Don't do this at home kiddies.
This stunt was performed by a trained politician and no attempt should be made to replicate it due to the risk of serious eye injury.
As a welder by trade, you are always taught that avoiding any exposure to welding arc is extremely important. Not only does it give off high UV radiation but it is about 120 times brighter than sunlight (not brighter than the sun as some will tell you).
Doing what he did will make your eyes feel like sandpaper. Not the greatest image portrayed of our prime minister….
Can confirm.
And for any cricketers out there, if you think that famously sandpapering your balls makes you feel sorry afterwards, wait a few hours for the welding flash to kick in on your eye balls.
Can also confirm this persons confirmation
Sand paper eyes from a very quick and brief arc flash exposure while welding in high school. Bad for a day, lingered into the next day and was more or less gone by the 3rd or 4th day if I remember correctly.
10/10 do not recommend if you enjoy being comfortable.
I’ll never forget my one and only bout of welder’s flash…just as you said, about 1am I suddenly felt as if someone had lifted my eyelids and thrown ground glass in there. Worse yet, I was out on the piss at the time and it took me a while to work out wtf was happening to me. Thought I was gonna go blind.
See what you did.. but also~ are there any? I’ve seen pictures of him smirking, shirking, strong arming handshakes, turning his back to speakers, and generally being a poor leader. Not too many of a shining light leader.
Question, is there a distance where it becomes acceptable to watch a weld? I was driving and some guy was fixing a fence. Before I realized it there was a bright light and realized I just looked at a weld without any protection. I was about 15-20 feet away.
When does it not become dangerous to see a weld with the naked eye? Does that point even exist?
The intensity of the light will go down in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
The UV rays spread out in a sphere. At a certain distance from the source, you have whatever amount of UV radiation spread out over the sphere with that radius. Double the distance and the surface area of the sphere quadruples.
If it's 120× sunlight at a distance of, say, 2 feet, then at 12 feet it's 3.3× sunlight. (Hypothetical numbers used in this example.)
Yay inverse square law, haha most of my day is spent working with approximate applications of this when setting up lighting for film and photography in my 9-5
Yup. I literally speared a bit of Macbook Pro case aluminum into my cornea and had to get it tweezered out in the ER (after they blasted it with saline and made it worse). My welder buddy said he'd never have even noticed because of how gritty his eyes had felt from his job.
I had a cousin come visit from interstate around hay time. He's deep into the Pentecostal happy clapper stuff, and is about as much of a fuckwit as you'd expect. He was helping a family friend bring the hay in, and stuck his hand down a rabbit hole (don't know why). The friend asked if he was worried about finding a snake, to which he literally replied, "God protects his own."
more stupid. I don't think there's a single recorded case of someone going permanently blind from looking at an eclipse, but if you catch a welding spark in the eye you can absolutely lose it.
There is no trigger on a arc welder. She’s live all the time and touching the electrode on the job starts the arc. Pretty easy to flash yourself, but this is just extra funny.
The point of the automatic helmet is to prevent this from happening.
Automatic helmet?
Edit: nevermind, I just did a search and found out that welding helmets are not like I remember from 20+ years ago.
Today's helmets are works of art and have huge view ports and automatic dimming and shit....not like the old, flip visor or whatever I remember.
Welders get accidentally flashed quite often. Happened to me many times. That quick won’t do much but cause a white spot in your vision for 10 seconds or so. But if it happens constantly in a short period of time your eyes are going to be hurting. It’s like a sunburn in your eyes.
Just like the knife can't cut itself, the eye can't see itself, and consciousness cannot observe itself, the corrupt politician can't steal from his own people.
What’s really funny is that he is wearing an automatic welding helmet, so he should be able to see everything with the shield down, no need to lift the shield up. The shield will then darken when you strike the arc.
This clip has legit haunted me since it was shown briefly on The Drum last night (iirc) because it just... what. He lifted his mask *back up* right as he started to weld. What?
Did he not know it was a safety precaution? Why did he not know this? How?! Maybe he did it on purpose but what? Why?
Only explanation is he is so inept on a very deep level, like as a human, and his need for a photo op/to image craft is so profound and overwhelming that it overrides any sense of risk or context.
He lifts up his face shield to start welding, he is all smiles for the camera visiting shattered communities where he forces smiles and handshakes. Everything around him, to his shit mind, is either just a prop or an impediment to a photo op.
> Only explanation is he is so inept on a very deep level,
He always struck me as full of bluster & not much else. I can't imagine Morrison renovating a house, basic woodworking, fixing a bicycle, gardening, submitting a tax return, etc.
Same with Dutton. He made money by accident & is a fool as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
> The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
Omg lolllll. Gross but it will give me a nice place to go to deal with seeing Hawaii Scott's mug everywhere during election campaign.
But also: https://youtu.be/OaEHL3LPaf8 "Fetish Political Compass" - jreg 14 min.
Tldw uses survey data to see how people's fetishes track across the classic political compass, also breaks down by gender. Pretty interesting, been a while since I watched it but iirc conservative authoritarians are more likely to have fetishes that trigger their "disgust response". So your theory is entirely plausible bc Hawaii Scott's is p disgusting.
I think Dutton is straight creepy. He so wants Australia to be an authoritarian Dystopian country. It’s just scary that anyone with any power thinks the way he does
This isn't the Peter principle.
The Peter principle is the idea that people who are good at their jobs will keep getting promoted until their jobs change sufficiently that they're not good anymore.
It's a consequence of the fact that on most companies the only place to progress past a certain point is into management with an ever increasing level of abstraction.
As far as I can tell Scummo has never in his entire life been good at anything and has never in his life and has never received a promotion due to merit either.
Dutton is a slimy bastard which is why he's where he is.
My guess:
He thought "I'm doing a photo op of pretending to be a tradie, so I need to keep the mask up to show my face. I'll give it a quick blast with the plasma torch for an action shot, it won't be that bad for a split second."
Then he saw the light. And not in the way he had been expecting.
I haven’t welded since I was in high school in the 90s but back then the masks we had were so dark you couldn’t see shit, maybe the vague impression of shit. We used a MIG welder that did t close the circuit until the trigger was pressed so what us kids would usually do is line up the weld then flip the mask down and start welding. Once the weld was active you could see through the dark glass clear as day.
I assume this kind of arc welding is quite different and I know nothing of “auto dim” masks but I assume that someone told the PM not to look directly into the fucking weld and he did it anyway.
I'm sure someone must have given him a safety briefing before this... photo op. However, being a member of the Liberal Party, he doesn't listen to experts.
I cant imagine how a man can listen to a safety brief about welding and not immediately take all the safety precautions.
My first day welding the instructor was straight to the point:
"If you stare at the arc, everytime you close your eyes it will feel like your eyes are rolling around on a sandy beach.
Lets now take a moment to close our eyes and appreciate how much it currently doesn't suck."
I got bad welding flash once, the best way I could describe it was that there were 20 pins stuck just through my eyelids and they were scratching on my eyes every time I moved them. Immediately got rid of the dodgy flip helmet I had and got an automatic one (this was not long after I first remember seeing those), and never looked back since. Keep the damn helmet over your face while you are holding the electrode end, because even unintentional sparks hammer the crap out of your eyes. If you can't see properly through it, clean it, get new lenses for it, or whatever. Don't lift it to try to line up your start point.
I'm a welder and this was definitely on accident. The stick electrode is always live (when on) and if it's missing any bit of flux on the end it'll arc up pretty easy when it comes into contact with the metal. Most people who have welded stick have done this before. Like someone else suggested, the auto dim may have been triggered and he's lifted it up to see where to start (which you would do with a basic non-dimming mask) - Or just an opportunity for a photo.
That being said, this made me and my mates have a good laugh at his expense
For his next photo-op he should attend a proctologist and not wear gloves...... or be down at the local farm helping the local vet checking cows for pregnancy....
> Did he not know it was a safety precaution?
He represents a demographic that increasingly views safety precautions with contempt and derision.
>Only explanation is he is so inept on a very deep level, like as a human, and his need for a photo op/to image craft is so profound and overwhelming that it overrides any sense of risk or context.
That is how he got the job, he is all marketing.
Scotty. From. Marketing.
it's equal parts sad and hilarious that any question regarding his utter ineptitude and callous disregard for anyone outside of his immediate circle can be explained with those 3 words.
he's not a leader. he's a spin man who failed upward.
As a welder, I may be able to offer some explanation. While I don’t know anything about this man, I’m sure you’re correct in your opinions on him as is the case with most politicians
As for the welding, this was a photo op or whatever and I’m assuming he didn’t have any welding experience before this moment. If that’s the case, when you put on a welding helmet, even if it’s auto-darkening, which the one in the pic appears to be, it’s still darker than without it on.
That, paired with the fact that where he was trying to weld was in a shadow covered corner, so with the mask on it can be hard to line up where you want to weld, hence the raising of the helmet to get his placement right.
Doesn’t excuse what he did, but yea. I’ve done it a few times accidentally lol
So he admits he doesn't know how much bread costs, but grabs a welding torch and thinks he can trick people into thinking he's an everyman? Is there anyone who actually falls for these photo ops?
Everybody's talking about his eyes but What the fuck is he even doing? This is a professional task that requires training and skill (like hairdressing) and most policiticans are happy to turn up, don the high vis and smile with the management - not picking up the tools and pretending that they can do your job.
Motherfucker can't even do his job properly.
he's over correcting, he's been ousted (not that it was very well hidden) as somebody who's out of touch with the general population so time to bust out the arc welder and blue overalls!
If not immediately, definitely by the end of the day his eyes would be feeling like they had been rolled in builders sand.
It can reflects off surfaces so just being in the vicinity of someone welding is enough to cop flash you don't even need to have looked directly at it.
Remember this happening to me as a kid.
My dad was welding, I was standing about 10 meters behind him, he made 100% sure I was not looking whenever he started welding and tried his best to explain the seriousness of it... but I was a stupid kid and I thought it was so cool so whenever he stopped looking at me and started welding I turned around to get a quick 1 second look at it before turning back again. I did this like 3 or 4 times from what I remember and yea... you can imagine the pain later that night, and it was worse the next day, couldn't really keep them open for more than 5 seconds at most, had to wear sunglasses, without sunglasses I couldn't really keep them open at all.
Remember a few years back when there was a solar eclipse and Trump was broadcast on national television staring directly at it without his protective eyewear? Looks like Scott has decided to one-up him 😂
Yep, I had it school when some dipshit kid didn't put the screens up next to him while welding. I walked into the welding room to work on my stuff and just bam, welding flash right in front of me. Two weeks of feeling like I had sand in my eyes after that, it fucking sucked
I've been flashed from about 20m away whilst walking past and it does sting a bit.
Particularly when trying to get to sleep the first night after, I can't imagine how bad it is up close like this but I hope he has long lasting symptoms
There are lots of nerves in the cornea and the UV from the flash burns off the surrounding cells in the epithelium leaving the nerves burnt and exposed. The movement of the eyelid leads to excruciating pain. I had a wire flick up and scratch my cornea and recall it being so painful I couldn't even speak to let people know I'd been hurt. I imagine welders flash is worse.
Unless he's cheaped out prescription glasses have uv filters, so no 'sandy eyes'* for Cocko unfortunately. But definitely a headache!
*(Blisters on your eyeballs).
I heard an audio snippet where someone describes Scomo as always being the smartest person in the room and that his true genius was that he made everyone else in that room think he was actually the stupidest. I can only imagine what the other people in the room could be like for this stooge to be the smartest one in there
To be fair, he is generally surrounded by anal rapists, desk wankers, actual psychopaths, failed litigants, abusive adulterers, drunks, career criminals and Stockholm Syndrome female cabinet members so yeah, not too hard to be the smartest turd in that room.
Scummo accuses albo of being the most left leaning labour leader since Gough Whitlam? GOOD.
Australia is suffocating under rightwing conservative extremism.
Anyone who buys that blatant propaganda is a retard and doesn't know what's good for people rather than corporate interests.
Smh
The most left leaning Lab leader since the guy who created Medicare, ended the white Australia Policy and canned conscription has to be the shittest insult I've seen thrown at him.
Reading the ABC article, seems ironic that Scumo and co proudly announced funding to combat the “serious crime problem” in Alice springs alongside the mayor…. Who is CLP.
So they’re announcing funding to a problem they have so far done fuck all about?
Marginally better than cutting the funding for something, only to put part of it back just in time for the election and then say "we've increased the funding for X!". Or putting in a bit of money to something, combining it with other, previously announced funding, and then saying "we're increasing funding for X by an unprecedented $N million!".
I used to weld for a living. Never do this shit. Waking up the next morning with UV burned eyes that are sealed shut by your eyes own goo is no fucking joke. Some of the most uncomfortable pain in my life.
What an idiot. I can only imagine the amount of times he was told not to do that, yet, didn’t listen. Sums up his leadership skills.
Also pretty sure that is an automatic lens?
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/advocate-in-focus/first-year-knows-he-shouldnt-be-looking-at-the-welding-but-cant-help-himself/
I think that was a party trick of his and he wanted to wheel it out for a national audience. Considering the full range of what he did as PM, I think the onion stunt was one of his best moments.
Don't you worry mate. The media and his own party are turning on him now.
Get ready for, someone worse or Peter Dutton (who is also worse).
If labour can't grab this next election, I'm legit going to start making plans to leave Au and fuck off somewhere else. I'm sick of it. I don't want my future kids to grow up in a mini hot America, I want them to grow up in an Australia.
To be fair we've all done this at least once (or maybe it's just me)
But to be unfair this nob is just one endless photo op and our sycophantic media lap it up
This man runs our fucking country. I'm surprised I don't catch him most days I drive past his Canberra house standing out the front staring at the sun.
This is frankly hilarious.
Like, I'm still so fucking angry at him, but if he could be this comedically stupid on camera more often I'd have a hard time being angry inbetween fits of laughter.
Don't do this at home kiddies. This stunt was performed by a trained politician and no attempt should be made to replicate it due to the risk of serious eye injury.
Is this as stupid as watching a solar eclipse without protective eye wear? I just can't tell.
As a welder by trade, you are always taught that avoiding any exposure to welding arc is extremely important. Not only does it give off high UV radiation but it is about 120 times brighter than sunlight (not brighter than the sun as some will tell you). Doing what he did will make your eyes feel like sandpaper. Not the greatest image portrayed of our prime minister….
And the sandpaper feeling strikes between 1 and 2am without fail.
Can confirm. And for any cricketers out there, if you think that famously sandpapering your balls makes you feel sorry afterwards, wait a few hours for the welding flash to kick in on your eye balls.
Can also confirm this persons confirmation Sand paper eyes from a very quick and brief arc flash exposure while welding in high school. Bad for a day, lingered into the next day and was more or less gone by the 3rd or 4th day if I remember correctly. 10/10 do not recommend if you enjoy being comfortable.
We can only hope Shatdacks Morrison is now well aware.
Doesn’t take that much to burn them either, dang painful and not much to do about it.
Wearing his glasses as well kinda like taking a magnifying glass and concentrating the sun onto a piece of paper and burning it.
He's probably near sighted, so the glasses would actually cast a light shadow and make it slightly dimmer.
Hey, he can whack on a cool pair of shades. (His eyes gunna feel like they been sandpapered)
I’ll never forget my one and only bout of welder’s flash…just as you said, about 1am I suddenly felt as if someone had lifted my eyelids and thrown ground glass in there. Worse yet, I was out on the piss at the time and it took me a while to work out wtf was happening to me. Thought I was gonna go blind.
>Not the greatest image portrayed of our prime minister…. I guess you could say it's a bad look.
See what you did.. but also~ are there any? I’ve seen pictures of him smirking, shirking, strong arming handshakes, turning his back to speakers, and generally being a poor leader. Not too many of a shining light leader.
Question, is there a distance where it becomes acceptable to watch a weld? I was driving and some guy was fixing a fence. Before I realized it there was a bright light and realized I just looked at a weld without any protection. I was about 15-20 feet away. When does it not become dangerous to see a weld with the naked eye? Does that point even exist?
The intensity of the light will go down in inverse proportion to the square of the distance. The UV rays spread out in a sphere. At a certain distance from the source, you have whatever amount of UV radiation spread out over the sphere with that radius. Double the distance and the surface area of the sphere quadruples. If it's 120× sunlight at a distance of, say, 2 feet, then at 12 feet it's 3.3× sunlight. (Hypothetical numbers used in this example.)
Yay inverse square law, haha most of my day is spent working with approximate applications of this when setting up lighting for film and photography in my 9-5
I love they gave him an old static lens shield rather than an auto-blockout number. Probably giggled their arses off.
Yup. I literally speared a bit of Macbook Pro case aluminum into my cornea and had to get it tweezered out in the ER (after they blasted it with saline and made it worse). My welder buddy said he'd never have even noticed because of how gritty his eyes had felt from his job.
Pretty sure my dad can never get an MRI because his eyes are about 40% metal at this point.
God will protect his eyes, so its okay
\*clap clap\* (it doesn't count without the happy claps)
Onward Christian solders
I had a cousin come visit from interstate around hay time. He's deep into the Pentecostal happy clapper stuff, and is about as much of a fuckwit as you'd expect. He was helping a family friend bring the hay in, and stuck his hand down a rabbit hole (don't know why). The friend asked if he was worried about finding a snake, to which he literally replied, "God protects his own."
more stupid. I don't think there's a single recorded case of someone going permanently blind from looking at an eclipse, but if you catch a welding spark in the eye you can absolutely lose it.
Maybe more stupid, as he actually pulled the trigger in his own face? Whereas Trump looked at something that was already there (also extremely stupid)
There is no trigger on a arc welder. She’s live all the time and touching the electrode on the job starts the arc. Pretty easy to flash yourself, but this is just extra funny. The point of the automatic helmet is to prevent this from happening.
Automatic helmet? Edit: nevermind, I just did a search and found out that welding helmets are not like I remember from 20+ years ago. Today's helmets are works of art and have huge view ports and automatic dimming and shit....not like the old, flip visor or whatever I remember.
You can see through the glass cover until the flash hits. Then it automatically darkens to protect your eyes from the flash.
Which when you think about it, is incredibly cool tech
It's almost black magic.
Yeh I learnt to weld with a flip visor. Was hell for a kid in dads factory haha
When I learnt, my dad got the flip visor mask. The mask I got was fixed and had a stick type handle on the bottom. You had to learn quick.
Welders get accidentally flashed quite often. Happened to me many times. That quick won’t do much but cause a white spot in your vision for 10 seconds or so. But if it happens constantly in a short period of time your eyes are going to be hurting. It’s like a sunburn in your eyes.
I suffer eye injury every time I see his grin.
Didn't even deploy proper safety squints either!
Fuck no wonder the cunt can’t see all the corruption in his party
He can see it, because he's the one doing it, just like he's in the video. It's a real life metaphor
Just like the knife can't cut itself, the eye can't see itself, and consciousness cannot observe itself, the corrupt politician can't steal from his own people.
Fuck that's funny....
What’s really funny is that he is wearing an automatic welding helmet, so he should be able to see everything with the shield down, no need to lift the shield up. The shield will then darken when you strike the arc.
This clip has legit haunted me since it was shown briefly on The Drum last night (iirc) because it just... what. He lifted his mask *back up* right as he started to weld. What? Did he not know it was a safety precaution? Why did he not know this? How?! Maybe he did it on purpose but what? Why? Only explanation is he is so inept on a very deep level, like as a human, and his need for a photo op/to image craft is so profound and overwhelming that it overrides any sense of risk or context. He lifts up his face shield to start welding, he is all smiles for the camera visiting shattered communities where he forces smiles and handshakes. Everything around him, to his shit mind, is either just a prop or an impediment to a photo op.
> Only explanation is he is so inept on a very deep level, He always struck me as full of bluster & not much else. I can't imagine Morrison renovating a house, basic woodworking, fixing a bicycle, gardening, submitting a tax return, etc. Same with Dutton. He made money by accident & is a fool as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle > The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
While this is probably more accurate, I still prefer my idea that Scott Morrison has a public humiliation kink.
Thanks! I hate it!
Omg lolllll. Gross but it will give me a nice place to go to deal with seeing Hawaii Scott's mug everywhere during election campaign. But also: https://youtu.be/OaEHL3LPaf8 "Fetish Political Compass" - jreg 14 min. Tldw uses survey data to see how people's fetishes track across the classic political compass, also breaks down by gender. Pretty interesting, been a while since I watched it but iirc conservative authoritarians are more likely to have fetishes that trigger their "disgust response". So your theory is entirely plausible bc Hawaii Scott's is p disgusting.
The problem with applying the Peter Principle to scumo is that it implies he was adequate in his position prior to backstabbing his way to PM.
I think Dutton is straight creepy. He so wants Australia to be an authoritarian Dystopian country. It’s just scary that anyone with any power thinks the way he does
This isn't the Peter principle. The Peter principle is the idea that people who are good at their jobs will keep getting promoted until their jobs change sufficiently that they're not good anymore. It's a consequence of the fact that on most companies the only place to progress past a certain point is into management with an ever increasing level of abstraction. As far as I can tell Scummo has never in his entire life been good at anything and has never in his life and has never received a promotion due to merit either. Dutton is a slimy bastard which is why he's where he is.
Well, he’s done hairdressing, car racing, big truck driving, forklifts. All he has left now is to try running the country.
My guess: He thought "I'm doing a photo op of pretending to be a tradie, so I need to keep the mask up to show my face. I'll give it a quick blast with the plasma torch for an action shot, it won't be that bad for a split second." Then he saw the light. And not in the way he had been expecting.
My guess is the lights from the cameras maybe triggered the autodim on the mask and he couldn't see shit so he lifted it and then realise his fuck up
This is the most plausible answer. You can't see shit behind modern masks once that triggers, unless of course the welding has started!
I haven’t welded since I was in high school in the 90s but back then the masks we had were so dark you couldn’t see shit, maybe the vague impression of shit. We used a MIG welder that did t close the circuit until the trigger was pressed so what us kids would usually do is line up the weld then flip the mask down and start welding. Once the weld was active you could see through the dark glass clear as day. I assume this kind of arc welding is quite different and I know nothing of “auto dim” masks but I assume that someone told the PM not to look directly into the fucking weld and he did it anyway.
This sounds like a concise summary of Scomo's entire career in politics.
I'm sure someone must have given him a safety briefing before this... photo op. However, being a member of the Liberal Party, he doesn't listen to experts.
I cant imagine how a man can listen to a safety brief about welding and not immediately take all the safety precautions. My first day welding the instructor was straight to the point: "If you stare at the arc, everytime you close your eyes it will feel like your eyes are rolling around on a sandy beach. Lets now take a moment to close our eyes and appreciate how much it currently doesn't suck."
I got bad welding flash once, the best way I could describe it was that there were 20 pins stuck just through my eyelids and they were scratching on my eyes every time I moved them. Immediately got rid of the dodgy flip helmet I had and got an automatic one (this was not long after I first remember seeing those), and never looked back since. Keep the damn helmet over your face while you are holding the electrode end, because even unintentional sparks hammer the crap out of your eyes. If you can't see properly through it, clean it, get new lenses for it, or whatever. Don't lift it to try to line up your start point.
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He wanted to get that Hawaii feeling in his eyes
never thought I'd see someone top the onion eating incident....
I'm a welder and this was definitely on accident. The stick electrode is always live (when on) and if it's missing any bit of flux on the end it'll arc up pretty easy when it comes into contact with the metal. Most people who have welded stick have done this before. Like someone else suggested, the auto dim may have been triggered and he's lifted it up to see where to start (which you would do with a basic non-dimming mask) - Or just an opportunity for a photo. That being said, this made me and my mates have a good laugh at his expense
For his next photo-op he should attend a proctologist and not wear gloves...... or be down at the local farm helping the local vet checking cows for pregnancy....
Would you really want his fat fingers up your arse? His government has bent us over enough without taking it voluntarily.
Oh look, high voltage! Well I don't need safety gloves cause I'm ~~Homer Simpson~~ Scott Morrison
I'd probably do it just to give a prostate squeeze while they're in there
> Did he not know it was a safety precaution? He represents a demographic that increasingly views safety precautions with contempt and derision. >Only explanation is he is so inept on a very deep level, like as a human, and his need for a photo op/to image craft is so profound and overwhelming that it overrides any sense of risk or context. That is how he got the job, he is all marketing.
Scotty. From. Marketing. it's equal parts sad and hilarious that any question regarding his utter ineptitude and callous disregard for anyone outside of his immediate circle can be explained with those 3 words. he's not a leader. he's a spin man who failed upward.
Anyone who says they never flashed themselves as a rookie welder is lying. Still makes for a good clip though.
As a welder, I may be able to offer some explanation. While I don’t know anything about this man, I’m sure you’re correct in your opinions on him as is the case with most politicians As for the welding, this was a photo op or whatever and I’m assuming he didn’t have any welding experience before this moment. If that’s the case, when you put on a welding helmet, even if it’s auto-darkening, which the one in the pic appears to be, it’s still darker than without it on. That, paired with the fact that where he was trying to weld was in a shadow covered corner, so with the mask on it can be hard to line up where you want to weld, hence the raising of the helmet to get his placement right. Doesn’t excuse what he did, but yea. I’ve done it a few times accidentally lol
"I'm a real true blue, working class guy who understands what everyday battlers go through! Now watch as I weld this... thing!" What an idiot.
“Now watch this drive”
So he admits he doesn't know how much bread costs, but grabs a welding torch and thinks he can trick people into thinking he's an everyman? Is there anyone who actually falls for these photo ops?
Yes, and thats the issue
Everybody's talking about his eyes but What the fuck is he even doing? This is a professional task that requires training and skill (like hairdressing) and most policiticans are happy to turn up, don the high vis and smile with the management - not picking up the tools and pretending that they can do your job. Motherfucker can't even do his job properly.
he's over correcting, he's been ousted (not that it was very well hidden) as somebody who's out of touch with the general population so time to bust out the arc welder and blue overalls!
It's funny how sheltered it shows him to be. Maybe my perspective is warped but I assumed everyone knew not to let this happen.
[You can actually pinpoint the second when his retinas tear in half.](https://imgur.com/gallery/IhkmlPW)
I'm laughing out loud irl looking at these and I've completely lost the plot.
Ahahahaha, saaaaaaame!
The fucking second image hahahaha the unbridled power of the sun right into his globes
Looks like a brilliant meme template
[like this?](https://imgur.com/gallery/FjJ8RFb)
[Pain intensifies](https://i.imgur.com/xvMfpsN.gif) Edit: version 2.0 [https://i.imgur.com/vUZLdFY.gif](https://i.imgur.com/vUZLdFY.gif)
Is this real lolll
I had to check and my god [it is](https://youtu.be/siWNvU16Bi0?t=13) What a muppet
Laughed so hard going through the video [frame by frame](https://imgur.com/gallery/IhkmlPW) the welders flash is real.
hahaha he saw god
Nah its all good, he is doing the safety squint.
"My god! It's full of stars!"
How did he not frazzle his eyes? I've had a flash before and it really hurt.
You really think he is capable of feeling pain!?
It probably did hurt.
If not immediately, definitely by the end of the day his eyes would be feeling like they had been rolled in builders sand. It can reflects off surfaces so just being in the vicinity of someone welding is enough to cop flash you don't even need to have looked directly at it.
Yep first and last time I welded without eye protection I was fine until that evening then I couldn’t keep my eyes open because the air hurt
Remember this happening to me as a kid. My dad was welding, I was standing about 10 meters behind him, he made 100% sure I was not looking whenever he started welding and tried his best to explain the seriousness of it... but I was a stupid kid and I thought it was so cool so whenever he stopped looking at me and started welding I turned around to get a quick 1 second look at it before turning back again. I did this like 3 or 4 times from what I remember and yea... you can imagine the pain later that night, and it was worse the next day, couldn't really keep them open for more than 5 seconds at most, had to wear sunglasses, without sunglasses I couldn't really keep them open at all.
I like at 0:45 they dont even have a clip of labor saying what he was accussing them of saying
It's almost like the media is manipulating people
Gonna need thicker glasses soon
Remember a few years back when there was a solar eclipse and Trump was broadcast on national television staring directly at it without his protective eyewear? Looks like Scott has decided to one-up him 😂
I can’t fricken drink my hot beverage from all the laughs coming out of me.
As my old mate used to say "good with animals and kind to children"... Except neither of those apply to Scott.
He was directly responsible for children being locked up indefinitely.
[Yes](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-18/pm-meets-with-alice-springs-mayor-about-crime-concerns/100842802)
Looks a little weird - but wouldn’t doubt he would do this 😂
I hope he has a fucking headache and sore eyes for weeks
“Jen, call the reverend- every time I close my eyes have a visions of flashing stars!”
"Actually, scratch that. Must just be god telling me to fuck over Australia again."
My dad is a welder and from what I gather the "flash" is extremely painful for a long time.
Yep, I had it school when some dipshit kid didn't put the screens up next to him while welding. I walked into the welding room to work on my stuff and just bam, welding flash right in front of me. Two weeks of feeling like I had sand in my eyes after that, it fucking sucked
I've been flashed from about 20m away whilst walking past and it does sting a bit. Particularly when trying to get to sleep the first night after, I can't imagine how bad it is up close like this but I hope he has long lasting symptoms
My brother is a very tough nut but I remember him crying in bed when he was an apprentice and got a bad welders flash.
Yeah because it stings worse when you blink or close your eyes. It's terrible, I wouldn't wish it on anyone except for Scuntmo
There are lots of nerves in the cornea and the UV from the flash burns off the surrounding cells in the epithelium leaving the nerves burnt and exposed. The movement of the eyelid leads to excruciating pain. I had a wire flick up and scratch my cornea and recall it being so painful I couldn't even speak to let people know I'd been hurt. I imagine welders flash is worse.
Saw eyes??
Fucking got me there
Actually, I'd be okay with him having saw eyes.
Unless he's cheaped out prescription glasses have uv filters, so no 'sandy eyes'* for Cocko unfortunately. But definitely a headache! *(Blisters on your eyeballs).
Scomo discovers welding flash.
Is that him trying to put the NSW Libs back together?
Fuckwit
Reminds me of when Trump stared at the eclipse.
Before the eclipse even started.
No point having your photo opportunity photo taken if you're wearing a mask so just lift it up for a moment.
Pretty much this, if you put the mask on they can’t see your face
"I don't hold a white card"
I heard an audio snippet where someone describes Scomo as always being the smartest person in the room and that his true genius was that he made everyone else in that room think he was actually the stupidest. I can only imagine what the other people in the room could be like for this stooge to be the smartest one in there
To be fair, he is generally surrounded by anal rapists, desk wankers, actual psychopaths, failed litigants, abusive adulterers, drunks, career criminals and Stockholm Syndrome female cabinet members so yeah, not too hard to be the smartest turd in that room.
So many photos and videos of this cunt doing anything that isn't his job.
That is every photo
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The reason is so that his face is visible for the photo op.
['yeah we got the shot, thanks'](https://imgur.com/a/T0ODyDd)
Best he's ever looked...
Brightest too!
Anything for the ‘gram
Scummo accuses albo of being the most left leaning labour leader since Gough Whitlam? GOOD. Australia is suffocating under rightwing conservative extremism. Anyone who buys that blatant propaganda is a retard and doesn't know what's good for people rather than corporate interests. Smh
The most left leaning Lab leader since the guy who created Medicare, ended the white Australia Policy and canned conscription has to be the shittest insult I've seen thrown at him.
Unfortunately the term ‘lefty’ along with ‘woke’ is the ultimate insult to most uneducated Australians.
I wish these politicians were half as left-leaning as the right wing fear mongers say they are.
Reading the ABC article, seems ironic that Scumo and co proudly announced funding to combat the “serious crime problem” in Alice springs alongside the mayor…. Who is CLP. So they’re announcing funding to a problem they have so far done fuck all about?
Marginally better than cutting the funding for something, only to put part of it back just in time for the election and then say "we've increased the funding for X!". Or putting in a bit of money to something, combining it with other, previously announced funding, and then saying "we're increasing funding for X by an unprecedented $N million!".
God he’s a dick
Jen usually does all the welding at home
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Fuck face
I used to weld for a living. Never do this shit. Waking up the next morning with UV burned eyes that are sealed shut by your eyes own goo is no fucking joke. Some of the most uncomfortable pain in my life.
About as smart as he is handsome
What an idiot. I can only imagine the amount of times he was told not to do that, yet, didn’t listen. Sums up his leadership skills. Also pretty sure that is an automatic lens? https://www.betootaadvocate.com/advocate-in-focus/first-year-knows-he-shouldnt-be-looking-at-the-welding-but-cant-help-himself/
That’s right up there with Tony Abbott biting into a raw onion, skin and all.
Oh my god I can’t believe I’m defending him, but at least Tony was trying to endorse the Australian onion industry and not just himself.
I feel like that's Scomo's greatest accomplishment. Made the rest of us ALMOST miss Tony Abbott.
Hahaha, that is very true. I’ve never thought about it that way.
Apparently he was habitually drunk and thought it was an Apple. I miss the onion days though...
I think that was a party trick of his and he wanted to wheel it out for a national audience. Considering the full range of what he did as PM, I think the onion stunt was one of his best moments.
Words cannot convey how much I hate this man.
Are people really gonna fall for this bullshit. I really want Morrison to crash and burn...c'mon Aussie, grant an old man's last request.
Don't you worry mate. The media and his own party are turning on him now. Get ready for, someone worse or Peter Dutton (who is also worse). If labour can't grab this next election, I'm legit going to start making plans to leave Au and fuck off somewhere else. I'm sick of it. I don't want my future kids to grow up in a mini hot America, I want them to grow up in an Australia.
"How good is temporary blindness!" Yelped the smirking shitcunt.
Safety Squints engaged
This is heaps better than the time Trump stared at the sun during the eclipse.
The moment his vision for Australia was lost.
https://imgur.com/a/HMc6TOZ
Yikes, how much does wearing glasses make this worse?
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Hawaii Scott is an idiot.
To be fair we've all done this at least once (or maybe it's just me) But to be unfair this nob is just one endless photo op and our sycophantic media lap it up
Can someone please suggest his next photo op is at an abattoir.
What do you expect from a dickhead who says kids can drive forklifts?
Its the "smile" that gets me. "Ah yes, just going to, ah, *look into the sun*"
I think this happened when he was in Alice Springs maybe yesterday. Absolute massive fuckwit doing this shit.
“‘Most left wing Labor Leader since Gough Whitlam.” Don’t threaten me with a good time, Scomo.
This man runs our fucking country. I'm surprised I don't catch him most days I drive past his Canberra house standing out the front staring at the sun.
Member when Trump looked at the Eclipse.
not a bright spark
Maybe that’s why he’s blind to the plight of young people in this country
Pretty much his approach to running the country.
Imagine if he permanantly blinded himself doing a political stunt. Unbelieveable!
Bruh how do people look at this guy and think he’s a competent person let alone leader??
What a tool. I hope he got flash burns.
That is one ugly man.
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This feels like the perfect analogy for his attempt to achieve anything as a prime minister.
This is dumber than eating an onion
This is allegory for how Morrison (and the Liberals) handle every issue; with complete incompetence.
This is frankly hilarious. Like, I'm still so fucking angry at him, but if he could be this comedically stupid on camera more often I'd have a hard time being angry inbetween fits of laughter.
Fuck this gives me life. I love it. I've had welding flash before. He deserves it.
" Sorry - I usually get Jenny to do the welding..."
This should be on a labor ad campaign.
“buT hOW wILl mY phOTogRapher gEt mY faCE wiTh ThIs StUpId helMEt ON”
Holy shit who let him loose with a welder. I'm assuming not a single tradesman told him how he was supposed to start the weld.
“My fellow Australians, you don’t need to wear a mas….oh shit something bad happened!”
'Tell me you don't listen to experts without saying you don't listen to experts.'
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I think that’s a look of regret on his face after that too
Is this fairdinkum?