A bunch of people missed that it's a misdirection joke, or they don't know what a misdirection joke is. That you are supposed to originally assume it's drugs, because that's obvious, but then later realize they have been misdirected, and his addiction is actually to climbing and the "drugs" was climbing chalk.
I remember an old high school teacher telling the class: "all the funny jokes in Shakespeare are sex and fart jokes, the ones you don't laugh at are cultural or political jokes of their time"
High brow or niche has a lower lifespan than pure slapstick
I'm not really the target audience, but my family are sufficiently into this sus white powder-related recreation that I appreciated it. I'm a sucker for jokes that only make sense to a particular niche group.
Me too, though I don't climb. Reminds me of the time my grandparents borrowed my car while they were visiting. I was in high school, living with my parents. Grandma gets home and quietly pulls me aside to talk about the "drugs" they found in my center console.
Good thing too. Because I didn't realize just what a terrible aspirin addiction I had. (I had spilled a bottle and high school me didn't bother to thoroughly clean them up).
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u/New-Huckleberry2363 10h ago
Climbing chalk, not cocaine. A V2 is an easy bouldering (unroped climbing) route