I just did a surprise ballistic uninstallation of a ceiling lamp using a bedsheet, and I promise you that this is not a shitpost😭
The lamp has been reinstalled with 100% less ballistic events than its preceding uninstallation
Also this time I used an appropriate tool, instead of bedsheets
@joepie91 looking forward to your after action report, supersoldier
@joepie91@pixie.town 'surprise ballistic uninstallation' sounds more like an "oh shit!" post
@jdp23 An "oh shit" lamp post, even
@joepie91 when in distress the lamp may shed its tail to escape
@joepie91 hm, i don’t think it’s supposed to do that
@joepie91 that load bearing inline switch belongs to r/dingore
@TyberiusPrime My excuse is that it was installed by the previous tenant 🙃
@joepie91 @TyberiusPrime Hmmm... Really trying not to judge.
Nope, didn't work
I'm not angry, just... 🤷🏻♀️
@joepie91 that updates my Bayesian in favour of low ceilings rather than both you and the prev tenant being tall enough to reach that switch 
@joepie91 went from "oh no, a thing got damaged and will need repair" to "oh thank goodness that thing got damaged and will need repaired Properly This Time" reeeeal fast there
@ifixcoinops Unfortunately repairing it Properly has a spoons cost, so I have patched it up for now with the knowledge that it needs a proper fix soon
@ifixcoinops (Recommendations on how to fix it Properly, with the understanding that the things available in hardware stores do not match at all what is available in eg. the US, are very welcome! That's where most of the spoons cost goes, figuring that out)
@joepie91 Can you take a pic more zoomed out for better context?
@ifixcoinops @joepie91 every time something breaks in my house I go straight to "ok cool let's get this fixed properly" because my house was renovated by absolute charlatans, apparently. They couldn't fit the extractor fan vent into the part of the vent that connected to the outside, so the bathroom extractor fan was just pumping warm damp air into the ceiling cavity. Let's not even talk about the upstairs wiring.
Proof