Hvor mange forum folk trengs...

[BioNor]

...for å skifte en lyspære?

 

7 to post that the bulb needs changing but they can't do it because they are at work and the firewalls are stopping them

 

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"

 

6 to condemn the previous 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

 

3 moderators to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

 

203 to demand that cross posting to the tech forum, chat forum, and lightbulb forum about changing light bulbs be stopped

 

111 to defend the posting saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this forum

 

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, what brands are faulty and why Dave from "Lamps'R'us" is a cock-end with no customer relations

 

27 to post images of examples of different light bulbs

 

14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then try to post the corrected URL's

 

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this forum which makes light bulbs relevant to this forum

 

33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers, signatures and images, and add "Me too"

 

12 to post to the forum that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy

 

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?" or "keep up at the back!"

 

3 to post random comments about donkey cocks to 'lighten the mood'

 

26 to state that posts about donkey cocks are offensive and the posters should be banned

 

8 posters to moan about freedom of speech

 

6 alter-egos to flame the previous 37 and suggest that they only posted about donkey cocks because they wish they could have a donkey of their own to 'love'

 

12 people to start new threads about how hostile this forum has become and how no-one should post on the 'lightbulb' thread and we should all talk about something nice instead

 

aaaaaand finally....

 

 

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again :wink:

[Os|r|s]

den var satans bra

Det er jo slik det faktisk er!

[EskimoBob]

Jeg syns avataren din var støtende BioNor :wink:

[Ueland]

Og jeg stenger den fordi den er totalt feilpostet

[Villmink]

minner litt om denne:

 

Q: How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb?

 

A: One thousand, one hundred and seventy-two:

 

Twenty-three to complain to -current about the lights being out;

 

Four to claim that it is a configuration problem, and that such matters really belong on -questions;

 

Three to submit PRs about it, one of which is misfiled under doc and consists only of "it's dark";

 

One to commit an untested lightbulb which breaks buildworld, then back it out five minutes later;

 

Eight to flame the PR originators for not including patches in their PRs;

 

Five to complain about buildworld being broken;

 

Thirty-one to answer that it works for them, and they must have cvsupped at a bad time;

 

One to post a patch for a new lightbulb to -hackers;

 

One to complain that he had patches for this three years ago, but when he sent them to -current they were just ignored, and he has had bad experiences with the PR system; besides, the proposed new lightbulb is non-reflexive;

 

Thirty-seven to scream that lightbulbs do not belong in the base system, that committers have no right to do things like this without consulting the Community, and WHAT IS -CORE DOING ABOUT IT!?

 

Two hundred to complain about the color of the bicycle shed;

 

Three to point out that the patch breaks style(9);

 

Seventeen to complain that the proposed new lightbulb is under GPL;

 

Five hundred and eighty-six to engage in a flame war about the comparative advantages of the GPL, the BSD license, the MIT license, the NPL, and the personal hygiene of unnamed FSF founders;

 

Seven to move various portions of the thread to -chat and -advocacy;

 

One to commit the suggested lightbulb, even though it shines dimmer than the old one;

 

Two to back it out with a furious flame of a commit message, arguing that FreeBSD is better off in the dark than with a dim lightbulb;

 

Forty-six to argue vociferously about the backing out of the dim lightbulb and demanding a statement from -core;

 

Eleven to request a smaller lightbulb so it will fit their Tamagotchi if we ever decide to port FreeBSD to that platform;

 

Seventy-three to complain about the SNR on -hackers and -chat and unsubscribe in protest;

 

Thirteen to post "unsubscribe", "How do I unsubscribe?", or "Please remove me from the list", followed by the usual footer;

 

One to commit a working lightbulb while everybody is too busy flaming everybody else to notice;

 

Thirty-one to point out that the new lightbulb would shine 0.364% brighter if compiled with TenDRA (although it will have to be reshaped into a cube), and that FreeBSD should therefore switch to TenDRA instead of EGCS;

 

One to complain that the new lightbulb lacks fairings;

 

Nine (including the PR originators) to ask "what is MFC?";

 

Fifty-seven to complain about the lights being out two weeks after the bulb has been changed.