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[-] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 171 points 5 days ago

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 145 points 5 days ago

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

[-] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 77 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[-] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 days ago

I'm smart and I though she murdered his friend

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm drunk and I though she murdered his friend

[-] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago

Smart and drunk are basically synonyms

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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 13 points 5 days 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 9 points 5 days ago

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

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[-] jade52@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago

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

So many different interpretations in the comments.

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

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

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[-] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

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

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

This would also be a funny interpretation.

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[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

ETA: Ah, I'm not the only one.

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[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days 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."

[-] RabbitMix 62 points 5 days ago

As someone who transitioned and then dated her male best friend. It was fun, and while it didn't work out in the end because of things outside the relationship, it was one of the best relationships I've had.

[-] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago

Respectfully. That is really cute and heartwarming.

[-] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 67 points 5 days ago

Everyone knows that to transition into a woman you walk into a booth in Bangkok called the "cunt machine" and after a magical girl transformation sequence you walk out a hormed and surged up doll

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Shiny bright lights transformation like in Sailor Moon

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago

Thank you, I had no idea what the OP was about.

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[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 108 points 6 days ago

Thailand

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[-] illi@piefed.social 168 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure that's the joke (the friend is the wife)

[-] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 99 points 6 days ago

Oh thanks I didn't understand the joke

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

It wouldn't be funny if it was obvious. Thanks for your sacrifice.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 13 points 6 days ago

Why wouldn't it be funny if it was obvious? Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.

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[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago

I still dont understand. Did she kill the best friend? I dont believe for a second that anyone wouldn't recognize their best friend in a new form.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I love your word choices lmao. The "new form" kinda sounds eldritch?

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[-] Kayday@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

If anyone is curious where this comes from, and whether or not it is AI.

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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 38 points 5 days ago

My best mate and I used to joke that if one of us was a woman or both of us were gay, it would have saved a lot of time.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ah, if only both of you were women and both of you were gay :(

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[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 38 points 6 days ago

I wish I had such good friends.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
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[-] abfarid@startrek.website 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In other words, lying to your partner for over a decade? Why and, most importantly, how?

Edit: I wonder what the people who downvote the comment mean by them.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

Sheesh. Can't a woman be bored by some old story without everyone jumping to far-fetched conclusions!

[-] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

Maybe the husband is just deeply incurious and no lies were necessary 🤷‍♀️

[-] daddycool@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Now that's a good friend. Feeling sorry for his friend who can't find a girlfriend. Then disappears in Thailand so his friend can meet the love of his life.

[-] X@piefed.world 17 points 6 days ago

Bet they played Striking Vipers

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 7 points 5 days ago
[-] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

I had to come to the comments to realize people are interpreting this as "she used to be his male best friend before she transitioned to a woman."

That wooshed over my head because I interpreted it as the wife suspected her husband of of murdering his best friend 15 years ago.

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[-] besmtt@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

I mean if you (too) consider Thailand trans jokes slop then sure

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[-] Kayday@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure it's the character Love Quinn played by Victoria Pedretti in "You." Another shot

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[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 18 points 6 days ago

How? How can people tell? Someone points this out for most content posted. It seems like a race to be the first to say "AI slop". Between actual AI slop, and content accused of being AI slop; there really isn't much content left to be able to enjoy online.

[-] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 days ago

If you say"AI slop" on every post, you'll successfully cover all AI posts. What that accomplishes, I'm not sure.

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