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We’ve all been there. Someone shares a joke that just goes right over your head, but you notice that everyone else is laughing. You start to sweat and rapidly begin calculating whether it’s worth the risk of awkwardly chuckling along and praying they don’t notice you’re pretending. Or, you can just be honest and admit that you didn’t get it, which might turn you into the butt of the joke.
The internet, in particular, can be a cruel place when people don’t understand a punch line. But we’ve managed to find a safe space where members can share memes that they didn’t quite grasp without judgment, and others will kindly provide the necessary context. Below, you’ll find some of our favorite posts from r/PeterExplainsTheJoke. So enjoy scrolling through these silly pics, and if some of them go over your head, you’ll be able to understand by simply reading the captions!
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#1
zeprfrew: The comic is saying that atheists behave in accordance with Jesus' teachings despite their lack of faith in religion or God while Christian Nationalists, whose beliefs and identity are fiercely Christian, act for the benefit of capitalism and directly contradict those same teachings.
The point of it is to show the irony that atheists behave as a good Christian should while those seeking to build a Christian society do the opposite.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
Yes! I was born into a very religious family. They're very proud of sending sons to the seminary and there's a bishop in the ranks. But yet there was rampant jealousy, bullying, child abuse, children being hurled across rooms. I'm an atheist, and oddly enough, this comic has just EXACTLY described my lifelong fight against my bible thumping family.
Peter Bear 8 months ago
A well-intentioned atheist is closer to Christ than any modern Christian.
keyboardtek 8 months ago
Christian F*****t's are more interested in power and wealth and controlling everyone else than they are interested in Christ's teachings.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Maybe a bit simplistic? Or, draw the capitalist with a cigar and s national flag trying (and failing) to cover his bulging belly ...
M O'Connell 8 months ago
Since some of the most heinous and selfish things I have ever heard have come from the mouths of self-proclaimed "good christians" so it seems about right.
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#2
EthanEpiale: Car salespeople are a species physically incapable of acknowledging the existence of a woman if a man is within 50 ft of her.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
It’s funny. In Japan, if a man and woman go in together to buy a car, the salesperson focuses on the woman. Women in Japan generally control the family budget
Jacob Clawson 8 months ago
Real talk, I’m a chef by, and the two time we had to buy a car, the salesperson locked in me. I’m just like “dude, my specialties are cooking and cleaning, I don’t know s**t about cars”
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Austzn 8 months ago
With few exceptions I can confirm this from working in many auto dealers over the years. One of them was for some off-road equipment and I actually heard one of the salespeople say to a customer, "Don't worry, these things are so easy to operate even a women can do it." I was shocked with how casually they said it.
Pollymere 8 months ago
I got a huge discount on my car. I went alone and looked pathetic. I'm also small and blonde. I told the Sales Guy that my husband was on his way (true). He was so desperate to sell me the car before my husband got there he gave me a great deal on part exchange for a worthless car then gave me a discount and free warranty on top of that. He didn't even look at the engine of the car I was PX... My husband got there and pretended to act shocked I'd bought the car without him 😂
Mason Kronol 8 months ago
Luckily My husband and I met while working in a dealership. Him in the service side. Me a lot of other positions so I am the buyer and we know almost everyone. A couple of weeks ago when we were checking out of a hotel the valet brought our vehicle around and said "Here are your keys sir" (this hotel was downtown cincy so it was parked on the side of the road, really nice hotel but not a good place to leave the keys in the vehicle) so i had to step in while my husband dealt with the luggage and I said laughing "MY truck!"🤦🏻♀️😂 Poor kid looked embarrassed and apologized but my husband started laughing. Never assume.
Pensive_Panda 8 months ago
Female, here, chiming in. I've been around cars since age 4, and I've worked in the Automotive Industry for decades. I've been mainly in Corporate, but I have worked in the Showroom (on the selling floor) for several dealerships. Here's a "tip" for women: Leave the dude at home. a) you don't NEED him there with you, UNLESS/UNTIL he is involved in the purchase, and even still, only at decision-making/contract signing phase, and b) do ALL of the legitimate research (not: my friend said...) online [Edmunds.com is a great resource] or by "shopping" a bunch of dealerships & comparing their info/b.s by yourself. Ok, the guy can help with research and he can add his "2-cents worth" of opinion etc, but unless he is buying the car with you there is no reason for him to be there. When you go by yourself, the dealership staff MUST speak to you. This is important on so many levels. How they treat you during the purchase process is also how they will treat you regarding your vehicle's service. THIN
Oops 8 months ago (edited)
I had this a lot of time in my life. People adressed my husband, when they wanted me to do something, like i was his s**f. They didnt even look at me, like i was a black hole.I never gave them the favor to do what they wanted, just walked away, let them bubbling along. Why was the word s e..r - f covered with stars??? This will go more and more crazy.
Tim Richards 8 months ago
This one hits home. My wife was buying a car, and the salesman would NOT stop talking to me. I corrected him immediately and said, "She's buying the car—talk to her." He did not. I told him he was making a huge mistake and I walked away. Two minutes later, my normally calm, happy wife was spitting fire as we walked out the door. I can't blame her. It was infuriating for me and I know it was even more so for her.
axnyslie 8 months ago
I was just in Cambodia with my VN GF and everywhere we went, nobody would acknowledge her they would only address me directly. At one museum the guide said "here's your English audio guide headset, and she's Vietnamese right?" pointing to her, and I responded "well you could ask her"
#3
Jammer_Jim: People expect anti-depressants to make them happy, but often what happens is the person feels no strong emotions at all. Or at least it seems that way after you've been having powerful mood swings for years. Depends on the underlying condition and the d***s used, but I've often heard it described as a "flattening" effect.
Verfin22 8 months ago
Rather then feeling the end is near, you feel nothing at all. Some emotions, but none too drastic or negative. At least with me and that's good.
Romy Schneider 8 months ago
I'm the same. Also helped me a lot with anxiety. Live is good now.
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SheHulk 8 months ago
Stepped off prozac after taking it over a decade, which was hellish but so worth it. Now I can feel again. One of the things I feel is being mad as hell that I was on prozac for so long.
Spocks's Mom 8 months ago
Really? I'm loving the Prozac right now. Flatness is a much better feeling than pure anxiety and dread.
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They did their job, and then I worked to get off them. It was a very surreal experience taking them, but I needed it at the time and they helped considerably.
RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
My depression was actually the reversed, I didn't feel anything because of my depression, the anti depressants made me feel again
Child of the Stars 8 months ago (edited)
Mine was similar. The postpartum depression had me living in a kind of thick mental fog where everything was distorted. The anti-depressant cleared my thinking significantly.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Sometimes it takes a while to get to that "flat" state before you start the upward part. Ask me how I know.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
I asked my friends if they could recommend what would be a good anti-depressant for me. "Plastic surgery" was the most popular response.
Neb 8 months ago
Unless your friends are certified psychiatrists, that is probably all they know.
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Matteic 8 months ago
The anti-depressants did not "make me happy" but they stopped me from bursting to tears at the smallest inconvenience, and gave me energy to be more active. That is what made me happy. I like to compare it to wearing a life jacket. It doesn't teach you how to swim, but it stops you from drowning if you get stuck in water.
AsylumWalker 8 months ago
If youre feeling nothing on them, youre probably on the wrong ones. Theyre supposed to just stop the extreme swings and lift you enpugh that you can do the psych work yourself.
As I’m sure you know, we’re big fans of memes here at Bored Panda. And while these clever little images are meant to be shared and laughed at by friends and strangers alike, it’s impossible to understand them all. There are millions of memes floating around the internet, so if you encounter one that doesn’t make sense to you, have no fear. You can always post it on r/PeterExplainsTheJoke.
In this context, “Peter” is Peter Griffin, the beloved character from Family Guy. So members of the subreddit will post memes that they’ve stumbled upon with a caption along the lines of “Peter, what’s going on here?” And members will quickly swoop in and provide background info. We all have different life experiences, so we don’t all have access to the same knowledge. But there are an impressive 1.4 million members in this subreddit, so somebody is bound to understand each meme!
#4
bremsspuren: There is no snow on that roof because it is significantly warmer than the neighbouring houses.
The joke is that in 2018, the most likely explanation is someone growing w**d under hot, hot grow lamps. In 2020, it's more likely to be someone running 100s of video cards to mine Bitcoin or similar (also very hot). But in 2022, power prices are so f**king high, only a lottery winner could afford to have a house that warm.
Robert T 8 months ago
I had a Toshiba laptop that ran that warm it burnt my leg through a 1.5 inch thidck MDF desk!
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Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Wow! Thanks for that explanation! I could *never* have figured it out without you help, OP!
FreeTheUnicorn 8 months ago
From a cold climate and that picture indicates one house hasn't insulated their roof and are stupid because they are spending more on heat than insulation would cost them.
Maples Dad 8 months ago
Okay but perhaps they cannot afford insulation. Their lack of ready finance makes them stupid?
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#5
dangstaB01: Sight reading is a skill that students in orchestra or band tend to use; it involves looking at sheet music and imagining what it sounds like before playing it. The sheet says it’s Mary had a Little Lamb, but the notes don’t match up; more precisely it’s the music for Rick Astely’s Never Gonna Give You Up. The poster got pissed that they got Rick Rolled.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
I haven't played flute since high school, but I could see that the notes didn't match Mary Had A Little Lamb. This is the absolute BEST Rickroll I think that was ever done.
Regina Holt 8 months ago (edited)
It is when someone is somehow tricked into watching video by Rick Astley. If you clicked on link from Douglas Turner, you have been rickrolled. Welcome to the club!
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Felecia_1986 8 months ago
I'm kind of hit and miss at sight-reading, BUT I got this one!!! RICK ROLL!!!
A dude who likes to drum 8 months ago
I’ve been a drummer for roughly 14 years, lessons for 10 years since age 5 (I’m 15 lol). I immediately recognized the rhythms over the notes first and I could tell that it was a Rick roll even without the notes.
#6
Delli-paper: Patients who are within minutes or hours of dying often feel much better and become lucid. Family members often see this as promising, but someone around so much death knows what's coming.
Atom Bohr 8 months ago
My grandmother had alzheimer's for well over 20 years. She hadn't been able to speak coherently for months, and hadn't recognised any of us at all for over 5 years or consistently for almost 10 years. Just before she died she knew who all of us were (including teenage me whom she hadn't recognised since I was about 5) and she knew what was happening. It wasn't a kindness.
Clown fish 8 months ago
My nan was the same she was up laughing eating cakes (she was liquid only diet for 6 months because she forgot how to chew)
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BrunoVI 8 months ago
I see the truth in this, but I was glad to have it explained. I thought it was an attack on doctors ("the medical industry"), saying they'd be disappointed to lose billing opportunities.
Kiss Army 8 months ago
I also interpret this as the family celebrating the the "sudden" recovery when the tired and weary doctor has been working his @$$ off to save the patient. It's always crazy when a family celebrates and thanks God but fails to acknowledge the doctor's blood, sweat and tears that went into making a recovery possible.
Tim Richards 8 months ago
I saw this firsthand with my grandmother. My dad warned me that it "wasn't pretty," and when I turned the corner, she was sitting up, alert and happy. I looked back at my dad and his brother collectively trying to pick their jaws up off the ground. She died the next day, but it was a great conversation and a great last memory.
MagicJacket 8 months ago
Terminal Lucidity or the death rally. Very common and bizarre at the same time.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
But on the other hand, many patients somehow know when their time has come - and, yes, medics recognise this and call the crash cart early (if there's no DNR).
I’m honestly not sure what’s more painful: not understanding a joke and having to ask for an explanation or telling a joke that doesn’t land because nobody got the punch line. Either way, someone is uncomfortable, embarrassed and struggling to find a way to keep the conversation going.
Now, the same rule doesn’t necessarily have to apply in real life, but it's a common practice in TV and film that you should never explain jokes to your audience. For example, if someone says an innuendo or a double entendre, the writers and actors must trust that the audience will get it. Overexplaining ruins the punch line, and all the humor is sucked from the situation. However, this only works if the joke actually made sense and was funny in the first place.
#7
cyclone866: Pets, like cats and dogs, generally do not like taking pills/medicine. A typical way to get pets to take their meds is to cover the pill in a treat like peanut butter or shoving it into a piece of meat so they can't taste it. In this cartoon it is implied that the princess is intentionally telling knights to hunt down the dragon (common plot point of fantasy stories) and the dragon is eating all of the knights but this is being done intentionally to get the dragon to take their heartworm medicine.
#8
Hot_Leading_5295: Nail artists are usually foreigners that talk about customers in their mother language so they can speak badly about customers in their faces (stereotypes).
"Disembodied voice" 8 months ago
If you do speak the language of the nail artists you get some great gossip.
NerdAlert 8 months ago
I actually speak the native languages of the artists at the local salon. Can confirm.
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David Morgan 8 months ago
Actually, many of us are deeply cynical and bitter. We just don't like childish insults such as the ones you just used.
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#9
ilovesnoppyandfriend: I’m guessing all they are assembling a team of billionaire “assassins” as these are all things that took billionaires out. Tbh idk someone let me know
CroatoanCurse: Billionaire assassin's is correct. Dude k**led a ceo of UHC. Oceangate k**led it's founder plus some others. And 1 very angry Russian aquarium orca as been teaching other orcas how to capsized yachts.
Thanos'Fingers 8 months ago
I'll quit my job right now and go work for that orca. That's a fish with a plan.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
They should call those , er, 'mammals' "killer whales" or something ...
Susan BetzJitomir 8 months ago
I'm pretty sure someone quietly took care of the orcas because we haven't heard about them in a while and I don't think they just suddenly stopped on their own.
According to Meng Zhong at Womble Bond Dickinson, a joke isn’t funny if it requires an explanation. They explained that in 2022, Elon Musk created a rule on X (formerly Twitter) that all parody accounts had to explicitly label themselves as such. But many argued that this ruins the fun of those satirical pages.
Followers love wondering which accounts are ragebait and just for jokes and which ones are authentic. It’s also funny to engage with these accounts when you’re in on the joke, and it’s clear from some replies that not everyone understands. It’s almost like having an inside joke with thousands of strangers around the world.
#10
Memer_Plus: Roman Petrus here. The show being referenced is the mockumentary Cunk on Earth, where the titular narrator humorously misinterprets history. The Romans left a lot from their history, including pottery fragments (which broke due to the long time period), which Cunk humorously says is caused by their clumsiness.
Bob Connely 8 months ago
Me, too! Especially the one where she met Jesus Christ...
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David Jeffery 8 months ago
I've tried and my wife has tried but we find her incredibly unfunny. It's true, once you reach a certain age, you feel like everything has been done before
RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
A mistake in the explanation is that a lot of pottery was basically single use in the Roman empire. After use, they were often just thrown in a trash pile.
#11
Glue_Snacc: My guess is, person has a dysfunctional, toxic family and thought that such a thing was normal, until they met girlfriend's parents and learned what a healthy family actually looks like.
#12
Primary-Holiday-5586: So a woman died on Disney property after eating a dinner that she was assured was allergen free. Her husband sued. Disney said that when he signed up for a free one month trial of D plus he agreed to arbitration and couldn't sue.
Nina 8 months ago
Holy forking shirtballs, that's a nasty snake in the grass way to get out of lawsuits
Sue User 8 months ago
They eventuslly dropped request for mandatory arbitration after significant backlash.
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Seán Hannan 8 months ago (edited)
I've seen quite a bit of coverage of this case. Two points to make (1). Arbitration is cheaper and faster than a lawsuit, meaning the complainant gets paid sooner and without having to fight every inch of the way. (2). The restaurant did not belong to Disney, so the plaintiff was trying to drag them in to the lawsuit because they have deep pockets by claiming they had booked the restaurant through Disney's website, which they accessed from the Disney Plus app. To do this, they agreed to the T's & C's, which means they agreed to arbitration with Disney. The restaurant (who are definitely the alleged responsible party) is not covered by that.
David Beaulieu 8 months ago
So the real issue with this is not that Disney legitimately thinks this agreement protects them on its surface. It's that Disney knows that no regular person has the money to fight it. They have an army of lawyers. Even if the husband was the best corporate lawyer in the world and the best 5 lawyers in New York agreed to help him pro bono, Disney would tie things up in countersuits and motions forever. If only the US had some sort of 'Consumer Protection' agency that could help the people fight gigantic corporations.
On that note, many people love inside jokes. We create them with our families, our best friends, our partners, our colleagues and more. For example, when someone’s hungry at work, we always suggest “just having a few grapes and you’ll be fine,” which doesn’t sound like a joke at all out of context. And my family has a few sayings (such as, “Family, unite!”) that will instantly send us into fits of laughter. But these comments don’t make sense to anyone else. Memes can often function in the same way, only being understood by a select number of people.
#13
loopingtohell: It's about the whole alpha, beta, delta, sigma bs that some men obsess over it.
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
To add, the person who published a book on this has spent most of his life trying to get the thing out of print because it's wrong. It was a study based on wolves in captivity that were unrelated and had been put together by the people running the zoo/preserve (I forget which). Basically imagine someone trying to discover how human society works purely by studying the inmates of a supermax prison. In reality packs are family units (or sometimes multiple that join up for a period of time to survive) and the 'alpha' wolves are just the parents, trying to keep everyone alive and stop last year's kids from bullying the babies etc. An alpha male in human terms should be a parent working cooperatively with his partner to raise multiple sets of kids.
Marnie 8 months ago
Thanks for posting this. (I had read this before, but some people may not have.) I wish the person who explained this cartoon above had given more information. They could have helped the world!
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 8 months ago
If a time machine were possible, it would already have been invented ;-)
Savannah Newman 8 months ago
Also this, a quote perhaps, possibly someone else's comment but it went like this. Some folks believe man can control the weather but deny man can change the climate. We don't know what we don't know. No sense getting upset at a kindergartner for not knowing algebra. We know, now, that removing an apex predator from an ecosystem, without prejudice has drastic and catastrophic consequences in the entire food chain. Data and science is just data and science until we give it meaning. We have great knowledge about how to steward the planet,much more than they did then and what are we doing with it? I would say, this ain't on them, they were making what they thought were good choices. That happened so we could understand what it means today. We gotta get in gear friends. We know what to do.
#14
natholemewIII: As a general rule, if someone has one crazy ex, the ex was probably crazy. If they describe every single ex as crazy, they are probably the one that's crazy. The doge in the middle is proud to be the first "nice guy" she's ever dated, but the one's around him know he's doomed to become another crazy ex, because the problem in all his new girlfriends past relationships was probably her. They know they can't do anything about it, because he has to learn for himself. Hope this helps!
Trash Panda 8 months ago (edited)
I think the joke is that she has a thing for toxic men so a relationship with a nice guy can never last. He's just a rebound.
B Jones 8 months ago
Alternatively women or especially young women like "bad boys" as it's more exciting and they get bored with the nice guy.
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b-monster666: I just learned this now, but apparently in the 18th century, Spanish missionaries in Venezuela, Columbia and Brazil ate capybara. They wrote to the pope, describing an animal that lived mostly in the water, had hair and scales and asked if they could eat it for lent. The pope, not knowing what a capybara was, and only having the description to go off of decided that the capybara was a fish, so it was okay to eat.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
As an ex-Catholic, THIS is a source of major annoyance for me. The actual edict is to just FAST, not spend the next couple of millennia faffing about oh, let's stuff our faces with anything that's "not meat". And THEN as if salmon, turbot, plaice, shrimp, eel, crab, haddock (list goes on to include all fish) isn't enough on a FASTING DAY, they just have to wrangle to include puffins, turtles and beavers on the list. So, how much fasting and reflection was done on that fast?
B Jones 8 months ago
It def seems like most religions are given some rules and the first thing people do is try to find loopholes around them LOL
Load More Replies... Corvus 8 months ago
Orthodox priests say octopi and squids are okay to eat because they "don't have blood." They actually do have blood, but it's not red (no haemoglobin).
Thanos'Fingers 8 months ago
The blue blood from those creepy underwater beach spiders from before dinosaurs is harvested at some lab in the Carolinas for medicinal research. It's both terrifying and crazy to see the operation. Like humans turned the tables on the little monsters from Alien.
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As much fun as inside jokes can be, they can also feel pretty isolating when you’re not in on the joke. So the courteous thing to do, if you share an inside joke in front of people who don’t get it, is to simply explain it! Laughing with loved ones is an excellent way to strengthen bonds and relieve stress. In fact, even laughing with people you don’t know might be a great way to make a new friend or sneak a little joy into your day! So if someone is curious about a meme you’ve shared or a joke you made, just be kind and explain it. There’s no need to shame them for not knowing the context!
#16
CorpseGeneral: Some men calling themselves "passport bros" come over to SEA countries to find themselves a "traditional, submissive woman". Philippines and Thailand seem to be the more popular options.
Eastendbird 8 months ago
The latest series of White Lotus said that these men are known as LBHs - Losers Back Home!
keyboardtek 8 months ago
Those countries are also known for brothels and American men go on "s*x tours" of those brothels.
ManuelQue 8 months ago
There are many underage s*x workers, both boys and girls.
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Mary Green 8 months ago
My mom was a "traditional housewife" when I was growing up in the 1960's, as were all the moms of my many friends, and anyone who thinks those women were submissive is delusional.
Marnie 8 months ago
Same here. This is what annoys me as much as anything. That this is a myth, but it's become reality in people's minds. They think the 1900s in the US was like Afghanistan now, and some guys want to return to that, citing "tradition" to excuse their non-consensual B**M fantasies.
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Thelethargian: Engineers are paid for efficient and low cost solutions while architects are paid to (in the best of cases but not all) make structures that look good and serve their purpose often increasing the price of and decreasing the efficiency of construction. In this image the engineers solution is practical and efficient while the architects is better looking but is less practical. This is a generalization to better answer the joke.
Edit: this comment ignores the fact that architects and engineers often work hand in hand using both of their strengths. Practical doesn’t always mean beautiful, and we do benefit from beauty around us.
SM 8 months ago
But six aren't. In reality both did a good job when it comes to using the least amount of nails to keep the others off the wood.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 8 months ago
The local architects offices in my town are the ugliest buildings in the town.
#18
Captain_Tappa: There were protests in China, Tiananmen Square, in 1989, ended up with lots of casualties. And TS stands for Taylor Swift, born in 1989.
Anonymouse 8 months ago
And apparently if you say TS 1989 on the internet in china, you lose internet access...
NerdAlert 8 months ago
Lived in China, that's actually true. Especially for the foreigner community
Load More Replies...While memes can be about anything and everything, they are intended to bring people together and make us feel less alone. But the opposite can happen when we don’t understand what’s going on in an image. Who’s that character they’re referring to? What’s that item supposed to be? Are they referencing a band or a book? It can all become incredibly confusing. That’s why it’s so great for groups like r/PeterExplainsTheJoke to exist. You’ll never be confused about memes again!
#19
PM_ME_YOUR_T**S80085: Bras for larger breasts are harder to open.
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
Right? Men all joke about how easily or not they can open a woman's bra but the real challenge is putting the thing on.
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Travelling Stranger 8 months ago
the more hook and eye pairs, the better the hold; also sports bras tend to have three pairs
Bob Connely 8 months ago
These aren't the front-opening types, are they? (asking for a friend!)
#20
soup_drinker1417: American soldier impregnated Vietnamese lady and left.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
The detail of the bellybutton showing in the photo! I love artists! 😄
#21
starlight_collector: Mining bitcoin takes a lot of electricity.
Regina Holt 8 months ago
When I was a kid, we lived in a long narrow rowhouse (Kinda the equivalent of townhouse nowadays). We had renters on either side of us that we assumed didn't pay for their own electricity, because we rarely needed to turn on the heat in winter. We just relied on the heat coming though the walls from our neighbors.
A girl 8 months ago
My first apartment was above the laundry facility. I never had my heat on and frequently had my windows open. In January. In Minnesota
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Artoonist Corine 8 months ago
WE had same situation but we lived in the upstairs of a house - never had to turn the heat on during the winter! Some days we had the windows open! Came home from work and had to put shorts on! IT was SO hot - old lady below us ran her furnace PLUS a kerosene heater!
Nikki Gross 8 months ago
That was one really good thing about owning a gas stove when we lost electricity during a horrendous ice storm in 2020. Even though it had an electric ignition, I was still able to light the pilot lights to use it. I couldn't chance it with our heater for the house or the water heater. I only have 3 roads that are in and out of my neighborhood, EVERY SINGLE ONE was blocked by trees and downed powerlines, so we were basically f****d. This was in October and less than 2 months before Mom passed away. Me and my brother have an insane candle collection, between the 2 of us we have close to 60 of them. He moved into the living, where me and Mom were already sleeping, so we shut all of the doors and had blankets over the windows to conserve heat. All of the food went into coolers that we put on the back patio, since the temperature was -0 and below, we didn't have to worry about food spoiling. This wasn't our first ice storm, but it was definitely the worst and longest one that we ever had.
Nikki Gross 8 months ago
Mom growing up incredibly poor, she knew how to survive living in extremely cold temperatures. Mom grew up in a shack with a tin and wood roof, dirt floor, small wood burning stove and outhouse. There are so many other things that she grew up with and lived through, that I could probably write a book about her life. Anyways, our situation was a 1000'xs better then what she dealt with, so not only did we survive, we thrived during that storm. We didn't even have a generator and we were still doing better then our neighbors. I think that's one thing that I feel sorry about the newer generations. The internet is great, but if you lose electricity and your internet goes down, you better know how to survive. If there is another "Catastrophic" ice storm, especially like what happened to Texas you'll need to know what to do. Everyone needs to learn some type of basic survival skills, because this applies to Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Wildfires, etc. Please have a plan.
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Marnie 8 months ago
This person was being an a*****e. This was the one and only time when the electric company in the state actually had an emergency and thought they couldn't keep up. They sent word around the entire state to lower the heat for the day. It was only for one day. The landlord, being a good citizen complied. The renter is an immature a*****e who couldn't put up with the cold for one day in her life.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Just can't relate until OP tells us if it was -40 C or -40 F. Fairly sure it wasn't -40 Kelvin.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
I just can't understand if -40 es cold or hot.. 40 what? Celsius degrees? Fahrenheit??? Wtf???
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#22
mklinger23: Autistic people have safe foods that are comforting. A lot of those are things that we grew up eating. That makes the foods familiar and therefore "safe".
Travelling Stranger 8 months ago
rather, lots of autistic people have very strong, unovercomeable food preferences regarding the consistency - it must meet very specific criteria (must be crunchy, fruit can't be too soft and ripe, only one kind of food is eaten, etc), so this might show someone's preferred food in terms of both consistency and content
Linden 8 months ago
Yes! The amount of touching is not OK. I find the way a lot of it is hanging off the side of the plate bothersome too.
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#23
martopub11: There is a trend of women switching roles and saying phrases a male might say to a female: “I would’ve been in the NFL if it wasn’t for my career ending knee injury”.
Anyone-for-tea? 8 months ago
I used to have this on my dating profile, the amount of blokes that asked me if I was okay was disappointing 😭
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#24
ARatOnASinkingShip: Mountain goats can climb incredibly steep, almost vertical angles with ease. The frog thought he could escape the goat by climbing the wall. The frog was wrong. 92 degrees is a bit farfetched, but the point is that the wall isn't perfectly vertical, therefore the goat can climb it.
Ace 8 months ago (edited)
TBH I'm more confused about the frog. Are these characters in Anime or something? (I know _nothing_ about Anime, so probably even that os the wrong term).
Yourlocalsnipergal 8 months ago
The purple symbols appear in the series "Jojo's Bizarre Adventures" when a character does something menacing or ominous.
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#25
Wordwind: She was an American painter who did a lot of flower paintings that could be seen as...reminiscent of sexy lady parts.
#26
MothersMiIk: The United Health Care CEO shooter was recently apprehended in Pennsylvania in a McDonald’s after a tip was called in by another customer, contrary to the current belief that it was an employee. The meme is implying that the McDonald’s worker would also snitch on Anne Frank, who was hiding in an attic from the N*zis, because of the belief a McDonald’s employee snitched.
CK 8 months ago
I think murdering someone, even a CEO, is a different kind of crime than being born Jewish.
XenoMurph 8 months ago
The way things are going, he's only the first. Inequality is tolerated until food and housing becomes scarce. That's how revolutions happen. I'd like change to be peaceful. End stage capitalism is already costing lives because of poverty. People will react more and more as more wealth and propertty is hoarded by the billionaires through their corporations.
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#27
VerySecretHotdog: Nurses keep the death count low but the body count high.
Norm Gilmore 8 months ago
Stressful jobs. None of our business how that stress is dealt with...
#28
longtermbrit: Speaking as a millennial who is single, I feel like the guy on the ground watching that chopper fly off into the sunset. Dating apps are poison for anyone who isn't conventionally attractive, even if they do lead to relationships occasionally (I have a friend who met their spouse on there but they're both ridiculously attractive people inside and out) they're built with the intention of keeping people on the apps. That's not going to happen if they're good at pairing people off into relationships.
Add in a chronically online culture exacerbated by Covid lockdowns and a cost of living crisis pushing up the price of going out for a few drinks and you have a population of people who hardly ever go out so are less likely to meet organically and less able to interact with people in a flirty way.
And I include myself in this.
Mariotevez 8 months ago
As a GenX married man, seeing what my single friends go thru has scarred me...
Detroit Citizen 8 months ago
Being a GenX single guy, dating scares me. Back in the day i barely had any game, but I managed. Now i feel like i have negative game. I just cant relate to dating sites, and going to a social gathering place, everyone is looking at a screen. IDK what to do lol
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Remi (He/Him) 8 months ago
One thing is that those online dating apps actually don't want you to find a happily ever after, because they'd lose a client. Or so I've heard. Over 20 years in a relationship, so I'm out of touch when it comes to dating
Detroit Citizen 8 months ago
Being a GenX single guy, dating scares me. Back in the day i barely had any game, but I managed. Now i feel like i have negative game. I just cant relate to dating sites, and going to a social gathering place, everyone is looking at a screen. IDK what to do lol
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
I don't even understand how to achieve to be cared of.. so no. I don't get this
Hellcaste's Wife 8 months ago
I absolutely do. We met online through Yahoo!Personals in 1999. Have been together since. I look at dating now and it's a war zone! LOL
#29
Morbos1000: I'm guessing they are young computer nerds and she is a hot girl. So a little flirting with them might convince them to give her sensitive info about the company. In the most extreme case passwords to infiltrate the whole computer system and take over the company ( given this is a joke).
antoinette maldari 8 months ago
Hey! Elon paid ALOT of money for that "agency"
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#30
TheEmperorOfDoom: Canadians have legal euthanasia.
Britols need to wait before getting medicine.
Amercanus have to pay.
Corvus 8 months ago
In order to afford kidney surgery in the US, you'd have to sell the kidney first :D
XenoMurph 8 months ago (edited)
UK resident here. Conservative government intentionally underfunded the free to use NHS to force people into private. It's not universal helathcare that's the problem, it's conservatives.
Helena 8 months ago
It is almost comforting to know that conservatives suck everywhere.
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The only one that’s accurate is the US one. Canadian doctors never suggest euthanasia and British people can get reasonable care for most anything. This evidently done by US insurance industry US care is not quick or caring
XenoMurph 8 months ago
As long as it's a choice, not enforced or pressured. Not easy to be sure a family who is struggling financially is not pushing a vulnerable elderly person to the edge. The ideology is not the problem, it's the practicality.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 8 months ago
In my experience, US healthcare isn’t particularly fast either. And it’s pretty hit or miss with quality.
Maples Dad 8 months ago
This was obviously made by an American. As a Brit I can call my doctors surgery in the morning and get an appointment for the same day. If they make a referral to a specialist then it's usually only a week or two away. If I'm in need of emergency care I go to the nearest hospital and am obviously seen. Plus I don't pay anything out of pocket.
Pascale Laroche 8 months ago
I am Canadian and my mother was euthanized. She had inoperable liver cancer and was in agony. The doctor asked her if she would prefer to have pain medication and remain lucid (but the pain would still remain at some point) or be put into an induced coma and go into her "sleep." My mother decided to be put into a coma. It took 3 days....
#31
Adept_Lemon2481: It's a joke about how metal music has a dramatic unreadable font. More unreadable and dramatic the font the more niche and metal the band.
Travelling Stranger 8 months ago
this post reminds one of a contest called Completely Unreadable Band Logo of the Week on one of the many websites writing about heavy metal music - if you managed to decipher the diarrhoea looking splat, you got goodies.. the bottom logo is similar to a logo for the band Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx, which apparently first letters of the band's full name..
#32
AdmiralAkbar1: You can find the original twitter thread here. TLDR you can tell what kinds of d***s the writers were getting prescribed based on how trippy stuff is.
Remi (He/Him) 8 months ago
Btw, you can't see the xitter thread without logging in to xitter. And that's not gonna make me make one, so Akbar didn't clarify much
Tristin Roholt 8 months ago
Can't believe no one's said this yet so "it's a TRAP!" (thankyou goodbye)
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#33
red-D-Thor: Guy is Johnny sins.
Does p**no.
Does roleplay of sometimes astronaut, sometimes doctor,... all sorts of professions.
Sue User 8 months ago
My first thought was he doesnt like Jonny Kim. Jonny is former Navy SEAL, Harvard-trained physician, and now a NASA astronaut
iBlank 8 months ago
sounds like Jonny Kim could be Johnny Sin's next role!
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#34
LovecraftianKing: Men don’t get compliments. So the bottom is something completely unrelated because there is no stock reaction to men being complimented.
Earonn - 8 months ago
Nooo, they don't get compliments. They get promotions and salary rises, and don't have to beg for technical trainings etc. They high five each other, to express what exactly? "Hey, bro, s****y work"? Rather say: men get different compliments, not none at all.
#35
NoTePierdas: A new sonic weapon was unveiled in Serbia against protestors.
So, the problem is that it is going to be a new "non-lethal" weapon. Non-lethal weapons have the problem of making people at home feel okay about it while causing severe problems to people it's used on.
Sonic weapons and stun grenades absolutely f**king deafen you and pierce your eardrums. Rubber bullets will still break bones, and can totally k**l you, they're just less likely to k**l you. Tear gas causes severe respiratory distress.
As a guy whose seen stun grenades used, I'd kinda prefer if they just fired over protestors' heads or something. My ears haven't stopped ringing since I was 13. I can't sleep without a cocktail of medicine.
Sonic weapons, as far as I know, can't be defended against deafening you by wearing earpro. The equivalent amount of sound is multiple .45 ACP rounds going off inside of you, radiating throughout your body.
Savannah Newman 8 months ago
Whoa, I remember reading about them being used. My gut was telling me something isn't right here. Maybe if the people with the power, access and capacity to decide how life is for the rest of us stopped being so shifty, selfish and destructive we wouldn't have to emote loudly in the streets. CAN YOU HEAR US NOW OR DO WE GOTTA START BREAKING S**T? Any time I see protests, anywhere in the world that have high emotions and drastic actions like fighting and physical violence I think, well of course this happened. A system designed to consume and hoard, and deny access and lock up necessities and consolidate power to, historically speaking, too many people that operated off of pure ego and greed can only go 1 of 2 ways. Either the system eats itself into annihilation and takes everything down with it. Or, we see the system with clear eyes so we may course correct before it's too late. It's time. 💫🤍✌️🤙🤘🫂
#36
SoSpecialName: Topology (hole science) joke. Socks, by topological standards, have no holes.
Thanos'Fingers 8 months ago
Then why would a cup of coffee? Are they saying because the sock tip isn't flat like a mug? That seems dumb. Or someone f'ed up.
Judes 8 months ago
Shouldn't the pants be two tubes that join into one tube? I don't think it can flatten into the above shape. I think the shirt is wrong too, but I'm too tired to think.
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
To a topologist, 'shape' is irrelevant and often oversimplified for topological clarity. The topological 'order' of an object is how many "holes" pass through it. So for a T-shirt, for example, you could consider it as a tube (topological order 1, hole goes from neck to waist or vice versa). Then adding the two sleeves brings it to topological order 3, three holes. Distorting it to that flat fidget-spinner thing makes it easier to understand its topological order classification at a glance.
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Mammoth-Magician-778: It’s a scene from The Mist. Towards the end of the film, the man pictured is held up in a car with a number of others, including his son. Believing that soon they’ll all die, he k**ls them all, but doesn’t have a bullet for himself. After k**ling them, the mist begins to clear and the military starts driving through.
The tragedy is that if he had waited just a few more moments, he wouldn’t have had to k**l his son. Now he has to live with it for the rest of his life.
#38
JustSimple97: Comedian will interact with them and ask many potentially uncomfortable questions. Depend on your ability to come up with clever things fast this may work in your favor or against you.
#39
West-Cricket-9263: The first picture represents punching drywall, which is what most American houses have. It's a costly and ultimately pointless endeavor but mostly harmless. The second picture illustrates what happens when you punch an actual wall.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Repairng a hole in drywall is not at all costly, unless you don't know how to do it.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
that's true for a surprisingly large number of problems
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Obsolete, more costly to heat, more deadly in an earthquake or tornado, more difficult to perform upgrades with, won't burn as easily in a fire but more easily than you'd expect and easily collapses. The main use for brick/stone walls is for noise-proofing; a lot of American condos use the between units for this reason.
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JobiWanKenobi47: The joke is that people who act funny and don’t pay attention in class don’t get higher paying jobs making them work at earlier hours rather than a 9-5.
Spocks's Mom 8 months ago
Honestly, there's no shame in any of it. Different people are cut out for different things.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Second sentence true, but if someone threw away their chance to qualify for a good but challenging job, it's on them
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#41
flashpoint71: These were sold in vending machine inside break rooms, usually at manufacturing plants. They were usually in the vending machine that rotates. You have to open the little door and pull it out.
Edit: These were a great choice at 7 am, first thing In the morning, because you didn’t get home from the bars before 3:30 am.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
OP probably didn't want to hear your opinions about anything , anyway ...
M O'Connell 8 months ago
I always felt the egg salad sandwich was the safest choice in one of those machines.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
Was there a microwave machine associated with the vending machine?
#42
Berkamin: This is Ramanujan, the Indian mathematician who got mystical revelations of mind blowing mathematical theorems.
Many of his mathematical conjectures were later proven true, which is baffling because it leaves you wondering how he was even able to make such conjectures in the first place. According to him he had mystical dreams about math. (Or ‘maths’ as he might have said, since he did his academic work in the UK.) That’s his source for these conjectures
Savannah Newman 8 months ago
Your dreams really are a magical place. He could access the knowledge of the cosmos.
Bill Swallow 8 months ago
Long ago, I was having trouble programming a postal bulk-sort algorithm for a mailing system for a client who published a small sports newspaper. One night, I dreamed the solution. I coded it up the next day and it worked. Not ground-breaking mathematical revelations, but I'll take the win.
Andrew Keir 8 months ago
Subconscious night-time thinking is not necessarily based on superstition
Jaya 8 months ago
It doesn't mean some mystical thing, it just means that he's still thinking about math while dreaming. We often dream about our job. His brain was just still processing all the mathematical things he knew and combining all those knowledge into something new. It's very interesting that apparently he needed a dream state to get to those ideas, but it's still his brain and his mathematical knowledge that created these theorems, not some mystical source.
#43
Bulky-Party-8037: There was a clip of him and P Diddy from years ago. So likely he was a member of those freak out parties that everyone including Homeland Security is concerned about leading people to think he was groomed by him, or worse.
Jaya 8 months ago
Using the word gay as an insult, is the most ridiculous thing ever. Some people think it's just an innocent insult, but it's really not. You're basically saying that being gay is so horrible or disgusting, that if you want to insult someone, you'll compare them to a gay person. Don't ever do that, unless you actually think being gay is a bad thing, just choose to insult with any other word. There are hundreds of insults that you could use, just use any random other one.
#44
CapablePersonality21: There's a trend on tiktok on women expressing little traits on men that gives them the "ick", which is disgust and unattractiveness for them. Eventually it got so ridiculous that even the most mundane act would give them the ick, things like feeling cold, walk in a certain way, ordering some kind of food, cooking, etc. There's a guy on tiktok/instagram that lists everything that give women them the ick and it became comical instantly.
#45
Ash_an_bun: The fade and an actually groomed beard are regarded as the type of hairstyles used by Caucasian males to indicate they would like to have relations with women of African descent.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 8 months ago
So that's what these men think. Has there been feedback from their target audience?
Lupita Nyong'heaux 8 months ago
short answer? yes. the "black wife glow-up" for white dudes is real. Google it. Lol
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Andrew Keir 8 months ago
It looks as if it's been designed to need weekly expert trimming
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CartographerKey4618: The backrooms are a fictional location of infinite rooms that you supposedly access by glitching yourself or being glitched out of reality. The rooms are liminal spaces, spaces that are eerily empty and are portrayed with featureless carpets, white walls, and older fluorescent lighting. If there is something inside of a backroom that seems innocent, like a soda machine, chances are it's some kind of eldrich horror trying to lure you in. More than likely, it's not a coincidence our thirsty protagonist ran into a pepsi machine.
iBlank 8 months ago
in several video games there are creatures disguised as treasure, that eat you when you try to collect
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AndTheOscarGoesTo-:
(deep breath) Here we go, in Zootopia, Disney made several significant changes to the plot before its release, altering the film's tone and themes. Originally, all predators were supposed to wear control collars that shocked them when they felt strong emotions, symbolizing societal oppression, but this concept was deemed too dark for a family movie. The initial story also presented a bleaker view of discrimination, with prey animals as the oppressors of predators, which was shifted to focus on cooperation and understanding instead. The main villain was Initially going to be Mayor Swinton, a pig representing societal control, but was changed to Bellwether, a sheep whose betrayal added a surprising twist. Nick Wilde's backstory was originally darker, emphasizing his childhood trauma from prejudice, but this was toned down for a lighter narrative. The first draft included a storyline where Nick dealt with a virus causing savage behavior but managed to control it, this was simplified in the final version to highlight themes of acceptance. (Sigh of relief)
FreeTheUnicorn 8 months ago
Amazing Disney finds anything too dark for a family movie considering what they put in .
Travelling Stranger 8 months ago
what disney does is cancer, someone should make the movie according to original plot
XenoMurph 8 months ago
You don't want to know the original plots for most of them. Sleeping Beauty didn't get woken up by the kiss, she was woken up 9 months AFTER the "kiss". You want to put that in a kids movie?
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swinkyy_x: It’s basically joking about how guys might say they don’t have a favorite color, but if they do, it’s not just “green”, its something super specific like “the deep green of moss after it rains” or “the exact shade of emerald dust.” Guys don’t go broad; they go weirdly niche.
Norm Gilmore 8 months ago
That's bullpuckey. Everyone knows the best green is Kawasaki lime...
Pferdchen 8 months ago
To each their own. I'd go with the beautiful turquoise waters of the Florida Keys. WorldCat-1.jpg 
RedHairedDragon 8 months ago
I really was off the impression that no one over the age of 14 had a favorite color
CK 8 months ago
Why? As adults we're no longer allowed to have individual preferences?
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Psyberpunk777: Small cylinder means his w**ner.
Auntriarch 8 months ago (edited)
I rather wish this one hadn't been explained. Especially as my mind went straight to tweezers
Joe Reaves 8 months ago
The example usually goes on to explain the small cylinder must not be damaged in any way.
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#50
Armisael2245: I seen people say the algorithm is promoting violent, h***y and generally unhinged videos.
Savannah Newman 8 months ago
Oh I detest it when the claim that this is happening just because of the algorithm, oh the algo did it. Someone had to make that algorithm. Or do I understand even less about tech than I thought?
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Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I think some of the explanations left me as confused as the original meme.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
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