How many Millennials does it take to screw in a light-bulb?

[Ken B]

How many Millennials does it take to screw in a light-bulb?

[Ken B]

That's not funny!

[Ken B]

"Screw" is hetero-normative! Check your privilege!

[Ken B]

Stop triggering me!

[Cato]

Stop triggering me!

Sounds like bullying to me!  Where is the "Safe Space" on this website for your victims?!

Maybe it is here...

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,899.0.html

[Ken B]

Sounds like bullying to me!  Where is the "Safe Space" on this website for your victims?!

Maybe it is here...

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,899.0.html

1 to screw in the bulb and 100 teddy bears to make a safe space.

[Cato]

1 to screw in the bulb and 100 teddy bears to make a safe space.

Lollipops!  Don't forget the lollipops!  And the unicorns!  0:)

[Karl Henning]

Cannot . . . fight . . . the . . . urge . . .

http://www.youtube.com/v/XQmBXEZEYtg

[zamyrabyrd]

it might be fun to start a light bulb thread, or change this one, once the subject is exhausted...

[Ken B]

it might be fun to start a light bulb thread, or change this one, once the subject is exhausted...

How many GMGers does it take to change a light bulb thread? 

[Sergeant Rock]

How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb?  ...one.

Because Germans are efficient and have no sense of humor.

Sarge

[Cato]

Cannot . . . fight . . . the . . . urge . . .

http://www.youtube.com/v/XQmBXEZEYtg

Nobody can!    Whatever happened to Lesley Gore ?!  0:)

Update: died in 2015 of cancer! Only 68 years old!

[Jo498]

but there are actually a few German lightbulb jokes, usually with "Ostfriesen" or other minorities as "victims".

[zamyrabyrd]

but there are actually a few German lightbulb jokes, usually with "Ostfriesen" or other minorities as "victims".

Would they be triggering to Millennials? (Maybe Germans have more sense of humor.)

[Jo498]

Germany does not yet have a "triggering"/professionalized ways of being offended culture in the way the US does. In fact until my childhood in the 70s/80s there were a lot of jokes and other seemingly harmless/innocent things common that are now considered obviously racist and offensive. And they were.
It was just that in a comparably homogeneous culture where foreigners were typically Italians and later Turks noone cared about race stereotypes in older childrens literature or songs (like 10 kleine Negerlein). There was sweet commonly referred to as Mohrenkopf (moor's head) or Negerkuss (negro's kiss) without anyone thinking twice. Similarly for clichéed blacks in picture books.

[Florestan]

Romanian jokes from the Communist period.

How many policemen does it take to screw in a light-tbulb?
Five: one stands on the table keeping the light-bulb in place while the other four turn the table around.

How many police officers does it take to screw in a light-bulb?
Only one: he stands on the table keeping the light-bulb in place, because he knows that the Earth turns around itself.


Bonus:

Why do policemen keep two glasses of water on their nightstands, one full and one empty?
Because during the night they might or might not be thirsty.

(There are literally hundreds such jokes with policemen. Back then the Police was actually called the Militia and the Militiamen, especially those guarding the traffic, were reputed as being extremely stupid. If the situation changed much since then, I cannot say. I can only remember a scene from 1993 when I got the examination for my driving license. We were a huge group of candidates standing outside the building and a police officer called out loud our names and the corresponding rooms for taking the theory test. Obviously, there was hubbub and after a few minutes the guy said "Please, keep silent, I can't shout any louder for I have a lung just like everybody else!" To which a voice from behind me replied "You even have two!")

[Monsieur Croche]

https://www.youtube.com/v/hLpE1Pa8vvI

[Monsieur Croche]

U. of C. tells incoming freshmen it does not support 'trigger warnings' or 'safe spaces' ~ Chicago Tribune

The University of Chicago isn't having any more truck with these wonders of Political Correctness as policy...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-university-of-chicago-safe-spaces-letter-met-20160825-story.html

[North Star]

How many how many how many how how how how many how many many how many minimalists many minimalists many minimalists how many how many minimalists many minimalists many minimalists does it how many minimalists does it how many minimalists does it take does it take take how many minimalists does it take to screw in a light-bulb?

A: just one, but the real question is, how how many times does a minimalist change a single light-bulb?

[zamyrabyrd]

Germany does not yet have a "triggering"/professionalized ways of being offended culture in the way the US does. In fact until my childhood in the 70s/80s there were a lot of jokes and other seemingly harmless/innocent things common that are now considered obviously racist and offensive. And they were. It was just that in a comparably homogeneous culture where foreigners were typically Italians and later Turks noone cared about race stereotypes in older childrens literature or songs (like 10 kleine Negerlein). There was sweet commonly referred to as Mohrenkopf (moor's head) or Negerkuss (negro's kiss) without anyone thinking twice. Similarly for clichéed blacks in picture books.

You're absolutely right: "And they were".
It seems, though, things have gone in the other direction inviting self-censorship.
Lighthearted fun programs for TV like "the Beverly Hillbillies" in the 60's will probably not be made again for a long time. The trash that replaced it is not even worth mentioning.
Maybe the pendulum will eventually settle down in the area of a golden mean.