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Could you help explaining the joke ?

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The title says: Nagging.
The cartoon shows a battery with two poles.

The text says:

Jonathan, why do you always have to be so negative ?
The nagging keeps going on and on.
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duszek wrote:The title says: Nagging.
The cartoon shows a battery with two poles.

The text says:

Jonathan, why do you always have to be so negative ?
The nagging keeps going on and on.
the "positive" pole asked the question of the "negative" pole

the "negative" pole saw the inquiry as "nagging"

as if the "negative" pole could see it as anything but...

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Personally, the nagging bit is superfluous to the joke. Got to be a non-English speaker making it.
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duszek wrote:The title says: Nagging.
The cartoon shows a battery with two poles.
Yes, Polish people can be so annoying.
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attofishpi wrote:
duszek wrote:The title says: Nagging.
The cartoon shows a battery with two poles.
Yes, Polish people can be so annoying.
and shiny

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Polish people can be really nasty, you don´t have to rub it in though, have you ?

This is nagging in a blunt way. An Australian and Irish quality, as it seems.

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Mr Arising,

would you just skip the second sentence then ?

So one pole says to the other:

"Why do you always have to be so negative ?"

As the only comment under the battery.

But how to make it clear that one pole speaks to the other ?

And: if it is the positive pole that is complaining (about the negative one always being so negative) then the positive pole is the nagging one in this instance.


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Was someone making a joke about a battery pole and a Pole ?
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duszek wrote:Polish people can be really nasty, you don´t have to rub it in though, have you ?

This is nagging in a blunt way. An Australian and Irish quality, as it seems.

Was someone making a joke about a battery pole and a Pole ?
To be honest duszek - the only Polish person i have ever known was my boss many years ago - and she was far from nagging - a really lovely lady.

I just look at the alternative to what you presented by suggesting the relationship to Poles as in Polish people - yes maybe that is part of or perhaps even the main point of the joke - why dont you attempt to attach the actual joke image (if it was a cartoon)?
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My boyfriend has the cartoon, it´s in the calender that I gave him for Christmas.
He reads to me the joke of the day on the phone.

This one it was difficult for both of us to understand. He is an American.

That´s why I hoped to get a clue here.
The jokes are supposed to be British humour.

Even if I had the cartoon at home, I would not be able to transform it onto a forum. :(

Usually the cartoons are easy to describe and to imagine.
Another one was:
people sitting around a man reading a document, one of them dressed up as a cat.

The text was that aunt so and so bequeathed all her money to her beloved cat.

:lol:
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duszek wrote:The title says: Nagging.
The cartoon shows a battery with two poles.

The text says:

Jonathan, why do you always have to be so negative ?
The nagging keeps going on and on.
The expressions on the faces of the poles contribute to the meaning.

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Without the nagging positive pole
The negative pole would not be negative
And no energy would flow between the two poles

It's an ironic joke

The phrase, "Keeps on going and going," refers to an advertising slogan for the energizer battery that was popular at one time. People remember it as the energizer bunny, a pink and furry mechanical toy.

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The advertising precursor to the bunny was the Timex wrist watch, the watch that takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
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You are a genius, Walker.

Thank you very much !
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You're happy, I'm happy.

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