roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

btm said:

I heard that (a long time ago) as “Americans are easiest to operate on: they’ve only got two working parts, a mouth and an arsehole, and they’re interchangeable.

that’s the key to a better joke i’n‘it, it’s actually customised to the relevant objects such that they can’t simply be switched freely to fit like a variable

They get pased down through many generations and do get adjusted to suit the times.

sure we’r‘n’t saying they can’t be amusing

just that it’s more intellectually rewarding for the pretentious ones among us if the objects of the joke can’t simply be arbitrarily changed

except for specific jokes where the potential for arbitrary change is part of the joke, which would also make it intellectually rewarding