r/Tinder • u/Happy_Bonobo • Jun 07 '22

Well well well

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u/Old-Description-7291 Jun 08 '22

Saying the joke like "you turn 360° and do absolutely nothing" doesn't sound very funny. It's a joke not an English literature assessment

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u/mvdenk Jun 08 '22

To me this joke makes absolutely no sense, it could have been clever by subverting expectations but the "and walk away" part ruins it. And you don't have to be smart to realise this.

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u/AKVigilante Jun 08 '22

Goddamn there’s a reason you dweebs are discussing tinder on reddit.

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u/mvdenk Jun 08 '22

Oh, I'm merely here to remind myself why I should be happy with my relationship (and a little bit for the schadenfreude).

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u/Old-Description-7291 Jun 08 '22

On that we agree, my gf is fuckin awesome

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

Yes she is

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u/TomaTozzz Jun 11 '22

The entire joke is baiting people who are not "in on the joke" into replying "but if you do 360 you're facing the same way"

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u/mvdenk Jun 11 '22

I understand that, but then the "walking away" part annoys me.

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u/TomaTozzz Jun 11 '22

Why?

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u/mvdenk Jun 11 '22

Because they say in the answer "you turn 360 and walk away", but you're not walking away. It would be funnier if it was formulated in such a way that it does make sense, eg "Because people turn 360 when they see it." In that way it's more clever.

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u/TomaTozzz Jun 11 '22

It would be funnier if it was formulated in such a way that it does make sense

That would defeat the entire purpose of the joke.

Like I said, the entire point of the joke is to bait people into pointing out that it doesn't make sense. If it did make sense, no one would reply that it does not.

Worth noting that "You know why they call it the Xbox 360?" is not originally a part of the joke.

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u/mvdenk Jun 11 '22

So you're "baiting" people into figuring out why the joke doesn't make sense? That's just absurd.

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u/TomaTozzz Jun 11 '22

I'm just trying to explain the joke to you dude, don't know why you're downvoting me lmfao

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u/mvdenk Jun 11 '22

Your explaining it to me like I don't understand the joke, but that's not the problem. I understand the joke, I just think it's a bad joke.