- Captiontastic
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- Nursing needs YOU – caption comp.
…for another caption competition, I think. Eh eh? And here’s a lovely picture from the bygone days of our profession. Here are some asylum attendants in a ward in the Leavesden asylum for “quiet and harmless imbeciles”
What might these stout fellows be saying to one another?
Apropos of nothing, here’s a picture of the bathrooms in said asylum
Loving the attention to patient dignity there.
Mind you, you may mock but they had all mod cons there, like a Turkish bath for patients and staff (available for use Wednesdays and Sundays). Especially recommended for female staff who “suffer to a large extent from biliousness consequent on their restricted and somewhat repressed life”. So now you know, ladies.
Anyway, usual rules, with allowances made for the fairer sex and their biliousness.
I can’t think of a caption for considering who they were looking after….. “quiet and harmless imbeciles”
*ponders*
“Fed up of fighting the staff for use of the Turkish bath, the quiet and harmless imbeciles had slaughtered the attendents and assumed their places in the yearly staff photo”
The staff hoped it wasn’t too obvious that they’d let the inmates go so they could devote time to their new cannabis farm.
Attendant training isn’t what it used to be. It’s all gone downhill since they implemented Project 1900.
I told you putting plants in the chamber pots, would deflect interest as to why there are no toilets in the bathrooms
Of course what many people don’t know, is that before they were famous The Beatles did a lot of community work.
“No, sorry, this is for quiet and harmless imbeciles. Loud imbeciles should be sent for nurse training. Harmful imbeciles are to be fast-tracked into Dept of Health management.”
“Either we retrain to work on the IT help desk or we get made redundant… all down to this new fangled fekn care in the community lark!”
ACT: you beat me to it!I was going to say: “Dammit Ringo, next time John gets to style the album cover shoot”.
or
“Bono and U2 take their messiah complex just a little too far”.
These photos scare the crap out of me though.
If I had been born back then, well, at 22 they would have admitted me to somewhere like that, an there I would have stayed, until I managed to off myself somehow.
Jesus.
On the other ward we have the patients who only think they are invisible.
“Erratum – the photograph’s description ‘quiet and harmless imbeciles’ should read ‘quiet and harmless invisibles’.”
Interesting one this – the photograph was taken at a time when film technology was less well developed than it is today (pun intended). Film speeds were slow, and the camera’s shutter had to be left open for about 10 minutes in order to capture an image. One result of this was that the only people who actually appeared in such pictures were the ones who had stayed stock-still for the entire time of the exposure.
Curiously, if a modern ward were photographed using the same technique, only the staff would appear today too.
Matron won’t care that we’ve lost the patients, she only checks the sheet corners.
The attendants didn’t mind that the patients had all gone to look through the keyhole of the Turkish bath; they’d heard Nurse Ratched complaining of feeling bilious the day before…
After being informed that the asylum was to be closed, wardens displayed their wares in the hope the cash in the attic team would pop round.
quiet and harmless imbeciles’ should be unseen and not heard
I think we have a winner in Kitty with “Attendant training isn’t what it used to be. It’s all gone downhill since they implemented Project 1900.”
Drum roll please. And your special prize is a luxury stay in the Leavesden asylum, complete with access to Turkish bath and attendants to rub you down. Congradulashuns!
Thank you very much.
I’m really starting to enjoy these.