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[–] Moneymunkie@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years 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

[–] 777@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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?

[–] Moneymunkie@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years 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 :)