Apposite joke

[lexin]

I came across this on the net, and thought it funny in a horrifically apposite way:

A banker*, a Daily Mail reader and a disabled person are sitting at a table sharing 12 biscuits. The banker bolts down 11 of them and says to the Daily Mail reader, "Watch out for the welfare scrounger, he wants your biscuit."


* Note: Not bank staff. Bank staff are paid very much less and their bonuses are commensurately less.

Comments

[zellieh]

Heh, yeah. *laughs/cries*

Speaking as a disabled person on benefits, I'm going to miss biscuits when I can't afford them anymore. *sigh*

[lexin]

Yeah. If I lose my job, I'll end up a disabled person on benefits and it will suck to the nth degree of suckage.

[hunningham]

Oh! Thank-you. I'm going to tell this to my mother next time she complains about single mothers with council flats. Or whatever.

[lexin]

That single mothers with council flats thing is an urban myth. A strong one, but a myth just the same.

[julianj2.livejournal.com]

arf arf! Will have to tell this one to my friends, specially on the 26th

[lexin.livejournal.com]

You're coming? I'm joining the march at the start point for disabled people, which is St James's Street. I think gloria1 will be with me. Look out for the PCS balloon.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Horribly good.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I thought it quite witty.

[cordelia_v]

Hah. I heard an American version of this a couple of weeks ago, and will repeat it here (not sure if all the nuances will translate):

A CEO, a Tea Party member, and a union member are sitting at a table where a dozen cookies are resting on a plate. The CEO takes 11 of them and then says to the Tea Party member: "that union member wants your cookie." And the Tea Party person believes him.

I told this to my students and they thought it was funny. I would have enjoyed it more if it weren't God's own literal truth, in this country at the moment. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Anyway, translated jokes. I wonder which one started circulating first?

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I gather there are several versions of the joke circulating around the net - yes, I got the nuances of your version. And it is pretty much the truth, as I understand it.

[gloria1.livejournal.com]

The bankers make you buy the biscuits and then don't reimburse your expense claim.

Based On A True Story.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Oh, they didn't? They are useless.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

I'm attending a PCS recruitment meeting today. Lawyers usually join the FDA, I'm told, (if we join any union - mostly we don't) but I'm also told that the FDA is usually pretty useless compared the PCS.

Certainly the PCS rep I know is excellent.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Far be it from me to say that the FDA is useless compared to PCS, but... (in my day-to-day life I'm not allowed to say it.)

I'm glad the PCS rep there is excellent - I think they do a pretty good job of training their reps. And the Professional and Managers Association is good, too - one of my members is very involved with them.