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Anyway, I really think Pat is not the one to blame here, he has his own point of view and he thinks a welder is stupid for keeping a hazardous job for a long time not caring about safety and mostly because sometimes they have family and little ones to take care of. So yes, they are really stupid not not to think first about the loved ones and just stupidly think about enough wages or paying college or mortgages.

Welders I do Thank you for what you do, YES you are stupid for considering your own safety and for not thinking on wives and kids before welding a gas tank or whatever. You welders arguing about IQ and anual incomes should think that Pat are calling you stupid because YOU DONT REALIZE THE DANGER OF THE JOB and THINK LIKE SAVAGES WILL THINK THAT A MAN’S JOB IS TO ENDURE PAIN AND SUFFERING (PHYSICAL) AND LIKE SUPERMEN…NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO THEM ‘CAUSE THEY ARE SUPER WELDERS….UUUGGGHHH STUPID WAY OF THINKING NOT ONLY AFFECTING WELDERS BUT SONS OF WELDERS.

Please not only read but understand that, Welders are stupid because risking their lifes over nothing, not stupid just because you are welders.

stop killing yourselves.

and pleeeeeeease, stop being proud of being a welder and saying you have a hugh IQ. YOU DONT, otherwise you’ll have another job. And for those stupids that after reading this will think “I’m doing this because i like it/love it” you are the real beasts.

I want it!

If dying spectacularly makes one stupid, how do you feel about astronauts? Have you seen the explosions involved there? Lots of lives lost by people who went through a ton of school, training, and the limits of human tolerance. You can not be “stupid” and climb into a vehichle designed for space travel, there are standards. They know the risks involved, and are willing to take on the job for any number of reasons from income, to glory, to personal satisfaction.

I can think of many famous deaths that made quite a spectacle, but the deceased was far from stupid.

Here’s my view:

Welding is a pretty crumby job, not unlike many crumby jobs that make this world run smoothly. It carries high risk and typically low reward. People who take this position may have many different motivations. Some have limited options. Some have a desire the accomplish things that people like you think are crazy (welding underwater, upside-down under a bridge, or where it’s 140+ degrees), which is not much different from any thrill seeker. Some like the accomplishment of seeing and touching a product actually assembled by themselves.

These things don’t make them stupid, they make them unfortunate at worst, but occasionally, this career makes people happy.

So, if you want to group anyone who dies via fire, electrocution, crushing, or suffocating into a “stupid” category, this page is valid. I think, however, that a person’s intelligence should be measured not by how they died, but what they thought of while they lived, and that view is absent from your page.

Conclusion? I agree welding is one of the less pleasant jobs a worker in this day and age can take- But I have less respect for people who go out of their way to insult workers who seem to be content with their way of lives.

Be nice and respectful, and your arguments will carry more weight, though I admit you’ll get less replies.

-P.S. To anyone replying to argue the point, please make sure you can spell and punctuate at least enough to get your point across clearly, otherwise you are bringing a knife to a gun fight, and that IS stupid.

Today’s dead welder is dedicated to T.A. Barnes who doesn’t know how to use punctuation. From Cornwall is a dead stupid welder-

An experienced welder was crushed to death after a jack supporting the pick-up truck he was lying under toppled over, an inquest heard.

Grandfather David Johns was just two months away from retiring when the tragedy happened at his garage in Newquay, Cornwall.

Yesterday the inquest at Truro heard 64-year-old Mr Johns had not put blocks under the tyres of the blue Mazda truck to secure it, as is usual practice.