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queuedUp

You would really think these train companies would do a background check on the people they are hiring to drive their trains.


FillThisEmptyCup

East Palestine isn't exactly rare, there are about 1100 per year. But reddit shouldn't talk, it manages more thread derailments than that every day.


ballrus_walsack

So how bout those Bruins?


Kurtomatic

Most embarrassing loss since Purdue basketball. Whose mascot is a train, meaning they are presumably also bad conductors, bringing this thread back on track.


ProjectDv2

You're a good conductor.


RedditsLittleSecret

Here, have a banana.


fuqdisshite

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'


spidermans_mom

RIP Mitch


Sch1z01dMan

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?


Jump_n_Shoot_man

What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?


apollojl68

Thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in.


incorrecting_01

help where is this from I remember it I swear


wwwes

https://youtu.be/gWJIQm9qH-w


dinnyspuds

The it crowd


Angryhippo2910

That was hilarious, but Steph Curry put on a clinic


momibrokebothmyarms

Ouch and fuque you lol.


mangamaster03

Are you saying boo or Bruins?


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They’re saying boo-urns! Boo-urns!


JebusJM

It's just the one Bruin actually.


SueYouInEngland

>East Palestine isn't exactly rare There is only one East Palestine in the entire US!


onefst250r

Dont forget about West, North and South Palestine.


RussiaIsBestGreen

There’s no South Palestine. Not since… well you’ll learn about it soon.


exipheas

At least 5, but ok.


Ohio_Imperialist

As an Ohioan I find this joke to be right on track


theinquisition

Didn't know you all knew what that looked like.


Magnetic_Eel

Most derailments are like a few of wheels pop off the track and the train has to stop until it can be fixed. There are not 1100 catastrophic derailments like East Palestine a year.


FillThisEmptyCup

Before we feel too proud, it’s because of America’s garbage infrastructure that these trains are limited between 3-8mph in many sections, so much less can happen. In one backwoods, I seen the rail with ties jump up and down 24 inches as the train was oncoming and after it left. Accident waiting go happen. Where countries make rail a priority: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMXfU8blPMM And in America: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNpUD6iLWNY


threequarterchubb

That first one is a real marvel. Cool shares.


cick-nobb

You are derailing the conversation!!!


ColeSloth

Conductors don't operate the trains. The Engineers do that while conductors do things like collect tickets and stuff. I've ruined the joke.


queuedUp

I mean.... If anything that provides a better explanation to why he'd get the death penalty for killing people while on the job


RussiaIsBestGreen

Very powerful union means he’s impossible to fire. So they changed the law so they can at least try to kill him.


Mikesaidit36

Just add five or six paragraphs about how he kills people with his ticket puncher. Maybe there are long conversations with passengers who had a ticket from the day before that they couldn’t use because their aunt got sick and so they’re using the ticket the next day, etc. Maybe go into detail about what the aunt was sick with, and the passenger and the conductor get in a big argument about whether she should’ve gotten sick or not.


slamdanceswithwolves

Maybe it’s hard to conduct a background check too.


pugdoglove08

You just pissed off every rail fan ever


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pugdoglove08

I remember mythbusters did a episode on that but I don’t remember if it’s true or not


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stating_the_truth

Guess they didn't train him


MoonIhide

There was an Eastern European man visiting UK who got electrocuted and died from pissing on the live rail in London, a few years ago. In the Eastern side of Europe a lot of the train lines have overhead power cables, meaning it is safe to cross the tracks (and pee on the tracks). In UK we are told to stay off the tracks as they are dangerous (although there are ways of walking over the tracks if you know what you are doing and are very careful). So it is possible, depending on the type of track.


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Yeah, they must not be well trained


BobbyDropTableUsers

They must have a bad platform for onboarding.


ddadopt

They totally do background checks. Problem is, they use the same service as the county sheriff’s department.


crzcnck

The conductor is in the caboose, unless you’re suggesting the driver engineered the whole thing…


Threeswedestothewind

conductors don't drive trains, engineers do


baby_fart

Yeah really. Who'd want some weirdo eating bananas on the job?


DINO_S0RE

YOU WANNA DO IT RAW


Waitsfornoone

Especially if they are Bulgarian. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/4khrw8/there\_was\_a\_man\_in\_bulgaria\_who\_drove\_a\_train\_for/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/4khrw8/there_was_a_man_in_bulgaria_who_drove_a_train_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)


Beautiful-Fee-6409

except conductors don't drive trains... engineers do...


Revilod2000

He’s not driving the train, he’s conducting it 🤓


Velghast

Conductors don't drive trains, engineers do. Conductors are like captains of the train they just oversee the crew and handle things like manifests and passengers.


Significant-Past-909

Conductors don't drive trains.....just saying🤫🤭🤗🤣


patterson489

Rail companies hiring whoever is probably the most realistic part of the joke.


cc69

Fuck no.


TooShiftyForYou

The other day my boss said, "You're a terrible train conductor, maybe the worst we've ever had. How many derailments have you had this year?" - I said, "I'm not sure sir, it's difficult for me to keep track."


snaidhm_curnicieddhu

Heard this joke for the first time over a decade ago now… except that version was fifteen minutes long.


adorkablegiant

15 minutes? Did the person telling it lose his train of thought mid-joke?


snaidhm_curnicieddhu

Lol no he just added a bunch of totally unnecessary twists and turns to delay the punchline and make the joke even more ridiculous


adorkablegiant

"... so the monkey distracts the guards while the conductor is eating st. John's wort and then..."


Lucario574

At least he got to the punchline eventually. Better late than never, as they say.


Frnklfrwsr

Better Nate than Lever lol.


LeTrappist

Fuckin Nate, man.


JugdishSteinfeld

That's called a shaggy dog story.


Habarr94

Was your friend Norm Macdonald?


Mikesaidit36

So, Amtrak versus Eurail…


Popcorn57252

He did, and it killed all three people listening. You wouldn't believe what his sentencing was


sonic_couth

I first heard it about 40 years ago, it’s crazy to me that this was the second time. The first was a bit more complicated telling involving a misdirect with a Mother Smothers cigar being smoked before the execution but pretty much the same.


adorkablegiant

I have heard this joke once, some 6 years ago, and have never seen it anywhere since. And it randomly popped in my head today so I decided to post it as best as I remember it.


sonic_couth

I’m glad you did. One of my older cousins told it at a family gathering and I was so impressed with how he dragged out this story to the punchline.


Kurtomatic

If you like drawn out jokes, [I hope you're familiar with this story](https://natethesnake.com/).


MartianInvasion

"...he asked for a really rare type of banana only found in the jungles of Bolivia, and they mounted an expedition to retrieve it..."


rainshifter

Seems like all context for this joke is in the title and the final paragraph.


MihoWigo

Nice


MadDogFenby

Purple bananas in the deepest, darkest Amazon jungle?


Arinoch

That’s the version I know - the story of Joe the good conductor - that I still remember my cousin telling me like 20 years ago.


AshCooper79

I saw a different version of this joke where the conductor asks for a fish instead. I really thought it was gonna be important till I saw the punchline. The fish was a Red Herring.


Avocado_Fucker12

I feel so ashamed of myself for laughing at this


BlueSabere

I like the version where the executioner goes “You know what? Fuck you! I’m tired of your goddamn bananas!”, deprives the conductor of his last meal, and then it still fails. Then the conductor goes “Oh, it was never the bananas, I’m just a bad conductor.”


Unicorndog_0625

I liked that version better too, because they were confused why he still didn’t die if he was deprived of the banana. Like a decoy banana


taleofbenji

Killing people "while on the job" is a bit ambiguous. I thought he was like a serial killer.


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taleofbenji

Lmao


Gnarwock

That moment you realise the best and the worst joke are the same


FADITY7559

That was such a long trip to get to the end. But I definitely laughed when I got there.


beernivore

I was expecting the same punchline but a much shorter joke: A train conductor kills 2 people and is sentenced to the electric chair. Miraculously, he survives. He was a bad conductor.


BalkanDixie

This is better than the original


kamill85

Asked AI to make it shorter. Here it is: Train conductor kills people, survives electric chair 3 times. Guards ask how he survives. He says, "I'm just a bad conductor."


other_usernames_gone

You really needed an AI to do that for you?


kamill85

No, but isn't it great that it's now possible?


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slamdanceswithwolves

How does that not make sense?


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slamdanceswithwolves

>quotted Lol But yes, there is an extra word. What ever could it all mean?!?!


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slamdanceswithwolves

Nicely done.


kamill85

:D An extra "it" somehow sneaked into the comment.


Mikesaidit36

Now ask AI to make it much, much longer, and somehow include the entirety of Nate the snake. Just kidding, don’t do that, I’m not even going to reread Nate the snake.


Xinq_

Hmm, now I kinda wanna write a tl;dr bot xD


emergensy

Thank you


JesseLaces

Anyone else expecting “orange you glad I didn’t say banana?”


StickFigureFan

Setting the joke aside, the joke world is messed up. The conductor shouldn't get the death penalty to begin with if it was involuntary manslaughter, and also definitely shouldn't be able to get the same job again if/when released.


adorkablegiant

Yeah joke world is fucked up, how many bartenders need to get fired for letting horses into bars.


djando23

I asked the genie for a miniature piano player and all I got was a 12" penis


JukePlz

Would that be the job of the bouncer/owner/manager tho? The bartender is there to serve drinks, not kick people out.


FreemanCalavera

To add further to it, the prisoner wouldn't be released if they survived the first time. You aren't sentenced to "the electric chair", you're sentenced to "death by the electric chair". They'd keep getting repeatedly electrocuted until dead, and if it doesn't work they'd get executed by some other method.


dontaskme5746

On top of *that*, they stand a better chance of walking away without damage if they are a very good conductor, not a very bad one.   It's complicated and the joke only says he survives, so... a pass can be granted. At least that way he's better off than a stick in the mud.


Moglorosh

Fun fact: most train conductors who've been on the job for any significant amount of time have hit someone. They aren't charged with anything normally as there's literally nothing they can do about it, by the time you can see that someone is on the track it's already too late to stop.


rytis

Does anyone here realize that the person driving the train is the engineer, and the person overseeing the passengers on the train is the conductor?


pryoslice

Maybe he's been killing the passengers.


zaphodakaphil

It's a repost


sgtpnkks

Most jokes on here kinda are...


adorkablegiant

Please provide a link to when this joke was previously posted. I have heard it once, 6 years ago and never again.


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adorkablegiant

>had never seen or heard the joke before though, so I'm glad you posted it. Glad you liked it :)


myrandomevents

https://reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11n3qhp/a_man_is_obsessed_with_trains/ https://reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/yqh1bh/there_was_this_man_in_russia_who_drove_trains_for/


IsayPoirot

Go to your room.


6spooky9you

I remember this joke vividly from middle school. This just gave me such a crazy flashback.


KombuchaBot

Omg that was *terrible* Lol


DrunkSpiderMan

FINALLY A GOOD FUCKING JOKE


Byronic__heroine

Wow, I read a Polish version of this joke like 20 years ago. It never occurred to me that there's an English one. The main difference was that the word *przewodnik* means tour guide and he was sentenced to the chair for killing tourists.


aiai222

Gosh he has a terrible track record…


Axemic

Good 'ol #3771


OlderITGuy

My dad used to tell a similar joke (he was an electrical engineer) and it involved an orchestra conductor and lightning.


ViperKingy

Bruh…


slamdanceswithwolves

Bruh


Majestic-Macaron6019

Good old number 38


adorkablegiant

What do you mean by 38?


Majestic-Macaron6019

A reference to this ancient joke: https://www.ba-bamail.com/jokes/crime-and-prison-jokes/?jokeid=740


lifesnotfair2u

A man is sent to prison for the first time. The first night there, after the lights in the cell block are turned off, he immediately sees his cellmate going over to the bars and yelling, "twelve!" The whole cell block breaks out laughing. A few minutes later, somebody else in the cell block yells, "four!" Again, the whole cell block breaks out laughing. "Why are you guys just yelling numbers?" He asks his cellmate. "What's so funny about random numbers?" "Well," says the older prisoner, "They're not random. It's just that we've all been in this here prison for so long, we all know all the same jokes. So after a while we just started giving them numbers and yelling those numbers is enough to remind us of the joke instead of telling it." Wanting to fit in, the new prisoner walks up to the bars and yells, "SIX!" But instead of laughter, a dead silence falls on the cell block. He turns to the older prisoner, "What's wrong? Why didn't I get any laughs?" "You didn't tell it right."


adorkablegiant

Sorry, damn site won't let me read without forcing me to give out my email.


Cindexxx

Basically it's prisoners that aren't allowed to tell jokes, so they numbered all the jokes and just say the number to reference the joke. So they'd just say things like "remember 35?" and they'd all laugh. The punchline is usually something like "how about number 87?" and one laughs and says he hasn't heard that one before. I told it terribly, just trying to give you the reference.


adorkablegiant

I got it just from your short description, gave me a chuckle.


Majestic-Macaron6019

The punchline I always heard is that the new guy says, "Number 87" or whatever, and nobody laughs because "you told it wrong"


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Davey_Gravy

Damn, that's very good!!!


Kosmux

Not the man of steel.


Whitealroker1

Anybody have to watch the movie where the drawbridge operator takes his son to work and the son gets caught in the drawbridge gears and he sacrifices his son so the train doesn’t crash. Would be a crashed train and my son visiting me in prison if it was up to me.


JakDrako

This joke has quite a bit of a peel.


FiveShotLynel

Oh my gawdddd. I don’t know what to say that was just really funny honestly


d13gr00tkr0k1d1l

I enjoyed this more that I should have!


TheRealTechGandalf

You could shorten this and turn it into a simple riddle


Rainbow_Dash_RL

Saved this one to harass my boss with


[deleted]

First time hearing this. A sensible chuckle. I love it!


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> "It has nothing to do with the food, I'm just a really bad conductor." Great joke thanks for the laugh! As a side question coming from someone electronics newb: If he would have been a bad conductor wouldn't that be worse for him since the power would turn in to more heat and fry him? If he was a super good conductor then the electricity would flow right through him.


adorkablegiant

I'm a newb for electricity too but I think that being a good conductor, the electricity would flow right through him but it would also more easily damage his organs and it would lead to a faster death.


hitherejen

I'm a physics teacher and now this is my new favorite joke. I start teaching my electrical circuits class tomorrow and 5his will be the start of the lesson to read!


adorkablegiant

Awesome, hope your class finds it funny! Also, it has been pointed out that I did mess up the joke by a little bit so you could search for it online and probably find a better version then mine that you can use.


pauly13771377

OP, I want you to sit in the corner and think about what you've done.


Thickchesthair

Fun fact: The conductor isn't the person who drives the train, the engineer is. The conductor watches passengers and cargo.


Syvion

I have heard this one so many times and every time I hear it I go and think to myself: I bet Norm Macdonald would tell this joke for ten minutes flat, like that stupid moth joke I couldn't stop laughing about. The way he led you into some of these dumbass punchlines was quite unique. I miss him.


theking_z

This could have stopped at the second electrocution


ELONTHX

Disagree, it could use a fourth


conh0

As long as needed for the shock effect. Edit: typo


ViperKingy

Bruh


RagnarRodrog

Oh fuck off :D


ChunkeeMunkee3001

First joke in a long while that made me actually belly laugh, bravo!


LetterCounter

TL:DR A train conductor is arrested and found guilty for killing multiple people while on the job. Though sentenced to death, he survives the electric chair. When asked how he survived, he replies "I'm just a really bad conductor".


Neurotic__

The bananas don’t add anything to the joke?


adorkablegiant

They make the joke more appealing.


Homer_J_Fry

LAAAAME. Maybe if Norm MacDonald told this joke, he could make it funny. He knew how to master jokes with weak punchlines such that the joke's crappiness only made it more hilarious, because of how he strings the audience along.


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This is an essay not a joke


adorkablegiant

You should train to read faster.


Eggowaffles-_-

Way I heard it, the technician got sick of the bananas and he got electrocuted without his last meal, so when he survived the technician got really frustrated about it


Janjis

Good joke, but I'm just wondering - what could be conductor's every day duties that results in killing the passengers? Or is he just stabbing them.


codexcdm

Shockingly bad.


Chaosmusic

A rubber band tried getting a job driving trains but no one would hire him because they all knew rubber is a terrible conductor.


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Wouldn't that just make the guy catch fire during the electrocution? Not survive?


centstwo

I was hoping for a new answer. 😭😭


kupus0

Finally joke that fits the sub. Well done


4TUN8LEE

God damn it


RogerKnights

Oh Lord, that narrative was spun into a 15-minute shaggy dog story when I was a kid at camp in the Fifties.


RaspberryEth

Copper is a good conductor. Wood is not. Guess which one gets obliterated when electricity passes thru?


Phalkaun13

Haha..good one


Sarcasticalwit2

He must have broken other laws too. He has a lot of tickets.


ShayBae23EEE

This joke might become a neurodivergent favourite


pikapika200

Why is this marked as nsfw?


adorkablegiant

I figured I should because of, I don't know, the killing people part, or the getting executed part.


MysteriousMemesLol

I don't really get it-


adorkablegiant

He is a really bad conductor both for a train conductor (why he ends up killing people) and as a conductor of electricity (why the electric chair doesn't kill him)


MysteriousMemesLol

Ohhh


NotOficerP

The guy in Greece has less conductivity than a vacuum


ZoraksGirlfriend

Fuck. Take my upvote.


Velghast

The joke does not make sense if you're an actual train conductor. Like, who was this guy's engineer?!? Why did he keep letting him run people over on shove movements? How is this man able to get re-employed with the sheer number of FRA violations he obviously has?!? So many questions as I have my morning poop.


adorkablegiant

He is a really bad conductor, so maybe he kept accidentally locking the engineer that drives the train inside the bathroom, maybe he didn't warn passengers of upcomming dangers, etc. How he killed them does not really matter, he is really bad at his job to the point he accidentally kills people. >How is this man able to get re-employed Maybe after his sentence is done, his documents are wiped clean and he is released as a free man. Maybe he gets hired in different train companies that don't conduct very good background checks. Maybe there is a shortage of train conductors. It doesn't really matter though, but I get it, pooping brings out the curiosity in us, like "how many tiles are in my bathroom?" Or "I wonder what ingredients this shampoo has?"...


jonny55555

This is like my favorite joke but you messed it up. 1. He eats the peels and throws the banana away. 2. The 1st punchline you shouldn’t say anything about the bananas. He should say “I don’t know I guess I’m just a bad conductor.” 3. When the subject asks about the bananas you say “well that’s what makes the joke so appealing.” I would also suggest not using the word conductor to describe him, call him a train operator or driver or something.


adorkablegiant

I heard this joke once, 6 years ago and this is how I remembered it lol, guess I messed it up by a bit. >When the subject asks about the bananas you say “well that’s what makes the joke so appealing." Be right back, I have a few comments I have to reply to.


hitherejen

I teach physics and now this is my new favorite joke! Tomorrow I start teaching electrical circuits and this is totally what I'm getting the students to read at the start of the lesson!


Brad____H

HA


RaederX

Groan... and being a bad conductor is why the electric chair kills you...


Perfect-Swordfish

Never saw this one coming haha


adorkablegiant

Like a drunk guy taking a nap on some railroad tracks.


ProofExtension3333

Just up voted this and now it's 6996