The underlying message of a western joke...

Up on the roof, was a little hide out that Doreen and I discovered when we first moved into the aquarium. It's a perfect secret hiding place whenever you want to chill out, and definitely a great escapade from the stuffed shirts downstairs. Anyway, she shared a joke she read in FHM magazine while we were there:

A dude just got out of his tanning session at the beach and checked himself out in front of the mirror. He got upset that he is able to tan all over except for his p****. So, he decided to go back to the beach, bury himself under the sand with just his *p**** sticking out of the sand.

Two old women walked down the beach, a usual stroll that they take everyday for health reasons. They both stumbled upon the p**** in the sand, and one of them said, "I've been chasing this all my life, and here it is, growing out of sand these days, and I am too old to squat".

So funny! Doreen and I understood the underlying message behind this joke, and actually find it a typical western humour. It fits into the usual yearly spring break culture that I observed as a student in the states. Every youth in their growing years just want to experience it all, the adventures that are surrounded by just it. Where the blokes supply, and the chicks demand, and vice versa. Needless to buy apples from the same stall... kind of culture. It's a give and take situation, you know what I mean?

As Asians, we'd never think of such jokes, we understood part of the culture, theorectically, but not necessarily practically. It takes Asiatic-Anglocised girlies like us to laugh at it. Though Asia is sprouting and blossoming to those lines, but our old culture still raises it's eyebrows at such. I'd say on the majority, most of the girls I know would be bemused by it!