Cheezy, peaceful, shallow, poetic; you can attribute all kinds of adjectives to dad jokes, but everyone has their own taste when it comes to humor, and if you connect with something, who’s to say you’re guilty of laughing at it? Especially when it doesn't come from a hostile place?
Those of you who regularly read Bored Panda probably know that we're huge fans of parents being able to loosen up and relax. We cover their funny tweets, memes, and even those classic "I looked away just for one-second" stories. But there's something about our fathers' stand-up bits that makes us come back to them again and again.
Dad Says Jokes is a fun social media project that consistently lives up to its name, so it's no wonder we have released not one, not two, but numerous publications on it. It's been a while since our last piece on it, too, which means it’s about time we made an update.
More info: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon
This post may include affiliate links.
Since I can't reply directly to yolo swaggins I'll just make a general comment that I find it interesting to see the pro-Trump brigade in here, yelling that Biden is terrible and causes the USA to be ridiculed on the world stage, when in fact Bored Panda readers come from all over the world, and the vast majority of them hate Trump and are very thankful Biden is in power. Of course that won't matter to the Trumpers, who never engage in any thought about things they don't like, they just move the goalposts and start yelling about something else, but I'm still going to point it out :)
Load More Replies...Everywhere else in the world they probably turn on the American news and go "What have these idiots done today?"
We don't turn on the American news. But otherwise you're spit on.
Load More Replies...It took me way too long to figure out what the joke was here, cause it's just true. I genuinely just knew (as a Canadian) that it was talking about the US by the second comma
also, im not defendong the usa, i know it has its flaws, but at least its better than mexico
Load More Replies...Funny what kids can remember, at the most inopportune moments. (I am childless Yahoo!)
Robert Pierce, who is a professor at the University Counseling Center at the University of Rochester in New York and a psychologist in private practice, uses humor frequently with his patients as well as his three children. He believes when fathers gravitate to puns, it can actually bring them closer to their children.
"It can give a different perspective, or a kind of 'we're all in this together' feeling," he told The Wall Street Journal. "At the right moment, it can make a point strongly and gently."
Researchers who work in the field of positive psychology agree that humor can aid in intimacy and in reducing stress. Who knows, maybe that's exactly why dad jokes have become an integral part of the popular lexicon.
But limited research on the subject also suggests that fostering a sense of humor and playfulness while parenting may also help children learn how to cope with the everyday trauma of growing up, Dr. Pierce pointed out.
I hope he didn’t have to screw the whole cabinet to hold it together
This just in: Newly elected Prime Minister loses the people’s confidence as he is unable to assemble his cabinet in first months in office…
I hope he's also thought out what he'll do when the cabinet falls apart in 3 months, when things you counted on stop working, how the lovely first impression turns out to be a false disappointment and how, suddenly, when you ask for help things are spoken in Blade-Runner-like street speak because no one proofread the documents you need
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landside, No escape from reality Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to Me, to me Mamaaa, Just killed a man, Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, Now he's dead Mamaaa, life had just begun, But now I've gone and thrown it all away Mama, oooh, Didn't mean to make you cry, If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters Too late, my time has come, Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all The time Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go, Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth Mama, oooh I don't want to die, I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all. I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango! Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me Galileo, Galileo Galileo, Galileo Ga
Or maybe next time you think of pulling off something like that, you put on some spf 20,000
Load More Replies...Though testosterone levels change as men grow older, Dr. Pierce doesn't believe this affects a man's tendency to rib his children with bad puns.
Instead, he said that fathers want to connect in ways that can't be misconstrued as sexual in nature or deemed aggressive. "Dad jokes tend to be calming, not angry, and are simple enough that anyone, even a little kid, can get them," he explained.
Fellow German here. For a moment I wondered what "travel chair" meaned, but then it clicked. "Fahrstuhl" would be better translated as "driving chair". Your translation would mean "Reisestuhl".
Load More Replies...I've always wondered why they are called "elevator" "lift" "escalator" etc., and not "drop" "de-escalator" etc. They go down too.
They don't want people thinking too much about the down part
Load More Replies...Sort of like I stuffed the body in the boot, but maybe the trunk would have been less obvious!
I overheard two older women talking about the new building one of them had just moved into. "Is there a lift?" "No, there's an elevator that takes you right up." They went back and forth like this for quite a while, not realizing that they were both talking about the same thing. lol
Vocabulary differences on another level. And another. And another....
Every time I hear this ad slogan I think of the feminine pads that have " wings". Not the same thing at all.
I did that once... for about 2 hours I could smell colors and hear numbers...
good thing he didnt hit a building and then remember he didnt have his car
I washed my hair with caffeine shampoo this morning. My hair was halfway to work while i tried to find my second shoe...😁
When dad jokes get mocked (or mockingly appreciated) online, they’re often characterized as barely clever. Some people even call them anti-humor. And while it's impossible for us to agree on these things, there's one feature that perfectly describes these jokes. Wordplay.
Stanley Dubinsky, an English professor at the University of South Carolina and the father of two sons, is a frequent deployer of dad jokes, mostly of the non-pun variety; he likes to deliberately mispronounce words sometimes, just to see his kids roll their eyes.
“I take a little bit of perverse pleasure in causing them some embarrassment when I speak,” Dubinsky told The Atlantic. “Your kids are embarrassed by you anyway, so the next best thing [to them laughing in earnest at your jokes] is to level with that.”
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me!
Load More Replies...Hey I just walked in here to find that sad look upon your face!
This one is the one that made me laugh out loud and now I'm off to play this CD.
God dammit my feelings weren’t ready for this 😭
Load More Replies...12 years later, the guy suffers sudden and unexpected heart issues, requiring him to have surgery to fix his literally-broken heart. Throughout, his faithful canine companion gives him strength and love to carry on. 8 years after that, said pooch passes peacefully in his sleep at his Master's side, both of them happy that they have lived their best lives together and certain they will meet again someday.
It's a terrible, terrible loss but all of the years of love, joy, companionship, so worth it.
Load More Replies...Spoilers: Almost all of your pets will die before you. Your tortoise and parrot will outlive you.
Load More Replies...That's what happens when you cross a donkey with an ass = politician!
No such thing at all, but too much can leave my introverted mind fried
Load More Replies...Mailmen or posties deliver your post. They arrange those street by street house by house so they can deliver them efficiently... if you mix them all up, they'll be upset. So, it's a pun on a "letter" being both an atom making up a written word as well as a piece of mail.
Load More Replies...Mess with a mailman and you'll start getting everyone's bills except your own
I'm really into dark humor but this one makes me wonder if you know the history of the term....
Load More Replies...Try saying "El mundo". It might not mean much to you, but it will mean the world to them.
A man walks up to a widow at a funeral and asks her, “may I say a word?” The widow says yes. The man walks up to the podium, stands in front of the casket, says “plethora”, and takes his seat. “Thank you,” the widow says. “That means a lot.”
If fourth place is eternal life, how great are the prizes for first through third?
We can help uncle jack, off a horse or we can help uncle, jack off a horse...
HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa…. You just killed me with that!
Load More Replies...Call her mother. If it's good enough for the VP, it's good enough for you.
I think it's a safe bet to assume she isn't around anymore.
Load More Replies...On the battlefield the general looks for his army’s private parts.
How many software developers does it take to change a light bulb? None, it´s a hardware issue.
I have no idea! Why are you asking me? I don't even know you!
Load More Replies...this is what i literally sang in my head while reading this lol
Load More Replies...it depends wich kind of colorblindness they have but the only case they would not see blue and see other colors, they would see green, not purple, since purple is red and blue
Load More Replies...you know what my dad said before he kicked the bucket? "Hey kid, wanna see how far I can kick this bucket?"
Load More Replies...im more of a procastinator than him, just today i
Load More Replies...They get sick when they eat 4 chickens, it’s known as ‘four fox ache’
It would run on proprietary fuel that costs way more than other fuels, and it would only last half as long
You'd have to buy the accessories separately, keys, door handles, seats...
