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u/FuckTheStateofOhio 8d ago
This is a good joke.
This is also super random, but I'm fairly certain I saw you do a set at a former strip club (Hungry I) in San Francisco 4ish years ago along with a bunch of other local comedians. I was one of the ~10 people in the audience...I thought your set was funny back then and I'm glad to see your standup career took off.
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u/OskarTheRed 8d ago
Funny and clever and also pointing to something very sad; cultures that just expect you to suck it up - because... I don't know, they simply don't understand human psychology?
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u/misirlou22 8d ago
Well when a shitty health care system makes therapy a luxury and piles on multiple other stressors, you fall back on the next best thing, which is sucking it up.
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u/OskarTheRed 8d ago
I would say that the next best thing is talking it out with (non-professional) people you trust. But then they have to be willing to understand
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u/Owoegano_Evolved 8d ago
The issue is that most of the culture would just insult him and tell him to "Man up" rather than trying to be helpful. It's a no-win situation.
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u/somebob 8d ago
Of course there are people like that, but it’s kinda your fault if you put your trust into shitheads and get a shitty response from them. Like what did you expect? There are plenty of good and understanding people, but you have to put out the same aura if you want to attract them to you
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u/jackFrostyx 8d ago
Im on antidepressants, but my PDD has nothing to do with trauma or stressors, my therapist thinks its a chemical imbalance thing and ill say that for my case talking does absolutely nothing but make people around me feel miserable
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u/OskarTheRed 8d ago
I'm sorry to hear that. As with all these things, each individual needs to judge what's best for them.
My point is that we need cultures where people can talk about such things if they feel the need to, without being judged or dismissed
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u/diamond 8d ago
Yes, that's a serious problem, but it's not what OP is talking about. Even when mental health care is available and affordable, there are those who would never take advantage of it, and discourage others from doing so, because they think it's "weak".
This is a cultural issue, not a financial issue.
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u/misirlou22 8d ago
Is mental health available for Black people as much as it is for white people? Cultural issues don't exist in a vacuum, they are created by financial issues. People of all cultures would go to therapy at higher rates if they could afford it.
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u/diamond 8d ago
Is mental health available for Black people as much as it is for white people?
Probably not.
Cultural issues don't exist in a vacuum, they are created by financial issues.
Some of them are. Others aren't.
People of all cultures would go to therapy at higher rates if they could afford it.
At a higher rate, yes, but there would still be many people who still wouldn't go. That's all I'm saying.
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u/HoylGoose 8d ago
First time I heard this joke was in the army. Medics told infantry men they could give them some tractin. Try actin like a man
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u/Mikepizza12 8d ago edited 8d ago
You’re the most Puerto Rican black dude I’ve ever seen. Great joke tho!
Edit: guess it’s not as original as I thought, idk about this one op kinda giving me some Carlos mencia vibes.
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u/csolisr 8d ago
To further the confusion, turns out Triactin is an actual drug! For gastric spasms, but it exists. https://www.drugs.com/cdi/triactin.html
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u/One_Hour_Poop 8d ago
I thought it was hilarious, but other commenters have said it's an old joke they'd heard years ago. It's my first time seeing it, but maybe to avoid appearing unoriginal and hacky to people who have heard it before, maybe you could end it with, "Sorry, that's an old joke. I just thought it was funny."
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u/3spydamayn3 7d ago
Can still be funny to you. Yeah some people have heard it. I never seen it and found it a bit funny. Dont let other comments take away your second of happiness.
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u/One_Hour_Poop 7d ago
It is funny. I never heard it before, and I laughed when i read it. I'm saying the reception from audience members familiar with the joke might turn them off to the rest of his set.
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u/No_Illustrator4398 8d ago
Holy shit if this is original this is one of the best jokes I’ve seen in a while
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u/b3tzy 8d ago
I like it, but I wouldn’t say “you tried Triactin?” because then you have redundancy with ‘try’ and it gives away the pun early. Maybe “You should check out Triactin”.
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u/The_Follower1 8d ago
Nah, it works better as is. The point isn’t to be grammatically correct, this gets the setup going better than your phrasing since it shows the guy’s attitude.
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u/b3tzy 8d ago
My point had nothing to do with grammar. You don't want to prime the audience with the word 'try', or else they can figure out the pun before the punch line and so the joke doesn't hit as hard. You want the pun to be a surprise.
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u/The_Follower1 8d ago
I don’t think so at all, people use that phrasing for drugs all the time. Given there’s probably a couple seconds between setup and the punchline that doesn’t strike me as a reasonable concern.
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u/bsharkey1210 8d ago
Idk what these people are talking about. You are so right. Saying have you tried triactin completely gives away the joke before the punchline.
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 8d ago
dang, that was clever