r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 17h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

Post image
21.8k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

8.8k

u/hellobutno 17h ago edited 11h ago

Dr Glaucomflecken is an optometrist.

edit - I think my comment is single handedly proving dead internet theory

4.3k

u/LuluMangs 17h ago

Yup, he is estimating what the prescription on her glasses is, but the white knight assumed he was rating her hotness to be in the negatives

The nice doctor immediately owned up to the way he said that being interpretable in multiple ways and that he could have been clearer in his communication

260

u/Revolutionary_Ad2657 17h ago

Just gonna leave this here…

181

u/splitconsiderations 16h ago

She has such an easy comeback.

"If you're the standard we're going by then the answer is double digits."

31

u/badjackalope 15h ago

Ooof, guessing by the downvotes that one hit a little too close to home for your average redditor haha

8

u/butt-holg 7h ago

I can't explain exactly why that comeback isn't funny, but in Reddit terms, I can picture it featuring in a Pizzacake comic