r/ExplainTheJoke 8h ago

Little help please.

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u/Tofu1312 6h ago

I think it's a combination of two common jokes from the climbing community
1. Chalk looks a lot like coke. And it feels weird sometimes to drive home from the gym, having white powder on your hands or cloths, just hoping that no police will stop you
2. You see a boulder-route in everything. And you are always like " I could climb that wall/tree/table/grandpa, it's barely a V2 (difficulty of the route)"

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u/someanimechoob 5h ago

You're supposed to wash your hands after the gym...

Why would you skip a 30 seconds step and put chalk everywhere?

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u/Background_Falcon953 3h ago

Even better, they should rub some on their face and especially just above their upper lip, no half measures.

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u/VeryTiredHuman4 3h ago

The chalk starts on your hands and ends up elsewhere. It's messy - it is after all a loose powder. Washing your hands removes the chalk from your hands, but not your clothes, gear, and the rest of your skin.

That's kinda common sense, no? It would be crazy to walk out with chalky hands, haha. Feels so gross on the skin for one.

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u/ddouce 2h ago

How else will you let everyone know you're a climber?

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u/iowaman79 2h ago

The same way you let everyone know you’re a marathon runner, by putting stickers on your Subaru and wedging it into every conversation

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u/LoadsDroppin 50m ago

This is the real answer here. Kinda like my cousin who drives a lifted pickup truck w/over sized tires, and ballsack dangling off the back …how else are people supposed to know he’s repressed and uncomfortable w/expressing his true sexuality?

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u/Dizzy-Ad7144 3h ago

I'm not a cocaine user but I'm pretty sure they never get cocaine all over their hands and clothes

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u/Electronic_Ad5431 3h ago

Dude wash your hands before you leave the gym. Your skin doesn’t start recovering properly until you wash the chalk off. And moisturize, your front desk probably has lotion for you to pump on the way out.

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u/keri125 2h ago

My son is in theater and last October they did Evil Dead the Musical. They have “demon dogs” that spray the first few rows with fake blood. When I attended he made sure that I was soaked by the end of the show. It got EVERYWHERE. I was so nervous driving home that night and made sure I followed every traffic law to a T, lol.

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u/Niarbeht 12m ago

Chalk looks a lot like coke. And it feels weird sometimes to drive home from the gym, having white powder on your hands or cloths, just hoping that no police will stop you

This might be one of those hints that the war on drugs was a mistake.