You know the one. The dumb joke you chuckled at that now just comes out unbidden at random times.

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    7 days ago

    Whenever I am out and about I will eventually see someone doing something with a step-ladder. I walk up to them and say “Is that your step-ladder?”. They’ll look at me a little odd but answer yes. Then I ask them, “Did you ever know your real ladder?”. Then we usually both laugh/chuckle and I go about my day. Been doing it for years.

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    6 days ago

    This makes me laugh like such a stupid idiot. Just – bear with me here: imagine this scenario playing out.

    Like I dunno I’m seeing pulling up in a Spirit Halloween “Canned Spaghetti Chef” costume with a fake mustache and everything. Combined with the intrusive thought of putting random things in those whooshy bank tubes.

    “It’s him AGAIN!!” Like this master of disguise is some kind of recurrent menace to the bank staff. ROFL why does “frantically” make it even funnier?!

    Does the tube activate with a wet schlorpy sound and pneumatically deliver its payload?

    … If I think about it too much I struggle to breathe. 😂

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    6 days ago

    The Mask: “Don’t turn your back at me” (context: things getting sucked into holes)

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    9 days ago

    Homer Simpson thinking to himself:

    “Aww, $20? I wanted a peanut.”

    “$20 can buy many peanuts.”

    “Explain how.”

    “Money can be exchanged for goods and services.”

    I think at least one part of this exchange to myself almost every time I buy anything.

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    9 days ago

    “Supplise!”

    Its from this dumb racist joke I heard as a kid:

    An Italian, a Scotsman, and a Chinese guy are hired at a construction site.

    The foreman points out a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian, “You’re in charge of sweeping.”

    To the Scotsman he says, “You’re in charge of shovelling.”

    And to the Chinese man he says, “You’re in charge of supplies.”

    So the foreman goes away for a couple of hours and when he returns, the pile of sand is untouched. He asks the Italian, “Why didn’t you sweep any of it?”

    He replies “I no hava no broom, you saida to the Chinese guy that he wasa ina charge of supplies, but he hasa disappeared and I no coulda finda him nowhere.”

    The foreman turns to the Scotsman and says, “And you, I thought I told you to shovel this pile.”

    He replied, “Aye, ye did lad, bit ah couldnae git masel’ a shuvl! Ye left thon wee Chinese mannie in chairge of supplies, bit ah couldnae fin’ him onywhar.”

    The foreman is really pissed off now and storms off towards the pile of sand to look for the Chinese guy. As he approaches the mound, the Chinese guy leaps out from behind the sand and yells…

    “SUPPLISE!”

    30 years later my partner and mother of my 2 children is Asian. Despite her best efforts her English is not great. We are a bilingual household, and this type of silly mis-spoken word thing comes up a lot.

    Every time I read the word “supplies”, like yesterday my printer alerted me that I need to order supplies, I have a little chuckle imagining an Asian guy jumping out and surprising me.

    Its lame. Its based on a racist stereotype. I dont make fun of people with language difficulties. But I will always find this joke worth a chuckle.

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      9 days ago

      This reminds me of the classic:

      “We’re sinking! We’re sinking!”

      “Zis is ze German Coastguard. Vat are you sinking about?”

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      8 days ago

      Don’t beat yourself over it, the joke is hilarious. I think transgressive jokes require you to be really careful about your audience to:

      1. Not hurt or offend a member of a vulnerable population
      2. Not reinforce harmful stereotypes in people too dumb to tell jokes from reality
      3. Not make racists think you approve of their worldview

      That usually leaves only the family and closest friends, if you’re lucky. That being said some of those jokes are absolutely excellent, especially those that refer to neutral characteristics, such as an accent.

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      7 days ago

      A far simpler version that my kids enjoy:

      “What does the janitor say when he jumps out of the closet?”

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    Many years ago I hung out with an old man that when asked him what he thought about a subject and he had no real input he would answer “I think a sack of flour would make a big biscuit!”

    That will stay in my head forever.

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      8 days ago

      I love old man non sequiturs. My dad’s response to a toddler asking him why over and over again is “because I’m building a bicycle made of bananas,” which tends to produce a perfect koan moment and break the question cycle

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    One of my old coworkers at a previous job, I forget the exact context, but when he was asked to do something:

    “Hey [Name], can you get this done?”

    “Can the Pope’s dick fit through a donut?”

    “… I don’t know?”

    “Exactly 😎 👉 👉”

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      8 days ago

      In English, we have something similar:

      “‘I see,’ said the blind man to his deaf friend.”

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        8 days ago

        Isn’t the next line usually: “And then he picked up his hammer and saw”

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          Thr one I’ve always heard is: “I see”, said the blind man with a hammer and saw.

          That’s likely incomplete because the relatives I always heard it from…are not paragons of higher education, or scondary, or primary for that matter.

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      7 days ago

      Argentinian here, I’ve heard that one too, it sounds better in Spanish (as I presume happens in Swedish). “Veremos”, le dijo el ciego al sordo.