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.

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• latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If this joke emitted radiation, it would be measured in kiloDads per second.

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  • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shared pain is half the pain, thank you all for putting in the effort.

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not great, not terrible

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They don’t even need to be male or live in the US or even work in film. Anyone with a job title that says “director” would qualify.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah but in practice it’s only going to be middle-aged men with kids who would say such a thing.

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  • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, but you go ahead and construct a description of that scene where the word “director” and “cut” do not show up twice. The chuckle the reader hopefully has comes from completing the reverse construction they have to do. We can enhance their success rate by starting that reverse construction from a known common base, such as a well known cultural reference.

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    • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ???

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• Dropper_Post@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I get the joke.

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  • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes. I specifically engineered it to be easily digestable while eliciting at least 2 GPT* (groans per teenager) *if delivered over an avery dinner table.

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• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why would they need to be male and/or middle aged? Couldn’t anyone who is a director and carving a turkey make this dumb joke?

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  • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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    • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      furiously angry

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

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They are dad jokes, not bad jokes!

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    dissecting a frog

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The real meat of the joke is on the inside?

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I shamelessly crossposted this to c/dadjokes

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve never thought of this, even though I make the turkey every year.

  Thank you for the inspiration

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  • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are very welcome. Cherish the eye-rolling.

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  • WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you a director? That may be why. You’re not a writer. A writer probably calls it a writer’s strike.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Idk whether or not this is stolen, it’s the first time I’m reading it and it made me lol out loud.

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  • varyingExpertise@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was lazily scrolling through my Jellyfin library and thought “heh, Director’s Cut. Everything that guy does on the kitchen is a Director’s Cut.” So, while that’s certainly not a new thought, it was new to me.

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• affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i’m going to start saying this at every thanksgiving. if anyone questions me i’ll just say i’m the acting thanksgiving director.

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• stephen@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The only thing worse than a bad joke is no joke at all.

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    dad to the bone

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