We all make jokes that don't land, but sometimes we make jokes that should've been funny if anyone understood it.

Maybe it was too subtle, or too nuanced like a joke based off work-jargon.

Whatever it was, what joke did you say that should've had people in stitches but... didn't land?

Now is your time!

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[–] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was out on St Patrick's day and saw a guy go by in a novelty top hat that looked similar to this:

And I shouted "Holy shit! It's St Jamiroquai!" to absolutely zero response

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm at a conference of global research scientists and this was what was in all the drink cabinets

    I sent it to my colleague and said they clearly hadn't met us. Still looking for the cabinets of dumb butch juice.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    My spouse was taking about her imposter syndrome this morning and was like, "I'm gonna wake up one day and have clients and I'll be like, where did they come from?!" To which o responded, "you may say to yourself, this is not my beautiful house, and you may say to yourself, this is not my beautiful wife"

    She did not get the joke.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    A thread here about some recent comments from Hillary Clinton a couple weeks ago led to people saying they don't want to hear from her after losing to a fascist. Someone said we wouldn't be here if she could give a half decent blowjob.

    I said "stop blaming women for aging"

    Bunch of people (for lemmy's scale) took it as me being a social justice warrior (I guess?) that genuinely meant she got older.

    No, I was making a joke about Bill's preference for children. I thought it'd land without extra context. Oh well, at least I sleep at night knowing my name still isn't in the epstein files

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    I quote the original Tron a fuckton. "Greetings, Programs!" when I get into work and people are looking for me. Calling people Null Unit. Or last night when someone made a suggestion and I said "no no no no no no" in a sort of higher pitched monotone and none of my friends got it. I was quoting Bit.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I do that with Babylon 5 sometimes. Poor people don't know the hilarity they're missing.

    Picking through avocados at the grocery store in a Zathras voice saying, "not the One, not the One, not the One..." sigh

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I frequently tell my wife, "Nonsense poopy pants!" I don't think she's ever seen Ace Ventura When Nature Calls. I sometimes also say in a very open parking lot, "Now if only I could find a parking space."

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Not quite a joke, but I quote It’s Always Sunny pretty often. I love the show, but my partner has never watched it, so he never gets those quotes. There are even times when he says something from the show and I laugh, then have to explain that he would understand if he watched the show.

    He still won’t watch it 😑

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    I suggested lubricating a female dog with teak oil when she was whining. This joke does not translate well.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    This post:

    To which I answered

    It's a reference to very old car Chrysler car commercials with Ricardo Montalban (Khan).

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    No I cannot. Because I forgot. It's an 'in the moment' thing and once that moment has passed, it's gone.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I've learned the lemmy requires a "/s" tag 99.99% of the time.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I have one heavily downvoted and removed comment because I sarcastically said something like

    "Get the fuck out of here with your well thought through and reasoned opinion. This is the Internet, nuance isn't allowed here"

    Oh the irony

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    No, that is absolutely possible. People on Lemmy don't understand sarcasm with out the /s and tend to over explain things to please a voice inside their head that is constantly begging for attention and telling them they have to correct everyone on the internet because everyone else too stupid to write anything coherently./s

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I did a meme image, but forget to put a big red circle and arrow pointing at the salient element, which only took up 66% of the image.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Some how we were talking about dogs and giving dog facts. I made a 'dogs can't look up' reference. No one got the joke

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