Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family.

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think dad-jokes are by their nature unfortunately limited to the group I have described. Every other kind of person makes them, they’re just common bad jokes.

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think dad-jokes are by their nature unfortunately limited to the group I have described. Every other kind of person makes them, they’re just common bad jokes.

    I am going to have to disagree with you there. Dad jokes is an entire genre of jokes in and of itself. It transcends age and gender; it’s all about the attitude.

    Check out Mom’s Dad Jokes on Instagram to see what I mean.

    Also, my 10-year-old son loves telling dad jokes. He hates when I tell dad jokes, but he loves telling them.

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    • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He hates when I tell dad jokes, but he loves telling them.

      Such is the inherent duality of the dad-joke.

      Check out Mom’s Dad Jokes on Instagram to see what I mean.

      Seems to require an account, but anyway, I get the idea. Well, whatever works in your headspace is good, I guess, right?

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    furiously angry

    I see people asking why male + middle aged is relevant. I don’t see anyone furiously angry.

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    • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t see anyone furiously angry.

      Ugh, this is so tiring, but we are going to fight this one out. Fine then, substitute it by “bikeshedding”. It’s not the exact right meaning, I know, but it’s just the same energy as someone bringing a cake and that one person just NEEDS to point out that they can’t eat it because of gluten, and how dangerous gluten is and how ignorant it is to bake stuff using gluten and the bees for the honey, WHAT, THERE IS NO HONEY, THERE IS INDUSTRIAL SUGAR IN IT?

      It’s all things we can talk about and maybe they are even valid and sorry, yes, next time I can use corn flour and see if that works, but I can’t lose the feeling that’s not what the purpose of that piping up was.

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      • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        This is hardly bikeshedding.

        I wonder if male, middle-aged dogs dream? Do male, middle-aged postal workers deliver their own mail? Question for male, middle-aged linguists:…

        It’s human nature to wonder why, in a one-sentence post title, you included some details that don’t seem relevant.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They are dad jokes, not bad jokes!

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Have you never watched TV and movies?! Only a man can carve a Thanksgiving turkey. Had they not specified middle aged men, I might have thought about a young woman cutting a turkey, and that would be such a ridiculous concept that I would have TOTALLY missed the directors cut punchline! No, no, the joke is FAR more effective when it reinforces a stereotype that pretty much only exists in fiction.

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• hilliard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  dissecting a frog

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The real meat of the joke is on the inside?

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