Annapolis Royal Puns

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I'm heading out near Annapolis Royal for a little getaway and looking to get a ride in.

How are the rails to trails in the area? Smooth? Suitable for road bike?

Any must-ride segments or routes? Any good hills to murder myself on and remind myself that I'm 10+ lbs heavier than I should be? I can probably squeeze in 60-120km without getting in too much trouble.

Any good cafes, bakeries, poor breweries to stop at to make sure I don't lose the aforementioned 10+ lbs?

Hi folks — I'm in Bridgetown, near Annapolis Royal and Wolfville, for the holidays and would love to get some film developed. I checked the Walmart in Greenwood but they don't do film, apparently. Any ideas?

Hello Haligonians,

I need to get to Annapolis Royal for an event Friday night after work. I honestly underestimated the lack of public transit in the Maritimes. I am unable to rent a car, but am willing to shell out a decent amount of cash to manage it. I need some local opinions on what the honest best option is here.

Anyone know of a later (i.e. 7 30 PM) shuttle option? Do I basically have to take a cab? Is there ANY bus or service that operates from halifax to this area in the evening?

These are from District Cannabis; hope this helps somebody out.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Hope you enjoy! I’ve tried to explain most things, and I’ve tried to give rank equivalents in U.S. O- or E- grades for ease of understanding rather than NATO rank.

Setting the scene:

So there I was, (no shit), dressed in field DPM (disruptive pattern material, aka Camo) with a massive bergan (issue rucksack) standing in a frozen field on the moors in February at zero dark early, staring at a map and desperately willing it to make some fucking sense.

My feeble head-torch was looking at the squiggly lines and the surrounding humps of black hills on black fields, with black water running somewhere nearby in the shadowed landscape. I looked around again, as though that would suddenly help it click in my head where the hell we were, and realised that as my team chatted amongst themselves, I was the incompetent junior officer we all joke about who couldn’t read a map properly.

Well fuck.

My First Independent “Command”

There were (fortunately), several factors in my defence. Unfortunately, this didn’t make it any less of a disaster.

My particular brand of muppetry could be explained by the fact that I was:

• A very junior officer in the Royal Navy, and had no business being on land, let alone in uniform with shades of green on it.
• Completely untrained in land navigation, being used to naval charts and calculating wind and tide rather than elevation and map-to-ground.
• In an area I had never been before, with 6 hours notice, in the dark.
• (As it later transpired) 3 miles from where we were supposed to have been dropped off.

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How did I get here?!

Rewinding just a little more, we find our intrepid 18 year old Midshipman (O-1) busy working on an assignment, safely in his cabin at BRNC Dartmouth. (The UK version of Annapolis, but RN Officer cadets are only there for 6-12 months depending on branch).

A knock comes at the door, and as it opens, with our hero’s divisional officer (Lt, O-3) and his division chief (CPO, E-7) standing there, holding a clipboard.

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OP: Jumps to Attention “Good Evening Sir!”

DO: “Evening Midshipman OP. Relax, sit down”

OP: “Thank you Sir, how can I help?”

DC: Grins “We have a task for you Mid OP”

DO: Barely looking up from clipboard, clearly distracted “Hm? Yes… we have a joint exercise taking place on the moors shortly, and we are expected to send some bodies. I can see you are not on duty for the next few

Museum ships are a bit easier to look up and so are memorials, but artifacts and exhibits are a bit harder to look up. For example, I didn't know about Hood's bell or Prinz Eugen's propeller until late last year, so I'm counting on your help to help make the list as complete as possible. My only requirement is that you include he link to an official site as part of the submission (Wikipedia submissions and links to other Reddit posts are not automatically rejected but they need an official source).

Here's what we have so far...

Museum Ships

• Belfast – Pool of London, England

• Mikasa – Mikasa Park, Yokosuka, Kanagawa

• North Carolina – Wilmington, NC

• New Jersey – Camden, NJ

• Massachusetts – Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA

• Intrepid – Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Manhattan, New York City

• Avrora – Saint Petersburg – credit to /u/TimesJay and /u/LimeNarrow2702

• Alabama – Mobile Bay, AL

• Cavalla – American Undersea Warfare Center, Galveston, TX

• An Shan – PLA Navy Museum, Qingdao, Shandong – credit to /u/TimesJay

Memorials

• Arizona – USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Pearl Harbor, HI

• Gangut (Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya) – Anchor Square, Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg – credit to /u/LimeNarrow2702

• Mutsu – Mutsu Memorial Museum, Suooshima, Yamaguchi – credit to /u/LimeNarrow2702

• Takao – Memorial at Goō Shrine, Okauencho, Kyoto – credit to /u/Rezics

• Kirov – Kirov Memorial, Baltic Fleet Square, Vasilyevsky Island, Saint Petersburg – credit to /u/Alesby

• San Diego – USS San Diego Memorial, Tuna Harbor Park, Embarcadero, San Diego, CA – credit to /u/Kitchen_Haunting

• [National Destroyer Me

Hello apes,

Now time for the serious posts.

I love tinfoil theories. I got one date right, let's see if I’m going to be right about March.

Shoutaht u/Badasstrader. Stole my post name you beautiful bastard. I’m reclaiming my time here, BA.

Regardless if it happens in the next week before the end of the year, you all should be mighty excited.

The company is almost completely rebuilt from the ground up and will have something great coming soon. Almost like how a sports team needs a rebuilding year to catapult it to a championship, I feel that was what 2021 was for GameStop. There was that initial sneeze in January, but thank goodness that that pride doth cometh before the fall and SHF have no sense of restraint when it comes to shorting.

The MOASS will happen, but this company needed some time to effectuate its changes first, apes. That is what great companies do and that is how great investors work; they look at the pieces and team that a company is assembling and make their judgment on whether or not to invest according to what the company is doing to win.

Book your tickets apes. No stowaways on a rocket heading to the 420th dimension. DRS is still da wae.

I love you apes. Merry Christmas, peace and goodwill to all of you!

Disclaimer: yadadada not financial advice, This is also but one apes interpretation of history, Please please if you find it welcome, leave a comment telling me where I can expand on something or maybe you could share your own expertise on a particular subject. Crowdsourcing information is the best.

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Now time to REWIND to move forward.

Welcome to decentralization baby.

Hell what is Centralization?

Here’s some definitions before we get started so there is no confusion.

Decentralization: To distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area.

Centralization: to concentrate by placing power and authority in a center or central organization.

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Christopher Columbus set out for an expedition to find a trade route to China on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria in 1492 and “discovered” the New World by accident. He was sent and financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to find a route overseas to open trade with China. The Spainards also wanted to

Hey again /r/mls I'm back with part four of the state soccer teams. For those of you seeing this for the first time, I began a project last summer where in a made-up universe, each U.S. state (commonwealth for the people in KY, MA, PA, and VA) had their own state soccer team. I have done Part I revised a few weeks ago, and now I am on to part four!

To get read-up on everything, check out Part 1.

#Previous Threads Part 1 (AL-CA) | Part 2 (CO-GA) | Part 3 (HI-IA) | Part 4 (KS-MO)

#Kansas

• Home Stadium: Children's Mercy Park, Kansas City (Capacity: 18,500)
• Notable players: Nick Besler, Dániel Sallói, and Tyler Freeman
• Likely CONCACAF equivalent: Trinidad and Tobago
• Rivals: Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado

I've lived in Maryland since late 2000 and we plan on moving in late 2023. I believe I have experienced a lot of things here but I wanted to know what are some experiences that I should check out before we move away?

Here are some examples to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

• iFLY (indoor skydiving in Baltimore)
• Western Maryland Scenic Railroad (Polar Express & NYE Murder Mystery)
• Go Ape
• Murder Mystery dinner at Ikaros Greek restaurant
• Various different escape rooms
• Riverboat cruise & Dinner on Spirit Of Baltimore
• Various different concerts (Metallica at M&T for instance)
• Various different comedy clubs (e.g. Rams Head live)
• Various different brewery tours w/drunk bus transportation
• Seen a number of plays put on by the Annapolis Children's Theater
• River tubing at various locations
• Zip lining (technically Virginia with Canopy Tours)
• All the nearby amusement parks (Six Flags, King's Dominion, Hershey, Dorney, Knoebels, etc.)
• Arcades/Bowling (e.g. Dave & Busters, Mustang Alley, etc.)
• Taken cooking classes (e.g. deep dish pizza w/Pizzeria Uno)
• Taken cruises from Baltimore & Norfolk (Carnival & Royal)
• Various different festivals (mostly beer/music festivals)
• Maryland Renaissance Festival (Rennfest)
• Medieval Times
• Magic shows (e.g. Willard & Wood)
• Various holiday light drive through (e.g. Symphony Of Lights)
• Lots of different restaurant/food experiences
• Van Gogh immersive experience (in NYC but it's also in D.C.)
• Artechouse (in NYC but it's also in D.C.)
• Planetarium at the Robinson Nature Center
• Homestead Gardens at Christmas time
• Sandy Point (never been to Eastern Shore)
• Sporting events (e.g. got to see MJ play with the Wizards)
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Massanutten Resort
• Sleepovers at the Smithsonian
• Various different museums, memorials, etc.

I'm sure there are a lot more things we did when our children were younger (14 & 16 now)

I'm sure there's more that I am missing - wasn't trying to make an exhaustive list so much as keep someone from wasting their time making a recommendation that we had already done.

So - what else should I check out before we move away?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.