The rules limiting “mature-natured” jokes have been lifted after the general consensus of feedback was in favor of more openness. Thank you all for taking part of the discussion. I am always open to suggestions on how to improve the community as it develops.
On a personal note, as fall sets in for me, I realize I haven’t had a single mosquito in my backyard all summer.
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Apparently they were all married.
Is this still because of the married couple tweet joke?
Orientation != mature, since kids can have any combination of parents/guardians.
IMO the guideline should be cheesy pun that would make someone’s kid of any age groan and shake their head, whereas, like others said, “uncle jokes” take a second more thought and are usually based on sexual (bodily and/or “action based”) themes. Maturity level isn’t so much the issue as is the difference between obvious wordplay and double entendres. It doesn’t need to be a stone-set line, but the genres are definitely distinct.
I’m going to watch a bit, but if this turns into just a dirty joke central … 🤷♀️ … that’s not what I joined the group for.
I’m cautiously optimistic, but I agree. If it essentially turns into a general adult humor feed, I’ll likely either alter the rules here or find/create a space for kid-friendly/light-hearted jokes. That was the original intent for the space, since so many jokes are already focused on adult humor.
adult humor
I feel like there’s an ‘adult humor = dad joke’ joke to be made here.
The parent comment is just asking for it, surely
I propose ‘parent comment’ hereby be renamed to ‘dad comment’ in this comm forevermore.
I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
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I always think it’s a shame when uncle jokes seep into dad jokes. They are not the same. I wouldn’t tell my under-10yo kids an uncle joke. I would tell them a dad joke. I would tell my teenage nephews and nieces an uncle joke. Uncle jokes should be in an uncle jokes community e.g. !unclejokes@lemmy.world
It’ll be a shame if this community changes into smut - we get enough of that elsewhere, it’s nice to have a place for clean jokes. But I guess I’m in the minority.
To me, dad jokes and uncle jokes are not just different because of themes, but for the “type” of punchline.
If a joke is about sex, but it’s a pun or otherwise groan-inducing, to me it’s still a dad joke.
When the punchline itself becomes “hehe sex”, that’s when it crosses into uncle joke territory.
I agree. I share many of these with my kid.
Oh shoot, I thought Uncle Jokes could handle the edgier jokes. I’m not going anywhere though. What about asking people to preface them with a rating letter? G or E for the mosquito joke for instance. T for the jokes a Dad could tell teens but not little kids, M for the jokes he only tells Mom
I toyed around with the idea of having tags, either using the NSFW tag for more “uncle joke” material or tagging “E” material using a text like you are saying, such Safe for Everyone [SFE]. I think for now, I’ll let the reader decide which ones they want to retell. If the posts start to include a lot of uncle jokes, I might consider some sort of tagging for posts.
I think the NSFW tag should be enough for more mature jokes (?)
Or NSFK
I’m curious, are people actually getting offended or upset if they read a joke with mature humour?
I’m not offended by mature humour. I just liked this a resource of kid-friendly jokes. If it stops being that, there’s a million other sources of adult-oriented humour.
I’m not, and my kids are grown so I can share all kinds with them. Also I’m not likely to miss any NSFK double entendres. But I think some people like a few places on the Internet that are adult-clever but safe to look at with their kids. And some might be less likely to realize the implications of a joke that might make it NSFW, either through language issues or their own innocence. Just as most English-first people today don’t realize “hoist on his own petard” was another of Shakespeare’s many fart jokes. So few in fact that it’s now completely appropriate anywhere.
Not offended, I know well enough that people most often than not don’t mean to offend, they are just having fun.
I liked this place because it focused on silly puns. The world needs more silliness.
Let’s see how this goes.
Yes, unfortunately. People can be quite strange.
I disagree with the change. Good luck with the not kid appropriate jokes. I’m out.
Hi out, I’m dad.
Hahaha! If someone I love died, and I was all super depressed and broken up about it, and another friend gave me that card with their condolences… I think I might actually laugh so hard that I’d die of a heart attack right then and there.
Great then we’d need two of them
