Irish job interview

Jillaroo

Jillaroo

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IRISH JOB INTERVIEW

Murphy applied for a fermentation operator post at a famous Irish firm based in Dublin

A Pole applied for the same job and since both applicants had similar qualifications, they were asked to take a test by the Manager.

When the results were in, both men had scored 19 out of 20.

The manager went to Murphy and said, "Thank you for coming to the interview, but well i've decided to give the Pole the job."

Murphy, "And why would you be doing that?"

"We both got 19 questions correct."

"This being Ireland and me being Irish surely I should get the job."

Manager, "We have made our decision not on the correct answers, but on the question you got wrong."

Murphy, "And just how would one incorrect answer be better than another?"

Manager, "Simple. On question number 7 the Pole wrote down, 'I don't know.'

You put down, Neither do I
 
*sigh*

Nothing against you, Jillie, but this brought to mind a question about what ever happened to tolerance and the nature of this world when a joke like this can be freely passed around and it doesn't raise an eyebrow, but just change the ethnic make-up to any one of the currently "hot" groups and you'll be inundated with lawsuits.

That reminds me - 3 Irishmen stumble drunkenly into a lawyer's office ... :playful:
 
People just need to get over themselves and being so highly offended about anything and everything that's said. What a nation of wussies we are evolving into.

I'm offended by people who are so offended everytime someone opens their mouth, especially to the truth.

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Jillaroo said:
And you wonder why i haven't been posting jokes of late, you won't see any more from me
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Talk about having a sense of humor ...

This board is saturated with jokes, most of which I don't even check out but I'm sure there are plenty of them based upon one of the great truths of comedy - race, religion or sex. Yours just happened to fall into the race category and I just happened to make a serious observation about humanity based on the joke.

I won't do it again.
 
Jillaroo said:
And you wonder why i haven't been posting jokes of late, you won't see any more from me
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No, No, No Jilly...your sense of humor and wittiness is an asset to the board. I really don't think anyone here was offended by the joke, just responding to Phil's comment, whom I sincerely doubt was offended. Not trying to speak for him, but I think he was just making an observation about the PC state of the state these days.

Correct me if I'm wrong Phil.

Like That Guy said, "It's just jokes, folks."

I guess what fries me is the fact that I know people that have no problem popping off an off color or non-PC joke in the safety of friends or relatives, but act so above it if they were to hear the same joke in a public venue.
 
With this damn Political Correctness people aren't game to speak anymore for fear of upsetting someone, toughen up is what i say.
I will have a good laugh if it is about Australians i don't get offended.
One just needs to look at what they are doing to our lovely Nursery Rhymes, changing the words so a certain few aren't offended Pffft
Makes me very sad.
 
Political correctnes is gone tooooo-far. Soon we shall have a "Sibling" instead of "Brother" office machines!
As far for ethnic jokes, say Irish, The Irish comedians deliver the best Irish jokes.
 
Dunno if it's just me bein' racist/culturalist/tribal/xenophoic... or whatever that perfectly normal human survival gene is called these days... but I've found that jokes we find funny are those with a twist on a grain of truth in them.

It's the twist on that basic truth that makes them funny at all. Jokes without a twist are statements. Jokes that are really derrogatory simply aren't funny, they're just spiteful stupidity told by fools.

Most, Irish/Polish type jokes are more endearing than denigrating. It's that 'Irishness' that endears the Irish to us. Like many, I'm descended from them too and often smile at some of the stuff my grandmother did, and the strange ways she had of expressing things. I never for a single moment though, ever underestimated her IQ!
Nor was my Scottish descended grandmother mean with a dollar, yet how many Scots jokes are based on that? The Scots know they're not really mean but see the funny side of the world thinking so.
Aussies are not all called Bruce, nor are they all Steve Irwin types but I for one think it's hilarious that the rest of the world thinks so.

Seems the only people who get offended are those in who's cultures the humour gene has been bred out. Pity for them, tough luck.

PC ness is every bit as bad as all the other isms that have tried to suppress and detour human nature. Who wants to live in a humourless Gulag where everybody is equally bloody miserable?

All races/cultures have traits. That's what makes them races. It doesn't make them unequal, superior, inferior, smarter, dumber, better or worse than any other race it simply makes them different. Vive la difference!
 
:weird: Okay, you know I'm gonna put my :2cents: in here, like it or not. :p The way I see it, this entire thread after the first post was completely misunderstood...

Jill posted a joke about an Irish and a Polish man. Phil just commented that he remembered a time when tolerance of jokes like these were to the point where people didn't even raise an eyebrow about them. But nowadays, it they were said about a "hot" ethnic group, lawsuits would be filed. Rkunsaw agreed.

Even though neither of them said anything negative at all about Jill or the joke, Katy pooh-poo'd both of them, insinuating they were saying that the joke wasn't funny.

Both of them kindly were quick to explain that they both thought the joke was funny, and were just pointing out that these days, it would be considered 'politically incorrect' by the PC crowd.

Jill then, came back and got the wrong impression that they were saying something against her and the joke, and took offense...but there was no real reason for her to do that.

Phil once again explained that he was just making an observation about humanity. Ozarkgal was spot on when she tried to explain what Phil meant.

Phil, being the gentleman that he is, apologized although he really did nothing wrong...but he knew that Jill was offended, and he didn't want to upset her.

Okay, maybe my understanding of this whole thread is way off, but I'm half Polish...maybe I missed something. :playful:
 
Come on Jill, none of us have a problem with you or the joke, that's what we're trying to say...please keep 'em coming! :bighug:
 
Jilly ... Tch, can't understand how anyone who still speaks to me can be so sensitive about the small stuff. Thought I'd scraped that off by now.

It's not about you, or even about the joke, it was triggered by a flippant remark about PCness which on some forums roools and spoils the opportunity to indulge ourselves in these harmless jokes. It was, to my understanding, pro the joke not agin it.

By stopping posting them you are acceding to the rules of the PCness that you don't approve of.

Keep posting them as often as possible!
Never give in to PCness!!

... does that make sense to anyone else? Seems ok from here... but you can never be sure how it looks to others these days... siiiiiigh.
Not that I really care all that much.
 
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