Proverbs you didn't understand.

I heard this joke a few times over the years but I never understood it until pretty recently:

A cop walks up to two teenagers, one is smoking marijuana, and the other is drinking battery acid. He arrests one and lets the other go.

It took me so long to realize it's social commentary.

Rightey wrote:I heard this joke a few times over the years but I never understood it until pretty recently:

A cop walks up to two teenagers, one is smoking marijuana, and the other is drinking battery acid. He arrests one and lets the other go.

It took me so long to realize it's social commentary.

I don't get it and feel dumb.

Isn’t it an old Tommy Cooper joke and meant to be:

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off.

strawberry floating hell Righty

Tomous wrote:Isn’t it an old Tommy Cooper joke and meant to be:

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off.

I guess the version I heard is a modification, which is weird as I've heard it in several places.

lex-man wrote:

Rightey wrote:I heard this joke a few times over the years but I never understood it until pretty recently:

A cop walks up to two teenagers, one is smoking marijuana, and the other is drinking battery acid. He arrests one and lets the other go.

It took me so long to realize it's social commentary.

I don't get it and feel dumb.

The "joke" is that it's illegal to smoke marijuana (because it's supposed to be bad for you) and you can get arrested over it, but it's legal to drink battery acid which would kill you pretty quickly.

Rightey wrote:

Tomous wrote:Isn’t it an old Tommy Cooper joke and meant to be:

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off.

I guess the version I heard is a modification, which is weird as I've heard it in several places.

lex-man wrote:

Rightey wrote:I heard this joke a few times over the years but I never understood it until pretty recently:

A cop walks up to two teenagers, one is smoking marijuana, and the other is drinking battery acid. He arrests one and lets the other go.

It took me so long to realize it's social commentary.

I don't get it and feel dumb.

The "joke" is that it's illegal to smoke marijuana (because it's supposed to be bad for you) and you can get arrested over it, but it's legal to drink battery acid which would kill you pretty quickly.

I think you've misheard/misunderstood it mate

Tomous wrote:

Rightey wrote:

Tomous wrote:Isn’t it an old Tommy Cooper joke and meant to be:

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off.

I guess the version I heard is a modification, which is weird as I've heard it in several places.

lex-man wrote:

Rightey wrote:I heard this joke a few times over the years but I never understood it until pretty recently:

A cop walks up to two teenagers, one is smoking marijuana, and the other is drinking battery acid. He arrests one and lets the other go.

It took me so long to realize it's social commentary.

I don't get it and feel dumb.

The "joke" is that it's illegal to smoke marijuana (because it's supposed to be bad for you) and you can get arrested over it, but it's legal to drink battery acid which would kill you pretty quickly.

I think you've misheard/misunderstood it mate

I'm fairly sure that the police wouldn't stand ideally by while somebody killed themselves.

lex-man wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Rightey wrote:

Tomous wrote:Isn’t it an old Tommy Cooper joke and meant to be:

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off.

I guess the version I heard is a modification, which is weird as I've heard it in several places.

lex-man wrote:

Rightey wrote:I heard this joke a few times over the years but I never understood it until pretty recently:

A cop walks up to two teenagers, one is smoking marijuana, and the other is drinking battery acid. He arrests one and lets the other go.

It took me so long to realize it's social commentary.

I don't get it and feel dumb.

The "joke" is that it's illegal to smoke marijuana (because it's supposed to be bad for you) and you can get arrested over it, but it's legal to drink battery acid which would kill you pretty quickly.

I think you've misheard/misunderstood it mate

I'm fairly sure that the police wouldn't stand ideally by while somebody killed themselves.

Well ideally they wouldn't stand by at all...

Rightey wrote:

Tomous wrote:Isn’t it an old Tommy Cooper joke and meant to be:

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off.

I guess the version I heard is a modification, which is weird as I've heard it in several places.

lex-man wrote:

Rightey wrote:I heard this joke a few times over the years but I never understood it until pretty recently:

A cop walks up to two teenagers, one is smoking marijuana, and the other is drinking battery acid. He arrests one and lets the other go.

It took me so long to realize it's social commentary.

I don't get it and feel dumb.

The "joke" is that it's illegal to smoke marijuana (because it's supposed to be bad for you) and you can get arrested over it, but it's legal to drink battery acid which would kill you pretty quickly.

Yeah it's not a very funny joke.

I suppose I might have misheard it, but can't really figure out how I could mishear fireworks as pot, or marijuana, or whatever. My guess was someone just being an edge lord.

You were high at the time

Tomous wrote:Isn’t it an old Tommy Cooper joke and meant to be:

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off.

Yea I'm like 90% certain this is the case...

Lagamorph wrote:What Americans think they mean when they say "I could care less"
So....you mean that you do actually care then?

And when they can't get a word in edgewise.

Mini E wrote:Again - widening the scope of the thread - I couldn't understand cash points. I spent my early childhood thinking that "Free cash here" by an ATM meant that you could literally just get free money and I couldn't understand why there weren't constantly queues for the free cash.

When I was a nipper I didn't understand the either.
I also used to think there was a person behind the machine sorting/handing it out, so used to (loudly, they were behind a wall) shout thank you when parents took me with them to get cash.

“A stitch in time saves nine”

That was pretty incomprehensible as a kid.

AND WHAT'S WITH ALL THE SPIDERS, CATCHING THINGS AND EATING THEIR INSIDES?

Man with hole in pocket feels cocky all day.

Sort of linked but I thought Gerry Adams' name was Sinn Fein til I was about 17.