The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke
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The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke
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#2Do we have to make the average middle-aged man into a buffoon to make up for our discomfort that a handful of older men have the unfair ability to boss us around? (e.g. Jeff Epstein, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk?)
(The reality that a group of less than 0.01% of the has so much power over the rest of us causes us to blame "the 1% percent" or "top 10%" or "the patriarchy", etc.)
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#3My current torture device: Someone glued my deck of cards together and I just can’t deal with it!
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#4Do we have to make the average middle-aged man into a buffoon to make up for our discomfort that a handful of older men have the unfair ability to boss us around? (e.g. Jeff Epstein, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk?) (The reality that a group of less than 0.01% of the has so much power over the rest of us causes us to blame "the 1% percent" or "top 10%" or "the patriarchy", etc.)
"unfair" ability? such victim mentality. lol, you're so entitled. and Musk was bossing you around before he whas middle-aged.
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#5I've heard all the dad jokes, I present you with this one:
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#6My kids have a habit of shouting, "Dad joke!" whenever I make a groaner.
The other day, my wife made a great pun, and my son said, "Dad joke!"
"No, it's a mom joke," she clarified. Then she educated them.
"There are two differences between dad jokes and mom jokes. Number one, I'm a mom, not a dad, so I tell mom jokes."
"What's the other difference?" a kid asked.
"Number two," she sighed, looking in my direction. "Dad jokes are relentless."
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#7Do we have to make the average middle-aged man into a buffoon to make up for our discomfort that a handful of older men have the unfair ability to boss us around? (e.g. Jeff Epstein, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk?) (The reality that a group of less than 0.01% of the has so much power over the rest of us causes us to blame "the 1% percent" or "top 10%" or "the patriarchy", etc.)
"unfair" ability? such victim mentality. lol, you're so entitled. and Musk was bossing you around before he whas middle-aged.
I dunno. 1000 years from now the last man will be breathing his last breath on Earth and will be thinking... We could have gotten to Mars, colonized Ceres, gotten to Alpha Centuri a long time ago, but Elon Musk just had to post that stupid tweet...
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#8As a Dad of an 8 year old, I bond a lot with my son through humour. I need a repository of inoffensive jokes that don’t require much understanding. That’s why I tell Dad jokes.
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#9Where does a cat go after it exhausts its nine lives?
Purr-gatory.
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#10> No longer distant, traditional patriarchal father figures, dads can use jokes to bond and interact with their children, using simple humor that is most often appreciated by children earlier on in their development.
I think this is a big part of it, and I've heard this before. Parents use very simplistic humor with their kids, because more sophisticated humor or humor with adult themes isn't appropriate. Over time this becomes the habit for the parent, so they keep doing it even as the children age out of it.