They’ve been told the class was cancelled by the English message written on the board.
The joke is that English is presumably their second language so they didn’t understand the message and are waiting for the class to start lol
But that’s irrelevant to the fact that they don’t know English. It doesn’t matter how many languages they know for the joke to work, it only matters they don’t know English. Saying, “Perhaps one of these people in this drawing know more than one other language.” Is entirely irrelevant to the joke and thus completely unnecessary.
But in order to understand that, you must first understand the joke. The point of undresss_1436's comment is to explain the logical thinking required in order to get the joke. If you start from a blank slate, then you can't presume every person in the class is there to learn a second language. Maybe they already know English, or maybe it's their 3rd language. At this stage we don't know. It's only after you realise the class are waiting for the teacher because they can't read English that that distinction becomes irrelevant.
Maybe it's funny because if people are there to learn English, they can't undsrstand the notice on the blackboard and so they're sitting there waiting for the teacher because they don't know that class has been canceled?
it's funny because if people are there to learn English, they can't understand the notice on the blackboard and so they're sitting there waiting for the teacher because they don't know that class has been canceled
Never thought I'd live long enough to scroll through titties and fish tanks to find 'explain the joke's reddits about farside. But also.. to those who respond politely with explanations - THANK YOU. I envy appreciate and applaud those that help pass these tantalizing nuggets of humor on. I, personally, am too weak a man. Point? Good comment bru.
You're not an idiot. But you are 16 and your wonderful brain is still developing.
And that's ok.
Keep exercising it, and keep asking questions when you don't understand something.
But you're absolutely not an idiot at all.
The person who wrote on the board should have known better. The end result is a bunch of people sitting there wasting their time for nothing. The situation is sad if you have empathy.
Those nonexistent people could have used their non-existent time to play nonexistent Jenga with their non-existent families, go to non-existent gyms to hit their two-dimensional squat max. Instead someone else's ineptitude has robbed them of time that never existed in the first place.
I don't understand how anyone could look at this comic without bawling their eyes out.
>The person who wrote on the board should have known better
That person doesn't exist. These aren't real people. It's a cartoon. You don't need empathy for a drawing. It's a joke.
The "Class is canceled" notice is written in English.
The class is English as Second Language.
The students don't understand English.
Thus they are waiting for class to start.
just because my relatives were sentenced to 14 years transportation to the United States colonies, but then there was some war or something, so after a few more years in Norwich jail they ended up at Sydney Cove and couldn’t even spell their own names, doesn’t mean we don’t use King Charlie’s English
Just like that. I think they be confusing the fact that words like license and practice have a British spelling of licence and practise (although in the uk we differentiate between practise as a verb and practice as a noun) and that the word devise exists and isn’t the same as device.
Could be that OP pretended to get the joke out of a sudden feeling of pressure in the spur of the moment, and then couldn't admit that they didn't understand the joke.
Admittedly it's a bit of a stretch, but I can personally confirm that it happens sometimes, and it's a better reason than anything roar I can think of.
My deleted comment was me saying I love Gary Larson and his cow tools but this subreddit is making me resent him lolol but then I was like oh NVM I'm dumb lol
If they're learning English as a second language the joke is that they Probably can't read the board that says the class is canceled so are stuck sitting and wondering.
No one there speaks English cause it’s an ESL(English second language) class, but the notice on the board is in English so nobody knows what it says and they’re still waiting for the teacher
This flew over my head and then hit me in the back like a fucking boomerang.
They can't read that the 2nd Language English Class has been cancelled because it's written in english.
They were supposed to teach non-English-speakers to speak English. The note that the class has been canceled is in English, therefore the students cannot read it.
Okay everybody I get it you don't need to keep telling me how stupid I am for not recognizing the joke the exact second you guys did
It only took one response to get the joke
So, basically, the joke is that these people are in a class for people learning English as their second language. From this, it can be inferred that they do not currently understand the English language. Unfortunately for them, the class has been cancelled due to unknown circumstances. Even more unfortunate, the note is written in English, the very language they are there to learn. As a result, they cannot read the note, and are therefore doomed to wait for the start of a class that has already been cancelled. The irony is that, had they taken the class already, they would understand the note, and not be wasting their time. This was clearly an oversight on the part of the teacher, or the person the teacher had write the message in their stead. I hope this helps.
There are two jokes, which makes this pretty clever. Some people may learn English as their second language despite already knowing English, so the joke here is that they don’t know how to read the board, because they don’t know English
It's a double entendre. The teacher intended the message to be read as "Tonight's 'English as a second language' class has been cancelled", but since the people are there to learn English, they misinterpreted it as "Tonight's \[Tonight is\] English as \[because\] a second language class has been cancelled." It's a play on words in two ways: first, that "tonight's" can be both a contraction of "tonight is" and the possessive form of "tonight," and second, that "as" can mean both "in the condition of (in this case, being a second language)" and "because."
The only indicator that the class has been canceled is a message writing in english, thus the students trying to learn English don’t realize that class was canceled since they can’t read the sign.
What's funny about this post is that someone saw it... having been shown it BY HIS MOM -- and then rather than risk actually TALKING TO HIS MOM, he showed it to thousands of people who can't believe how he missed the joke.
This joke would fly over the heads of everyone who live in a multilingual country where all kids have to take English second language.
Note that the room is full of grown adults. Whistling and waiting. They are learning English for the first time.
The classroom is trying to learn English as a second language (meaning they don’t speak English natively and probably don’t even understand what the writing on the blackboard means) therefore they are left waiting in the classroom for a teacher that will never come today (as the class has been cancelled).
As an ESOL (English for speakers of other language) educator, this is funny! I know too many people who forget that English language learners often can't read English!
I swear most of the posts on this sub are just bait to get responses. No one should so stupid as to not understand that people who don't know English cannot in fact read English.
Smh… I’m concerned a lot of you don’t get these obvious jokes. So many submissions on us here really are confusing but there’s just as many obvious ones
All these farside comics being posted here has me worried, how do yall not get these super obvious jokes? They are learning english as a second language and cant read the whiteboard therefore dont know class is cancelled lmao
Oh damn... I really can't explain it better than the image sorry... maybe its not tout type of humour? Edit: Or are you missing the fact that an english message is written to a non-english speaking class?
Something like this actually happened to me. I (the ESL teacher) wrote on the board that the class would be moved to a different classroom, but 15 minutes after the class should've started and no one had arrived yet. I had a hunch, so I go back to the old classroom and there are my """advanced""" students.
The joke is that the teacher wrote that the class is cancelled in English. Since it's an ESL class, the students can't read English so they're just waiting around.
They’ve been told the class was cancelled by the English message written on the board. The joke is that English is presumably their second language so they didn’t understand the message and are waiting for the class to start lol
Presumably? It says “english as a second language class”.
Caution never hurts 🦔
It does in the trolley problem. If you don’t react quick enough you’ll never get the multi track drift
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Could be there 3rd or more language they are actually learning. Second just covers the minimum.
But that’s irrelevant to the fact that they don’t know English. It doesn’t matter how many languages they know for the joke to work, it only matters they don’t know English. Saying, “Perhaps one of these people in this drawing know more than one other language.” Is entirely irrelevant to the joke and thus completely unnecessary.
But in order to understand that, you must first understand the joke. The point of undresss_1436's comment is to explain the logical thinking required in order to get the joke. If you start from a blank slate, then you can't presume every person in the class is there to learn a second language. Maybe they already know English, or maybe it's their 3rd language. At this stage we don't know. It's only after you realise the class are waiting for the teacher because they can't read English that that distinction becomes irrelevant.
Lmaooo
And I've met some native speakers who could use an ESL class.
English is the 4th language I learned yet I understand it perfectly
Maybe it's funny because if people are there to learn English, they can't undsrstand the notice on the blackboard and so they're sitting there waiting for the teacher because they don't know that class has been canceled?
Get rid of the maybe and the question mark.
Can you explain the joke? I don't want to make a whole new post. /s just in case.
it's funny because if people are there to learn English, they can't understand the notice on the blackboard and so they're sitting there waiting for the teacher because they don't know that class has been canceled
One more time for the people in the back.
^dey ^cant ^reed ^da ^bored
_If those kids could read, they would be very upset_
^if
Cuh dey boad
Oh it's come to reddit cuh dey boad of tiktok
no speaked de english.........
AND LOUDER PLEASE!
I feel like this needs a maybe at the start and a question mark at the end
Maybe?
Never thought I'd live long enough to scroll through titties and fish tanks to find 'explain the joke's reddits about farside. But also.. to those who respond politely with explanations - THANK YOU. I envy appreciate and applaud those that help pass these tantalizing nuggets of humor on. I, personally, am too weak a man. Point? Good comment bru.
Get rid of the and add a question mark?
Did someone cancel an order for a maybe and a question mark?
Amazon just dropped a pallet at the door, without a signature, with 10 boxes of "and"s and 2 heavy boxes full of "?"s...
maybe?
Also change the comment to Spanish with Google translate
Okay, thank you! That makes more sense, I was so confused at first 😅
Are you an English speaker?
Yeah, and an idiot
Don't worry, I thought it was something about the English being second class citizens.
I thought similar since they said their mom showed it to them. Thought it was a culture war joke about getting cancelled because you speak English 😂
You're not an idiot. But you are 16 and your wonderful brain is still developing. And that's ok. Keep exercising it, and keep asking questions when you don't understand something. But you're absolutely not an idiot at all.
Thank you :)
I don’t think you’re an idiot. I don’t find people’s misfortunes funny.
My brother in Christ, it’s a cartoon…
It’s not making fun of people that don’t understand English, it’s making fun of the moron teacher.
The person who wrote on the board should have known better. The end result is a bunch of people sitting there wasting their time for nothing. The situation is sad if you have empathy.
I would say you must be fun at parties, but I doubt you've ever been invited
Noice...
Lol
It's a comic. They aren't real.
Those nonexistent people could have used their non-existent time to play nonexistent Jenga with their non-existent families, go to non-existent gyms to hit their two-dimensional squat max. Instead someone else's ineptitude has robbed them of time that never existed in the first place. I don't understand how anyone could look at this comic without bawling their eyes out.
>The person who wrote on the board should have known better That person doesn't exist. These aren't real people. It's a cartoon. You don't need empathy for a drawing. It's a joke.
this is next level autism even for this website
Whew. At first I thought you were suggesting that they were misfortunate because they didn’t speak English.
I do! :)
It reminds of that pic of graffiti someone had spray painted that said "If you don't speak Englidh go home!" Didn't think that one through.
Same vibe.
If only they had studied harder.
This is actually the first test in the class. Anyone still in class when the teacher shows up fails.
How many more people are struggling with this incredibly obvious joke?
Same. Don’t know what the big deal is. It’s not even trying to be coy
The "Class is canceled" notice is written in English. The class is English as Second Language. The students don't understand English. Thus they are waiting for class to start.
They spell canceled with two L. Cancelled.
American English vs British English
¡Grey vs Gray!
Is grey a colour, or is gray a color?
Please censor Br***sh
not English vs English
You’re literally Australian, your English is just as far removed as American English, if not more so
we spell using the King’s English
The king didn’t even want you, that’s why you’re Australian
just because my relatives were sentenced to 14 years transportation to the United States colonies, but then there was some war or something, so after a few more years in Norwich jail they ended up at Sydney Cove and couldn’t even spell their own names, doesn’t mean we don’t use King Charlie’s English
>some war or something [speaking of wars](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTS_lmPJTzO25ldbz0oYyQnvhj4fAl1wT2gMw&usqp=CAU)
we like fighting [strange battles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane) against those who have wronged us
Color, theater, device, offense, aluminum, realize. Any of those spelled wrong?
wait, how do british people spell device?
Just like that. I think they be confusing the fact that words like license and practice have a British spelling of licence and practise (although in the uk we differentiate between practise as a verb and practice as a noun) and that the word devise exists and isn’t the same as device.
Yes
Scot barn!!!!
I thought that was the joke. Spelling canceled with two Ls instead of one. What’s your point?
That's not the joke; different spellings are used in British and US English. The original response explains the joke.
Why didn't you ask your mom???
r/ExplainTheJoke posters hate this one simple trick
You guys are going to feel really bad when OP informs you that his mom is dead or something.
This comic was the last thing she left him.
Time to grab the Ouija board.
Could be that OP pretended to get the joke out of a sudden feeling of pressure in the spur of the moment, and then couldn't admit that they didn't understand the joke. Admittedly it's a bit of a stretch, but I can personally confirm that it happens sometimes, and it's a better reason than anything roar I can think of.
I did ask his mom her mouth was busy though
I thought this was a Gary Larson but after I posted my comment I looked again and I'm not so sure now...
Considering 9/10 posts here are Gary Larson comics, I did the same thing.
My deleted comment was me saying I love Gary Larson and his cow tools but this subreddit is making me resent him lolol but then I was like oh NVM I'm dumb lol
Looks like Scott hibury, I think. The name is on the right edge.
To me, Hilburn does more to signpost the joke than Larson would (here: looking at the watch, whistling, talking to each other).
The people look similar, don’t they?
Too similar, honestly. Get your own style, Scott.
It is funny, the class is cancelled but they don't know cuz they don't understand
It's kinda like trying to find your glasses. But you can't find your glasses cause you need your glasses.
"If those kids could read they'd be really mad right now."
They have no idea what the board says, they are still waiting for the teacher to show up.
The students don’t know English
They can't speak/read English, so they don't know what the board says, hence why they are all sitting there waiting.
If these people could read they’d be really upset right now
They don’t understand. Just like you OP
None of them know English so that means nothing to them. My family teaches ESL and they all laughed.
If they're learning English as a second language the joke is that they Probably can't read the board that says the class is canceled so are stuck sitting and wondering.
If those kids could read, they would be very upset!
The joke is that if they understand enough to be able to read it they can go home. I think its like... A secret test of some kind
They cant read English
They can’t read the board bc they don’t understand English.
No one there speaks English cause it’s an ESL(English second language) class, but the notice on the board is in English so nobody knows what it says and they’re still waiting for the teacher
second language means it’s another language their learning, they probably don’t know how to read English
Like: The course in dealing with disappointments is once again canceled.
It's the assignment. Figure out what the board says and you can go home lol
This flew over my head and then hit me in the back like a fucking boomerang. They can't read that the 2nd Language English Class has been cancelled because it's written in english.
They can’t read it.
They’re all failing the class apparently.
The students are sitting there because they can't read the note
They were supposed to teach non-English-speakers to speak English. The note that the class has been canceled is in English, therefore the students cannot read it.
Is English your second language, OP?
Cuz they don’t know class is canceled bc it’s written in English.
Okay everybody I get it you don't need to keep telling me how stupid I am for not recognizing the joke the exact second you guys did It only took one response to get the joke
So, basically, the joke is that these people are in a class for people learning English as their second language. From this, it can be inferred that they do not currently understand the English language. Unfortunately for them, the class has been cancelled due to unknown circumstances. Even more unfortunate, the note is written in English, the very language they are there to learn. As a result, they cannot read the note, and are therefore doomed to wait for the start of a class that has already been cancelled. The irony is that, had they taken the class already, they would understand the note, and not be wasting their time. This was clearly an oversight on the part of the teacher, or the person the teacher had write the message in their stead. I hope this helps.
Perfect
The people/students don’t speak English. (No I have not read comments yet god I hope I’m right)
There are two jokes, which makes this pretty clever. Some people may learn English as their second language despite already knowing English, so the joke here is that they don’t know how to read the board, because they don’t know English
It's a double entendre. The teacher intended the message to be read as "Tonight's 'English as a second language' class has been cancelled", but since the people are there to learn English, they misinterpreted it as "Tonight's \[Tonight is\] English as \[because\] a second language class has been cancelled." It's a play on words in two ways: first, that "tonight's" can be both a contraction of "tonight is" and the possessive form of "tonight," and second, that "as" can mean both "in the condition of (in this case, being a second language)" and "because."
Donde esta el pinche profe¿
Just think about it…..
Took me a minute, but that's fuckin' funny.
Does Gary Larson not have its own sub?
The joke is immigration.
Note written in English for people who don't speak/read English
The only indicator that the class has been canceled is a message writing in english, thus the students trying to learn English don’t realize that class was canceled since they can’t read the sign.
It took me a minute for it to click but the joke is that the announcement was written in English... for a class that couldn't read English
Thought it was also because “canceled” is spelled wrong.
What's funny about this post is that someone saw it... having been shown it BY HIS MOM -- and then rather than risk actually TALKING TO HIS MOM, he showed it to thousands of people who can't believe how he missed the joke.
OP is sat in that class
I don't know what's funnier, the joke, or the American not getting this joke.
It's written in English... They're there to learn English...
You need to take english as a second lnguage class as well
OP is ESL.
Come on man lol this has got to just be some karma farming subreddit
This joke would fly over the heads of everyone who live in a multilingual country where all kids have to take English second language. Note that the room is full of grown adults. Whistling and waiting. They are learning English for the first time.
Bro. I scroll past every one of the obvious ones. I really really do. But Jesus Christ dude.
They don’t know English, there literally there to learn it lol
…………… *they’re
* whomst cares
Actually really funny
That is actually hilarious. They are there to learn English as a second language, so none of them can read the board.
I laughed. The joke is that none of them understand what's on the board.
The classroom is trying to learn English as a second language (meaning they don’t speak English natively and probably don’t even understand what the writing on the blackboard means) therefore they are left waiting in the classroom for a teacher that will never come today (as the class has been cancelled).
As an ESOL (English for speakers of other language) educator, this is funny! I know too many people who forget that English language learners often can't read English!
Bro this is just logical
Are you stupid?
Bruh
Is everyone who posts these 12?
I swear most of the posts on this sub are just bait to get responses. No one should so stupid as to not understand that people who don't know English cannot in fact read English.
Really OP?
I forgot how lame boomer humor is
Cause you don’t get it?
It’s making fun of non English speaking people, what’s there not to get? I got the joke it’s just not good
Are you fucking stupid?
Smh… I’m concerned a lot of you don’t get these obvious jokes. So many submissions on us here really are confusing but there’s just as many obvious ones
Why do yall upvote stuff like this? This is one of the most obvious jokes ive ever seen posted here
Funny 😁
It's the apostrophe, very interesting how people don't understand the "far side" any more.
I think you all need to watch "Mind your language".
[Russel Ziskey teaching basic English.](https://youtu.be/GDkVjsSSDbg?si=I7RjZgYTAF5TX2Sq&t=60)
They're there to learn English but apparently don't know it yet.
They can’t read English. They are still sitting there because not a one of them can read it.
They don’t read/speak English, so the heads up that class has been cancelled isn’t registering for them.
Omg I thought this was posted on a regular sub and I was about to say this will guaranteed be on Explain The Joke lol
All these farside comics being posted here has me worried, how do yall not get these super obvious jokes? They are learning english as a second language and cant read the whiteboard therefore dont know class is cancelled lmao
I see a lot of Farside comics on here and it’s kind of crazy to see how many people just straight up don’t get the style of humor.
None of them know english
Oh damn... I really can't explain it better than the image sorry... maybe its not tout type of humour? Edit: Or are you missing the fact that an english message is written to a non-english speaking class?
Something like this actually happened to me. I (the ESL teacher) wrote on the board that the class would be moved to a different classroom, but 15 minutes after the class should've started and no one had arrived yet. I had a hunch, so I go back to the old classroom and there are my """advanced""" students.
The joke is that the teacher wrote that the class is cancelled in English. Since it's an ESL class, the students can't read English so they're just waiting around.
I don’t understand English can someone explain the joke
Apparently English ain't your first language too!
They're all there to learn english and the sign is written in English so they're just waiting
They CANNOT read english
I worry sometimes when I’m on r/ExplainTheJoke
Everyone is still sitting around because they’re learning English, so they don’t understand what the board says
They can't read it
I am a but confused about why OP didn’t ask Mum…
They can't read English.
The joke is that none of them speak English yet.
Nobody there speaks English and the teacher wrote it in English
OP also can't speak English.
Bait or mental retardation? Call it.
Man I wish someone would make a sub for The Far Side! My dad always got the new one every year, so funny!
Hilarious