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[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 145 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The joke is that the husband and his friend went to Thailand and his friend transitioned. Now the old friend is "missing" and the husband is married to who that friend became.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Thanks, I'm dumb and thought she murdered his friend.

She kinda looks like someone who accidentally shot her husband in the head while joking around about shooting him in the head with a real gun.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm trans and thought she murdered his friend too lmao

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm smart and I though she murdered his friend

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm drunk and I though she murdered his friend

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Smart and drunk are basically synonyms

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't know if I'm smart or not, but I think part of the joke is that the husband doesn't recognize that his now-wife is his former best friend, and that unlikely circumstance kept me from understanding the joke even though I read the explanation. (Not the explanation in this thread but the more ambiguous one in the other thread.)

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Im norwegian, and I was a question mark until I read the comments which made me transition into an exclamation mark.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does it say something about me that I got the joke immediately?

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Me too. Do you happen to be an engineer as well?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Erm... no, that can't be it...

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Were you dropped on you head as a child like me… repeatedly?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe once or twice, but I don't think that's why I got the joke without reading an explanation...

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Explains why you became an engineer -Sheldon Cooper

[–] jade52@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought this was some boomer shit about spouses not listening to each other?

So many different interpretations in the comments.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought it was just that he didn't need a significant other because he was so close with his friend haha

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oh! Good one!

That it's open to interpretation is part of the fun. I don't know what the person who made it intended. I didn't even recognize from what show it was.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

This would also be a funny interpretation.

[–] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not so dumb, given this is probably a screengrab from "you", and this character would definitely have murdered his friend

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

I think that's the context that was messing everyone up lol

Truth is the three of them bought a farm with six pigs and then ate the friend.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I thought she married a murderer.

[–] A_Drusas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I just had no idea what the joke was until I saw the trans comments. I was busy thinking, like, "That's really hard."

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, I thought that she kidnapped/killed her husband's best friend. Yeah, maybe I watch too many crime/police bodycam vidyas on YT.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No the killing angle makes much more sense, strange meme

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I understood "we met shortly after" as talking about the wife and the best friend. Like a hyperbolic expansion of the "adult men don't talk about their lives with their male friends."