I'm 39 next month. When I was at school, bad things were called gay and there was a good half a dozen names to call people that al meant gay. The English kid in school was a posh **** that spoke wrong, in fact he was eventually nicknamed Braveheart, the Irish were all in the IRA, choice phrases were used to describe the place you get your sweet and sour chicken from, and the guy who owned the corner shop, who of course was Banglidesh, not Pakistan, pink was for girls and
When I was at school, I didn't know how to drive, nor what a camshaft was, nor how to change an exhaust. I didn't know how to use an internet forum, and I thought you had to move our finger in a circular motion to dial a phone number. I couldn't make pizza, or fix my lawn mower, I didn't have a clue what to do with a baby. I've learnt all of these things since, just like I've learnt to not use language that belittles entire groups of people. It really isn't that hard.
As a very simply start, if someone is struggling, you'll get a long way by applying 1 question and be done with it, especially as most of us here are white males.
Does this joke mention a group of people I don't belong to?