• VoxBunn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    As someone who transitioned and then dated her male best friend. It was fun, and while it didn’t work out in the end because of things outside the relationship, it was one of the best relationships I’ve had.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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          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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            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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                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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                  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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              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.