Funniest Practical Joke ............

[Kaisu]

OK Dwayne... I stand corrected.. once again.... game on

[spenac]

OK Dwayne... I stand corrected.. once again.... game on

LOL You are silly today.

[Kaisu]

LOL You are silly today.

aww... ya know I lovs ya right?

[DwayneEMTP]

OK Dwayne... I stand corrected.. once again.... game on

OK, see, this is why girls scare me me.....does this mean:

A) OK, I went and reviewed the thread and see your point, so keep doin' your thing man.

Carefully note my sarcasm, because if you keep screwing around in a thread I was enjoying I'm going to come back and kick your nuts up somewhere around your tonsils. :shock:

C) As you have a penis it is pointless to try and reason with you, so I give up, do what your going to do because you're just going to do it anyway. :?

D) I had hope for better from you, but am once again reminded that both of your brain cells are perpetually vapor locked.

E) All of the above and none of the above.

Or, was it perhaps some clever ploy to get me to see that trying to figure it out is too much work so I'll just go back to downloading porn?

I choose E, plus that last sentence too...but just in case, as I don't want anything traumatic happening to my nuts, I'll do my best to help get the thread back on topic..

Spenac, I sometimes find my posts shocking. But I'm not clear about which part of which post, all or in part you're referring to here.

Practical jokes..good. Playing them irresponsibly, or on people that have no interest in participating....bad.

Dwayne

[Michael]

doesn't follow

Kaisu, what exactly "doesn't follow" from what? Please specify where my posts on this thread have been in error or unclear or deficient in some other way. Unless of course your response is a practical joke.

[sirduke]

Jesus talk about a thread hi-jack!!! Sounds like a damn kindergarden class in here.

Large plastic tie wrap on someone's drive shaft, not the ambulance, makes a hell of a racket and hurts nothing.

if that makes me unprofessional, who gives a rats ass.

[Michael]

thread hi-jack

I don't see that it's a thread hijack at all. Especially not the spenac/Dwayne-type exchanges.

If I ask a community to relate instances of doing things that some members of the community think should not be done at all, that others think should be restricted, and that those others disagree about where the restrictions should fall, all those responses are relevant and instructive.

Ask What's the best way to join a volly squad? Ask How many years should I practice as an EMT-B before enrolling in paramedic school? Ask Do you pray with your patients? Ask (I dare you!) Is this piece of equipment worthwhile? You'll get meaningful responses that challenge the premise of the question, namely that the question shouldn't be asked at all.

The fact that experienced and thoughtful individuals question the assumptions underlying a inquiry or flat-out deny that it's legitimate may come as valuable news to the OP and/or other interested parties. From such opinions one learns that some people think environmental allergies should disqualify emergency workers, some people think suicidal patients deserve to die, some say Tasers aren't as safe as generally believed, that rendering aid off-duty, owning a firearm, wearing a badge are great/wonderful/stupid/awful things to do.

As for true thread hijackings, well, doesn't that fall under the category of...

[Eydawn]

How does one determine, without actually perpetrating a practical joke, that someone will be amenable to that particular joke?

Jokes are best saved for really good, really well-known friends... coworkers are not always that easy to read and it is very easy to have a joke go from funny to being called on to the carpet.

Don't get me wrong. If you know someone will take a joke well and you know it will increase camaraderie, by all means go for it. Just be wary of anything that involves screwing with someone's personal stuff, and be sure that the joke you're intending to do doesn't put them at risk.

Poop in a bag in someone's car? Health hazard, nasty, and not really funny. KY on the door handle... can mean you can't get the door handle open.

Funniest set of jokes I know of: war between the kitchen and one of the shelters at the cub scout camp I worked at. Involved staff wrapping serving utensils in several pounds of saran wrap for return to the kitchen for washing... and the cook retaliating by saran wrapping the shelter director's bike to the flagpole while she was on a day off. Best part... she was like "Oh look! Someone's bicycle got p3wned!" until she got back to her shelter... "Wait... where's my bike?!"

Wendy

CO EMT-B

[WolfmanHarris]

Jokes are best saved for really good, really well-known friends. Don't get me wrong. If you know someone will take a joke well and you know it will increase camaraderie, by all means go for it.

Good point Wendy and my fault for assuming this one all along, but I'd never consider any sort of joke that may be borderline or at someone's expense that I didn't know would enjoy it. I couldn't imagine being so uninhibited with jokes (at work, home, the mall, wherever) that one wouldn't make sure they knew their audience. If you're playing pranks on anyone/everyone with no regard for whether they'd appreciate it, then more than likely you're just bullying people whether you realize it or not. I've assumed twice on this thread and that's left me back peddling a fair bit.

[spenac]

Jesus talk about a thread hi-jack!!! Sounds like a damn kindergarden class in here.

Large plastic tie wrap on someone's drive shaft, not the ambulance, makes a hell of a racket and hurts nothing.

if that makes me unprofessional, who gives a rats ass.

Actually it just cost that person money as they drive to the mechanic. Or even worse they are distracted by it and hit a child running across the street.

I'm glad it is clear that you have no desire to be professional by your own statement. So why don't you leave the profession to the professionals.