You know how sometimes when you really decide to clean your house well,

[struggle4progress]

you'll notice that a lightbulb in a hard-to-reach place has been there so long that it's got a layer of dust stuck all over it, so you carefully take it out and wipe it off and you see it's got little clear bumps on the glass because the previous homeowner had wood glue or caulk or something on his hands when he screwed it in, so you get some rubbing alcohol and carefully clean all that gunk off the bulb for ten or fifteen minutes, and then you dry the bulb carefully and you let it sit out for an hour or more to make sure that the bulb is really really dry because, although you used to think it was cool to explode lightbulbs with water when you were ten you're not ten anymore and nowadays you just don't think exploding lightbulbs is terribly cool, and finally you are sure it's dry and you go to test it in a desk fixture before you go climb up to replace it where it was, and you screw it into the desk fixture and turn it on and there's a beautiful bright green flash as the bulb burns out, so you sadly unscrew it and drop it in the trash and realize you've spent, like, thirty minutes of your all-too-short life trying to save a lightbulb that ungratefully died as soon as you were done and in the back of your mind you remember the old slogan If it ain't borked, then please do not fix it :(

[Kali]

1. oh, HELL yes!

:rofl:


:patriot:

[seabeyond]

2. i LOVE your story. that is excellent. nt

[suninvited]

3. I wonder how long it would have lasted

if you had left it alone?

[struggle4progress]

9. Longer than it done with me a-messin with it, I'm purdy shore

[one_voice]

4. You can explode light bulbs with water?

I've never tried that. I had three brothers, I can't believe they never did that. I thought they'd done everything. Now I want to try it. :-)

[struggle4progress]

5. I think I'll suppress the details of my various idiotic youthful experiments

which generally produced results like flying shards of lightbulb glass, on the grounds that most people can come up with all kinds of really stupid ideas all by themselves and so do not need any inspiration from me

[one_voice]

6. I was kidding...

I wouldn't try that. I spent too much time cleaning up after my brothers idiotic experiments. Which usually involved blood. Thank God my kids were less experimental. :-)

[struggle4progress]

7. I know

:)

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. "most people can come up with all kinds of really stupid ideas all by themselves..."

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I do my BEST every day to live up to those high expectations.
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I think I do pretty well, too.
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[struggle4progress]

16. You get good at what you practice. By the time I was out of high school,

I'd had LOTS of practice coming up with stupid ideas

[snooper2]

20. something even more cool, stick a bulb in a glass with water

and throw it in the microwave for a minute...

Gives a great show :)

[SwampG8r]

22. put a cd in a microwave

thats a good one too and you get a mini fireworks show

[kayakjohnny]

8. Another perfect username.

:hi:

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Oh, mine never blows out until I have replaced it in that hard

to reach place. That is my luck.

[kimi]

11. You got me at the first line

You clean your house well??

May I hire you?

[RandomThoughts]

12. You may not know it, but you are referancing a verse.

If your post was a reply to a few of my previous post, it would form a conversation.


Although it has some errors in interps that have changed its meaning.

Basically it says someone is sent to their parents house, where they are set clean, then rambles on about some other stuff, and then some bad state.

The thing about that is it takes a form that happens sometimes, and then puts everything into that form.

it is common for when a person gets kicked around for unconditional love to help them, but that verse speaks about when the kicking came from inside the person themselves.


There are times when free will choices cause a person to be kicked around, and the unconditional love of 'parents' can help them not clean themselves, but the entire environment around them, till it is set right.

As far as the condition being worse then the start, or the 7 comment, you miss the point, in the case where the wrong was done to the person, and not from the person, the thing that gets cleaned and is worse then they started is outside the person, and is the people that did them harm. You first have to know if it was their fault, or something done to them. Hence why I thought on that topic for a couple years.


There is a group that treats people bad, then turns around and says they are cursed, when it was free will actions of those very people that did the things that caused hardship, not some fault of the person treated wrong.

So that verse is mostly used wrong, since people forget the beginning of it, if a person did not have the conditions in the start of that verse to begin with, that verse can not be applied to them.

But it is used by those that hurt people many times. And in those cases, it is them that get their clocks cleaned.


And I am still due financing, so they will pay.

[kimi]

17. No . . . .

Honestly, I was just asking a simple, kind of off-the-wall question.

My post was NOT a reply to anything, really. Just a silly answer. Sorry. :shrug:

I have no idea what you're referring to. I'm sorry. Didn't mean to offend.

[struggle4progress]

13. I actually never get very much past DECIDING to clean my house well. Then

something like this happens, and I'm all Well, why the eff am I bothering?

[texanwitch]

15. I have a light bulb that was in the attic where I live now since 1930, still works.

Never cleaned it.


The bulb is bigger than our bulbs of today, I am now afraid to clean it.

[Skittles]

18. I've never done anything that stupid

scheduling s4p for ass-kicking :D

[struggle4progress]

24. Feh! The only reason you wouldn't never have did no such a stupid thing

is cuz that you knows I would of sended my friend Skittles to kick your butt if you had did it

[Phentex]

19. This would be on the Greatest Page if it could be...

instant classic


:headbang:

[EOTE]

21. It seems like the older the bulb, the longer it lasts.

Older bulbs used to have very thick filaments. This was a double edged sword as they were very inefficient as they'd often produce more heat than light, but they would also last a very long time. In the interests of efficiency, bulb filaments have gotten thinner and thinner, but life has suffered quite a bit in the process. I was watching a show on the Travel Channel, I believe, that had a firehouse with a bulb that has been lighted for close to 100 years and it's never been turned off.

[Gormy Cuss]

23. This is the funniest story that I've read here in weeks.

I absolutely can relate to it.
:dunce:

[tigereye]

25. aha!

:rofl: that was very funny. Sorry. :D

[Moondog]

26. You lost me when

you said "you really decide to clean your house well". This is when I contract with one of those "gangs of maids" outfits - you pay them too much money, and four or five of these folks (they always seem to be ladies - why is that, anyway?) show up and blitz-clean your place, and are gone in four or five hours. It costs way more than it ought to, but it eliminates the "You" part of the "you decide to clean your house well".

We all have our skills. I am not good at cleaning, and I really don't like doing it. But I am pretty good at writing checks and forking over cash. Not that I like that either, but I like it better than mucking out my own cave.

Anyway, the point is that I never get as far in your hypothetical scenario as the point where I do the cleaning ....

Yeah, I know, too much information. All the same ....