I’m autistic.

I’m trying to explain things so I’m not misunderstood.

Touche. I guess I have no way to disprove that without doxxing myself.

In seriousness, though - reread my reply. It doesn’t even read like an AI response.

As for the OP, everybody seems to be completely ignoring the actual joke. If this had been posted without the terrible AI image, nobody would have batted an eyelid. There’s certainly been worse dad jokes on here.

It’s like the image triggered some kind of dogpile immune response.

Just think about it for a second. What’s more likely - that this is a product advertisement for denture adhesive that butchers its own product name, or that this is a joke posted by someone who then tried to generate an image to go along with it, not knowing how badly that would turn out?

Ah yes - that well-known product spamming technique of mentioning a product once, with incorrect brand formatting, and posting an accompanying image that completely mangles the brand name into something else.

It’s a joke that mentions a well-known brand, once. It’s not advertising.

The AI image is slop, absolutely, but that’s a separate issue.

A joke with a single mention of a brand name is not product spamming.

A mention of a brand name, improperly formatted and completely mangled in the accompanying image, is a low bar to count as “advertising”.

Every account has a first post. I wouldn’t be surprised after the absolutely unhinged response this person has got, if it ends up being their only post.

This place is turning into Stack Overflow for sheer hostility towards newbies.

The guy’s only crime is that they posted a nonsense AI image to accompany the text.

I bet you’re the kind of person who would have seen Communism everywhere during the red scare.

AI was not used in that reply, what on Earth is wrong with you?

I think you might have been whooshed.

It’s a pun about dentures falling out. Very much this community.

I appreciate that the AI image doesn’t help, it took me a few seconds to realise that the joke isn’t actually in the image.

But the pun is in “never know what’s going to come out”.

Meaning 1) He’s not a confident speaker, so is worried he’ll say the wrong thing.

Meaning 2) He wears dentures, so is worried that they will become detached.

It certainly isn’t product spamming - I don’t think there’s actually a dental product called “Polkagrip”.

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I assumed “OnlyFans”

That’s the thing with mushrooms. Give them a chance and they’ll grow on you.

I guess it’s kind of like the save icon. Floppy disks have been out of use for so long, that there are adults who have never seen a floppy disk, but know the save icon.

Bob’s Your Uncle is a pretty fascinating phrase, because it doesn’t have a clear origin.

The earliest references to it are as a song title, mentioned in advertisements and later in a newspaper review, but neither the actual music or lyrics are known today.

Very soon after this first appearance, it starts appearing in print as a phrase people are using.

I appreciate this is probably the autism, but I’ve always been fascinated that most people seem to be comfortable with stripping down and being oiled up and touched by a stranger.

The odd thing is, I’d totally understand this in a sexual context - but for people to want this kind of contact just as a service, like a haircut or something, seems utterly alien to me.

I realise this doesn’t answer your question, but like I said, I’ve always been fascinated by the concept.

Still our number one favourite.

Both me and my wife had a Gamecube. For my stag weekend, I hired a country house in Scotland and took both, networked them together, hooked each up to a projector and we played Double Dash with 8 players at a time. It was loads of fun!

Started off with Toad in the original.

With Double Dash I moved on to Paratroopa / Koopa Troopa.

And with 8 I moved onto Shy Guy.

For the in-between games, I kept the same as the previous entry. Even though he’s not a light racer like the others, I switched to Shy Guy because I like the noises he makes.

Teeth.

American period films almost always have the main characters with super-white gnashers.

It’s both heavily subsidised by the government and heavily regulated to ensure access to quality care.

For an otherwise healthy adult, you’d pay ~30% of the cost. BUT there are laws that ensure privately-run healthcare facilities can only charge the same amount as publicly-run ones. So even at full cost, these prices are very low compared to the US.

There are also caps on how much someone will spend in a month, so even long-lasting illnesses/disabilities won’t bankrupt you.

The Saga of Erik the Red states: “In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favourable name.”

Greenland - Wikipedia

In fairness, a lot of news organisations are run without input from adequate journalists.

Alterations to a comfort food! That’s exactly a problem I’m having at the moment.

Do any of you know if they’ve changed the recipe to Cadbury’s Fingers in the last few months? I used to always have a box in, but they’ve been tasting weird the last few months - so much so that I didn’t buy them in the last big shop.

I mean, Google has over 90% of the global search engine market share - I think it’s safe to assume that most of those users are not MAGA.