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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I use really bad introduction line?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't have to but:

Hi I'm Plactagonic and I have slight issue with alcohol...

Right now I don't have any.

Sorry this bad joke pops in my mind every time somebody wants to introduce me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad joke variation of this is to say...

"I may have a drinking problem"

"I don't know how to hold the bottle!"

Its gotten a few groans of anguish but then that seems par for the course with my humour :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about this joke for a while and don't feel I understand it. I expect there is a double meaning or a cultural saying that is lost on me, please can you explain it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sure! There's a general thing that people sometimes say when they struggle with alcoholism and that is that they say they have a drinking problem.

So with the joke here, rather than a drinking problem reffering to someone being an alcoholic, it is instead because they cannot hold the bottle and are thus having a problem with drinking but in a completely different way.

Hope that cleared it up a little :)