LOL. 90% of college grads couldn't light a lightbulb with a battery & wire. - GoFuckYourself.com

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:06 PM

Some TV show I was watching called "Minds of Our Own".

They interviewed a bunch college graduates, and asked them if they could light a lightbulb using a battery & 1 wire.

50% said yes, 50% said no.

But when they handed them the actual battery, wire & lightbulb, almost all of them were unable to do it.

USA is so fucked

Sly · 01-03-2005, 05:08 PM

Yeh, I heard 99% of college grads can't start a fire with sticks. Jesus... what stupid people!

Manowar · 01-03-2005, 05:08 PM

it was on tv, it MUST be true!

xclusive · 01-03-2005, 05:09 PM

Yeah but most americans just hire people from other countries to do stuff like that for us...

ULVideo · 01-03-2005, 05:09 PM

Don't you need 2 wires and a battery?

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Manowar

it was on tv, it MUST be true!

Your joke is not appropriate in relation to TV.

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ULVideo

Don't you need 2 wires and a battery?

Are you shitting me ?

Manowar - there's your answer

mikeyddddd · 01-03-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Sly

Yeh, I heard 99% of college grads can't start a fire with sticks. Jesus... what stupid people!

That, sir, is called an educated idiot.

Manowar · 01-03-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi

Are you shitting me ?

Manowar - there's your answer

Point taken man.

I wonder what % of GFY could do it

flashfire · 01-03-2005, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Manowar

it was on tv, it MUST be true!

and now its on the internet, thats a double wammy of truth

Google Expert · 01-03-2005, 05:17 PM

We did this in elementary school. And also did it later at summer camp.

Seeing college graduates unable to do this, makes me think future generations in the US are really fucked. They take fluff majors like marketing and art history, build an economy on worthless bullshit like Evian water, use the latest tech toys, but they would be helpless in a real emergency / red dawn / peak oil world.
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Workshop_Willy · 01-03-2005, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi

Some TV show I was watching called "Minds of Our Own".

They interviewed a bunch college graduates, and asked them if they could light a lightbulb using a battery & 1 wire.

50% said yes, 50% said no.

But when they handed them the actual battery, wire & lightbulb, almost all of them were unable to do it.

USA is so fucked

So, they go through (like "journalists" do) and interview let's say 500 people. They then choose the 100 that they think best sells advertising to the people who watch their show.

Been to Broadcast school, I know how it works. Try again sammy. Or grow a mind of your own, preferrably one not itching insanely with jealousy over the enigmatic American genius that the rest of the world consistently underestimates.

By the way ULVideo, yes just one wire. You ground the threads to the negative post directly, and feed the positive to the end of the bulb using the wire. Or the other way around. Or the inverse would probably also work. That's at least 3 ways to do it.

colpanic · 01-03-2005, 05:19 PM

Why would I want to light a lightbulb with a battery?

More Booze · 01-03-2005, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ULVideo

Don't you need 2 wires and a battery?

Workshop_Willy · 01-03-2005, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by colpanic

Why would I want to light a lightbulb with a battery?

You never know when you might be stuck in a third world country like Yurope and need a backup power source.

evanmorgan · 01-03-2005, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ULVideo

Don't you need 2 wires and a battery?

i would think so, but im no electrician

evanmorgan · 01-03-2005, 05:23 PM

lol just saw on the news that 10/7 people dont understand fractions, how fucked up is the world

Ev

PS The old ones are the best.....

I Like Chocolate · 01-03-2005, 05:26 PM

i think that when you go through school its the other things you learn that make your education

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by colpanic

Why would I want to light a lightbulb with a battery?

In an armageddon / red dawn / peak oil type scenario, some basic skills should be known by everyone. Like getting an electical device hooked up, or changing a flat tire, or knowing how to swim.

People play with their xboxes and PDAs, but they haven't the faintest idea of how anything really works.

vas · 01-03-2005, 05:35 PM

attach the wire to 1 end of the battery and 1 end of the light blub, with the other end of the battery touch the other end of the lightblub..

thats how you do it with 1 wire... (for those that are still questioning it) lol

Rorschach · 01-03-2005, 05:36 PM

we all knew americans are stupid already

Rantan · 01-03-2005, 05:38 PM

in america we're taught crap like that in about 5th grade, and unless we have an interest in highschool we arnt going to be taught that in college.

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by vas

attach the wire to 1 end of the battery and 1 end of the light blub, with the other end of the battery touch the other end of the lightblub..

thats how you do it with 1 wire... (for those that are still questioning it) lol

You win a cookie !!

Workshop_Willy · 01-03-2005, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi

You win a cookie !!

Hey, wait I posted the answer well before that! And I gave 3 variations! Gimme that damned cookie you anti-american crook!

Triple 6 · 01-03-2005, 05:44 PM

lol............................................... ...

Antonio · 01-03-2005, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi

Are you shitting me ?

Manowar - there's your answer

How many wires would you use DrakJedi? 6, 12, 71?

You can do it with 1 wire but the bulb has to be 'attached' to the battery.

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Workshop_Willy

Hey, wait I posted the answer well before that! And I gave 3 variations! Gimme that damned cookie you anti-american crook!

You can ground the neg battery and lightbulb, then attach the wire from the pos terminal to the lightbulb. You don't need to touch the lightbulb to the battery.

No cookie for you !!

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Antonio

How many wires would you use DrakJedi? 6, 12, 71?

You can do it with 1 wire but the bulb has to be 'attached' to the battery.

HUH ?

Workshop_Willy · 01-03-2005, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi

You can ground the neg battery and lightbulb, then attach the wire from the pos terminal to the lightbulb. You don't need to touch the lightbulb to the battery.

No cookie for you !!

You didn't specify that an appropriate non-wire ground would be available. Therefore, you have no argument. I just assumed you meant to try it in a rubber room like the one you're in.

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Workshop_Willy

You didn't specify that an appropriate non-wire ground would be available. Therefore, you have no argument. I just assumed you meant to try it in a rubber room like the one you're in.

vas gave the more simple answer.

Workshop_Willy · 01-03-2005, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi

vas gave the more simple answer.

I suppose the simpler does appeal to you. OK, you win.

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Workshop_Willy

I suppose the simpler does appeal to you.

IS THERE A POINT TO YOUR MINDLESS FUCKING BITCHERY?

sickkittens · 01-03-2005, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Rorschach

we all knew americans are stupid already

righhhhhtttt.

wedouglas · 01-03-2005, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ULVideo

Don't you need 2 wires and a battery?

Nah you could use two but you could just set the lightbulb on the positive terminal and run a wire from the side of the bulb to the negative terminal

Antonio · 01-03-2005, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi

HUH ?

this is how you do it with 1 wrire

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Antonio

this is how you do it with 1 wrire

Yes, I know that.

tyler86ed · 01-03-2005, 06:00 PM

I'm sure there is a direct correlation between college grads and if they can connect a fucking light bulb. I don't know about any other college grads here, but I didn't take any classes in college about electricity. Now, I do know this by common sense - there is a power and a ground. I don't think that means college grads are idiots.

What if I asked you how enterprise resource programs integrate to relational databases through application servers?

I would bet 90% of the POPULATION couldn't do it.

Baal · 01-03-2005, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by colpanic

Why would I want to light a lightbulb with a battery?

Because a battery works better than an orange.

notjoe · 01-03-2005, 06:06 PM

I can light a bulb with 1 battery and NO wires...

I feel special

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 01-03-2005, 06:08 PM

All ya are fucken idiots...

Only complete tards would think that lighting a bulb with a fucken wire is a necessity and then gauge the act or non act of lighting it as a factor of an entire civilizations intelligence...

Personally I wouldnt bother trying to light the bulb.
Light draws attention and is your worse enemy in "Military" or Para military situation.

I can take that same equipment and kill everyone in standing within a small room with a light bulb some wire and a battery.

Why use perfectly good materials for a luxury when it can be a weapon.

Dumb fuckers.

bjs24 · 01-03-2005, 06:46 PM

Are you Macgyver?

DarkJedi · 01-03-2005, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by AlienQ

I can take that same equipment and kill everyone in standing within a small room with a light bulb some wire and a battery.

You can not.

Drake · 01-03-2005, 07:00 PM

Will I get shocked on my masculine yet soft manicured college supinated hands?

I'll do it as long as I don't break a nail.

mikeyddddd · 01-03-2005, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bjs24

Are you Macgyver?

Nope. Uncle Fester.

TheMob · 01-03-2005, 07:37 PM

i find this hard to believe

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