Modern

Modern jokes

Expedition

  • For centuries, Japan’s feudal dictators, called Shoguns, enforced strict laws that kept people from leaving or entering the country. This practice isolated Japan from the rest of the world. By the middle of the 19th century, Japan’s isolationism was creating problems for the United States’ whaling industry whose ships needed coal, food, and water available in Japanese ports. And sailors who were shipwrecked on the coast of Japan needed protection from mistreatment.

    In November 1852, President Millard Fillmore sent an expedition to Japan to solve these problems. Led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the expedition had both steam-powered and sail-powered warships and several hundred men. Perry’s task was to persuade the Japanese to sign a treaty with the United States that would open Japanese ports and protect shipwrecked sailors. On July 8, 1853, the Perry expedition sailed into Edo Bay about thirty miles from the city of Edo (modern Tokyo).

    During talks with the Shogun’s representatives, the idea of a treaty was repeatedly rejected. But Perry didn’t give up. Finally, in February 1854, the Japanese agreed to negotiate a treaty. The Treaty of Kanagawa established peace between the two countries, opened two ports to U.S. shipping, and protected shipwrecked sailors. It was signed on March 31, 1854.

    Perry’s expedition also opened Japan to the rest of the world. Within two years, Japan signed similar treaties with Russia, Holland, and Britain.

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  • Family

  • Simpsons.

    Meet the Simpsons.

    They're the greatest modern family.

    From the town of Springfield.

    They're a page right out of history.

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  • Technology

  • Using modern day technology you can produce music with a Tesla coil. I don't know if you heard it, but it is quite shocking and even electrifying. I can't tell if it is metal or techno, but it is more valuable than joules. It really amps up your blood pressure and has you saying watt the whole time. It is way better than current music.

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  • Social change

  • Women: “Men used to go to war, now they go to clubs.”

    Men: “Women used to fear their nudes getting leaked, now it’s $3.99.”

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  • Doctor

  • Doctors in the Middle Ages, Plague doctor: "I must have some herbs to block out bad air."

    Doctors now: "God, WTF were we doing back then?"

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  • Age

  • In this modern age, I feel as though it's inappropriate to make jokes about herbs and fish.

    It's not the thyme or the plaice for it.

    Woman

  • Men built civilisations. Men went to the moon. Men invented the modern comforts of today’s society.

    Women did none of those. They are useless, only fit to be baby making machines.

    Hell

  • Do you know what the equivalent to hell is these days?

    1. Listening to your teacher.

    2. Not having your phone/game/TV.

    3. Not having nicotine.

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  • Parking spot

  • Trying to find a good parking spot is a lot like trying to find a girlfriend.

    If you can’t find one, you stick it in the disabled spot and hope nobody finds out.

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  • Lady

  • The way ladies cheat nowadays is very alarming.

    She might give birth to twins, but each twin having a different father. 😭

    Marijuana

  • Jack and Jill went up the hill to smoke some marijuana. Jack got high and grabbed Jill's thigh and said, "You know you wanna." Jill said, "Yes," and lifted up her dress. Then they had some fun, but silly Jill forgot her pill, and now they have a son.

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  • Generation

  • The humor of this generation of kids shouldn't be called 'brain rot'; it should be called 'brain rape.' I believe most people of this generation that aren't 5-year-olds could agree with me, but my mind and thoughts have been violated by the things that kids these days find funny and entertaining. #SKIBIDDI

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  • Feminist

  • How many feminists does it take to fix a lightbulb?

    9: one to screw the lightbulb, one to film it, one to post about it on a women empowerment social media page, one to complain that the man didn’t screw the lightbulb, one to say that women deserve to screw more lightbulbs, one to try to get #womenlightbulbscrewers trending on Twitter, one to bring a man and show him the screwing, one to say that women are better than men at screwing lightbulbs, and one to make a speech about the lightbulb.

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  • Community talk

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