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[–] 173 points 6 months ago (26 children)

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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  • [–] 144 points 6 months ago (22 children)

    Thanks, I'm dumb and thought she murdered his friend.

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  • [+] 81 points 6 months ago* (11 children)
  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    I'm smart and I though she murdered his friend

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I don't know if I'm smart or not, but I think part of the joke is that the husband doesn't recognize that his now-wife is his former best friend, and that unlikely circumstance kept me from understanding the joke even though I read the explanation. (Not the explanation in this thread but the more ambiguous one in the other thread.)

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Does it say something about me that I got the joke immediately?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Me too. Do you happen to be an engineer as well?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Erm... no, that can't be it...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Were you dropped on you head as a child like me… repeatedly?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I thought this was some boomer shit about spouses not listening to each other?

    So many different interpretations in the comments.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    I understood "we met shortly after" as talking about the wife and the best friend. Like a hyperbolic expansion of the "adult men don't talk about their lives with their male friends."

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  • [–] 69 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Everyone knows that to transition into a woman you walk into a booth in Bangkok called the "cunt machine" and after a magical girl transformation sequence you walk out a hormed and surged up doll

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  • [+] 64 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    My best mate and I used to joke that if one of us was a woman or both of us were gay, it would have saved a lot of time.

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  • [–] 104 points 6 months ago (22 children)

    Thailand

    👀🏳️‍⚧️

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  • [–] 170 points 6 months ago (17 children)

    Pretty sure that's the joke (the friend is the wife)

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  • [–] 98 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    Oh thanks I didn't understand the joke

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    It wouldn't be funny if it was obvious. Thanks for your sacrifice.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Why wouldn't it be funny if it was obvious? Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago

    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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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Omg kids just agree to disagree. Oh wait this is the internet

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think we can get anywhere if we try to debate based on what you or I personally think is funny. That's why I specifically mentioned "the punchline". Since the entire point of the punchline is to say the point of the joke, which is basically to make it obvious, I thought I was cleverly avoiding replies based on personal perspective. I hoped we could all agree that if we looked at a list of jokes that is generally agreed to be funny, most of them would be obvious after the punchline.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not debating whether my type of humor is funnier than your type.

    I'm pointing out that OP's humor is a specific category that others (including myself) appreciate, so I don't think your own preferences should override how OP wants to share jokes.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    You said that you disagreed with the assertion that most funny jokes are obvious after the punchline. It is the first sentence in your reply. And it is on that basis that I believed that is what you were talking about.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    And like with OP's joke, which doesn't contain a traditional punchline, many would disagree with your point that explaining the joke to make it more obvious would make the joke better. I think it's fine as it is.

    I'm not asking you to like the original joke, but at least respect why OP chose to share it in the current format, and that some people in the audience may appreciate it better the way it is, compared to the way you're implicitly proposing.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I'm confused because you seem to think I am arguing with you, but I am just trying to make sure that we all understand what was actually said. Because I think if you look at what I said, and look at what you and other people said, you'll see that there's not much to argue about.

    Here is what OP said:

    It wouldn’t be funny if it was obvious.

    You seem to have interpreted that to mean "It wouldn't be as funny if it was obvious."

    Since OP said that their joke "wouldn't be funny if it was obvious," I thought they meant that the joke doesn't work if they make it obvious.

    A lot of double-entendre jokes are like that. But as you can probably tell from my original reply, I didn't think this was that kind of joke. I never intended to disrespect anybody or anybody's joke. I thought this joke was a sort of "I lost my wife" one-liner joke that Rodney Dangerfield might tell, but with the punchline played down. If it was that sort of joke, I have heard funny versions that were obvious.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I still dont understand. Did she kill the best friend? I dont believe for a second that anyone wouldn't recognize their best friend in a new form.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    does thailand have something to do with transgender? is there context im missing?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's the leading country people travel to for gender affirming surgeries :p

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If anyone is curious where this comes from, and whether or not it is AI.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    Bet they played Striking Vipers

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    Now that's a good friend. Feeling sorry for his friend who can't find a girlfriend. Then disappears in Thailand so his friend can meet the love of his life.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I wish I had such good friends.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    New Webtoon plot dropped

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I had to come to the comments to realize people are interpreting this as "she used to be his male best friend before she transitioned to a woman."

    That wooshed over my head because I interpreted it as the wife suspected her husband of of murdering his best friend 15 years ago.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    In other words, lying to your partner for over a decade? Why and, most importantly, how?

    Edit: I wonder what the people who downvote the comment mean by them.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I'd think he'd be suspicious after the lack of children for 15 years, but who am I to judge

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