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So my father just told me this from his chat in Wechat.

There was a stingy, cheap guy. He had some cold medicine. One day, he got a cold. He took a bath in cold water, and the other people were like, "Why don't you use your medicine? What the heck are you even doing?" And he replied, "I didn't want to use the cold medicine because it's almost expired, so I'm bathing in cold water."

Now that I read it and think about it, it's not that funny. :/

...what?

I guess that guy got the cold shoulder later on.

Pun

He gave his cold medicine the cold shoulder.

Chilling behavior of him, truly.

That was a shitty pun. The other thing was not even a pun. The man didn't ever get "the cold shoulder" from anything or anyone and it wasn't implied either. There was no play on words/phrase at all. Did I miss your "hey guys I'm mentally handicapped" post? I think I missed that thread because it seems to me that you don't know how common phrases and puns work at all.

Edit:: The definition of a pun.

Lol. Bitch, you should know by now that my puns are not MEANT to be good. That's what makes me the punlord, my incredibly bad and cringy puns. If you can't pay attention to what the fuck you're talking about then don't post. Peasant.

but they aren't bad puns. they aren't puns at all is what I'm saying. You are literally just posting shit and saying it's a terrible pun but it's not even that. If they were bad puns it'd be alright but for now it just makes you legit look retarded and like you don't know how to form sentences.

Drawing upon a single word and then using that word in a different context and calling it a pun is simply lying. It's not a pun. They have rarely ever been puns. They aren't bad or terrible or shitty puns they aren't anything at all they're just incoherent messages that mean nothing and say nothing.

Make bad puns. All day if you want. But make sure they're actually puns and not just retarded drivel.

Sheesh, you try to pass off one non-pun as a pun and haters pop up like roaches.

But it's not just one non-pun all of your "puns" aren't puns.

True but that was the only "pun" that was a non pun that i've told.

Ha. The point was that the medicine was almost expired. Typically, when something is almost expired, you want to use it up quickly. However, this guy was cheap and didn't want to use it even though it was almost expired.

Is it depressing that I know people who would pull this in real life?

So not only is this is a shit joke, it's not even that he didn't want to use the cold medicine because it's almost expired, it's that he didn't want to use the cold medicine because he's cheap, you inbred fuckwit.

It was funny when I first saw it, meanie. >:( I'm horrible with relating jokes, so I apologize for any offense I've caused.

Yeah, I suppose you're just super unfunny and don't understand humor.

Maybe I'm just blind, but I can't see what's funny here. Could someone inlighten me?

Ah, I see what you did there. 

Something about medicine. 

He thinks that the cold medicine works because it's cold medicine, in the physical sense. So he figures taking a cold bath would work the same as the medicine, because it is literally cold. Or it could be interpretted the other way around, and he's taking a cold bath for his cold, figuring it's called a cold bath for the same reason that it's called cold medicine. (I.E. that it is a bath made for colds.)

Either way, the joke is that the miser is cheap and decides to save money because he assumes it'll have a similar cold-alleviating effect to the medicine because they both have 'cold' as a descriptor, which can be taken to mean different things. HAHA, English!

Haha, synonyms! So new, so funny! We totally didn't learn about that in 4th grade.

My mother used to make me and my sister drink medicine when we were younger. Then she'd tell us to say that it tasted good. It never did. To this day, I cannot tolerate the taste of anything grape flavored.