CN Scott Morrison rips into 'narcs' slamming him for extraordinary welding blunder which could have BLINDED PM: 'It's not my day job' - retard puppet PM welded without mask without taking a peek then closing his eyes as per H&S rules

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Scott Morrison has explained why he risked blindness by trying to weld without a mask during an extraordinary photo-op blunder.

The Prime Minister diced with danger at a small business in Alice Springs on Saturday when he lifted his safety mask above his eyes just as he unleashed a blinding flash from a welding torch.

Footage of the incident was shared widely online by his political opponents including trade union boss Sally McManus who posted it with the caption 'what do the tradies of Australia think of this?'

Asked about the blunder on Sydney's Radio 2GB on Monday, Mr Morrison said: 'This was a pretty tricky little device I was trying to use. I hadn't used that one before.'

He then hit back at his critics, saying welding is not his job.

'So if people want to have a chip at me because I'm not a good welder, well, that's not my day job,' he said.

'And if all the narcs in the bubble want to have a crack at me, well, they can. But what I'm doing is showcasing the great work of our apprentices and small businesses.'

The PM wore a regulation welding safety visor during a visit to the workshop in the Northern Territory.

But he lifted the protective helmet moments before he touched the blazing arc of the welding torch to a metal beam.

His face lit up with the intense white light from the searing flame, which should only be viewed from behind the specially darkened screen.

The Prime Minister donned PPE including a safety visor during a visit to a workshop in Alice Springs but lifted the mask as he touched the blazing arc of a welding torch to a metal beam
Video showed a bystander desperately reaching out to try to bring down the mask but couldn't manage it in time as the 6000C spark erupted in his face.

Seconds earlier Morrison had cheerfully assured the tradie with him 'I've done this before, up in the Hunter.'

'On the tools again!' he added.

Eye damage from burns is a huge risk in welding and precautions to prevent it are taken extremely seriously.

The blunder drew comparisons with Donald Trump's defiant gazing at the eclipse without protective eyewear from the balcony of the White House in August 2017.

He looked three times, despite White House aids shouting, 'Don't look!'

Seconds earlier Morrison had cheerfully assured the tradie with him 'I've done this before, up in the Hunter'

 

[Slimy Time]

He got trolled by the shop. Who would think it's a good idea to photo op a weld, by someone who can't do it, on a piece of metal at that angle?

What other job resonates with the working class that a man trying to weld some metal together?

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

People are not "chipping at you" because of your welding skills. They are saying "hey retard, you are going to shoot your eye out"

 

[Iron Hamster]

What other job resonates with the working class that a man trying to weld some metal together?

He could have pulled off the welding larp if the piece was just sitting flat on the table. Welding at the angle he was trying is difficult. That's why I believe the shop was trolling him. Make it as difficult as possible to look stupid.
Pretending to be working under a car hood would have been a better option.

 

[BelUwUga]

People are not "chipping at you" because of your welding skills. They are saying "hey retard, you are going to shoot your eye out"

Seriously. Safety issue reports aren't "narcing" on anyone and that attitude alone has a staggering body count. It's your eyes that are frying ScoMo, not theirs. Don't complain that someone dared to give more consideration to your own safety than you did yourself. The proper answer is "Fuck me that was stupid, good looks calling it out, I'll be sure to be less of an idiot moving forward." If tradies know you're a liability they can't tell anything, expect them all to be on smoko next time you show up to endanger yourself.

 

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Seriously. Safety issue reports aren't "narcing" on anyone and that attitude alone has a staggering body count. It's your eyes that are frying ScoMo, not theirs. Don't complain that someone dared to give more consideration to your own safety than you did yourself. The proper answer is "Fuck me that was stupid, good looks calling it out, I'll be sure to be less of an idiot moving forward." If tradies know you're a liability they can't tell anything, expect them all to be on smoko next time you show up to endanger yourself.

Not to mention that if the guy with the torch has his visor flipped up and noone in their right mind would expect him to touch it to metal, it wouldn't be unreasonable for others (perhaps some manager who's just chucked on a cheap fixed-shade helmet that they give to apprentices to show the fuckwit-in-chief around) to flip things up too.

 

[Mepsi Pax]

Dudes lmao nothing's gonna happen from him lighting an arc for .3 seconds without a visor, are you fuckin serious? You could probably do that dozens, even hundreds, of times without sustaining a real injury. Do your eyes fall out of your head if you accidentally glance at the sun? Everyone would be fucking blind before they reached the age of majority.

Yeah it's a huge safety faux pas and it's pretty stupid but let's not get hysterical like the journoshits want us to be.

 

[Drain Todger]

Ultraviolet radiation while the arc is there, which suntans your eyeballs.

Correct. Welding arcs give off a lot of invisible and highly damaging UV. The problem isn't looking at it, it's having your eyes anywhere in the path of the light. Having unprotected eyes anywhere in the vicinity of a welding arc, even while looking away, means your corneas are slowly cooking. Keyword, slowly. Brief exposures like this are practically harmless. What you want to watch out for is arc eye/photokeratitis, which is cumulative damage from doing it for minutes at a time. That's what the hood is for.