I had an Avon one with a note that she'd pick it up Sunday, so I left it out Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, all the way round to the following Monday and then put it in the brown bin.
Cue some trout knocking on my door slagging me off and wanting her catalogue back 'because she has to pay for them' Jog on.
Here's a tip: if you want to keep it safe don't drive it through a strangers letterbox
I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS
I think this is an MLM scheme from back in the day and it might be European-only (I’m from the Netherlands but I think it’s a UK company).
My dad lost his well-paying job in 2007 and it was hard for him to find something else in his field at the time. He started working in a meat factory to at least make some money and my mom got into Kleeneze. Basically this was a catalogue type thing with all kinds of homecare items.
As a distributor it was your responsibility to drop the catalogs in people’s mailbox and then later pick them up again in the hopes they wanted to order something. The distributor had to pay a few euros for each individual catalog, as well as order the items for the customers. So for example if a customer wanted to buy a vacuum cleaner, she’d pay my mom €80, my mom ordered the vacuum cleaner for €50 and got to keep the difference as her “income”. I think as a distributor you had a minimum quota of orders you had to reach each month, my mom ordered some extra stuff herself sometimes just to get to the quota, in the hopes she could sell it later.
You could, of course, also recruit other distributors. I remember those “parties” all too well ugh.
So this was a really hard way to make money. Delivering all the catalogs, picking them up again, ordering, talking to people, I think at a certain point my dad joined in and both of my parents were working 50 - 70 hours a week, but still barely making any money. Part of it was obviously the extremely weird way of ordering items (you could just order online..) and how expensive the items were. Of course some of the catalogs would get lost, people threw them away, they accidentally got ripped etc so my parents were always ordering new catalogs.
Thinking about it now, it really sucked for my parents. I know they were just trying to do the right thing. :( Luckily they quit a year or two later and have a legitimate business now.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They 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.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
He lost May
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
Put it on my bill
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Calcium, nickel, neon
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
