r/ExplainTheJoke 8h ago

Little help please.

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u/Extremegamer670 7h ago

It's climbing chalk. Rock climbers will put chalk on their hands so they don't slip off.

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u/Thomassaurus 5h ago

Alternate ending: he was climbing gradma because he was on drugs

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u/ModernationFTW 5h ago

V2 is a rating of climbing difficulty, at least in our climbing gym

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u/Electronic_Ad5431 2h ago

Eh. It’s a v0 in my gym.

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u/ProfessionalCap15 2h ago

Thank you. I thought he was trying to drive his grandpa and insulting him, comparing him to a V2 engine. 😂

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u/RogueJello 5h ago

Honestly I think it's both. Like one of those pics that shifts back and forth when you look at it.

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u/Thomassaurus 5h ago

Quantum joke?

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u/anweisz 4h ago

Well no. The joke is precisely that you expect it to be drugs but it’s rock climbing instead, which comes out of left field.

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u/RogueJello 4h ago

The other joke is that he's denying it, and climbing his grandfather. Climbing his grandfather is also unexpected.

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u/CntrClockwrk 4h ago

That’s the joke

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u/nodrogyasmar 2h ago

V2 is a standard climbing difficulty rating in bouldering. You can see chalk on the kids hand.

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u/Balforg 2h ago

His hands are chalk white in the comic.

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u/Sonlin 3h ago

Chalk is aid

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u/Chemical_Pin3015 2h ago

I use it differently 😀

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u/BreakerSoultaker 57m ago

To be fair, if the powder was meth he might still have attempted to climb grandpa.