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Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

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  • #2492
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,817 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Oh they do. I know. But any nurse I know, and I know a few, have said they wouldn't step forward in a situation like that.

    A lot won’t, on an airplane, because once you get involved the person, effectively, becomes your patient and you’re with them until you can “transfer” them to a hospital.

    I know one who told me he didn’t step forward because he’d seen the guy while boarding and he’d looked terrible then. Later, when filling out some visa information on landing, he had his passport out and the guy beside him saw it had “doctor” on it.

    He was a bit embarrassed until the other guy took his passport out and showed the same. He’d also seen the guy and didn’t fancy “escorting” a corpse off the plane.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2493
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Is there a trained health professional will get you someone who is competent in CPR, which is what they're looking for if they're making an announcement like that. A nurse or paramedic will do. A Dr wont be able to do anything else on a plane and only asking for a Dr excludes any other trained professional who can do what they need. They are just trying to avoid having to do it themselves, which they have been trained to do.in any case, no health professional is obliged to volunteer and most wouldn't, for fear litigation.

    Hokery Pokery Wokery


  • #2494
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    A lot won’t, on an airplane, because once you get involved the person, effectively, becomes your patient and you’re with them until you can “transfer” them to a hospital.

    I know one who told me he didn’t step forward because he’d seen the guy while boarding and he’d looked terrible then. Later, when filling out some visa information on landing, he had his passport out and the guy beside him saw it had “doctor” on it.

    He was a bit embarrassed until the other guy took his passport out and showed the same. He’d also seen the guy and didn’t fancy “escorting” a corpse off the plane.

    Yeah, o think that's it. It's one thing witnessing someone karl over in the street or the restaurant where you can role up your sleeves until the ambulance arrives, up on a plane for however long, with no help, no drugs, until it can land and then being responsible for a transfer. I dont blame them. Frankly, the defibs available now are brilliant. They basically tell you if you need to keep going or not. Anyone trained in CPR (which the cabin crew are) can't do any more than an unassisted, unequipped doctor with one of those.


  • #2495
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    Hokery Pokery Wokery

    Uh huh. So if you collapse in a public place and someone asks specifically for a Doctor and there isn't one but the paramefdc/nurse/CPR trained and expetienced HCA/ someone certified in CPR dont step forward and you croak you can blame it on them not being woke. Unless you think they should ask specifically for all of these. Now that would be a mouthful. You'd be well on your way to brain death by the time they got through that lot.


  • #2496
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Is there a qualified health professional on board? Fairly easy to say.
    You must make sure you exclude anyone that thinks they're a health professional but really aren't, for example someone like a chiropractor.
    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    Yes and by the time that mouthful is emptied the poor patient has croaked it.
    See above.


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  • #2497
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Cordell wrote: »
    You must make sure you exclude anyone that thinks they're a health professional but really aren't, for example someone like a chiropractor.


    See above.

    Why would a chiropractor volunteer for a medical emergency? Do you think they'd assume upon hearing that announcement that someone needs their neck aligning? It's a bit like assuming a Dr of Econmics was being requested if a doctor was asked for. 'Oh, they're asking for a Dr. Maybe someone is desperate to understand the difference between GNP and GDP. Stand back, I'm ready to go in!'


  • #2498
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    I think you might be overthinking things here Miss.


  • #2499
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Why would a chiropractor volunteer for a medical emergency? Do you think they'd assume upon hearing that announcement that someone needs their neck aligning? It's a bit like assuming a Dr of Econmics was being requested if a doctor was asked for. 'Oh, they're asking for a Dr. Maybe someone is desperate to understand the difference between GNP and GDP. Stand back, I'm ready to go in!'

    Because they go about claiming to be healing people, so if a passenger displays stroke symptoms they will be rushing to align their neck so the blood flows better.
    Also, a Dr of Economics is at least arguably someone that isn't a complete fraud.


  • #2500
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Cordell wrote: »
    Because they go about claiming to be healing people, so if a passenger displays stroke symptoms they will be rushing to align their neck so the blood flows better.
    Also, a Dr of Economics is at least arguably someone that isn't a complete fraud.

    In the context of being qualified to assist in a medical emergency, I think I'd pick the one with at least some knowledge of the cardio vascular system. If I had to choose, like.


  • #2501
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    I think you might be overthinking things here Miss.

    I think you're trying just a little too hard, laddo.


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  • #2502
    Nigel Fairservice
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,445 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    Do you know anyone with a Doctorate who wants to be referred to as Doctor?

    I worked with a woman who insisted on being called Doctor. Her email signature had Doctor in it and all her letters. Her PhD had nothing to do with her job and she wasn't using it in a professional capacity. I found it cringey. We worked with another guy who also had a PhD. He was very modest and even had a few books published. Many of our colleagues didn't know he had a PhD.


  • #2503
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    Reminds me of back in the day, Ben Kingsley would ask people to call him Sir, after he got his knighthood (an anachronism that should be shelved imo). I think he's since stopped and apologised.

    It's fiercely arrogant, and shows quite a bit of insecurity imo.


  • #2504
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,703 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    a black actress can play the very white Anne Boleyn

    Wait, what?


  • #2505
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,817 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Morathi wrote: »
    Reminds me of back in the day, Ben Kingsley would ask people to call him Sir, after he got his knighthood (an anachronism that should be shelved imo). I think he's since stopped and apologised.

    It's fiercely arrogant, and shows quite a bit of insecurity imo.

    At least he asked. No one is required to use anyone’s title, earned or not. It’s just being polite, or “woke”.

    I think there’s something about only using the “sir” title when on British soil. Could be wrong on that.

    I’ve a couple of mates with PhDs, one would never use it on correspondence while the other would, always. Both apply to their fields of work but neither would introduce themselves as a “doctor”.

    To be honest, considering all the effort that was put into getting it I’d be happy enough to “plaster” it everywhere and wouldn’t begrudge anyone who did.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #2506
    thomasdylan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 514 ✭✭✭thomasdylan


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Is there a trained health professional will get you someone who is competent in CPR, which is what they're looking for if they're making an announcement like that. A nurse or paramedic will do. A Dr wont be able to do anything else on a plane and only asking for a Dr excludes any other trained professional who can do what they need. They are just trying to avoid having to do it themselves, which they have been trained to do.in any case, no health professional is obliged to volunteer and most wouldn't, for fear litigation.


    You should look up Angus Wallace. Stuck a cobbled together chest drain into someone with an tension pneumothorax.


  • #2507
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    Satire is officially dead

    https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1339977959508226048


  • #2508
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    You mean that satirical account? :pac: ( I jest btw)


  • #2509
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,034 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Morathi wrote: »
    You mean that satirical account? :pac:

    She/he catches everyone out :)


  • #2510
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    I do love that account. It's depressing and hilarious how prescient he's been.


  • #2511
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    Morathi wrote: »
    You mean that satirical account? :pac: ( I jest btw)

    No, I mean the concept in general, at least in a woke context. I don't think it's possible to satirize a world view that lambasts Hellen Keller for her 'white privilege'.


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  • #2512
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    46 Long wrote: »
    No, I mean the concept in general, at least in a woke context. I don't think it's possible to satirize a world view that lambasts Hellen Keller for her 'white privilege'.
    That's true. Nobody could write funnier material than Trump.
    It had got to the point where those US comedy news shows like Kimmel etc. were just more or less reporting what he said and did.


  • #2513
    99nsr125
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭99nsr125


    the purple tin wrote: »
    One of the most played-out US TV and film tropes of the last decade or two.
    Overweight, aggressive black lady. She is usually a receptionist or somebody dealing with the public and is always really rude to customers.
    Stock catchphrases include:

    'Oh Hell, No!'
    'Oh no you didn't!'

    Scrubs


  • #2514
    Biker79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭Biker79


    46 Long wrote: »

    Titania McGrath

    Wonder if she has a nickname.


  • #2515
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    46 Long wrote: »
    Satire is officially dead

    https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1339977959508226048

    Surely thats a wind up?


  • #2516
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    olestoepoke wrote: »
    Surely thats a wind up?

    Soot is racist?


  • #2517
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Soot is racist?

    Soot?


  • #2518
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,703 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    olestoepoke wrote: »
    Soot?

    Sooty2011.png


    He was a little bigot.


  • #2519
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Soot is racist?

    In the above quoted tweet, Julie Andrews is lambasted for taking part in black face for having soot on her face in a performance of a song about chimney sweeps in the film Mary Poppns. Chimney sweeps tended to get a covered in soot when carrying out there work, but that seems to be lost on the tweeter, unless that is a parody account. Please let that be parody.


  • #2520
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Sooty2011.png


    He was a little bigot.

    No, it was Sweep. Named after a trade renowned for donning black face.


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  • #2521
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Titania McGrath is a *parody account (frequently the account is taken down by Twitter due to complaints by humourless right-ons then reinstated) created by Andrew Doyle.
    The newspaper articles quoted etc aren't parody!

    *Juts for anyone who doesn't know about Titania.


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