To not find this "joke" funny

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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”

I heard this about 25 years ago, told in broad Doric in the North East of Scotland. It was brilliantly delivered and we all laughed a lot. Also, was told as the wife doing the cheating. I agree with a pp, it’s all in the delivery.

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Just tell them JK Rolling told you it and they will love it.

Why did you assume it’s a man cheating on his wife? Could be a female cheating on her wife. Would that be funnier?

It's not funny but it's a bit weird. Where are the eggs coming from to sell? Is he buying them and reselling?

That would make sense, then if they were chickens she could produce the egg each time

Yes very confusing

Some people will find it funny some won't. Same with any joke. That's the point of them. Everyone's sense of humour is different

From that point of view, I think it's not worth getting worked up over. It's going to be a while before jokes about cheating are cancelled. There are more pressing matters than a funny, unfunny joke.

70 yr old man goes into a pharmacy.
He asks for a packet of condoms, a clothes~peg and earplugs.

When the pharmacist assistant asks ''Why the clothes~peg?''
He replies ''I hate the smell of burning rubber and the sound of shrieking women''

These have to be at least pre~war in date, surely!

Its not laugh out loud funny but I did a little snort at the punchline. Think I heard it as the opposite way round though, wife cheating on the husband as it makes more sense for a woman to buy eggs. Its a very very old joke.

I did too, as the punchline😆

Agreed..A woman cheating on her husband would make much more sense re egg selling.

Eggsactly.

I don’t find it particularly funny but I imagine posters in the feminist section have more serious matters to be concerned about….

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It's just a lame joke. No one has really cheated so don't worry

70 yr old man goes into a pharmacy.

I thought that was going to be the one about the old man who wanted Viagra to stop him from rolling out of bed/keep the sheets off his sunburnt legs; or the old fella who took a quarter of a tablet each day, just to avoid weeing on his shoes!

It’s about as funny as my left foot. Double points to who ever gets that reference :D

I think that whether told from a male or female point of view, jokes about infidelity are in poor taste. Thing is, just because something is in poor taste doesn't mean it isn't funny. And I expect if someone had very strict religious beliefs, joking about infidelity would be offensive.

But if someone has been cheated on and the emotional issues haven't been resolved, I expect it could be very painful.

I’m a feminist woman and I chuckled. But if I was maybe being cheated on or suspicious of this in a rocky relationship then maybe it would hit a nerve. Maybe the topic is off bounds for you OP because it’s a sensitive one for you.

Not quite comparable. That was an off-the cuff and very funny on-field retort by Eddo Brandes (Zimbabwean cricketer) to Glenn McGrath, who was sledging Brandes.

I thought the joke in the OP was meh rather than offensive.

Its abit gross but I did smirk abit tee hee

I'm here all week..............

It's unfunny.

And yeah, since theyve gone for a prolifically cheating man with a presumably dumb, oblivious faithful woman - it's kinda got a sexist "the wife, the ball and chain, the airhead, the fool" vibe to it.

I don't think men would enjoy it if it was a joke about female prolific infidelity and cuckholding against a clueless man.

Where did he get the eggs? If he bought them he'd be on a loss as people would want a discount for quantity. Or are they souvenirs taken from the ladies supply?