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To not find this "joke" funny

122 replies

RampantIvy · 16/12/2022 22:04

Me and my wife have been married for 35 years and I have never let her look in the safe. Last week when I went to the market she looked in the safe, and when I got back she said “I have looked in the safe”. I said “ I told you not to look in there”. She said “there is £40,000 in there and three eggs”. She said “what are the eggs for?”. I said “Well I’ll be honest, every time I shagged someone else’s wife I put an egg in the safe”. She said “That’s not bad in 35 years is it?”. I said “No, but when I get a dozen I sell them, and that’s where the money comes from”

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CheesesandWines · 16/12/2022 22:05

I think it's the way you told it.

Oneeyedreindeer · 16/12/2022 22:05

I didn’t laugh out loud but it’s a pretty standard joke…

NoAlexa · 16/12/2022 22:06

CheesesandWines · 16/12/2022 22:05

I think it's the way you told it.

i think so too

RampantIvy · 16/12/2022 22:06

CheesesandWines · 16/12/2022 22:05

I think it's the way you told it.

I copied and pasted it on here.

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Bluelightbaby · 16/12/2022 22:07

🤣😂🤣

thefirstmrsrochester · 16/12/2022 22:08

🥱

RunnerBum · 16/12/2022 22:09

It’s about as funny as any other. Are you asking if it’s offensive? Because no, not unless you’re really trying to be offended.

HRTQueen · 16/12/2022 22:09

Depends on the delivery

ofwarren · 16/12/2022 22:09

I'm not offended or anything but I don't think it's funny.
I 'get it' but its just not a very funny joke.

RosieCockle · 16/12/2022 22:09

I didn't laugh

Whammyyammy · 16/12/2022 22:09

It's a joke, not RL. Jeeez

Hellocatshome · 16/12/2022 22:10

Its not laugh out loud funny but not many jokes are. Can't find it offensive though.

CheesenCrackersmm · 16/12/2022 22:10

I half chuckled. Please do not say you were offended by it.

Vaccine001 · 16/12/2022 22:11

This joke has been doing the rounds on Facebook for years.

VladmirsPoutine · 16/12/2022 22:12

I genuinely don't get it.

Theluggage15 · 16/12/2022 22:13

That’s a version of the cricket sledging biscuit joke. It’s just a joke.

FleeceDuvet · 16/12/2022 22:13

We have a local freebie magazine that gets posted and it’s full of awful jokes like this.

Pothoswithasparkle · 16/12/2022 22:16

There are so many version of it. It's just a joke

Ginger1982 · 16/12/2022 22:16

What's your issue with it?

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 16/12/2022 22:18

VladmirsPoutine · 16/12/2022 22:12

I genuinely don't get it.

It isn't very funny. I think the joke is meant to be in the surprise factor - his wife thinks he has only been unfaithful 3 times, but in fact he has been unfaithful for the number of times equivalent to the number of eggs he would have to sell to earn £40,000 - i.e. at the current price of eggs, he has been unfaithful around 137,000 times.

NuffSaidSam · 16/12/2022 22:18

It's a dreadful joke, so YANBU to not find it funny.

VladmirsPoutine · 16/12/2022 22:19

@PlaitBilledDuckyPuss Thank you!!!

MurderAtTheBeautyPageant · 16/12/2022 22:20

it feels very 1980s. I'd struggle to be offended by it.

thenightsky · 16/12/2022 22:20

Vaccine001 · 16/12/2022 22:11

This joke has been doing the rounds on Facebook for years.

It pre dates FB by about 30 years.

RampantIvy · 16/12/2022 22:21

Ginger1982 · 16/12/2022 22:16

What's your issue with it?

I just don't find "jokes" about men cheating on their wife funny. I'm not offended, nor does it touch a nerve. It just isn't funny to me. I wonder if I would get the same responses if I posted this in the feminist section.

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