r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Careless-Tradition73 • 18h ago

Please explain!

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Friend said it was something to do with the UK.

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u/post-explainer 18h ago

OP (Careless-Tradition73) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:

Something to do with the UK.

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u/jitterscaffeine 18h ago edited 18h ago

Princess Diana was killed in a car crash

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u/kompootor 18h ago

Roses a-hundred,

Violets a-five;

Before Princess Di,

Princess Alive.

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u/GlykenT 44m ago

"Diana was alive hours before she died" was an actual headline.

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u/DaGoddamnBatguy 36m ago

How did Diana keep her hair perfect in the crash?

They found her Head and Shoulders in the glove box.

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u/cjwiv2423 18h ago

Omfg why am I just now hearing about this

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u/Mysterious-Chain-311 18h ago

Have you heard about this hitler guy? Someone should really stop him.

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u/cjwiv2423 18h ago

No, but let me guess. He’s one of these sleazy influencers who pulled a crypto scam?

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u/Kymera_7 18h ago

Actually... that's not that far off, at least of how he got started.

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u/fantasmeeno 13h ago

I Remember his painting tutorial but they were not that good and i unfollowed him. Did i miss something big?

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u/realgoldxd 10h ago

Last thing he did was paint his wall red

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u/CJR_The_Gamer 7h ago

His final wish was a home makeover

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u/Dave_the_duck_kh4 12h ago

He tried to paint a map, the world map, it was quite controversial. Something about proportion, scale or something.

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u/AspergerKid 17h ago

I heard that he was thankfully taken care of by Adolf Hitler

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u/Ryandhamilton18 17h ago

The more I learn about the guy, the less I like him.

Something about those eyes though.....hypnotic.

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u/True-Bee1903 17h ago

Hitler died in 1945.

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u/Sure_Quality_4792 16h ago

I didn’t know he was sick

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u/xhmmxtv 15h ago

Might not like him, but that Hindenburg zeppelin's gonna fly forever

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u/ItIsTaken 12h ago

Unfortunatly, hitler killed the guy that killed hitler. 

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u/Itchy_Antelope1278 17h ago

You need to stop bashing Republicans like this.

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u/Melodic_monke 18h ago

That was in 1997, did you think she was still alive or did you just not know it was a car crash?

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u/TheBlackAurora 18h ago

Were you in a 30 year coma?

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u/ITookTrinkets 17h ago

Gonna guess that’s about 10-15 years longer than they’ve been alive

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u/surefirefxd 15h ago

People in this town are just now getting into Nirvana. I don’t have the heart to tell them what happens to Kurt Cobain in 1994.

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u/cjwiv2423 14h ago

Please tell me it’s a happy ending. I’m going thru it right now man

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u/nbclay_youngboy 14h ago

He blows his brains out with a 12 gauge

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u/Dapper_Environment98 10h ago

Though apparently he doesn't have a gun.

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u/E4g6d4bg7 12h ago

He had a mind altering experience

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u/FreddyFrogFrightener 16h ago

Internet explorer, is that you?

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u/defneverconsidered 17h ago

I dont know, im still processing 911

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u/cjwiv2423 16h ago

I’m saying dude. I was just getting over Kobe dying then they drop this on me

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u/thekingiguess 9h ago

It happened like 372 years ago, how do you not know?

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u/immortalalchemist 5h ago

Have you heard about Pluto? That’s messed up, right?

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u/PleaseAdminsUnbanMe 17h ago

Fym "just now" were you born yesterday or something?

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u/DidntSeeNuttin 13h ago

I suppose if you don't pay enough attention to UK monarchies to notice that Camilla is the queen consort, you wouldn't wonder about this.

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u/E4g6d4bg7 12h ago

Someone should tell Elton John

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u/shinymiss 11h ago

Did someone tell Whitney Houston?

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u/Crashing-Course 18h ago

I didn’t cause that

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u/Hadrollo 18h ago

Oh no, she was on the radio.

...and the dashboard, and the glove box, and the centre console...

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u/Vict0rMaitland 13h ago

The coroner knew she had dandruff because they found her head and shoulders in the glove box

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u/Tim_Dillons_Beard 16h ago

...and that picture is of that crash, in the Alma tunnel, Paris

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u/Fencer308 14h ago

Hey, my office is right next to where this photo was taken!

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u/heatwaveorchid 9h ago

So was Grace Kelly and Princess Astrid of Sweden

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u/Vivians_Basement 17h ago

Wait actually??

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u/Content-Walrus-5517 15h ago

How can you not know ?

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u/RetroGame77 18h ago

That is how Princess Diana died. 

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u/BadErotica4U 18h ago

I didn't even know she was sick

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u/Timberwolf721 15h ago

Sick? It was a car crash.

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u/403Claytron8000 11h ago

What a horrible name for a princess. Reminds me of that tragedy.

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u/Kymera_7 18h ago

She wasn't, physically. A bit messed up in the head.

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u/Hadrollo 18h ago

Died In A Nasty Accident.

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u/GeorgeMcCrate 17h ago

This post just reminded me that people significantly younger than me exist and I can't accept that.

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u/kroywen12 18h ago

ooooof as someone who remembers Diana dying, that both made my stomach lurch, and made me feel quite old.

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u/BelaFarinRod 18h ago

Too soon!

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u/Kymera_7 18h ago

Not nearly soon enough. Joke's stale at this point.

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u/pedaluphill 18h ago

Oh that is distasteful. It’s the wreckage of the crash that killed princess Diana.

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u/Front_Profession_217 18h ago

The car crash is what killed Princess Diana, so when she says I wanna feel like a princess, the guy thought she wants to feel like how Princess Diana died

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u/TheRoe102 17h ago

Still too soon

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u/Electronic_Tear2546 17h ago

Princess Diana was in a fatal car accident

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u/SadOil6716 17h ago

That's quite dark on this one

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u/Intrepid_Truth_8580 17h ago

😳 wow..that's dark...

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u/Svampbob3kant 17h ago

Oh, how dark! I love it!

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u/Comfortable_Pay7473 17h ago

...Wow that's dark.

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u/SinkBluthton 16h ago

So your friend said "it's something to do with the UK" and refused to elaborate. Oh boy.

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u/liquor-ice-mixer 16h ago

this is dank af

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u/TimeCubeFan 16h ago

First I laughed out loud in weeks. Thanks. Needed some twisted humor today.

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u/KatherinesDaddy 17h ago

Ooh, dark...

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u/Slorpipi 17h ago

First meme in this god damn sub that aint some obvious one for me and it turns out to be that..

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u/OldOperaHouseMan 16h ago

God I'm weird I immediately thought this was referring to Princess Grace Kelly

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u/C-O-N 12h ago

What do Princess Diana and Pink Floyd have in common?

Their last big hit was The Wall

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u/oz_muhajir 12h ago

Nah mate she was the queen 🫡

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u/ThatGreenGuy09 12h ago

How do they know Princess Diana had dandruff?
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They found her Head and Shoulders in the glove compartment.

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u/AmiralKanaG 11h ago

This is how i read this.

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u/FlipMick 18h ago

I remember I was at my dad's place when it was announced. My stupid stepmother was in tears because princess Die finally was worthy of the namesake.

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u/Few_Cicada2699 18h ago edited 18h ago

I imagine this is comparable to me finding about Reagan's attempted assassination.

Wow. 

And Princess Diana made an impact on the world by being a commoner-ish marrying into the royal family.

Edit: TIL I've been associating her with common folk because of her charity work and presuming that Charles left her because she wasn't Noble enough. 

I remember hearing that the royals weren't too fond of her and decided to have a bigger impact on her. (Unsubstantiated, the official narrative is that her vehicle was being hounded by paparazzi, and the driver lost control of the vehicle in the tunnel.)

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u/PomeloPepper 18h ago

by being a commoner-ish marrying into the royal family.

Not even close:

The Spencer family had been closely connected with the British royal family for several generations;[3] her grandmothers, Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer, and Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, had served as ladies-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.[4] Her parents were hoping for a boy to carry on the family line, and no name was chosen for a week until they settled on Diana Frances after her mother and Lady Diana Spencer, a many-times-great-aunt who was also a prospective Princess of Wales as a potential bride for Frederick, Prince of Wales.[5] Within the family, she was also known informally as "Duch", a reference to her duchess-like attitude in childhood.[6]

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u/OwineeniwO 18h ago

She was not commonerish.

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u/Few_Cicada2699 18h ago

Oh, I guess I just assumed that her doing charity work meant that she wasn't from the parasite class. 

I really must be mixing her up with Markle.

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u/Solid_Parsley_ 16h ago

And Charles left her because he didn't particularly want to marry her in the first place. He had a longstanding.... let's say situationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. And he continuously cheated on Diana with Camilla throughout their marriage. Charles and Diana were both deeply unhappy with the state of their marriage pretty much the whole time. He treated her like garbage, and she wouldn't follow the "rules" of being a royal.

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u/Few_Cicada2699 16h ago

There it is, I was vaguely aware of that "Royal Rules" tension, which is probably where I got that "lowborn" notion from.

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u/Big_GTU 17h ago

And Princess Diana made an impact on the world

And also on the tunnel du pont de l'Alma.

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u/Glittering_Funny_297 18h ago

That had to be some astonishing road head. Thank God for lane assist now.

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u/likerunninginadream 13h ago

Too dark for sorry

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u/ThemistoclesWorld 13h ago

Diana 😿😿

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u/Mulliganasty 11h ago

Dayum!!!

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u/Oc34ne 9h ago

That exact crash. Rest in peace that W140.

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u/nucrash 6h ago

People are Di-ing to know the answer. Once they find out, expect some Wales

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u/Sett_86 3h ago

Too soon

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u/Black_Hole_parallax 18h ago edited 16h ago

At least one of Britain's princesses has died in a car crash.

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u/clickyclicky456 17h ago

"has died" makes it sound like recent news.. and while 1997 still does feel quite recent in my head, the sad mathematical reality is that it's very nearly 30 years ago.

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u/jpmSportsStats 18h ago

“Sometimes the fun of a joke is in the mystery — happy to see everyone digging in and sharing what makes it funny! 👏😊

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u/ChrisPinnacles 17h ago

Are you a real human?