The joke is that the husband and his friend went to Thailand and his friend transitioned. Now the old friend is "missing" and the husband is married to who that friend became.
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Thanks, I'm dumb and thought she murdered his friend.
I'm trans and thought she murdered his friend too lmao
I'm smart and I though she murdered his friend
I'm drunk and I though she murdered his friend
Smart and drunk are basically synonyms
I don't know if I'm smart or not, but I think part of the joke is that the husband doesn't recognize that his now-wife is his former best friend, and that unlikely circumstance kept me from understanding the joke even though I read the explanation. (Not the explanation in this thread but the more ambiguous one in the other thread.)
Does it say something about me that I got the joke immediately?
Not so dumb, given this is probably a screengrab from "you", and this character would definitely have murdered his friend
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I thought this was some boomer shit about spouses not listening to each other?
So many different interpretations in the comments.
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This would also be a funny interpretation.
Truth is the three of them bought a farm with six pigs and then ate the friend.
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Ah, I thought that she kidnapped/killed her husband's best friend. Yeah, maybe I watch too many crime/police bodycam vidyas on YT.
ETA: Ah, I'm not the only one.
No the killing angle makes much more sense, strange meme
I understood "we met shortly after" as talking about the wife and the best friend. Like a hyperbolic expansion of the "adult men don't talk about their lives with their male friends."
As someone who transitioned and then dated her male best friend. It was fun, and while it didn't work out in the end because of things outside the relationship, it was one of the best relationships I've had.
Respectfully. That is really cute and heartwarming.
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Pretty sure that's the joke (the friend is the wife)
Oh thanks I didn't understand the joke
It wouldn't be funny if it was obvious. Thanks for your sacrifice.
Why wouldn't it be funny if it was obvious? Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.
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If anyone is curious where this comes from, and whether or not it is AI.
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My best mate and I used to joke that if one of us was a woman or both of us were gay, it would have saved a lot of time.
Ah, if only both of you were women and both of you were gay :(
Lol this took me a minute
I had to come to the comments to realize people are interpreting this as "she used to be his male best friend before she transitioned to a woman."
That wooshed over my head because I interpreted it as the wife suspected her husband of of murdering his best friend 15 years ago.
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Now that's a good friend. Feeling sorry for his friend who can't find a girlfriend. Then disappears in Thailand so his friend can meet the love of his life.
In other words, lying to your partner for over a decade? Why and, most importantly, how?
Edit: I wonder what the people who downvote the comment mean by them.
Sheesh. Can't a woman be bored by some old story without everyone jumping to far-fetched conclusions!
Maybe the husband is just deeply incurious and no lies were necessary 🤷♀️
Bet they played Striking Vipers
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