r/funny • u/soyourlife So Your Life Is Meaningless • Aug 09 '26
Verified Unknown Pleasures
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u/RufiosBrotherKev Aug 09 '26
i get it
it aint making me laugh but i get it
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u/Auggie_Otter Aug 09 '26
The thing that throws me off is, well yeah, I immediately thought of Joy Division and I was like "Why is this dude saying he doesn't 'enjoy division'?"
I guess the joke implies he was asked if he likes Joy Division and not only does he not know who Joy Division is but he misheard the question and is very cranky about being asked if he 'enjoys division' multiple times but he still isn't getting it right. Which is . . . meh
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u/Stolehtreb Aug 09 '26
This sums up the kind of “humor” I’m constantly sent by my younger siblings that doesn’t makes any sense to me as something funny. I understand it. And it’s true. But I don’t get how that makes it funny. It’s just observation without the joke
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u/Lovat69 Aug 09 '26
I suspect I am far too stupid to find this funny.
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u/ConglomerateGolem Aug 09 '26
Looks like some band used an incredibly niche
as their icon. Person here is niche astronomy enthusiast and doesn't know about band and is annoyed about being asked. astronomical graph → More replies (125)→ More replies (5)201
u/Rob_LeMatic Aug 09 '26
It's less about stupid and more knowing about last century pop culture and astronomy. Even knowing, it's a pretty forced joke.
A band called Joy Division used a data plot of radio signals from a pulsar for an album cover. An album was a physical product that you would put into a machine to play music. It would come in packaging with artwork on the front, called the cover of the album. Sometimes, the bands (groups of humans who would create original music together) would make merchandise such as shirts that would feature artwork. The most popular Joy Division shirt was from the album art for Unknown Pleasures.
The "joke" is that this guy is an astronomy nerd, not a music nerd.
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u/VanishingPint Aug 09 '26
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u/cloudncali Aug 09 '26
Tf is Pink Floyd? I just think prisms and like retraction look cool.
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u/themeaningofhaste Aug 09 '26
As a pulsar astronomer whose research is similar to the thesis from which the plot is based on, I will share this with the dozens of the rest of us this is targeted at who will all enjoy the good laugh.
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u/Boudrodog Aug 10 '26
I am this person. I got a (probably unlicensed) Unknown Pleasures shirt in Austin a decade-plus ago. Like the record, it has no text on it. Occasionally I’ll get a compliment on my “spiky mountain” shirt to which I gleefully relish the opportunity to extol the advancements to physics and astronomy led by Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, how she discovered the first radio pulsar in the ‘60s, and that the distinctive repeating pattern is a radiograph of that pulsar, affectionately nicknamed LGM-1, or Little Green Man 1. She was robbed of a Nobel prize for her work.
The story of how a little known radiograph became the album art for Joy Division’s debut release is also fascinating. The 33-1/3 book series entry for “Unknown Pleasures” goes into detail on the work of Peter Saville, Factory Records’s in-house graphic designer and art director. The original image was black lines on a white background, and Saville inverted the colors for the album art.
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u/Prestigious_Sugar_66 Aug 09 '26
The joke is a bit far-fetched.
..My comment?
What does pokemon have to do with my comment?
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u/whatintheactualfeth Aug 10 '26
There are 10 groups of people in the world. Those that can read binary and those that can't.
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u/zmbslyr Aug 09 '26
Where funny?
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u/3DSarge Aug 09 '26
The design on his shirt is used as an album cover for the band Joy Division. The joke is people are asking him if he likes Joy Division because of the shirt but he doesn't know the reference and thinks people are asking him if he enjoys division. It's definitely a more niche joke, but funny if you are familiar with the band.
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