Apparently junior high is still the same.
Well, we didn't have elevators back then.
Where did you have sex with your father?
I'm impressed that your teenager tells you sex jokes. They're even pretty funny.
Maybe he's hitting on you. Does your house have an elevator?
6: I knew that was a real incident, but didn't know how much racism had accreted around it in the decades' retelling.
We probably have too few boundaries, but thank god we have more than my friend, whose teenager openly lets everyone know when he wants to go masturbate, and just brings it up regularly and casually, the way you'd work in your other schedule commitments that everyone needs to know about. ("Do I have time to squeeze one out before dinner, mom?" AAAAAUUUUUGH.)
The mom is a doula, and made every hippie-effort to be sex-positive and open to any and all conversation. So it's not totally clear if he is trying to needle her, or just continuing on in the spirit of openness that she has cultivated.
Or deftly walking the boundary.
I actually think the fact that your kids are willing to tell you dirty jokes without tipping into weirdness like your friend's kid shows that you're doing a great job with boundaries and striking the right balance.
Wow -- does that family have no working concept like "oversharing"? (Is oversharing about sex always okay, because the alternative is repression, which is always bad? That sounds like the road to hell to me.)
Certainly going to be a problem for someone in human resources.
Maybe they have boundaries that have been framed as inside/outside the house, and they haven't refined that enough.
Certainly going to be a problem for someone in human resources.
Remember to clock out before you squeeze out.
My kid said how there are two girls he likes but they're friends with each other so he's nervous about asking one or the other out so I said, "what about a threesome?"
He failed to reply "20 bucks, same as in town."
You need to give him index cards with lines.
Now I don't feel so badly about taking the Mary Poppins punchline references in a more obscene direction the other day. I think I heard Larry David tell the masturbation one (or someone on a Gilbert Gottfried podcast).
And I think our jr. high sex jokes were stupider. "Rubber balls and liquor." Was that just intended to create confusion.
My dad said that as a teenager he and his friends used to refer to "Chock Full o'Nuts" as "Scrotums".
On the contrary, it indicates pronoun awareness light-years ahead of its time.
Pokey's jokes really are quite good for the genre. Low bar, to be sure.
Wait, if the Easter bunny is male, and the chickens are female, then how is he ending up with the eggs? The joke works better if the Easter bunny is female.
29. He does his part of the childcare. As he should.
#2 is funny. Maybe Pokey would like my favorite joke in this approximate genre (don't know where I heard it--maybe it's been told here before):
Guy at the doctor: "Doctor, help! I have five penises!"
Doctor: "Five penises? How do your pants fit?"
Guy: "Like a glove."
Speaking of oversharing and family I just encountered someone whose kid shares their tinderellas' nude selfies with *his mother* who openly discusses this? wtf?
It started with Gen Z eating ass and went downhill from there
If it was OnlyFans, it would make sense because his mom wouldn't need to pay for the subscription.
Hopefully not oversharing this G-rated info: as a kid, during lulls in activity at my grandmother's house, I used to read her "Reader's Digest" back issues for the many, many jokes. At some point (5th grade?), I realized that these were mostly just one-liners that anyone with discernible levels of wit could deploy at the dinner table, and I was so amazed that there was a magazine so dumb that you could get your random one-liners published as "jokes." Absolutely formative experience of learning to condescend.
As a kid, while waiting at the barber's shop, I used to read the "Reader's Digest" back issues on the tables, for the articles. Some of which were good; some iteration of "Black Hawk Down", for instance. Absolutely formative experience of learning about Somalia.
My grandparents gave me boxes full of old Reader's Digests to read when I was a kid and I did indeed read and digest them so it's a wonder I don't have right wing y(though neither did they iirc)
y s/b politics. I don't know what happened there
Btw I highly recommend Drive my Car
Let you be the first to say.
I guess Readers Digest was a common childhood refuge during periods of deathly boredom. My mom used to drop all three of us kids off at the piano teacher's house once a week, and we had to wait through each others' lessons with nothing to entertain us but our homework and her piles of old Readers Digest and Woman's Day. I think the only articles I read were of the "She Was Trapped in a Well for Two Weeks...And Survived!" and "Meet Ann and Stacy, 28-Year-Old Siamese Twins!" variety, because I, too, mostly went for the jokes. I remember there were differently-themed joke sections, like a workplace humor one ("All In a Day's Work"), a military one (I forget what that one was called, but it was mostly about how stupid your officers were, and how different branches of the armed forces were contemptuous of one another), and others I can't remember anymore. I learned a lot about American adult life from those magazines.
I read them at school. I don't know why they didn't stop me.
I read Reader's Digest as a kid. I didn't think anything of it until middle school, when a teacher expressed disdain.