Our PT joke thread

**Marigold2** · 04-21-2011, 10:12 AM

Why is it good to have Alzheimers during Easter?

You can hide your own Easter eggs.

**pomtzu** · 04-21-2011, 11:06 AM

Not really very funny or appropriate to post here, especially since there is at least one PT member whose father has this heartbreaking disease.

Maybe it wouldn't be so amusing if you had to live with it and care for a loved one everyday who is afflicted with it.

**caseysmom** · 04-21-2011, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by pomtzu

Not really very funny or appropriate to post here, especially since there is at least one PT member whose father has this heartbreaking disease.

Maybe it wouldn't be so amusing if you had to live with it and care for a loved one everyday who is afflicted with it.

Thank you my father suffered from this for 10 years before he died. It was heartbreaking and not something to joke about in my opinion.

**Asiel** · 04-21-2011, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Marigold2

Why is it good to have Alzheimers during Easter?

You can hide your own Easter eggs.

One of my best friends started showing signs of the disease 3 yrs ago and is getting progressively worse. Our next door neighbour was in a home for 8 yrs just exisiting until his death. It saddens me to see someone make light of this cruel devastating disease.

**Marigold2** · 04-21-2011, 09:27 PM

This joke was told to me by one of our patients. His wife suffers from Alzheimers. This is his way of coping and who am I to say he is wrong.
Maybe he learned the joke at a support meeting. Anyway he felt close enough to tell me the joke, I have known him and his wife for 8 years and adore them both. And yes it was funny as all get out.
My mother in law whom I loved dearly had Alzheimers too. But funny is funny and if you lose your ability to laugh in the face of tragedy well that is a whole different type of death of the brain, the spirit and life.

Originally Posted by Marigold2

Why is it good to have Alzheimers during Easter?

You can hide your own Easter eggs.

**pomtzu** · 04-22-2011, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by Marigold2

This joke was told to me by one of our patients. His wife suffers from Alzheimers. This is his way of coping and who am I to say he is wrong.
Maybe he learned the joke at a support meeting. Anyway he felt close enough to tell me the joke, I have known him and his wife for 8 years and adore them both. And yes it was funny as all get out.
My mother in law whom I loved dearly had Alzheimers too. But funny is funny and if you lose your ability to laugh in the face of tragedy well that is a whole different type of death of the brain, the spirit and life.

Laugh at tragedy??? - not me - so I guess I'm dead!

But I don't find it surprising that YOU would find it amusing. You - who has referred to certain people as "veggies/veggie salad", and one who thinks that someone breaking into a car should take a bullet to the head...........well - that tells me just what kind of insensitive and radical individual that you are.
If you found that "joke" - "funny as all get out" - then fine. But you should have kept it to yourself and not posted it here. This isn't the place for your kind of humor, and I'm sure that anyone that has dealt directly with a person suffering from this disease, finds it cruel and insensitive. I did - and I'm not afraid/ashamed to say so. I'm sure that the majority of people that might have read it, feel the same, even if they didn't state their opinion here.
I truly believe that you don't have one ounce of compassion in your body.

Laugh when tragedy strikes YOU - not others.

**Asiel** · 04-22-2011, 09:10 AM

Very well put and I can say I agree with everything said here.

I just can't imagine what kind of person would hire an insensitive cruel person to work in an office when they get their jollies making fun of other people's tragedies, and yes, Alzheimer's is a tragedy. Just because the husband tries to cover up his real feelings of sadness does not give you the right to make a mockery of it on forums. Maybe search your soul for a bit if understanding and compassion before mouthing off about something you don't seem to know a whit about.
Maybe it's time you went back to school and studied up on a few things.

**wombat2u2004** · 04-22-2011, 09:04 PM

Come on kids. Lighten up now.
It's Easter time.
This forum has been argument free for a while, and it's been good, so lets not open up old wounds.....k ????

**Bonny** · 04-23-2011, 06:14 AM

Actually things are really smoking in here & the smoke alarm went off in my computer besides.

I don't have Alzheimer's (anyhow I don't think I do?) but it has taken me half a year now to find some dog collars I put up on some deer horns, that were hanging right in front of me. Go figure the older you get the worse it gets.

**Catty1** · 04-23-2011, 09:31 AM

From "Crazy Things Parents Say"

Me: So why does the older generations have so many more children?
Gran: (Who has 3 sisters and 4 brothers) Well, there wasn't much to do back then.

**Asiel** · 04-23-2011, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

Come on kids. Lighten up now.
It's Easter time.
This forum has been argument free for a while, and it's been good, so lets not open up old wounds.....k ????

I don't see any argument here Wom. Simply differing views on a subject. While some may think it's fine to ridicule Alzheimer's patients or any other form of mental illness I view it as a form of abuse, insensitivity and cruelty and that's what I stated. People are up in arms over the abuse of pets yet abusing humans is considered acceptable?? Not in my view and that's all I stated. I've witnessed these people in all stages of this devastating disease and sincerely can't say that I find anything funny about it. And I don't know anyone else who can find humour in making fun of them or anyone with any kind of mental illness for that matter.

I challenge you to spend a day in a facility for Alzheimer's patients or any other form of disorder and come home saying that was a fun day. Would you teach your own children to ridicule anyone with a mental disorder-- What about our soldiers who come home mentally disabled because of injury , physical or mental trauma etc...do you find anything funny about them also...? Or are they just cast away veggie salads? Maybe I'm just overly sensitive.

**wombat2u2004** · 04-23-2011, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by Asiel

I don't see any argument here Wom. Simply differing views on a subject. While some may think it's fine to ridicule Alzheimer's patients or any other form of mental illness I view it as a form of abuse, insensitivity and cruelty and that's what I stated. People are up in arms over the abuse of pets yet abusing humans is considered acceptable?? Not in my view and that's all I stated. I've witnessed these people in all stages of this devastating disease and sincerely can't say that I find anything funny about it. And I don't know anyone else who can find humour in making fun of them or anyone with any kind of mental illness for that matter.

I challenge you to spend a day in a facility for Alzheimer's patients or any other form of disorder and come home saying that was a fun day. Would you teach your own children to ridicule anyone with a mental disorder-- What about our soldiers who come home mentally disabled because of injury , physical or mental trauma etc...do you find anything funny about them also...? Or are they just cast away veggie salads? Maybe I'm just overly sensitive.

Awww...it was a harmless little joke mate, and I doubt it was meant to offend anyone. I mean, most jokes have a shot at something or someone, right ????

**wombat2u2004** · 04-24-2011, 04:09 AM

Originally Posted by Asiel

I challenge you to spend a day in a facility for Alzheimer's patients or any other form of disorder and come home saying that was a fun day. Would you teach your own children to ridicule anyone with a mental disorder-- What about our soldiers who come home mentally disabled because of injury , physical or mental trauma etc...do you find anything funny about them also...? Or are they just cast away veggie salads? Maybe I'm just overly sensitive.

Well I have spent a day in a facility for Alzheimers patients, in fact MANY days. My wife Karen was the Nurse-in-Charge of a dementia unit for many years, and have a guess who won all of the building and maintenance contracts there ?? (Yeah, I know, it's who you know....right ?). I have worked amongst these people, and even had many good relationships with some of them who constantly followed me around all day like inquisitive children. Sure I felt sorry for them, and yeah sure I believe that one day I'll probably just be one of them. But that doesn't stop me from telling a few jokes to my mates about them over a beer. What are we supposed to do ???
A patient, old Billy Nye had full whack Alzheimers, and loved to sit by me and watch me work. Every morning he heard the hammer, he would come searching for me, and as he shuffled towards me I'd say "Come on Billy, you can walk faster than that can't you ?? And what's that all over your shirt ???Your breakfast again ??" And he'd give me the biggest smile.
Making fun of him....no. Billy is long gone now....but you know....he enjoyed his times with me.

As for teaching my children to ridicule people with afflictions....well no...that would be very malicious of me right ??? I'm sure my children know what is expected of them in society.....and also how to act in such situations...the choice is there's of course....mourn life or live it.

Do I find anything funny about soldiers who return from war mentally or physically disabled ??? Well, there is a difference between actually having fun with them and making fun of them. You see, I am one of those people who has returned from war, and is disabled both physically AND mentally.
You know, when my knee goes out of whack, and I start to hobble around, everyone calls me "Chester" (remember Chester the limping cowboy in Gunsmoke ??). Hey, I don't feel bad about that ??? It's great....I love it.
And when I REALLY go out of whack mentally, and the meds don't take over quick enough, well everyone calls me "That nut case Browny". Thats ok, I can live with that, I'm not after sympathy, they are not really making fun of me.....not really. Even my daughters constantly refer to me as "Nutty Dad".
I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way.

There is a difference between maliciousness and having fun...a big difference mate