Mum jokes are back

[Trou]

I wrote on the 'Karen' thread that people know not to use mum references as a 'jokey' put down, so casting around for a stealthier way to show their prejudice against middle aged women, Karen is a popular substitute. Anyway, I was wrong, a few hours later this gem appeared. I don't get it.

Wow, that's... it's not "not funny." It's actually not humour. I can't even see where the joke is supposed to be. Is there supposed to be one or is it just a bad drawing with a banal caption? ... is it supposed to be funny because they're calling the sink a "water cooler?"

oh wait, it's a New Yorker cartoon, confusion resolved. I once read a piece that suggested that every New Yorker cartoon ever would be funnier if you changed the caption to "Christ, what an asshole." Once again this rule has been upheld!

Eh?

That isn’t funny at all

I didn't know Mum jokes were a thing.

(There was an English Mum, an Irish Mum and a Scots Mum...).

Why does so much of this sexist and ageist crap seem to come from America?

The cultural gulf between the US and the UK (or any other place I've lived) is huge.

I was on a call with a colleague from the US (totally average office-working family man - not a hunting/shooting/fishing type), generally chatting before we started about Covid-19 preparation (no loo roll shortage in Ireland for example) - and he mentioned, as if it were the most normal thing in the world that he'd been to the ammo shop, but they were out of ammo, and he'd left his handgun somewhere anyway, but he'd stopped at the hardware store on the way home and bought an axe handle for by the door.

I don't know anyone else from anywhere else who's first thought on lockdown was to buy a weapon.

I would have more issue if I hadn't got that water text from my mum, MIL and two aunts.......

That is some clunky caption, and dull, sooo dull.

it’s two working women (use to chat around the water cooler, now at home) lightheartedly commenting about their senior moms (70+) who send mass spam e-mails (in my case) on the benefit of lemons...

Treestumps said..
"I don't know anyone else from anywhere else who's first thought on lockdown was to buy a weapon."

It's probably wider than you know and has a lot to do with a generation of Netflix watchers. Check out the he large number of dystopian/apocoliptic/end of days dramas on it.

Great thread here about the protecting family instinct:

mobile.twitter.com/designmom/status/1225052129238421505

I live in England I have not heard anyone I know talk about getting weapons at the ready because of this virus. Nor have I heard about English people doing that on TV or radio reports.

Yet I have heard about this happening in USA from different sources.

It's not surprising that in a country where so many of the population have guns that people would worry about how to defend themselves.

What is surprising is that some are trying to make out that this is a common occurrence here!

The only pandemic related violence I’ve come across in our Scottish village was an outsider (female) who tried to grab all the toilet rolls in the village shop and when the staff lady politely said they were rationed, the twerp belted her in the face with a long hard packet of tinfoil off the shelf!
Disgraceful, but none of us feel it justifies us all loading shotguns...!

There was three thugs last week who thought it was funny to go round coughing and spitting in the faces of elderly people in their town (UK). When an old woman complained they gave her a black eye.
Unfortunately it seems to be bringing out the worst of us as well as the best of us

Wow, that's... it's not "not funny." It's actually not humour. I can't even see where the joke is supposed to be. Is there supposed to be one or is it just a bad drawing with a banal caption? ... is it supposed to be funny because they're calling the sink a "water cooler?"

The sink is the 'watercooler', because they're both working from home. "work in the time of Coronavirus".

So the two women are working from home and presumably related. Either the one in the hoody has just been tricked by her mother into coming in for a chat with a chain email or they're two sisters who have both come in for a drink of water because they're slightly concerned that there is something to the crap chain letter they've been sent.

In both cases it's the young woman/women who've fallen for the chain letter which to me seems the opposite of a mum joke.

Any unwated visitors, we shall poke them with very sharp pasta.

Thank you User.
That takes a bit of the sting away.

I fear that if it had been two men talking about a chain email from one of their fathers, it would have been offensive for suggesting that only men work and know how to use email.