"Dad Jokes" are a specific kind of joke, which typically make people groan, because they're so terrible. See !dadjokes@lemmy.world, for example.
But his sentence could also mean that he tells jokes to his dad. She notices that and asks about it, therefore making a Dad Joke herself.
He doesn't get the Dad Joke, which exposes him as perhaps not being very good at the whole Dad Joke thing.
8 Comments
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 40 pts · 1y
The test is over.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
Please explain this to my not native speaker brain
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 1y
"Dad Jokes" are a specific kind of joke, which typically make people groan, because they're so terrible. See !dadjokes@lemmy.world, for example.
But his sentence could also mean that he tells jokes to his dad. She notices that and asks about it, therefore making a Dad Joke herself.
He doesn't get the Dad Joke, which exposes him as perhaps not being very good at the whole Dad Joke thing.
Valorie12@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
I like to tell (my) dad jokes
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
Does your father laugh at the jokes you tell him?
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
smee@poeng.link · 1 pts · 1y
I like to tell my dad jokes to anybody willing to listen.
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What if they are brother and sister?
Valorie12@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Then it'd be (our) instead of (my).
But I was reading the meme as if they were potential dates