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[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think it's like, "You get what you pay for." but I'm not really sure either.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It's a classic simple joke probably decades old, but the humor is in the implication they want a bigger portion of something bad. Edit: ah it seems to be from the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4151-there-s-an-old-joke---um-two-elderly-women-are

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Ah I get it now. I think it’s a joke that’s more obvious if you’ve never been poor. I suppose quality and quantity are not necessarily connected in the same way for everyone.

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