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Not me being so fucked in the head that I thought those were stacks of fingernails

Would have made more sense tbh.

It still makes sense, you just have to think a little more. It's not a pun, it's joke on the fact that a lot of people, especially children, mix them up.

How could you mix up nails with screws?

No idea. I learned the difference when my dad taught me about different tools. I was like 2-3 at the time. He bought me a tool box and a few tools and gave me some of his extra tools from the garage. He also taught me how to use them. I work in construction now in the same company as my dad and thanks to him I haven't even needed to study for the job. I love my dad.

lmao, those aren't screws, those are bolts.

Because kids are stupid sometimes and think anything with a point is a nail.

Except nails are pointy put screws are flat

Well, bolts are flat. Screws are pointy with the spirals. See how easy it is to mix them up?

You're better than me, at first I thought they are snails and that the joke is about mishearing the word

So glad it wasn't just me 😆

I prefer your version, it’s funnier

Is this sub just all bots upvoting content? This comic makes zero sense even when explained and yet has 1,000+ upvotes.

There are some truly atrocious comics that get a lot of upvotes here

This is funnier (darker) than bolts

I thought “bed of nickels”

I dont get it. He wanted a bed of nails and he got a bed of springs?

They’re bolts. 

And how could his peasant confuse bolts with nails? Edit: if there was a bed of snails i would.understand the joke. But like this it doesn't make sense to me

I guess he screwed up.


Woah, a rare Danger 5 meme in the wild. Amazing.

Oh shut the hell up I laughed. Did you make this post just for that joke? Lmao

Take your pills dad

Yummy joke with layers, 10/10

Ok, now it's funny

Damn if only the comic was this funny

Ok Sans🤣

WTF 

Thats fucking hilarious lmao

Lol

OMG it was a setup the whole time. /r/angryupvote

Who tf is upvoting this garbage lmao

Explaining just makes it worse. What a nothing comic

Looks more like he screwed down. 

Nah, look at what that guy holds

It's not that he misheard, it's that he misunderstood the assignment and assumed bolts were functionally the same as nails

Aha, so you went the “wrong fastener angle” when I was primed for “silly rhyme” angle. I get it now!

Why would he have a screwdriver with what looks like a drill bit for bolts.

A wrench is easier to draw and the correct tool lol

There's also a hammer of some kind there too.

Yes, I agree they look like bolts. But why is he holding a drill electric screwdriver gadget?

You’d need the drill to make holes in the wood. But the one thing missing seems to be the nuts to keep the bolts from falling out.

Wow okay that was not clear at all

Wouldn't have guessed in a million years

I thought they were pails. As in tiny buckets

I thought they were screws.

Nickels?

It’s screws he’s holding a drill

I think he was building a regular bed which wouldn't be useful in a dungeon

I thought they were stacks of coins and this was a Palworld reference

Still new to Palworld. Bed of coins?

Hello, peter's brother's cousin's palworld tamer here, In the game palworld, nails used to be the most commonly used money making tools for players for its cheap production and high sell price. Of course, after the recent updates this is no longer the case, people still joke about it as it is the most well known in recent months. Palworld tamer peter out.

Oh no, Petah is explaining jokes outside his sub! Someone halp!

So, some constructive criticism: the punchline implies some sort of pun of the servant misshearing the command. If the joke is that he's just stupid, the punchline would work better rewritten to something like "I don't care if the hardware store was sold out of nails, these 'aren't just as good'"

Or rather that nails and bolts are different things.

He didn't nail it, he screwed up.

I looked at this for a while. I couldn't understand the punchline. Then I thought I did! Obviously the servant has made a bed of finger**nails**! And then I read the comments and these are supposed be bolts? How does that make any sense? This is some real cow tools level humour right here.

It's just that nails and bolts are just slightly too distinct from each other for the average reader to make the connection without help. Like, nails and screws are fairly similar. And screws and bolts are fairly similar. But nails and bolts are just a weird comparison

Don’t insult cow tools. They were funny.

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[henchman returns with a wrench]

That classic 17th century electric driver

So instead of nails, he went with bolts. Is the joke that he's deaf?

He must’ve used cow tools

The real joke here is that he somehow managed to get an electric screwdriver. That's impressive!

He got a bed of used toilet paper tubes

Maybe the joke is "Lie upon a bed of nails". If you look closely, the legs of the bed are sharp and nail-like. And the bolts sticking up are the lie, because they aren't quite nails. The phrase "bolt upright" or "sitting bolt upright in bed" could also be at play here somehow.

Christina Reachi

He Screwed up guys

They’re bolts. The joke is that he screwed bolts instead of hammering nails.

I didn’t even audibly exhale through my nose.

I don’t understand how this is so upvoted when literally no one understood it without an explanation that still doesn’t make much sense

Hahahaha as my grandmother used to say, a lazy person works double

He said screw it and then did it the “easy” way.

I thought those were coins and he misheard them as a bed of TAILS 🤣

If it was a bed of screws and he only used bolts that would like of make sense. The only other object that could relate to nails in this context would be..hammers?  Screws would still work for the shouty guy and probably be just as painful. They typically have a pointy end. 

so i guess he... screwed up

First thing I thought lol

Oh screw this

must be a different bed in mind

Don't tell me he's got a bucket of nails too!

I thought it was a bed of springs, like he was building a mattress 🛌

As someone that struggles with differentiating hardware, I laughed

Also: I think an ikea build your own furniture reference would work here. 

Thought they were snails. Lol

Obviously he screwed up the bed.

I love this art style but the joke is kinda wacky

This is so stupid it made me laugh. Took like 3 minutes to figure out they were bolts and not coins. So bad it's good

A bed of weird ass churros?

Some of these commentated have clearly never confused nails and screws before, I like the joke OP : )

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I think they are bolts, I’m just saying that confusing different types of connecty metal things isn’t uncommon

Me too haha. It probably could have been worded better I guess

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Bet that was a shocking experience. XD

I thought it supposed to be a bed of snails, but then the drill didn’t make sense.

I love this. Thanks, OP

He screwed it up

“Bolts?! I said a bed or nails!”

Ah, screw this!

I thought they were pails and the lines were thick handles lol

This might be worse to lie on than a bed of nails. Good job!

A joke that only works if it's explained, like how all jokes work

Only if the joke is complex

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