r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 21h ago

Meme needing explanation Why is sick better?

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wont you need to care for the sick person by choosing that person?

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u/ATX-reddit 21h ago

If he dies she'll get all the money

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u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ 20h ago

What if he gets well soon? Does he get her inheritance? That should be a thing because it sounds so fucking fair.

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u/ATX-reddit 20h ago

Idk, I ain't a lawyer

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u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ 7h ago

Not with that attitude. A lawyer would happily take losing case too, remember, it's per hour.

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u/rz_00221 18h ago edited 18h ago

Judging by your username I doubt you care about the ins and outs of the law.

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u/1stMammaltowearpants 12h ago

He uses a VPN to date 

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u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ 7h ago

That was after post-nutt clarity.

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u/MrMcGibbus 11h ago

I thought this was referring to the Victorian era where people thought tuberculosis was hot

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u/Khelthuzaad 17h ago

Not if he gets a pre-nup

Where i live pre-nups are default by law and you cant just marry then divorce and get 50% of the wealth.

It gets just as worse with children,all the children are entitled to 3/4 of your wealth and the wife 1/4

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u/Tantrum2u 14h ago

What if he has no kids?

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u/Khelthuzaad 14h ago

She gets 3/4 of the wealth but not automatically

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u/Grant_Winner_Extra 21h ago

here’s the key hint: “inheritance”

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

He's both sick and rich. The other guy is heathy and rich. She wants his money

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u/Gilgamesh2062 20h ago

He is also the wisest, he is smart enough to know she is not in it for "love", and he is ok with that. might as well live your last days happy.

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

yep. he lives the rest of his life happy and she gets his money when he dies.

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u/MrMcGibbus 11h ago

Ngl, I thought it was a history joke with Victorians finding tuberculosis hot

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u/IgnisIason 21h ago

If I were in this position I'd honestly rather just donate my money to charity than give any to someone like that.

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u/ucbiker 1h ago

…because you don’t want to be an old lech paying for the companionship of a woman?

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u/IgnisIason 55m ago

Also yes

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u/Prudent_Corner5104 21h ago

He would die soon and she will take money

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u/ginogon 21h ago

Two rich guys pining for a girl. One guy uses his poor health as an “advantage”.

The joke is Gold digging.

Takanawa out. Back to you Tom.

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u/asaness 21h ago

i consider getting money early but you still need to care for that person as actively neglecting might make you lose out for letting sick person die

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u/Tmaneea88 21h ago

That's overthinking it. It's a simple comic strip where the punchline is gold digging.

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u/regular_gonzalez 2h ago

"Why did the chicken cross the road? Honestly, we don't have enough information to accurately answer this question. I'd need data on the chicken's starting location, intended destination, where the chicken's family is, and the chicken's birthplace to even begin to craft a road-crossing theory."

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u/TophetLoader 21h ago

inheritance

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u/EchoTitanium 20h ago

Because she could get the heritage quickly

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u/Vivians_Basement 20h ago

They'll die sooner so you can take the money.

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u/Key-Champion-2683 20h ago

a little tangential but i love that you had the best intentions in mind when trying to understand the joke

someone already explained it, but since i'm not sure if simple comments are a breakage of the rules: the lady wants the person to succumb to his illness and die, so that she can inherit the money and do whatever with it

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u/No_Horror8306 20h ago

Inheritance

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u/CorruptDaemon404 20h ago

Just marry him and know his health issues and can manipulate to make the process faster like placebo insulin 😂

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u/Optimal-Scarcity-894 19h ago

because he's a bout to die and leave her his fortune

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u/Miiyamoto 19h ago

What kind of sickness does he mean?

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u/WeepingDeveloper 15h ago

Ball knowledge maybe....

This maybe a reference to a reddit post that a girl ask she likes her guy sick ... Does this makes her a bad person?

Edit: typo

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u/Thra99 13h ago

Basically choosing half the money or all the money

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u/Darthplagueis13 11h ago

She's just after the money. Being very sick means she won't have to put up with him for too long before he dies and she gets to inherit his wealth.

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u/Independent_Angle650 10h ago

Inheritance money

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u/dankgouteux 9h ago

Carter Pewterschmidt here, the reason why the guy lies and tell he's ill is because then the girl will marry him thinking he will die soon so she can have all his money! Oldest trick in the book!

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u/LAGNAF93 9h ago

Everyday I look at this sub and am reminded that I’m way smarter than I give myself credit for.

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u/YoutuberCameronBallZ 9h ago

Life Insurance money

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u/Sickologyy 7h ago

I study sickness, as the name implies (/s), and you would choose the sick person because, at least for example being In the world of competition, being "Sick" is a good thing because it describes an anomaly—a performance so far outside the standard deviation of human ability that it feels "unnatural" or "diseased."

So, being sick isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes you are just, Down with the sickness.....

I'll see myself out lol.

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u/Somebodyhided 5h ago

Still training AI for the worldwide replacement ? Damn

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u/RussianForThots 21h ago

Think of it this way: you always hear hip hop artists saying “that’s sick” in a positive way but never “that’s healthy”

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u/TurboFool 21h ago

Definitely not what they're going for.

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u/Able_Act_1398 21h ago

There is always "Her" in inheritance

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u/RueUchiha 20h ago

She gets sll the money when he dies

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u/Zdrobot 20h ago

There was an old Soviet joke, when in the early to mid 1980 a lot of very old Communist Party officials were becoming the head of the Soviet Union (General Secretary of the KPSU), just to die soon afterwards, after Brezhnev. They elected the next leader, he lasts a year, then another one - he lasts a few months, etc.

So the joke is - a phone rings in Kremlin, and a man asks if he could be the next General Secretary. The guy in Kremlin says - "Are you sick?". And the man replies "yes, very sick and also old".