Son said to father: "Dad, I want to get married."
Dad replied: "First, tell me you're sorry."
Son: "For what?"
Dad: "Just say you're sorry."
Son: "But why? I haven't done anything wrong."
Dad: "JUST SAY YOU'RE SORRY!"
Son: "Ok, I'm sorry."
Dad smiles: "Now you're ready to get married."

Probably not.

I don't get the joke.

Not in islamic countries.When you tie you life with a woman, you'll have to apologize for nothing often, cuz she said so.

No, it doesn't work. I took the explanation above to get it and a joke that needs to get explained is a bad joke.

I've had four girlfriends in my life and I can't remember any of them asking me to say 'sorry'.

The Finns say, freely translated, "Someone fancies the father, and someone else would fancy the son."

A nicer, softer spin on the topic, would it maybe not be?

But to come back more fair n square.

In cultures of pre-arranged, or, worse still, forced marriages, the joke would be quite dead. There is no want.

But you do not care about that, do you? Or if so - pray tell.

What joke?

I think latvian potato jokes work in all cultures:

One day, hear knock on door.

Man ask “Who is?”

“Is potato man, I come around to give free potato”

Man is very excite and opens door.

Is not potato man, is secret police.

did somebody says potato? o-o

That actually made me laugh.

I did understand the 'joke' because in different variants it's been used on probably every American sitcom ever made.

I am not sure if you are concerned, humanely, about the "bride abduction" issue in some of the ex-CIS states.

What does it mean? Abducting of a woman, and either raping her, or forcing her to marry the abductor because she might have been raped anyway.

Close to Ukraine, btw. And very brutal, and wrong, and regressive.

How funny is this:


Son said to father: "Dad, I want to get married."
Dad replied: "First, tell me which girl you want to abduct."
Son: "For what?"
Dad: "This is not a civil, law driven society, but still - some families might have guns."
Son: "But why? I haven't done anything wrong. This is our age-old tradition!"
Dad: "JUST SAY WHICH ONE!"
Son: "Ok, I'm sorry, father. The girl in the farm beyond those hills."
Dad smiles: "Now you're ready to get married. Her family is peaceful, foolish, and owns no guns."


It is pseudo-sarcastic as the OP, but makes a point about an actual brutality. You like it? :-)

There are a few problems with the "joke".

One is that it relies on a stereotype, one that is likely inaccurate most of the time. It also feels sexist (and hence offensive) to me.

Another is that the "joke" really only works with straight men. Gay men and straight women do not (typically) marry women, and lesbians don't have that stereotype. (There *are* lesbian stereotypes, but this isn't one of them.)

Misrepresentation, Rottencopsex.
And if you freeze in faked indignation, pray PM me - I will try to explain source critical, balanced approach.

Let it be said - what I have for so far remembered impressions about dtgreene, those are not exceedingly positive. But I am of course also a left-wing liberal, socialist, female gamer to cast that negative filter unto dtgreene.

Even if dtgreene had made such comment... I would not endorse it, but I could rebut it, at least.

But Rottencropsex - what you do, gratuitously misrepresent someone, is super reprehensible! Maybe dtgreene is your spiritual brother or sister - I wonder with delightful joy - but my working hypothesis is that most gamers are nice.

No misrepresentation. No unkindness. No hate campaigns just because someone thinks different. No to lowest sort of behaviour, because it is easy, Be better!

Yea to gaming. Yea to PC gaming in particular. Yea to innovative game writing and financing. AND; yea to all gamers, but LGTB in particular - because there just is not enough positive support.

But any which way. misrepresentation is really, really poor.