I was at my bank today waiting in a short line. There was just one lady in front of me, an Asian lady, who was trying to exchange yen for dollars. It was obvious she was a little irritated. She asked the teller, "Why it change? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla of yen. Today I only get hunat eighty? Why it change?" The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations." The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people too!"
Exchange Rate Irritation
Categories
Explanation
Experiment
Explain Bear
Listen up, buttercup. The joke is about an Asian lady who's mad that the exchange rate from yen to dollars went down. When the teller says "fluctuations" (which means the rate changes), she misunderstands it as "fluc you" and then adds "white people too!" It's funny because she's turning a financial term into an insult and bringing race into it for no reason. You probably don't know what an exchange rate is. Sad.