[Humour] Joke a the day…

[The Clamp]

A pub in Ireland. Saturday afternoon.

A bloke sits on his own drinking a pint when he spots another bloke up at the bar who looks just like him.

He sits for a while and then decides to go and talk to him.

“Ah Jaysus and Begora, ya look just like me, where’d you grow up”?

The other bloke replies

“Well, right here in Ballymore”

No way! Me too. What street?

“Patrick Street”

Away witcha, me too!

“What number were ya born in”?

162

“Well would you believe it! Me too. What are your parents’ names”?

Sean and Shannon

“Mine too. Well this is unbelievable so it is”

So they got another round and continued talking as the bartenders changed shifts. The new bartender came in and asked his colleague;

“What’s new today”?

“Oh not much. The Murphy twins are drunk again”

 

[marcos3263]

Under the Licensing Act 2003, it is an offence to knowingly serve alcohol to a drunk person, or to obtain alcohol for a drunk person on a licensed premises. If they were that drunk as to not recognise their own brother then the barman should have refused to serve them and moreover should be prosecuted.

There is a bigger problem here of alcohol abuse if they are inebriated in an afternoon and its a common issue.

I feel sorry for the lives it must wreck around them.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Under the Licensing Act 2003, it is an offence to knowingly serve alcohol to a drunk person, or to obtain alcohol for a drunk person on a licensed premises. If they were that drunk as to not recognise their own brother then the barman should have refused to serve them and moreover should be prosecuted.

There is a bigger problem here of alcohol abuse if they are inebriated in an afternoon and its a common issue.

I feel sorry for the lives it must wreck around them.

I suspect that there is something else going on here beyond simple alcoholism, tragic as that affliction is. Basic memory is clearly not an issue since they both have a complete grasp of their birth address and parent names, so to have a complete blank about a sibling is indicative of a deeper problem. Perhaps they were separated at some point in their lives and the trauma has never been resolved? We can only speculate on this point, but the fact that the local community has dismissed their struggle as just being drunk says a lot about the uncaring modern world that we live in.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I heard a story about this exact situation happening to the Byrne brothers in a similar part of Ireland back in the day. Many people ridiculed them, like in the scenario you describe above but, like the Murphys, they weren't bitter.

 

[Jack Straw]

I've just looked up 162 Patrick Street, Ballymore, on Google Maps. There's no such address, which makes me believe that all this is made up?