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Got roasted on my first post here for a punchline that needed a diagram to land, so I rewrote my whole delivery
Honestly my first joke on this board died so hard I could hear crickets through the screen. It was a long one about a dad who built a swing set and the punchline needed three sentences of setup I forgot to include, so nobody even got it. One user named RoundhouseRandy replied with just 'the joke is in there somewhere, I just can't find it,' and that line stuck with me for a week. So I started timing my jokes out loud in the kitchen while my wife did dishes, and anything over 12 seconds got cut or tossed. Last night I posted a short one about my dad naming our Wi-Fi 'Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi' and it got 43 upvotes and only two people groaned. Small win, but it felt like passing the bar exam after failing the practice test. If you had one joke that got a rough comment, did you rework it or just move on to the next one?
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rowanhernandez1mo ago
The line about passing the bar exam after failing the practice test is a bit much for a joke landing on a forum. You timed jokes in the kitchen for a week, cut everything over 12 seconds, and rewrote your whole delivery because of one guy named RoundhouseRandy? That is a LOT of work for 43 upvotes and two groans. Bad jokes die here every single day, that is kind of the whole deal. Sometimes you just move on to the next one instead of treating a rough comment like a life lesson.
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