Jokes you don't/didn't get

[bloodteller]

i know there’s the thing of “the joke isn’t funny if you explain it” but were there ever gags in Red Dwarf you didn’t get? and if so, what?

i never quite got what Cat’s “stan and ollie” line in White Hole was about, for example. nor did i get what “see you in ten minutes?” (repeat x10) from Pete was all about, and also Rimmer’s “steers and queers, which are you boy?” joke from Meltdown

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[clem]

Watch the way he points up at the sky/away from the desk.

Yeah I can see that. Also, am I imagining this or just before he makes that gesture up at the ceiling, does he grab hold of the receptionist’s head and move it, possibly to make her look at the register? 

[RunawayTrain]

Not exactly a joke I didn’t get, but a reference I didn’t know was real.  A post on an energy forum enlightened me:

That’s the old MANWEB area – now run by SP Energy Networks.

Are you sure you’re officially in the North West (NORWEB/Electricity North West) area?

I did not know NORWEB was a real thing!

[GlenTokyo]

I suppose that’s not just dated, but also very regional, and if you’re not from the UK or at the very least 30+, you’ve no chance.

If Lister was based in Liverpool though, should have been MANWEB.

One to fix in re-remastered haha

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Maybe NORWEB took over MANWEB in the future

[Dave]

NORWEB and MANWEB got together in a merger with LOVETTWEB.

[International Debris]

Superb.

[Unrumble]

I suppose that’s not just dated, but also very regional, and if you’re not from the UK or at the very least 30+, you’ve no chance.
If Lister was based in Liverpool though, should have been MANWEB.
One to fix in re-remastered haha

MANWEB sounds like a rival to Mumsnet

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Meme post tp MANWEB

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

I vote to set up DISTEFANOWEB.

[Warbodog]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Jenuall]

Round our way we just had the “MEB” which is very dull sounding by comparison to NORWEB but is less unintentionally erotic than MANWEB

[Warbodog]

[Dave]

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[GlenTokyo]

[clem]

[GlenTokyo]

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[Jenuall]

[Dave]

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[Dave]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Rudolph]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[clem]

[Dave]

[clem]

[Jenuall]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

I only just this moment learned what “domestic science” is and suddenly “domestic science teacher” makes so much more sense.

[RunawayTrain]

I only just this moment learned what “domestic science” is and suddenly “domestic science teacher” makes so much more sense.

To be fair that term was dated by the time I (born around the start of RD) was at school.  In middle school it was covered by ‘design and technology’ – alternated half termly between the male teacher who taught us woodwork etc.*, and the female teacher who taught us cooking, sewing, etc. – and then in upper school it was separated into specific classes for each skill.  [Cooking was ‘food technology’, I can’t remember what sewing was.  Probably fashion design or something.]

Not quite as comprehensive as the actual economics of running a home though, by my day at least.

*I still use the little plastic glasses holder I made in that class ~20 years ago!

[Flap Jack]

During my school years the sewing class was called “Textiles” I think.

[Jonathan Capps]

During my school years the sewing class was called “Textiles” I think.

Same here. The domestic sciences had long since been split up by the early 90s for us. It was textiles, D&T, food tech etc.

[Unrumble]

D&T in middle school, but in my upper school it was branded “Resistant Materials”…

[Jonathan Capps]

That’s excellent.

[Moonlight]

It’s called Home Economics over here, or at least it was. I just assumed they were taking a random potshot at grade school science teachers by calling them “domestic”. Like a house cat.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

1999-2004 secondary schooler here.  We had Design & Technology (basically wood work with a bit of CAD etc) and Home Economics (which covered a bit of cooking sewing etc.  Though I can’t think what else.

For GCSE you could opt to do Food Tech, which is much more interesting and considering I still can’t sew, more useful.

[Warbodog]

No textiles in my all boys school. D&T was Woodwork, Metalwork (I was like Rimmer in those fields), Food Technology and Graphics (my favourite, just drawing and colouring. Separate from Art).

[Rudolph]

It was D&T at my school, split into various classes: Cooking, Textiles, Design, Woodwork, Metalwork and Electronics.

[International Debris]

Ours was called ADT as one of them was art. 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Art was with drama and PE in my school. At least when it came to different groups to pick GCSEs from

Art/Drama/PE

DT/Food Tech

[Moonlight]

How does a compact disc get twisted?

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

That’s not a CD, it’s just a really long one-spooled magnetic tape that looks suspiciously similar to a CD when you hold it at a certain angle.

[Moonlight]

Let’s split the difference: floppy discs are also magnetic storage and could conceivably fit in that case.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Yeah, floppies sounds about right for Red Dwarf.

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