorant to recognize that fact.
We had this same picture pinned up at work Paul in NH
Must be a great place to work. My place, some bonehead “parental blocked” all of the conservative tv news channels in our employee break area. Then when I turned the volume down on those stupid daytime tv shows, they said don’t be childish, leave the volume alone… go figure!
They cant change a light bulb…
I bet every damn one of them vote labour party or would vote Democrat.
Then turn around and Demand there be a department of lightbulbs/boiling eggs
At tax payer expense .
Here in the US it’s been shown that one in three Obama supporters can’t change a light bulb and and an average of one in nine electrocuted themselves while trying.
Not true! If it were true, Obmanation would never have been reelected.
Unfortunately.
that is why they outlawed the iridescent light bulbs
Incandescent 100-watt light bulbs. But you can still buy them. They are still manufactured for markets outside the US. Get online, and you can order all you want, even if you’re in the US. The only thing is, the jackets holding them will be printed in Spansih or French. But they still cast light, no matter what the language. Unlike leftists.
How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?
That’s an excellent question. Do you think that the lightbulb wants to change? Before we start assigning emotions and desires to others (including inanimate, or differently animate objects) can we agree that we might want to talk to those others, including laying some agreed upon groundwork, some level of comfort and appropriate rules and feeling s of inclusion and equality, before we even consider suggesting change? And just as importantly, why is it the lightbulb automatically burdened with change? Shouldn’t we ask ourselves if perhaps WE should change?
I cant change the lightbulb because its not in my job description
“Today President Trump keeps his campaign promise….”
James P. Hoffa, President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Q:How many people does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: two, but how they got in it I don’t know.
If asked if they can have sex or collect a welfare check it would be 100%
I would agree with everything you said here except the word ‘unknowingly’. Although your average lib / progressive may not be fully cognizant of these results of left leaning policy, it most certainly is part of the plan. Only the ignorant would vote this crap in so keeping people ignorant is among their objectives. They play dumb about the results so you know there is a lot of dishonesty going on there.
Too late – the agenda is inculcated in academia and a part of everything they think and do. Young impressionable minds become shaped by it and emerge from the institutions full-fledged liberrhoids infused with a righteous political correctness affliction they don’t even realize they have. It’s a mental disease that permeates our society.
Unfortunately you are correct. It still does not mean a percentage of them don’t figure out the truth. And it is possible to reach some of them.
“The results manifest themselves by having social structure destroyed by wholly dependent, ignorant, selfish, narcissistic, egotistical citizens that tend to be violent, immoral, and irresponsible.”
AND those are just Some of their Better ATTRIBUTES!
Regards.
mr : Yes ! The true truth has been posted … Thank You !
…none of my kids got to drive until they had taken the jack and lug wrench, and successfully rotated the tires on the car or truck they wanted to drive…I still had to bail all of them out of every conceivable foible a kid can do with a car, but it seems that until they screw up really badly all by themselves do they bother to learn the lesson…
Ah, all true enough, but then “facebook” shows up in their lives, and provides all these hapless and helpless people the self-confidence they need to persevere, and a side benefit is all the “friends” who prop them up and offer support and validation – “friends” they’ll never even know. It’s a wonderful world we live in these days. đŸ˜‰
…but how many can come over and help out…
replacing a light bulb is not really a skill that requires teaching.
…you might just be surprised about that…there are a lot of really dumb very inept people out there…I know, because I’ve made a lot of money doing their simple chores that require only common sense and a bit of observation and a few basic tools…
“Unknowingly trample”? They know exactly what they’re doing, and why.
Everybody knows that.
LEFTIST ideas …. they even got you to call them “liberals” when they don’t support liberty.
Leftist don’t even know what liberal or for that matter fascist even means.
Their parents didn’t teach them not to use big words in public before they understand them. It’s all participation trophy protests.
Complete drivel pressed by a media that is either complicit or too stupid to know what the big words mean as well.
They like to make up words, terms, and slogans to bolster their claims. Would you rather be near a “gay” person or a sexual pervert? Oops I guess I’m a homophobe.
That made me chuckle! They’re not called “euphemisms” for nothing!
Also applies to “red and blue” states.
The more accurate name is leftist regressive.
“The more accurate name is leftist regressive.”
I rather enjoy the term PINKOpRogCOMMIES.
Regards.
Words evolve and new vocabulary is generated. Its all in ‘1984’? When people recognize progressive as a negative thing it changes to liberal. Thats essentially what ‘political correctness’ is all about. Have we not learnt a bunch of new vocabulary even within the last 10 years? ‘Micro aggression’, ‘safe space’, ‘gender’ all either new phrases or re-defined recently.
I completely agree.
Almost as good as the Austrians
: They convinced the world that Mozart was Austrian and that Hitler in fact was German.
The same young that had they have to fight a war for America’s survival would surrender to a fire cracker going off.
But they’d be glad to put on a black outfit and a face mask and harass people who are not fighting back.
After they duly reported said firecracker thrower to the EPA for violating air pollution standards…and littering.
Only 1% of the population serves in the armed forces. They are the true patriots.
They are cannon fodder for the bankers
Maybe you should be a real man Brad and join up. I did my 28 years and never considered myself “Cannon Fodder” Why because I VOLUNTEERED and knew what I was getting myself into. Maybe not, sit at home play Xbox 1 and complain while the real men and women serve. We all know you liberals are girly men.
Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
He wrote the book, War Is A Racket. He explains that all wars are banker’s wars.
Maybe next time you won’t be so ignorant spouting your machismo and attack someone more knowledgeable than you.
And BTW I think liberals are generally dumb people and l am a independent conservative.
Anyone who believes that our military is “cannon fodder for the bankers” is not “more knowledgeable” than anyone. The fact that you read a single book that you choose to believe as gospel, does not make you knowledgeable; it just means you are easy to influence.
Educated to change a light bulb? That is more than a lack of curiosity, that is ignorance.
You would be shocked the number of morons that call electricians to remove a broken bulb in a fixture. I charge $140.00 for a service call and one hour minimum labor .
You are hardly a “Rev.” You are a user. What do you think that someone in a wheelchair is supposed to do with a light fixture they cannot reach, since ladders are not optional.
Wow, you are a corker!
If no critical thinking is ever taught, if no challenge is ever presented, they cant figure it out.
You forget Liberals don’t need to do these menial tasks. We hire conservatives to do the shit jobs.
As long as I’m getting paid appropriately, I will be happy to take their money.
SirDiesAlot, you forget though, they will want to pay you with your own money that they taxed/stole from you.
While I would agree that some taxed money, maybe even most is stolen and you absolutely have a point, certainly some of it pays for the government services I do in fact use. But my main point is that I will work for an agreed price within the economy that presents itself to me. I’m not going to worry about what someone else is making or what they have kept from me. The equation revolves around what I can make and what I can live comfortably with. I believe in a good days work for a good days pay. You have to do something to justify your existence.
All this envy crap is the illusion of the left. It is intended to foment resentment and unrest. I don’t want anything for nothing, I will work my way through weather it is a barter system or one with money. So long as I am able, I will work. Its the right thing to do.
I hope you don’t subscribe to the idea that ones efforts do not create value that was not previously there. Surely peoples industriousness expands the metaphorical ‘pie’ and therefore the size of the ‘pie’ is limited only by the individual’s desire to make themselves more ‘pie’.
That is also why liberals believe people are too stupid to be allowed to make their own decisions about just about anything, and that is why they want the government to control everything from banking to retirement, health care, etc..
… to schools…
and they’re relying for an app for that.
GRRRr… DEM LIBRULS!!
????
I can’t understand how parents can trust their Children to unionized teachers and government schools.
They aren’t talking about screw in type lightbulbs. They are talking about florescent tubes.
Either way, they’re stupid.
That distinction does not, in any conceivable way, make their utter inability to perform a simple task any less pathetic. đŸ™‚
Oh Yeah, the picture in the article shows “screw-in” types of light blubs – no mention of fluorescents. However, an “engineering degree” is not [usually] required to change light blubs. .
LEDs are most efficient and no mercury.
I think fluorescent tubes are easier.
The Brits are so stupid. They’ve lost,on average, 12 IQ points in the last 90 years, along with Canada and Australia.
Mass third world immigration will do that.
That and a politicized, dumbed-down education, utter vilification of anything to do with God, and a mass media dishing out nothing but stories about public sex, debauchery, electronic gadgetry and a tsunami of vile gossip about vile people.
Yep
That means us Americans lost even more.
Americans have increased IQ’s , especially so if you get rid of all the illegal from Central and South America, and Eurotrash
The Queen Stole their minds !
labor supporters dont need to know how to do anything since the government will do it all for them
This is funny and sad at the same time, funny because that many people are so deficient in basic life skills and sad because it is actually representative of the populations of most modern countries, several years ago they did a similar survey in the US and it was shocking how many couldn’t hem a skirt or cook a roast. If everything collapses how are these people going to survive when there is no grocery store or power, these will be the first ones to go. I shutter to think what would happen if they were told to kill and prepare their own food, do mechanical work on their own vehicle, or cut down a tree for fire wood, watching it would be comical but probably also deadly.
yes it is sad and the odds are that there will be some collapse of some kind and the people that will make it are the ones that live in the sticks and do what you said every day.
Hank Williams Jr sang “Country Folks Will Survive” and he was right.
People are inherently stupid until they’re educated.
Which means that in this day and age, with education at the nadir the Leftwingnuts have achieved, the majority of people, specially the young left to the tender mercies of government and Liberal Universities, will be guaranteed to be perpetually stupid; and therefore, malleable to the whims of demagogues.
They are educated beyond their intellect.
Inbreeding is family
You can’t fix stupid, even with an education.
Ignorance you can fix; stupid is forever.
Stupid- given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner.
The ‘stupid’ person can be educated by circumstances, observation, experiences or the educational system.
So people are inherently stupid but life itself will educate them if they want to learn..
Not correct – they are inherently IGNORANT until they are educated. If they are stupid, they are incapable of learning and education is wasted..
Stupid- given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner.
The ‘stupid’ person can be educated by circumstances, observation, experiences or the educational system.
So a people are inherently stupid but life itself will educate them if they want to learn.
Stupid- given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner.
Unionized teachers and government schools indoctrinate not educate.
Easy stuff. Bunch of noobs.
So we now know how we beat their butts. Twice.
The British insurance company Aviva recently released their annual Home Report which detailed, among numerous findings about how people do work around the house, relatively common tasks that people encounter. The company surveyed 2004 people across the UK in February and March about their habits and roles at home.
But do they know how to boil a lightbulb?
Very clever Loki.
I can swap out an egg in the egg tray, too.