It's extra funny because nobody is forcing her to explain. She just knows a cool and relevant fact and is pathologically incapable of NOT sharing it with the group.
"They use Nellie the Elephant to train people in CPR. I cannot think of anything that would lower your authority more in a life-saving situation. 'Stand back, I have been trained in CPR. If you would just give me some space .... 'Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk and slipped away from the circus ....' I imagine the family standing there, going "What are you doing to my Dad?!"" ~ Dara O Briain
She could have just gotten away with the rest of us knowing that there was some weird thing England does with CPR, but nope. She doubled down and then we all had to see that lmao.
Pro: Despite being American, I actually know this song and might remember it in an emergency. Con: I only know the Toy Dolls' version. I pray for the poor soul who pays for my punk years with their certain demise.
Yeah I knew the song as a kid but never got told to use it for CPR, I was taught bites the dust like a lot of others here. The BPM fits nicely though so I totally understand why they might use it to teach younger children maybe
the theme of junior year adventuring parties making fun of england is honestly wonderful to me as a brit because yes it's all quite silly and you hardly even notice it until you have to try and explain it to someone who's not english
thank you for being a british person who understand how silly it can sound to non brit’s without immediately calling out americans school shooting issue 😂
@@laurenpaus7608 Man our fucking HEREDITARY MONARCH which we STILL HAVE FOR SOME REASON just got diagnosed with cancer and is refusing chemotherapy and asking for potions instead so we are NOT being the Unserious Country allegations
@@nox6767 "an agricultural tradition where they satirically observe a rodent to gauge how much winter is left? That's bollocks. Anyways, let's go weigh our mayor publicly to deduce any misappropriation of taxes"
*EVERYBODY:* "To Bombay a traveling circus came, they brought an Intelligent elephant and Nellie was her name One dark night she slipped her iron chain And off she ran to Hindustan And was never seen again OOH! Nellie the elephant packed her trunk And said goodbye to the circus Off she went with a trumpety-trump Trump, trump, trump The head of the herd was calling from far, far away They met one night in the silver light On the road to Mandalay OOH! Nellie the elephant packed her trunk And trundled off to the jungle Off she went with a trumpety-trump Trump, trump, trump Night by night she danced to the circus band When Nellie was leading the big parade She looked so proud and grand No more tricks for Nellie to perform They taught her how to take a bow And she took the crowd by storm OOH! Nellie the elephant packed her trunk And said goodbye to the circus Off she went with a trumpety-trump Trump, trump, trump!"
There are a number of songs that can all be used for CPR. This includes Another One Bites The Dust, Tearin' Up My Heart, Heartbreaker (by Led Zepplin), Bye Bye Bye, It's My Life, Achy Breaky Heart, and Highway to Hell. Really it's any song with 100-120 bpm, but those are some of the ironic ones.
120bpm is the most common tempo for a song. It's basically the default. Although more so for pop bands, so it's nice to hear a few good suggestions rather than just a list of Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears songs.
Former EMT here. You want a steady 100 beats per minute for a CPR song. The two best songs are either "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees or "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen. You should really pick "Staying Alive" though, just in case you are the sort to start singing out loud.
this was my favorite adventuring party moment possibly ever, from start to finish. I love that the sheer silliness of England turns Brennan into a temporary American patriot. I love that Ally invented a word so perfectly British I can't doubt that it is a pointless pastry that didn't need a name of its own. I love that Siobhan completely anticipated the humiliation to come and just leaned into it for the pure comedy of it. I love Murph embracing the sweet release of death over enduring a British nursery rhyme. I love the funkytown confusion and Lou and Emily and Zac all going wild imagining a highly syncopated funky CPR bringing you back to a state of arrhythmia lol.
I knew the Staying alive one. I was told you start at "Ha Ha Ha ha, staying alive" and just repeat it till EMS or someone with proper training arrives.
I thoroughly enjoy "England seems more and more made up" from the series who's 3rd season is named for the 3rd year of high school: "Junior year". I believe in the previous adventuring party they made the comment "junior year is when you're now older than half the students at school" - makes sense
Recently in the UK it changed from Nellie the Elephant to Staying Alive as well so it seems our public information films have been converted to the American standard.
I mean, that has some almost-truth to it; egg whites aren’t great for open wounds but the very thin membrane between the egg white and shell is! For shallow cuts it can be used to help close them and heal them faster, as it lets the wound breathe while preventing any germs from getting into it. Don’t try and use it for like a punctured lung or anything though.
I swear we're like the only country to not have like a permanent National Anthem. Like out National Anthem changes over whether or not there's a male or female stranger who's alive at the moment.
@@kleptrep94well, you’re not the only country, because several other countries you guys used to control also use the same anthem, which is arguably weirder.
Not only is it used to teach CPR but theres a punk version of it that was traditionally played as the last song of the night in night clubs from the 70s into the 2000s and then it became a tradition to play it as the last song of the night at a New Years party. I have danced to the punk version at a NYE party before
Vinnie Jones classic CPR advert is fully 12 years ago now, which is a bit freaky... That somone on here thinks remembering it "makes them old" is a bit more so... That some seem to think CPR post-dates the BeeGees is just weird...
I've been trained in cpr on 3 separate occasions in England. 1st as a volunteer. 2nd professionally as a manager in my work place. 3rd in the forces and I have never heard of this.
"And said goodbye to the cir-cus / off she went with the trumpity trunk / Wow it went really quiet in he-re" The way she just drove the plane into the runway makes me laugh every time
"At first I was afraid. . . . . . . . . . . . I was petrified. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
There's a decade and a half between me and Siobhan, and 80% of the time I was taught "Another One Bites the Dust" (the rest of the time "Stayin' Alive"), which I assume is perhaps a worse choice of song than Nellie the Elephant.
When I was taught CPR they told us to use Staying Alive or Nelly the Elephant and I was the only person in the room who knew the song Nelly the Elephant 💀
I believe we've generally replaced it in official training with the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive, partially because that's more on message, and partially because people using the increasing tempo and extended ohhhs of the Toy Dolls version of Nellie the Elephant was causing preventable deaths.
As someone from the uk who's done a lot of first. I never learnt Nellie the Elephant, we always went for another one bites the dust and just have to make sure we don't sing it out loud
they did teach us nelly the elephant when i did my first aid training but they also taught staying alive. I think its used because most english kids learn it when they are 4 so its easy to teach as an adult
America doesn't have Nelly the Elephant? Missing out. Do you at least have Ivor the Engine or Bagpus? What about the Wombles or The Clangers? All classic children's shows.
@@TheEvilGamingInc quite literally my point, but people love to say things like this as if it doesn’t apply to them 😂 or in your case here the other place/nationality. Americans themselves LOVE to speak on Brits as if they aren’t AMERICAN, of all things, and vice versa 😂
I love how brennan almost downplays his punchline of "england seems more and more made-up" by quickly moving past it, the confidence somehow makes it hit harder
Can confirm: my mum was an NHS midwife and she got taught Nellie the Elephant in her actual hospital based, medical staff CPR refresher courses. (She was told it was the best song to use because at the time the recommendation was 30 compressions and then 2 breaths, and the chorus is exactly 15 beats, so it makes it a lot easier to keep track!)
I've been cpr certified for 3 years (in england) and we used staying alive, I know what nellie the elephant is (obviously) but we never used it for cpr
Nellie the Elephant is by an English punk band called The Toy Doys. They're a band that never really took themselves too seriously. They had a lot of fun with their music. I 100% recommend them if you like music that's not pretentious and self righteous
Maybe it's because I learned in the 90's, but the rhythms I was taught were to count "one thousands" (ONEonethousandTWOonethousandTHREE etc) or "elephants" (ONEelephantTWOelephantTHREE etc). But I the big reason it wasn't Nellie the Elephant was - according to one of the instructors - because of the Toy Dolls version of the song, and you didn't want first aiders pausing chest compressions for the "oooooooooOOOOOOOOO*OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH*!" build up between verse and chorus.
As a current first aid instructor, the tempo you need to do it at is 100-120bpm. Nellie the Elephant is like 30bpm faster than that so it’s no longer taught. I usually use “Stayin’ Alive”, “Another One Bites The Dust”, “Rumour Has It” (by Adele), or I even get candidates to just pick songs at that tempo which they personally like which makes it easier for them specifically to internalise it
I'm of an age that I remember Vinnie Jones in full on london hard man garb on TV telling me to do it to the beat of stayin alive. That said, the disgraced former OM boris johnson told us to wash our hands for the length of time needed to sing happy birthday twice, so maybe this place is made up.
Bro I left England for the entirety of COVID (unintentionally, like COVID happened like 3 weeks after I left) so when I returned to England, it was hella weird knowing that out of all the crimes that the Conservatives caused it was the fact that Boris Johnson had a shindig that caused him to resign which led to the last voted in Prime Minister lasting like 10 days followed by a technical dictator. (Like technically England's currently a dictatorship because nobody actually voted in our so-called leader.) England's basically an abuse victim and the Conservatives are the domestic abusers. I wish the Brits would fucking do something right for once in their miserable lives and kick out the bastards but they won't because they suck.3
"oh no" when siobhan realized she was about to get absolutely CLOWNED ON makes me laugh so hard
RIGHT???
It's extra funny because nobody is forcing her to explain. She just knows a cool and relevant fact and is pathologically incapable of NOT sharing it with the group.
The recognition and immediate laughing resignation
She could have also just let it pass unremarked upon. & yet she kept going.
@@matthewsmith6057she knew a good bit when it presented itself
"They use Nellie the Elephant to train people in CPR. I cannot think of anything that would lower your authority more in a life-saving situation. 'Stand back, I have been trained in CPR. If you would just give me some space .... 'Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk and slipped away from the circus ....' I imagine the family standing there, going "What are you doing to my Dad?!"" ~ Dara O Briain
Lmaoo
Legendary bit 😂
I'm English. Never heard of Nelly the Elephant being used for this. I HAVE however heard of "Bee Gees - Staying Alive" being used for this.
@@PumpkinHoard Which is, if nothing else, extremely topical.
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The sad part is, she almost escaped the clowning. AND THEN SHE DOUBLE DIPPED. Hero
She just HAD to
as comdeian's it's their job to get cloned on every so often.
To be fair, as a Kiwi who grew up knowing Nellie the Elephant (though not as a car song), I would have repeated to made sure it got clowned on too.
She's an English comedian. Being the butt of the joke is an essential part of the role
She could have just gotten away with the rest of us knowing that there was some weird thing England does with CPR, but nope. She doubled down and then we all had to see that lmao.
Siobhan needs Jasper with her at all times for English support
He's my emotional support Brit.
i do definitely need so much more of jasper on dimension 20, pleaaaase
I miss him. He was so awesome on Dimension 20 and so was Rashawn ^.^
Absolutely LOsing it over the whole room going silent and Murph piping up with "just let me die" 😭
Realest response
I love Zach desperately trying not to spread misinformation about CPR only to abandon that mission to clown on Siobhan and her elephant song
You can see on his eyes at 0:56 him doing the math and realizing that clowning Siobhan will take precedent over CPR information
Literally as soon as they started talking about CPR songs Nellie popped into my head and I fucking knew it would breach containment though Siobhan
Pro: Despite being American, I actually know this song and might remember it in an emergency.
Con: I only know the Toy Dolls' version. I pray for the poor soul who pays for my punk years with their certain demise.
I'M SO IN LOVE WITH SIOBHAN (parasocial, respectful)
SAME
possibly the most delightful tone tags I've ever seen
lmao the tags 😂
(parasocially, respectfully) sounds like the best way to end an email to your favorite content creator
Would love to see Sioban GM a game set in the UK which is written with the sole purpose of confusing the absolute f**k out of those Yanks!
Aabriyah did a decent attempt with Misfits and Magic and the ongoing "not sure if this is because you are wizards or British" bit.
@@misterthegeoff9767Aabria
"Which of this is British and which of this is fantasy? The party screams, for they do not know."
@@IceMetalPunk The answer is, of course, Yes.
Unkipping City
As an English person. I have no clue what Siobhan is talking about I was taught to do it to staying alive.
Same. At 26 maybe I'm too young for Nellie as CPR? I do know the song though.
I was ironically taught another on bites the dust.
wtf did everyone else get songs, they just told us to count
I was taught this, but only by my mum, the first aid lessons I had told me staying alive
Yeah I knew the song as a kid but never got told to use it for CPR, I was taught bites the dust like a lot of others here. The BPM fits nicely though so I totally understand why they might use it to teach younger children maybe
the theme of junior year adventuring parties making fun of england is honestly wonderful to me as a brit because yes it's all quite silly and you hardly even notice it until you have to try and explain it to someone who's not english
To be fair my mom had to explain the concept of groundhog day to some British friends recently and they didn't believe her
thank you for being a british person who understand how silly it can sound to non brit’s without immediately calling out americans school shooting issue 😂
@@laurenpaus7608 we save that for more serious cases like when you talk about throwing tea into the harbour, or insisting it is spelled harbor.
@@laurenpaus7608 Man our fucking HEREDITARY MONARCH which we STILL HAVE FOR SOME REASON just got diagnosed with cancer and is refusing chemotherapy and asking for potions instead so we are NOT being the Unserious Country allegations
@@nox6767 "an agricultural tradition where they satirically observe a rodent to gauge how much winter is left? That's bollocks. Anyways, let's go weigh our mayor publicly to deduce any misappropriation of taxes"
I remember Nellie the Elephant, Siobhan. You're not crazy, we're just old.
*EVERYBODY:*
"To Bombay a traveling circus came, they brought an
Intelligent elephant and Nellie was her name
One dark night she slipped her iron chain
And off she ran to Hindustan
And was never seen again
OOH!
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump
The head of the herd was calling from far, far away
They met one night in the silver light
On the road to Mandalay
OOH!
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
And trundled off to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump
Night by night she danced to the circus band
When Nellie was leading the big parade
She looked so proud and grand
No more tricks for Nellie to perform
They taught her how to take a bow
And she took the crowd by storm
OOH!
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump!"
Its Mumbai now
My only exposure to that song is the Toy Dolls cover.
@@LexIconLS I was thinking that was way too fast to do CPR, I forgot the original is slower
Sure, keep singing fantasy songs from your fantasy land
Thank you very much.
England: a dream to some... a nightmare to others!
(He says from England.)
Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha
Respectfully it’s a dream to no one
"scrunkles are yeasted" is something I need on a t-shirt
There are a number of songs that can all be used for CPR. This includes Another One Bites The Dust, Tearin' Up My Heart, Heartbreaker (by Led Zepplin), Bye Bye Bye, It's My Life, Achy Breaky Heart, and Highway to Hell. Really it's any song with 100-120 bpm, but those are some of the ironic ones.
you can also do it to du hast :)
I learnt it to “Baby Shark” and “Jingle Bells,” among others.
120bpm is the most common tempo for a song. It's basically the default. Although more so for pop bands, so it's nice to hear a few good suggestions rather than just a list of Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears songs.
She rolled a 4 on that performance check
Former EMT here. You want a steady 100 beats per minute for a CPR song. The two best songs are either "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees or "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen. You should really pick "Staying Alive" though, just in case you are the sort to start singing out loud.
That is some serious "Calling it in the air" energy from either choice really.
Okay, because I learned Another One Bites the Dust and I was so confused because none of the songs they were doing had the right BPM
Honestly, I learned both and prefer "Another One Bites The Dust" for the irony.
I might have the wrong sense of humor to be a healthcare provider.
this was my favorite adventuring party moment possibly ever, from start to finish. I love that the sheer silliness of England turns Brennan into a temporary American patriot. I love that Ally invented a word so perfectly British I can't doubt that it is a pointless pastry that didn't need a name of its own. I love that Siobhan completely anticipated the humiliation to come and just leaned into it for the pure comedy of it. I love Murph embracing the sweet release of death over enduring a British nursery rhyme. I love the funkytown confusion and Lou and Emily and Zac all going wild imagining a highly syncopated funky CPR bringing you back to a state of arrhythmia lol.
I knew the Staying alive one. I was told you start at "Ha Ha Ha ha, staying alive" and just repeat it till EMS or someone with proper training arrives.
I only know the staying alive from watching "the office" I believe lol
The Deafening Silence of the room as she sings Nelly the Elephant.
Devastating.
Nah cos every time I hear Nellie The Elephant I can this pang of nostalgia to my childhood.
In 1990 it got a cartoon that lasted for about 30 episodes at 5 minutes a piece. That's where I know the song from, because I born a year later.
I thoroughly enjoy "England seems more and more made up" from the series who's 3rd season is named for the 3rd year of high school: "Junior year". I believe in the previous adventuring party they made the comment "junior year is when you're now older than half the students at school" - makes sense
LMAOO THAT IS ACCURATE
It's shorthand for "junior upperclassman." The REALLY weird one is "sophomore," from a Greek phrase that means "wise fool."
@@davidtruschel7526 That tracks. Freshman are complete morons and sophomores are slightly less dumb freshman.
I assume that's where we get words like sophisticated and moronic from?@@davidtruschel7526
this confused me so much, like is it a prequel or spin off or something, nah its just that Americans wont use numbers
can confirm to emily that it’s a skill you can kinda forget because you need to constantly practice how to PROPERLY perform it
"In my village we had 5 sets of twins"
THANK YOU for the Brennan WTF close up
my mum used to use nelly the elephant for teaching baby ballet, taught cpr at the same time apparantly
Chad mom
As an Australian I remember Nellie the elephant fondly.
"Another one bites the dust"
Ironic, I know
"Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?"
Ally's disgusted side eye 😂
Recently in the UK it changed from Nellie the Elephant to Staying Alive as well so it seems our public information films have been converted to the American standard.
It's probably just so it doesn't bamboozle the Americans. They're easily startled it seems.
Bee Gees are British anyway…no they aren’t Australian for anyone about to say that 😂
I think put definition of recently us very different. It's been atleast 10 years.
What I love about Dimension 20 is that in scenes like this, there's like 3 conversations going on at once and they're ALL hilarious
Last night a man told me they used to put egg whites on open wounds here so I don't even know. I don't think we are a real country.
I love the England stories that are coming up on these comments lolol
I mean, that has some almost-truth to it; egg whites aren’t great for open wounds but the very thin membrane between the egg white and shell is! For shallow cuts it can be used to help close them and heal them faster, as it lets the wound breathe while preventing any germs from getting into it.
Don’t try and use it for like a punctured lung or anything though.
I swear we're like the only country to not have like a permanent National Anthem. Like out National Anthem changes over whether or not there's a male or female stranger who's alive at the moment.
I've never in my life heard that. I wouldn't give much merit to whatever the bloke down the pub says.
@@kleptrep94well, you’re not the only country, because several other countries you guys used to control also use the same anthem, which is arguably weirder.
The Magnus Protocol had a Nelly the Elephant reference and I immediately thought of this clip
ME TOO I was driving home from dropping off my wife at work and when that bit started I screamed SIOBHAN WAS RIGHT???? sitting at a red light lmfao
To quote Ally when watching a bit Katie was doing on Game Changer: "I'm sure everyone in England is rolling with laughter right now."
As someone who’s done CPR with kids recently- the updated song is now Baby Shark!
Oh god nooo
Nelly the Elephant by the Toy Dolls is great.
0:57 *Stares in American*
I only know this song because of The Toy Dolls Version. Great punk song and fun to slam dance to.
I mean, the Toy Dolls version slaps.
I’m from England and I’ve never heard of doing cpr to Nelly the fucking elephant
Not only is it used to teach CPR but theres a punk version of it that was traditionally played as the last song of the night in night clubs from the 70s into the 2000s and then it became a tradition to play it as the last song of the night at a New Years party. I have danced to the punk version at a NYE party before
In the UK, the adverts I have seen are using 'Stayin Alive' by the Bee Gees
I haven’t heard Nelly the Elephant since I was like 8 and I wouldn’t do it as a CPR Song 😂 Siobhan is so posh
I always heard Staying Alive in the UK
They honestly just need a podcast where they are goofing around
The Toy Dolls (Nellie The Elephant) are an amazing punk band who have supported local music for decades and launched countless careers.
*stares in american*
There's so many moments like this in Burrow's End with Jasper too
Vinnie Jones classic CPR advert is fully 12 years ago now, which is a bit freaky...
That somone on here thinks remembering it "makes them old" is a bit more so...
That some seem to think CPR post-dates the BeeGees is just weird...
To be fair it didn’t really start being used until the 60s although earlier than the bee gees first hit.
I've been trained in cpr on 3 separate occasions in England. 1st as a volunteer. 2nd professionally as a manager in my work place. 3rd in the forces and I have never heard of this.
They taught me to do staying alive in my wilderness first responder course
I'm Australian and while I don't know CPR i do know Nellie the Elephant
"And said goodbye to the cir-cus / off she went with the trumpity trunk / Wow it went really quiet in he-re"
The way she just drove the plane into the runway makes me laugh every time
All I can think about is using the Toy Dolls version "Stand back I know cpr....... Wooooooooaaaaaaahhhhhhhh Nelly the elephant"
"At first I was afraid. . . . . . . . . . . . I was petrified. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
There's a decade and a half between me and Siobhan, and 80% of the time I was taught "Another One Bites the Dust" (the rest of the time "Stayin' Alive"), which I assume is perhaps a worse choice of song than Nellie the Elephant.
Fucked up that Americans don't have Nellie the elephant
Funky town is just code for the afterlife
The Toy Dolls version is a punk party anthem. Great around Christmas, or whenever else sufficient sillyness is called for.
As an Aussie I was always taught CPR with “Row, row, row your boat”
Gently down the Styx?
When I was taught CPR they told us to use Staying Alive or Nelly the Elephant and I was the only person in the room who knew the song Nelly the Elephant 💀
I believe we've generally replaced it in official training with the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive, partially because that's more on message, and partially because people using the increasing tempo and extended ohhhs of the Toy Dolls version of Nellie the Elephant was causing preventable deaths.
Nah, she gassin.
In Englad we use the full length of Stayin Alive.
Vinnie Jones told us in a TV ad
As someone from the uk who's done a lot of first. I never learnt Nellie the Elephant, we always went for another one bites the dust and just have to make sure we don't sing it out loud
they did teach us nelly the elephant when i did my first aid training but they also taught staying alive.
I think its used because most english kids learn it when they are 4 so its easy to teach as an adult
Going from funky town to Nellie the Elephant is so funny too
I'm English, 35 years old, and never once heard this.
America doesn't have Nelly the Elephant? Missing out. Do you at least have Ivor the Engine or Bagpus? What about the Wombles or The Clangers? All classic children's shows.
Underground overground wombling free! Wombles of Wimbledon common are we!
Actually, in England, the TV ads used Staying Alive to teach CPR a few years ago.
As someone who was born in England but raised American, England haunts my nightmares.
Lmaoo
What do you think america does to everyone else too? 😂
@@kJ922-h3j No ones special, everyones got shit on their flag
@@TheEvilGamingInc quite literally my point, but people love to say things like this as if it doesn’t apply to them 😂 or in your case here the other place/nationality. Americans themselves LOVE to speak on Brits as if they aren’t AMERICAN, of all things, and vice versa 😂
Siobhan has been away from Britain too long. IT IS STAYING ALIVE. We had adverts about it.
Staying Alive or Another One Bites the Dust.
Depends what you think your patient's chances are...
I love how brennan almost downplays his punchline of "england seems more and more made-up" by quickly moving past it, the confidence somehow makes it hit harder
I mean, as someone who once learned CPR, it's true that you can forget it
just wait till they hear about gillygillyossenfefferkatzenellenbogen-by the sea
Can confirm: my mum was an NHS midwife and she got taught Nellie the Elephant in her actual hospital based, medical staff CPR refresher courses. (She was told it was the best song to use because at the time the recommendation was 30 compressions and then 2 breaths, and the chorus is exactly 15 beats, so it makes it a lot easier to keep track!)
0:58 murph looks so pissed
Did anyone else think that Nellie the Elephant was a bit until they heard it in The Magnus Protocol?
Siobhan's information is out of date, she's been in america to long 😆 (I learnt it based on staying alive)
I'm from England and I know all the words to that song but I've never been told to do cpr to that 😭😭
I've been cpr certified for 3 years (in england) and we used staying alive, I know what nellie the elephant is (obviously) but we never used it for cpr
In the uk is done to stayin alive by the bee gees ..was tv ads about it..but that was about 5 years ago
I go to another one bites the dust or should I stay or should I go
You can actually do it to Another One Bites the Dust, the Imperial March and Final Countdown (however, do not sing it out loud....)
she almost got away with it! but nevertheless she persisted
She said the recovery position and I thought we were gonna have a repeat of Gavin getting ridiculed by his rooster teeth castmates
Sing the Toy Dolls version
Itll change the vibe quickly!
Nellie the Elephant is by an English punk band called The Toy Doys. They're a band that never really took themselves too seriously. They had a lot of fun with their music. I 100% recommend them if you like music that's not pretentious and self righteous
Maybe it's because I learned in the 90's, but the rhythms I was taught were to count "one thousands" (ONEonethousandTWOonethousandTHREE etc) or "elephants" (ONEelephantTWOelephantTHREE etc). But I the big reason it wasn't Nellie the Elephant was - according to one of the instructors - because of the Toy Dolls version of the song, and you didn't want first aiders pausing chest compressions for the "oooooooooOOOOOOOOO*OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH*!" build up between verse and chorus.
As a current first aid instructor, the tempo you need to do it at is 100-120bpm. Nellie the Elephant is like 30bpm faster than that so it’s no longer taught. I usually use “Stayin’ Alive”, “Another One Bites The Dust”, “Rumour Has It” (by Adele), or I even get candidates to just pick songs at that tempo which they personally like which makes it easier for them specifically to internalise it
I dont think siobhan is from england i am pretty sure walked right out of harry potter or a CS Lewis novel.
As long as its the Toy Dolls version of Nellie the Elephant....
What's worse is that they now teach Baby Shark
Im from UK and never heard of nelly the elephant being used in referring to CPR
I'm of an age that I remember Vinnie Jones in full on london hard man garb on TV telling me to do it to the beat of stayin alive.
That said, the disgraced former OM boris johnson told us to wash our hands for the length of time needed to sing happy birthday twice, so maybe this place is made up.
Bro I left England for the entirety of COVID (unintentionally, like COVID happened like 3 weeks after I left) so when I returned to England, it was hella weird knowing that out of all the crimes that the Conservatives caused it was the fact that Boris Johnson had a shindig that caused him to resign which led to the last voted in Prime Minister lasting like 10 days followed by a technical dictator. (Like technically England's currently a dictatorship because nobody actually voted in our so-called leader.)
England's basically an abuse victim and the Conservatives are the domestic abusers. I wish the Brits would fucking do something right for once in their miserable lives and kick out the bastards but they won't because they suck.3
Another one bites the dust
I'm English and I have _never_ heard this song before. We just do it to Staying Alive.
That Funky Town Harmony was amazing!
even more medically concerning is that I was raised on the toy dolls punk version of nellie the elephant which feels even less okay