Submitted 1 day ago by Iconoclast@feddit.uk to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Not that people having already heard them has ever stopped me from re-telling them anyway.
Oh my no, I tell the same jokes over and over no matter how much my family complains, because I have the will to enjoy their pained responses no matter how much it annoys them.
As I tell my wife: Jokes get funnier with repetition.
Yes. And just like a standup comic, you get to refine them with every iteration.
Every relationship partner gets to hear a more polished, expanded repertoire, so the more the merrier. :D
Of course the flipside is when your stories have fallen out of vogue, or you’re cognitively at the level of Grandpa Simpson. Nobody wants to hear that shizzle, man.
Are you my ex?
When we split and then got back together, she retold me all the stories she’d already told me the first time we were together
That’s why you never get back together with an ex.
I had an ex once tell me my own story back to me as if it happened to her first hand. I didn’t tell her and just went uh huh. But I think she was confused why I didn’t find the story funny. Which she thought was hilarious when she had heard the story from me.
Ask her details about the experience you didn’t include in your original telling
That’s sinister
I wonder why that happened?
Meanwhile, I’m coming home to my wife like “You won’t believe this! Just heard a podcast about washing machines in Nicaragua that I need to tell you about!”
I don’t like that though, being on the receiving end. Thinking about how you’ve done this with other girls. Not a good feeling…
You’re right about that but I don’t think that’s what the post was about. It’s not “so this what happened when my ex and I went to this store”. It’s more “what do you call a fake potato? An imitator!” that joke may be funny once, but not funny on the 32nd telling. Don’t try to relive experiences with an ex with your new partner, telling a store of how you were held at gun point by police for committing a bank robbery while leaving work one day may be fun to explain on the drive to a theater to watch a heist film…
Yhhhh but it’s sorta the same. Like, how many other girls have you used that on? What were their reactions? It just makes me think like that but I have issues…
krank55@feddit.org 1 day ago
my gf is forgetful as hell so i can just recycle the same jokes/fun facts every 2 weeks
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
I told mine that I’m forgetful, so now i can just repeat the same jokes/fun facts every two weeks
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am forgetful and my wife has brain damage, so to an outside observer, our conversations probably look like we’re stuck in a time loop
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
My wife is forgetful, and I retell her jokes all the time. I reader this post and madea joke about it at her expense. She got grumpy about it, but I won’t have to worry about that for too long.
qualia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reminds of that retirement home orderly who abused dementia patients. And he thought it was the perfect crime too.
That is, until he took an ethics class and chose to write his final paper on whether there’s any real difference between abusing someone with no memory and abusing a simulated character in a video game.
He still does it but now he’s racked by the guilt. Philosophy: Not even once!