Multigenerational humor

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Isbjerg@feddit.dk · 47 pts · 12d (2 replies)

Nice

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 12d

🤲

LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub · 1 pts · 12d

There it is!

Technus@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 12d (6 replies)

I have a theory that, as the "unfunny number" sandwiched between two other funny numbers, 68 will eventually become funny simply by association. Or through memes like this which point this out.

0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Perhaps in a decade, 65 will also be funny

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 11d

Inflation effects us all.

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 11d

Ah yes, 68. The taint of funny numbers.

juanito_the_great@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 11d

We actually had a joke with number 68 a million years ago when I was in uni! It goes like this:

"Hey babe, do you want to do a 68? Huh, what is that? You blow me and I owe you 1"

Not saying it was funny, but it was a joke.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d

10/10

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 11d

68 is the Tina Belcher of the Funny Number family.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 12d (2 replies)

....and we all fell down and were at sixes and sevens (meaning to be confused, dating back to Chaucer in 1374).

Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 11d

I learned about it from Austin Powers in Goldmember in the early aughts, but yeah I'm glad someone else pointing out there's like, an odd historical rhyme with the particular numbers coming back.

saltesc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 12d
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 12d

68 became the unfunny number despite not doing anything, this is sad

blackberry28@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 11d (4 replies)

But Gen Alpha can't do math, so they won't understand lol

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 11d (3 replies)

They have an llm in their pocket to explain the spicy stuff, silly.

jambudz@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 11d (2 replies)

They won’t be able to make the symbol

CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d

Just send it the photo duh

ech@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 6d

± is easy on a mobile keyboard.

topperharlie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d (1 reply)

meanwhile in my environment 68 became funny by a joke when we were teenagers (at first I thought 67 was another spin on this):

"you give me a bl*wjob and I owe you one"

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 11d

Think I remember selling this in T-shirt form when I worked at the cultural touchstone that is Spencer's Gifts.

Sophocles@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 11d

21?

oce@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 11d
nouben@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 11d

67 + 2 ****