MetalTao (metaltao)'s status on Friday, 01-Apr-16 21:36:19 UTC
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I wonder why simple dumb jokes get around more often? I just hate the idea that it is dumb simple people that some how conglomerate the plurality of the world that spread them. I find the idea rather cynical myself.
I wonder if it has less to do with "Everyone around me is stupid and simple minded, liking these LESS REFINED MEMES" and more to do with a certain incongruity that more people can understand.
I mean, everyone understands a fart joke, so by that, if you make a fart joke, everyone is accessible. In the opposite vein of "There are 10 types of people in the words, those who know hex and F the rest" which is a joke abut Hexadecimal counting and NCIS. That jokes only pertains to those who know one or both of those things.
It has less likely hood of making someone who doesn't understand it laugh.
I think dumb jokes are successful not because people are dumb, but rather, everyone understands dumb as itself.
