• VoxBunn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    65·
    2 days ago

    As someone who transitioned and then dated her male best friend. It was fun, and while it didn’t work out in the end because of things outside the relationship, it was one of the best relationships I’ve had.

  • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    176·
    2 days ago

    The joke is that the husband and his friend went to Thailand and his friend transitioned. Now the old friend is “missing” and the husband is married to who that friend became.

  • sangeteria@lemmy.ml
    70·
    2 days ago

    Everyone knows that to transition into a woman you walk into a booth in Bangkok called the “cunt machine” and after a magical girl transformation sequence you walk out a hormed and surged up doll

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      19 hours ago

      I had to come to the comments to realize people are interpreting this as “she used to be his male best friend before she transitioned to a woman.”

      That wooshed over my head because I interpreted it as the wife suspected her husband of of murdering his best friend 15 years ago.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
    40·
    2 days ago

    My best mate and I used to joke that if one of us was a woman or both of us were gay, it would have saved a lot of time.

          • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
            151·
            2 days ago

            Why wouldn’t it be funny if it was obvious? Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.

            • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              72·
              2 days ago

              Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.

              I would disagree. Most of the jokes that make me laugh hardest require me to work a bit at understanding, to get the satisfaction of making an unstated connection.

              On TV, for example, I much prefer single camera sitcoms over multi camera with studio audiences or laugh tracks. I don’t need things to be heavy handed about which parts are jokes.

              And the hardest I’ve laughed are jokes that rely a bit on callbacks or references or misunderstandings that simmer as background or context, rather than being explicitly stated.

                • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  I’m generally aligned with the “let people enjoy things” view. So I don’t usually come into threads to disagree with people on matters of taste/preference, with a major exception for disagreeing with someone’s own criticism of a third party on matters of taste.

                  OP came in an posted a joke you have to work for. Someone else came in and complained about it. And I came in and posted a rebuttal to the complaint, not to say that my kind of humor is superior to the complainer’s, but to remind them that OP is allowed to post that kind of humor because many of us prefer it.

              • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                I don’t think we can get anywhere if we try to debate based on what you or I personally think is funny. That’s why I specifically mentioned “the punchline”. Since the entire point of the punchline is to say the point of the joke, which is basically to make it obvious, I thought I was cleverly avoiding replies based on personal perspective. I hoped we could all agree that if we looked at a list of jokes that is generally agreed to be funny, most of them would be obvious after the punchline.

                • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  I’m not debating whether my type of humor is funnier than your type.

                  I’m pointing out that OP’s humor is a specific category that others (including myself) appreciate, so I don’t think your own preferences should override how OP wants to share jokes.

            • General_Effort@lemmy.worldOP
              61·
              2 days ago

              It’s double entendre, deriving from certain associations with Thailand. If one is in the know, one can read the meme as implying a rather implausible story. There is a humorous twist, but it would be rather dull if spelled out. This way, one derives satisfaction from decoding the meme, and knowing oneself to belong to the in-group.

        • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          I still dont understand. Did she kill the best friend? I dont believe for a second that anyone wouldn’t recognize their best friend in a new form.

  • daddycool@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 days ago

    Now that’s a good friend. Feeling sorry for his friend who can’t find a girlfriend. Then disappears in Thailand so his friend can meet the love of his life.

  • Farid@startrek.website
    2810·
    2 days ago

    In other words, lying to your partner for over a decade? Why and, most importantly, how?

    Edit: I wonder what the people who downvote the comment mean by them.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
        39·
        1 day ago

        So? It’s still slop. Even worse if it’s slop resembling a real person.

        Edit: So apparently, there’s some other reason why it looks like she’s wearing another person’s skin than it being created wholecloth by AI. Still in the uncanny valley.

          • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
            1·
            1 day ago

            Ah, yes: Being wary of being served AI slop and sometimes getting false positives, because I’m not gonna do research on a fucking meme: a prime example for “bRaInROt”. 🙄

            /s

        • Kayday@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 days ago

          My point is that I don’t think this is AI generated, I think it’s a frame from human art.

          • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
            16·
            2 days ago

            It looks sloppy as fuck, though. Look at her eyes and the wrinkles at the hairlines.

              • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
                22·
                2 days ago

                Ok, so it has a slop filter applied which makes it look like the person is wearing somebody else’s skin. Wtf.

                • Kayday@lemmy.world
                  6·
                  2 days ago

                  Wrong again. It looked the same in 2021 when this image was already circulating.
                  It’s a single frame from a panning shot where the actress is nodding her head quickly, and there is some out of focus camera work with lighting combining to make it look a little odd when you pause it right there. If you watch the clip you can see that moment.
                  Sometimes people just look weird if you take a frame out of a video.

      • besmtt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        712·
        2 days ago

        I wasn’t considering the joke. I zoomed in on the face and those wrinkles looked suspicious to me. Then I started looking at the background and that’s when I started thinking the image was slop? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

        Oh and the ears too. They just don’t seem realistic to me.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      19·
      2 days ago

      How? How can people tell? Someone points this out for most content posted. It seems like a race to be the first to say “AI slop”. Between actual AI slop, and content accused of being AI slop; there really isn’t much content left to be able to enjoy online.