Cars have windows. Houses have windows. So it can’t be windows that makes the car go.

I swear I don’t understand, and he tried to explain it to me. He said it’s a double meaning with Windows the operating system but I just don’t don’t don’t get it.

Can anyone make this understandable to me? I may have screwed up the retelling, because honestly I have no idea what the hell’s going on with this joke.

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Something has to be the reason the car can move, and it can’t be the windows because houses have windows and they don’t move.

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No, it’s different kinds of windows

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No it depends on their relative alignment

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No, that’s wheels

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Does he by any chance use Linux? 😂 Sounds like a Linux joke about Windows.

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I’d say the joke is probably that you are logically deducting something thats already obvious to everyone, portraying logicians as people that are far removed from reality

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*deducing, not deducting. Also, you seem to be talking about the joke from the comments. And the joke from the comments makes fun of the man misapplying logic rather than making fun of the logician.

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Nope, talking about the joke in the post.

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It’s just misapplied logic. No ivory-tower logicians in sight anywhere to make fun of.

You could maybe use that joke in such a way, if you actually had a logician in front of you whom you’d want to piss off.

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Yeah, that’d be my read.

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I am so confused right now. I don’t see the joke written down anywhere. The post just links to an AI generated looking image of a woman in a red dress sitting on a red car in front of a building. Is that the joke itself?

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Sorry the joke is in bold. It’s about cars and windows.

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Are you also on kbin? Kbin post images are sort of their own joke, unfortunately.

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I am not

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AI generated image of a car parked in front of a building. I got the woman for free, because SkyNet.

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I guess the joke is that someone is using logic and reasoning to figure out what propels a car as though it was some great mystery that needed to be analyzed and thought about. I don’t think it’s very funny and it could have also been your friend’s delivery.

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Yeah to me it reads like an example of stupid genius. Like you’re smart enough to be able to logically equate similarities between different things while trying to use Aristotelian logic to uncover a fundamental truth about something.

Oh in this case like you said, what makes the car go. And the idea is let’s find other things that also have similarities with cars and see if we can figure out what makes the car go based off of these similarities, and in this specific case we’re looking at windows and since cars go and they have Windows but houses don’t go and they also have Windows then it can’t be the windows that make the car go.

But it’s definitely one of those things that would only be funny in context of somebody mentally reasoning through this in situ and coming to this conclusion by their own cognitive processes.

Of course, explaining a joke doesn’t make it funny and if you have to explain a joke then it wasn’t funny to begin with so yeah.

It’s kind of like the time I told a female friend, that I wasn’t dating, that, “if I didn’t like the way she sucked my dick then she wouldn’t like the way I ate her pussy”. It made everybody laugh but none of you are going to find that funny.

It’s one of those things that sounds really bad by itself but in the situation it was hilarious and it was good-natured and only mildly offensive at the time.

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