What goes on here in the HUBB?
 

How many online forum members does it take to change a light bulb?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.
53 to flame the spell checkers.
41 to correct spelling/grammar flames.
6 to argue over whether it’s “lightbulb” or “light bulb”…another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is “lamp”.
15 know-it-alls who claim *they* were in the industry, and that “light bulb” is perfectly correct.
156 to email the participant’s ISPs complaining that they are in violation of their “acceptable use policy”.
109 to post that this group is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb group
203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, off-topic forum, and lightbulb group about changing light bulbs be stopped.
111 to defend the posting to this group saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this group.
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are faulty.
27 to post URL’s where one can see examples of different light bulbs.
14 to post that the URL’s were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL’s.
3 to post about links they found from the URL’s that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.
33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add “Me too”.
12 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.
19 to quote the “Me too’s” to say “Me three”.
4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.
1 blind user who doesn't share the significance of the issue
44 to ask what is a “FAQ”.
4 to say “didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”
143 to say “do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs”.
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again….
45 Google geniuses who find the topic on an Internet search and reply to it 6 years later without checking the date of the post
Untold numbers of Apple fanboys who can't deal with the issue until Siri tells them there's an app that can do it for them

As posted in https://forums.malwarebytes.org/inde...-a-light-bulb/

What's a "light bulb?"

In the spirit of the post text, it's up to someone else to answer the question.

ps
Have you posted your question in the correct thread??

I changed a light bulb once.

I've heard that BMW make the best light bulbs. Is that true? (c;

Cheers

Nigel in NZ

Does "light bulb" lose anything in the translation to Spanish? ref: Chevrolet Nova in Spanish.

Spanish translation of "light bulb"
 

I won't be bothering with a literal translation, for this thread has surpassed
intellectual realism and entered into the realm of games.

The strangest light I have encountered was during a field investigation for MUFON mutual UFO network mufon.com following up on a multitude of reports of "luz mal" evil lights - near a very small village in northwest Argentina.

We, Elisa and I, asked a land owner if we could bush camp on his property, parked our bikes, set up our tent without the fly - a Sierra Design 4 man with 360* netting that allows us to see the stars and any "luz mal." And, we set out three flares in a triangular pattern so we could respond if we thought appropriate.

Around midnight the "luz mal" began, it was distant - over nearby mountains, so we set up all the cameras and turned on the tape recorder and waited. The "luz mal" appeared like long lasting lightning, it lit the sky and kept it lit for almost 30 seconds - we began recording each "luz mal" and tried to determine if the strange lights were getting closer.

They were. the 'luz mal" was traveling toward us not only in our direction, but coming down from over the nearby mountain peaks to ground level. Each "luz mal" was closer than the last. When I estimated the "luz mal" to be about 3000 meters, I asked Elisa if she thought we should light the flares. " Hell yes" she said, "it knows we are here, it is coming right for us."

We scurried to our assigned flare, lit it and then I lit the third flare creating a glow at each corner of the triangle. As soon as all the flares were lit, the "luz mal" lit up and stayed lit as it traveled toward us at what I estimated was about 10k an hour. Then, about 500 meters out, it stopped, and we could clearly see the light source, that was it just a light, now stationary.

I slung my machate over my shoulder - for my own security - not that I though I could do any damage to the evil lights if warranted and with our two professional camcorders and flashlights in hand, we slowly made our way toward the evil lights. It was continuous and stationary, then when we were about 100 meters from it, it went out. Just like that - it was dark where it was.

? "lam zul" a egnahc ot woh wonk enoynA

xfiltrate eat, drink and we'll leave the lights on for you*

We bought two new KLR650s and will be spending the winter on the west coast of Mexico. We will be at our ranch in Flagstaff for a couple more weeks, so if you are going to visit - do it soon.

Xfiltrate - please note; Machete.

Shades of Diego Rivera... Mexican Muralist
 

Tourider, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was world class artist Sr. Diego Rivera's wife. After spending the better part of a year painting one of his famous murals contracted by the Mexican government and long waited for by the world's leading art critiques, and the masses of lover's of art, he invited La Señora Frida Kahlo, his sometimes beloved wife, to view his new creation that would soon
rock the world of art.

When she arrived and as Diego stood anticipating her comments, for as you know, she was also an artist, she looked first at the expansive and emotion evoking work of art, then examined Diego carefully and proclaimed, "Diego, your fingernails are dirty" and walked away.

Tourider, thanks for keeping the tradition of Frida Kahlo alive and well here at the Hub Pub.

xfiltrate eat, drink and do not hesitate to do the right thing.

Listen... I was in the light bulb industry !!

You have to be careful with them.

Xfiltrate - Please note: Frida and HUBB.

I find the Norwegian translation - "lyspære", or "light pear" - to be more accurate.

XFILTRATE; sure you lit a flare?? could you perhaps have lit something else?
Am I behaving as OP suggested?
:rolleyes2:

I can see why your word works just fine for the old style "pears" - tungsten filaments and all that - but we are using the new fangled low energy illumination nowadays surely?
Old language dies hard perhaps?

You stick it in the ground in October and in March little flowers come up. :smartass:

Now globular festoons may sound like something best treated with penecillin but will actually let you read after dark

Andy

It's way past time for an argument on this post, so here goes;
What type of oil should you use with this light bulb?

Coconut oil
 

Although the coconut is not actually pear shaped, but similar, as may be considered by some, the stem of the light bulb, in fact, should be lightly oiled with the oil of the coconut from the semi round shell of the coconut. Thus, the obvious choice of oil when changing a light bulb, would be coconut oil.

The coconut oil should come from a co-opertive producing same and not from corporate oil companies as by purchasing coconut oil from local co-ops one assists the region from which the coconut oil was produced.

Move over Dulles brothers who prior to becoming Secretary of State and Director CIA USA worked for a law firm representing the exploitive United Fruit company that stole banana and other fruit profits from Central American republics for years.

How's that Tourider? Someone is surly going to find something to disagree with, or agree with. Remeber, let's keep this thread relevant, on topic and with a minimum of politics, economics, or anything else that might bring some shade of reason or meaning.

xfiltrate eat, drink and oil your lightbulbs with coconut oil.

Has anyone decoded my first post this thread?

Will the use of coconut oil as opposed to the genuine manufacturers oil affect my warranty?
Oh, and it's Surely.

Does your ranch in FLagstaff have light bulbs, or luz mal? I am more or less headed your way in the next week or so.

I am in Moab on my way from Nova Scotia to Arizona thence Mexico and on to Cuba. When I think of lights in the sky they are the ones that saved my ass when negotiating my way from Manaus to Venezuala in the dark and through a thunderstorm on a slick dirt road amidst encroaching jungle and squared off against potholes dancing all the way across the road threatening to eat my bike or bounce me into the swamps where anacondas waited. No, there were no lights on the road, not from other vehicles, houses along the road, certainly not from the moon or stars, and hardly from my headlight which was covered with mud. My salvation was in the way of blessed lightening ahead to the left which moved across in front of me and closer, and blessed be with each flash I could see the potholes, memorize them for a hundred meter dash through this mine-field until the next luz magnifique could correct me and inspire me for more. In the end everything was hunky-dory. The End.

We'll leave the lights on for you
 

larrysimson, we are possibly on your route... at our ranch in Flagstaff, Arizona. Please stop by and visit or overnight. We have bed and facilities and camping if you prefer.

Private message me for phone # and directions.

We are riding to Mexico for the winter .. leaving Flagstaff in about three weeks.

Your story was like the sound of laughter coming out of the darkness, very exciting.

xfiltrate eat , drink and stay out of the pot holes

If it walks like a duck, etc. Besides, my old bikes are still in tungsten land. :)

"Litpear" it is then; no controversy or doubt there.

Fork handles :oops2:

Light bulbs verses luz mal or candles...
 

I am delighted to report that Larrysimpson, (recent hubber on this thread) a very interesting Canadian, has been at our ranch for the last few nights.

Today he visited the Grand Canyon and upon his return we fed him a home cooked meal and wine at our world class Spy Bar. The Spy Bar is the bar at our ranch and lit by indirect lighting and candles. NO luz mal was present this evening.

Larry continues his journey by BMW 700 (2015) From Halifax to Phoenix and next year will board the Stahlratte, yes that famous sailboat that does Panama to Colombia, for a three day crossing from Isla Mujeras , Mexico to Cuba and then back to Mexico after in three weeks in Cuba.

Larry is a writer/journalist who has ridden Africa and South America too and more, much more...

Cool guy.

And breaking news for all you looking for a mate to ride.... with? Elisa has found another young professor - woman who rides her own moto and it is just too bad more of you have not taken us up on our hospitality ... and the possibility of meeting her.... we are finishing up chores - including changing light bulbs - with coconut oil, of course, and doing our final check list for we will be spending this winter on the west coast of Mexico.

Meanwhile back at the ranch...The San Francisco peaks had snow this morning , weather here below the peaks at 7,000 ft is superb... the peaks are about 12,000 ft. no luz mal reported...

xfiltrate eat , drink and do yourself a favor and get to know larrysimpson... and if you are planning on visiting do it now....

please can we keep this topic on post.
Readers might find this helpful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#and her is how to actually perform the task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oRCvLtnYMY

http://www.homeserve.com/help-advice...e-a-light-bulb

oops, sorry, just realised the OP was 8 years ago so I am outside the 6 years window:oops2:

That would be a first!

It's high time that there is a restriction on the number of links to be included in a single post - perhaps even a limit within a whole thread?
Maybe there can be a voluntary rule (something like that one about not going off topic :innocent:)

:eek3:

I can categorically refute this.
I am just 7 1/2 years old.

But, is there an age limit for registering with the HUBB?
A lower age limit for minors, who haven't yet learnt to construct sentences, and an upper for those who are potentially senile and banging on about the good old days of acytelene lamps on their belt driven, 2 speed motorcycle (not bike, not motobike).

Totally pointless posts

Pointless topics...

http://cdn1.bikebandit-images.com/ma...awi-forums.jpg

That's just got to be something from the next edition of the Harley accessories for hipsters catalogue. :rofl:

Topic: What goes on here ????
 

This thread is the most on topic thread on the Hubb. A mere recital of the original post might refresh the memories of those who are feeling a bit out of place.

I find the light bulb topic most interesting and am considering writing the National Institutes of Science for a 6 figure grant to pursue the topic, beginning with a peer reviewed article in an established journal.

Once a greater interest in the topic has been established, we might be able to pay volunteer contributors to this thread, that is if they can replicate the interesting posts found here - so far.

Meanwhile, keep those razor sharp insights flowing in and always remember to keep on the topic of "What goes on here"

ps: time limits have been waived, and could someone explain to me about the "fork" reference in a previous post. That I did not get.

xfiltate eat , drink and stay on topic

Classic sketch
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ

The explanation, bit of a long one though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Candles

(Self evidently, with a memory like that, I can't possibly be just 7 1/2 years old)

Lights on at the Ranch, no Luz Mal
 

Well I arrived in FLagstaff and sure enough xfliltrate met me at the little cowboy-theme cafe on his KLR. We had a bite then headed off to the ranch. This is no ordinary ranch, rustic but charming and heaps of soul. Picture LED lighting in the shower and can, and in the Spy Bar (with a cello wrapped whole salmon on the wall) and around the sound equipment with musical instruments at the end, just left to where I was instructed to park my bike.
See if you can codger an invite out of Xfiltrate but I warn you, he is well-read and well-traveled, as is his charming SPanish wife, and no fools are suffered there.
This luz mal intellect/wingnut is a well versed in history, sociology, poetry, and international travel. He is fluent in SPanish so has some choice when he is talking to his wife. And if you are lucky you will buy some very reasonably-price jewelry from his creative wife, Ms. Xfiltrate.
If you spend some time at the ranch you will be recharged and have new friends for a lifetime.

No this is not a review for Air BnB, but a real-life illumination on pure souls met along the way. Is this on thread? Who cares, this is just one drunk who recently vacated the infamous Spy Bar passing on some highlights of his last week to other Hubber drunks.

Larry, of the luz magnifique

We were also recipients of Ed and Elisa's generosity when we passed through Flagstaff in Sept and I agree entirely with what you've written. Ed's background and life experience is visible throughout the ranch and is both impressive and humbling. I won't post up any pictures without permission as privacy is important in these matters but the day we spent with them was one of the highlights of the trip and something we still talk about. A big thank you to both of you.

And now back to the topic in hand. Just remind me, what was it again?

International Space Station captures "Luz Mal"
 

Breaking news: as reported in a previous post, rosa del desierto and I
witnessed a "luz mal" from our bush camp isolated in northern Argentina.

Now, an International Space Station camera has videoed a "luz mal" reported
03nov15.

WATCH: Nasa live cam cuts after 'suddenly locking on to mystery glowing UFO' | Science | News | Daily Express

This is exactly what rosa del desierto and I witnessed as it moved from
mountain peak to several thousand meters from our position. It blinked out
as we began to approach it.

I guess it is time to decode the last of my coded e-mail - which puts this thread right back on track: I wrote "Does anyone know how to change a luz mal? backwards see previous post.

I am continually impressed with those I have the great fortune to meet via the Hubb. back of beyond's group of three northamericans and then canadian larrysimpson all spent time at our ranch and to them I say "mi casa es tu casa" what great people- each one very interesting .... let's see if I can remember some of their credentials - a medical doctor, an organic farmer who instructs organisms -
now that was funny.... a world class photographer and a finally a writer who is actually published by the mainstream press......and
each a very good , decent person who I am proud to say I have met.

Each has brought new perspectives and ideas to our ranch and each, I hope carries with them always an open invitation to return.

xfiltrate and rosadeldesierto

Eat, Drink and we are outa here next week.