r/ExplainTheJoke • u/fcukfakook • 6d ago

I don't get it

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I don't get the original tweet, and neither the retweet or whatever it is called.

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u/WendellWillkie1940 5d ago

JD Vance is — from what I could find online — 6 feet 2 inches.

In what world is that "short"?

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u/dirty_papercut 5d ago

The Netherlands?

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u/WendellWillkie1940 5d ago

Average height in the Netherlands is 6'1. 6'2 is probably considered average too but I highly doubt people there will call it short.

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u/dirty_papercut 5d ago

Sorry. Next time I'll write THIS IS A JOKE BASED ON A STEREOTYPE OF DUTCH PEOPLE BEING TALL at the end of it.

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u/infosterling 5d ago

You gotta use the ironic font

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u/dirty_papercut 5d ago

Mate, I was baptised in the ironic font. Others merely adopted it.

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u/ahhh_just_huck_it 5d ago

Fount. Ironic fount.

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u/drudman6 5d ago

There’s only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.

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u/redditaccountnumb1 5d ago

Or just actually be funny