• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I think the joke would make more sense if the guy picked up the newspaper, unfolded it to see the entire front page, and then put it back and never bought it, day after day. The seller would still get mad because the guy never buys it, he only looks at the front page headline.

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      1 month ago

      Maybe in Soviet era Russia, it is implied that you must purchase the newspaper before you unfold it?

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        1 month ago

        In Soviet Russia, the newspaper unfolds YOU.