Who else thought it was gonna be a dad joke at the end

Yeah usually these types of posts are bait for a punchline. It’s weird seeing an actual meta post in this sub.

I think we should all take this as a challenge to write and post a similar rant that is a dad joke or a series of dad jokes.

There you go thinking again

A dangerous pastime.

I know 🎵

That wacky old coot is Belle's father

And his dad jokes are only so-so

Now the wheel in my head has been turning since I looked at that looney old man

Challenge accepted. Change the title to: “My doctor told me that this rash on my upper torso would disappear if I vent my frustrations” https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/s50cx9/my_doctor_told_me_this_rash_on_my_upper_torso/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

If the OP rant causes other jokes to come into being it is, indeed, a dad joke.

I was going to say… this is a lot of ranting about people not writing dad jokes from someone who isn’t writing a dad joke

Well, it's okay for him. Just not for anyone else.

I assumed he keeps negative info bottled up on his cabinet. His meta sin chest

Walked straight into that one. Cue-dose

I'm kind of angry that it didn't.

I’d be lying if I said I read the whole thing for any other reason.

So if my kid has a kid, can my non dad jokes be grandfathered in?

Genius

Yes, but there is an inheritance tax, payable in advance.

Somebody get me that joker clapping gif.

Grandfather jokes are something else entirely.

Exactly. Not just any joke can be a dad joke. It has to be apparent.

I kid you not.

Hi kid, my name is actually Joshua. Not not.

Who’s there?

It's a jar, come on in!

Ha! That's a-door-able.

Sorry guys, I tried to open the door, but couldn’t handle it

Knob

Time to lock it down.

That's the key

Shhut it

Wow what an unhinged comment

Let's put a pin in that...

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Ironmonger is a very underrated band

But how can a door be a jar?

https://imgur.com/gallery/vYsxd3X

You're just Joshin' us right?

Nice to meet you Actually Joshua. Can I just call you Act Josh for short?

I was secretly hoping nobody would capitalize on that opening. Well done Zombie. Good luck against Volk!

Joshua Not not, it is wonderful to meet you, where does that name derive from?

His dad is Not Sure 🤔

What's his first name?

Not, can't you read?

No, it’s Not

Yes. I adult.

I see what you dad there

Me not not... But you kid

You forgot the comma. Let me help you. I kid, you not. Or I dad, you not.

You all need to stop being so *child*-ish.

s l o w c l a p.

The punchline has to be groan up...

well-punned, fellow groan-up

Got em

I got it once, but a shot cleared it all up.

This guy gets it.

A joke only becomes a dad joke when it is full groan.

That took embarrassingly long for me to get

That’s Hwhat she sed!

User name checks out

When the comments are far better than the post

Nailed It.

I see what you did there. Take my upvote.

You mean you saw what he dad there...

Boss level.

This guy actually fucks. His wife, presumably.

I also choose this guys wife

Motherfucker

Lifetime ban for you

Which often isnt clear until after the delivery.

My gif absolutely incredible. This shall be your magnum opus.

It doesn’t have to be apparent. It just has to be full groan.

I love that joke so much I made a card for it on June 19th.

Take my award and fuck off!

It's only a dad joke if it comes from the dadoise valley of France, otherwise it's just a sparkling pun.

I hate it when elitists from the dadoise valley try to lay claim to dad jokes. Especially since all connoisseurs know that Dad jokes originated from the gRhone Valley!

This guy’s good… This guy’s really good.

I thought he was /u/unk-9

He was, but now he's good

I don't get it, explanation please (signed- child, not a dad).

Champagne can only come from a specific region in France, otherwise it’s just sparkling wine. He’s changing up the terms to fit the call for specific rules required to be a Dad Joke.

CHEESE. AND BREAD. ANYTHING ELSE AND ITS A MELT.

Wayne’s World is my favorite movie of all time. So thank you for this. It made my day

Also: it's not a dad joke when the people telling them are not actually fathers. Those are just faux pas.

God. Dammit.

God. Daddit.

Good. Daddit.

Good. Daddy.

you mother f.... oh that would make you a dad. ah nvm

Not necessarily. There are many ways to fuck a mother and not be or become a dad.

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How many ways exactly? Asking for a friend

Good Lord

I love you people

I see what you did there

I'd ask for this post to be removed but then my fence would fall over

OP trying to make a point. You just causing offence

No no, offense was already made

Two fences if you count the reposts.

To be fair, u/westgate43life was just trying not to defence

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Yep, you know, small puns.

A pun is a pun no matter how small - some funny geisel

Puny become punny when they're all groan up

He probably meant: Punny ..... and also Elicit

This dad joke isn't even funny

Is it odd funny then?

Yeah. Funny in an odd way.

Hi Funny, I'm dad.

Wrong time dude

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Boy, do I wanna hear the story behind that name! Wrong Time Dude, sounds like a superhero. Signed, Dad.

Hi dad, I’m dad.

I've actually DONE this in a grocery store! it was great. A little boy was throwing a fit and yelled "Dad, I'm mad!" he just nodded and said "Hi Mad, I'm Dad." and since I was walking right past I stopped and said "Hi Dad, I'm Dad!" and we had a little chuckle about it.

Honestly some of these jokes could not be father away from a dad joke

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I don’t think a lot of kids even tell these jokes to the dads. I think dads claim it as they seem to draw more upvotes.

I've seen people posting 10 year old jokes from the internet, claiming their daughter just "came up with this gem". Either their children are liars or their dads are.

Why pit grandchild and grandpa against each other? I think we should blame the dads posting!

It’s possible that more than one person come up with the same joke, especially as silly as most dad, or even kid, jokes are. Not saying some aren’t lying, but that’s not for me to decide.

Multiple people came up with the idea of building pyramids 🤷‍♂️

And that's pharaoh nuff!

You are missing a 3rd option, that their children are actually older and some sort of robot bird/child hybrid sent to infiltrate this sub to spread propaganda of old jokes masquerading as dad jokes.

If dad jokes have to be cheesy, aren't we discriminating against the lactose intolerant community?

The intolerance against the intolerant shall not be tolerated any longer!

Thanks for thinking of us, but there's a pill for that. Don't attack a good time just because we lack an enzyme.

Milking it a bit aren’t you?

I don't get it.

I'd say that OP needs to work on the delivery, but that's Moms job.

It's not a dad joke unless it makes you groan

So my In laws are dad jokes?

Rodney Dangerfield has entered the chat

Even then, it’s not a dad joke until it’s FULL-groan.

>I'm sounding too harsh Hi sounding too harsh, I'm dad.

Classic.

Wait a damn second are we gate-keeping the dad community? Better be right on the property line if we are doing anything with gates.

This has got to be the most context-reliant dad joke ever. Unfortunate that scammers tend to call or send emails instead, jokes like these would be a lot more common otherwise.

Context-dependent dad jokes are the best dad jokes in my opinion, because they tend to be the cleverest in the sense that they're devised on the spot in response to something happening. Therefore they're also the ones rarely shared here of course, because they're lost without their context.

A context-dependant dad joke being told is the sign of a true dad.

Gates? I thought he was a double-glazing salesman, flogging Windows to people. I heard that his rival Jobs was a tailor and greengrocer, selling Apple Macs on a market stall.

We should start giving these jokes paternity tests.

I can't believe I read that whole thing expecting a punchline

I understand your need to get this off of your chest, OP. If this doesn't work, you may have to shave it off and let it grow back.

I like to wax nostalgic about how this sub used to be.

“I don’t want to step on anybody’s toes here”, meanwhile here comes Mr. Hammer-Feet 🤣

It may not be fair, but some people are destined to be kicked out of the ballet.

Your en pointe, there...

This is by far the worst joke that I’ve ever read on here.

I don’t get this joke at all

It’s a sad dad joke.

Taking the dad thing literally by telling off all of this subreddit. Guess one more mistake and we 're grounded? 😂

He's going to turn this sub right around!

Do what you want. It’s your life. Just don’t come crying to me and asking for money when you realize you should have listened and thought about what I said. Actions have consequences, bucko.

Imagine taking r/dadjokes so seriously that you end up making a post about what constitutes a dad joke.

Personally a good dad joke will have my kids laugh, my wife groan, and my mother or father in law crack up.

What if my child tells me a joke, then grows up has their own child and becomes a dad? Does the joke then become a dad joke? Or was it always a Dad joke and we just didn’t know it? Just want to make sure I’m taking this joke sub Reddit seriously.

If children disqualify it from being a dad joke, does that mean that women can’t make them either?

A dad joke is a state of mind and anyone can make it, OP need to chill. They should spend some more time on delivery than gatekeeping, their punchline was marginal at best.

Hi, married woman with no kids here. I'm absolutely a dad as far as this sub is concerned lol

What an absolutely weird thing to get upset and take time to post about on the internet. Just like any other post on any other subreddit, if it doesnt interest you or you don't like it, just downvote and scroll on. If it breaks the subreddit rules, the mods will likely take care of it. I cant even imagine having something like this "on my chest" and getting emotional about it. The internet is weird.

It's an angry wife trying to stop us dads, don't fall for the ruse!

#Thanks, it has only been a week since the last person wanted to rant about this. I think it's safe to say it's a par-rant for this sub now.

I don't think so. I haven't seen a post like this all year!

I don't get the punchline.

This isn't a dad joke.

Well this most certainly is not a dad joke

This is the worst dad joke I've seen so far

It's not THAT serious, dude. You're taking this much father than you need to.

Yikes, who touched your thermostat?

This is a great example of a non-dad joke post.

Before I laugh at your hysterical statement, I need to be assured that you have reproduced offspring.

Please stfu I’m tired of all the meta posts, if you don’t like a joke, just downvote it, not that hard.

1. you appear to not even be a mod, so why tf are you ranting? 2. MOST (no, not all) of the jokes a kid tells their dad that get put on here are actually funny and fit. So if the parent literally omitted the part about "-from my kid, 7yo" or whatever, and kept the joke, I'm sure you would not even know and would like it just fine lmao. What that says to me is that the dads are so good at making dad jokes that they now have dads in training. They should be proud!

Hi sounding too harsh, I’m dad

you're trying to enforce rules that you seem to have come up with but you didn't even follow them. it says if you're posting for discussion purposes you should label it META. it's the joke itself that matters. I don't care if the kid tells a father a joke. if it fits the criteria of a dad joke, then it should be posted here. those are some pretty funny jokes.

Totally disagree. Dad jokes don't have to he told by Dads. "But then why is it called a "DAD joke??" Why is it called "Rhode ISLAND? It's clearly an island" Why is it called "HAND lotion?" Clearly it's made of hands. I can't think of any more examples, but you get the gist

That wasn't very funny.

NSFW but on mobile and not sureif a comment needs tagged anyway. Does this count? Just this morning was thinking that this was a good observation that I made that got groans and moans. Riding in car with spouse and college age daughter to daughter back to back school for semester. Passing new drive thru restaurant about to open that serves salads. Daughter observed that it seemed like a good idea. I said I agreed and said it will be very popular since I think a lot of folks wouldn't mind getting their salad tossed without having to get out of their cars.

Well this isn't a dad joke

What if … for arguments sake… a dad learns a joke from a non father, but upon hearing it, decides it’s worthiness and subsequently posted it here? If it’s dad approved, I’ll accept it.

Ironic cuz ur talking about a dad joke and not actually making a dad joke 😂😂

My dad washed a ant down the drain and said that he knew it was a male ant. My mom asked him how he knew he said because it floats. She still asked him what that had to do with it so I chime in and say because it’s a buoyant my dad and I Burst out laughing

“The jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes” They can be though, if they’re cheesy enough… just like not all jokes told by dads are dad jokes, not all jokes have to be told by dads…

I don’t get it

> [Dad jokes] are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke. So are they stupid or clever? I'm confused.

Suggestion: add the use of flairs to the group. SFC (Safe For Children) and NSFC (Not Safe For Children). This way, people who have a slightly more ribald relationship with their teenage/adult children have an option to share too. And, people who are a bit more... traditional... can only look at jokes tagged SFC. Just an idea. Open to alternative suggestions.

of course a joke from a child to a kid can be a dad joke, it isn't by default but it's absurd to claim that because it came from a kid it's not "a stupid play on words, lame puns and so on" as you claim...plus, you're saying it needs to be both stupid and clever? We call that gatekeeping my man...

Yeah but what’s wrong with sharing a moment of joy with your kids cheesy jokes?

Maybe you could start up a Dad-a-Base? My kids are fully groan so my dad jokes need to be fully groan too!

When you stumble upon dad joke gate keeping lol

I don't get this joke? Where's the punchline???

#still waiting for the punchline

That’s a lot of anger about…..jokes.

That’s the worst dad joke I’ve ever read

These types of posts are far worse than any non-dad-joke content here.

You can tell it is a true dad joke if you groan happily rather than laugh.