OT - First Aid at Work - What not to do!

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Paddy and Mick are two Irishmen working at the local sawmill.

One day, Mick slips and his arm gets caught and severed by the big bench saw.

Paddy quickly puts the limb in a plastic bag and rushes it and Mick to the local hospital.

Next day, Paddy goes to the hospital and asks after Mick.

The nurse says, 'Oh he's out in Rehab exercising'. Paddy couldn't believe it, but here's Mick out the back exercising his now re-attached arm. The very next day he's back at work in the saw mill.

A couple of days go by, and then Mick slips and severs his leg on another bloody big saw thingamebob. So Paddy puts the limb in a plastic bag and rushes it and Mick off to hospital. Next day he calls in to see him and asks the nurse how he is.

The nurse replies, 'He's out in the Rehab again exercising' and sure enough, here's Mick out there doing some serious work on the treadmill.

And very soon Mick comes back to work.

But, as usual, within a couple of days he has another accident and severs his head. Wearily Paddy puts the head in a plastic bag and transports it and Mick to hospital. Next day he goes in and asks the nurse how Mick is.

The nurse breaks down and cries and says, 'He's dead.'

Paddy is shocked, but not surprised. 'I suppose the saw finally did him in.'

'No', says the nurse, 'Some dopey bugger put his head in a plastic bag and he suffocated'.

Reply to
Falco
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Is that relevant? Does the nunour work if they are Welsh, or Pakistani?

MBQ

Reply to
Man at B&Q

Yes it is relevant. The joke doesn't work without it and I'm sure you understand that. Stereotypes have been used for years in jokes. Everyone except the Islington set are able to understand that this is simply a comic device, which sets the scene for the type of joke to follow. I would also add that any reasonable person does not actually think that the Irish are any less intelligent than anyone else. As a Scot, it doesn't bother me in the least when people use stereotypical devices relating to being careful with money or drunk or having a fondness for sheep. What about the stereotype that English people say sorry when you bump into them? Or that they never complain about being made to stand in line or will tell a waiter that the service was great when he was actually rude and unhelpful? Would it be wrong to make a joke about that? If you are actually Irish and genuinely offended I'll eat my hat. BTW that's a slightly flippant remark. I won't actually eat my hat. It's just a bit of fun you see...

Reply to
Schrodinger's cat

Yes, it's relevant, unless an Irishman tells it, in which case Paddy and Mick would come from Cork.

Toom

Reply to
Toom Tabard

...or Kerry....!

Adrian

Reply to
adrian

Kerry, surely. Made me laugh.

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Reply to
Onetap

No, because if they were Pakistani they'd only be working in a sawmill to pay their way through medical school and they'd know better than to put the head in a plastic bag and suffocate it.

If they were Welsh they wouldn't put the head in a plastic bag because it would get blood over Aunty Blodwen's bara brith.

Owain

Reply to
Owain

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Toom Tabard saying something like:

Kerry.

Reply to
Grimly Curmudgeon

Or if it were told by a Canadian, Paddy and Mick would come from Newfoundland. Americans = Poles, Swedes = Norwegians.

Its a joke FFS.

Reply to
The Medway Handyman

No, that's the Welsh.

I don't have a hat. I must be a stereotype.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Man at B&Q" saying something like:

Well yes. Every country and culture has a sub-group that are perceived as being a bit trusting or naive or tight-fisted . In India there are Sikh jokes, in Canada it's Newfoundlanders (Newfies), Scotland it's Highlanders, England it's Wurzels or yokels, Ireland it's Kerrymen, and so on and on...

Here's a typical example, told to me by an Indian.

A Sikh was trying to save money by taking the bus to work and one day he announced to his wife he'd ran along behind the bus and managed to save the bus fare. His wife called him an idiot - saying that if he'd run along behind a taxi he'd have saved even more.

Plug in Kerryman, Highlander, Aberdonian, Newfoundlander.

Reply to
Grimly Curmudgeon

lol

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Schrodinger's cat

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