Stoic Pronunciation Joke

>walking home at night >pass a group of youths >one of them tells me I dropped my gay card >I look down for it and realise I've been the victim of a practical joke >I am unmoved, I tell the youth that his provocations are futile because I am a stoic >he bursts out laughing and says it's pronounced stow-ic, not stoike >break down and cry in the street

A greentext narrator claims to be emotionally unmoved and stoic after being tricked, but the youths mock his pronunciation of “stoic,” causing him to break down crying. The joke relies on an exaggerated misunderstanding of the word’s pronunciation and the narrator’s supposed stoicism. EN: A greentext narrator claims to be emotionally unmoved and stoic after being tricked, but the youths mock his pronunciation of “stoic,” causing him to break down crying. The joke relies on an exaggerated misunderstanding of the word’s pronunciation and the narrator’s supposed stoicism.

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