• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    33 minutes ago

    The joke is that the husband and his friend went to Thailand and his friend transitioned. Now the old friend is “missing” and the husband is married to who that friend became.

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      2 hours ago

      Sheesh. Can’t a woman be bored by some old story without everyone jumping to far-fetched conclusions!

          • BillyClark@piefed.social
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            Why wouldn’t it be funny if it was obvious? Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.

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              Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.

              I would disagree. Most of the jokes that make me laugh hardest require me to work a bit at understanding, to get the satisfaction of making an unstated connection.

              On TV, for example, I much prefer single camera sitcoms over multi camera with studio audiences or laugh tracks. I don’t need things to be heavy handed about which parts are jokes.

              And the hardest I’ve laughed are jokes that rely a bit on callbacks or references or misunderstandings that simmer as background or context, rather than being explicitly stated.

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                  I’m generally aligned with the “let people enjoy things” view. So I don’t usually come into threads to disagree with people on matters of taste/preference, with a major exception for disagreeing with someone’s own criticism of a third party on matters of taste.

                  OP came in an posted a joke you have to work for. Someone else came in and complained about it. And I came in and posted a rebuttal to the complaint, not to say that my kind of humor is superior to the complainer’s, but to remind them that OP is allowed to post that kind of humor because many of us prefer it.

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              It’s double entendre, deriving from certain associations with Thailand. If one is in the know, one can read the meme as implying a rather implausible story. There is a humorous twist, but it would be rather dull if spelled out. This way, one derives satisfaction from decoding the meme, and knowing oneself to belong to the in-group.

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      How? How can people tell? Someone points this out for most content posted. It seems like a race to be the first to say “AI slop”. Between actual AI slop, and content accused of being AI slop; there really isn’t much content left to be able to enjoy online.

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        I wasn’t considering the joke. I zoomed in on the face and those wrinkles looked suspicious to me. Then I started looking at the background and that’s when I started thinking the image was slop? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

        Oh and the ears too. They just don’t seem realistic to me.