Japanese cormorant Puns

The Japanese Cormorant is a seabird native to the pacific coastlines of East Asia, its habitat ranging from northern Taiwan over China’s eastern front up until Japanese mainland and the most southern costal fringes of Russian Siberia. Within Japan, the Bird is also referred to as “ウミウ”, pronounced as “Umiu” and meaning “Sea Cormorant”.

Much like most cormorant species, the Japanese Cormorant is characterised by its serpentine neck and predominantly black plumage, though sporting a mild gloss of green across its 130 centimetres of wingspan. Also much like its cousins, it features an elongated, slim bill that curves sharply into a hooked end. Sitting just behind this specialised bill, the Japanese Cormorant has emerald-green eyes and carries snow-white patches of dense plumage around its cheeks and sides. In case of a juvenile, these patches may reach as far down the neck shy off the bird’s chest.During breeding season, multiple striking visual changes become apparent. All around its head, the bird grows white, seemingly spiky down feathers, whilst its cheeks turn vibrantly orange. Furthermore, white, fuzzy spots appear down near the legs of the bird -- all of these changes highlighting the individual’s fertility, health and maturity.

Plumage aside, the Japanese cormorant is specialised in what is called “pursuit fishing”. It prefers to dive underwater and chase out its prey, which usually are decently small and mostly uncommercial fishes. Being in possession of an elongated body, webbed feet, and stiff tail feathers that work much like a rudder, [the cormorant would hastily swim into range of its meal, to then snatch out at it with its hooked bill](h

*adding two more books

Because why not? Remember, enjoyment is subjective; I may have hated your favorite book, and I may have loved your most hated book. Feel free to tell me why my opinion sucks, and if you have any recommendations similar to the books I loved, shoot! Going from worst to best:

Didn't like

The Black Farm - Pretty well-liked book, but didn't work for me. The writing felt extremely amateur and like emo wish-fulfillment: the women existed to be saved by our beast male character, and everything was just really stupid.

Zombie (Oates) - For being about a serial killer, this book was sure boring as fuck.

Heart-Shaped Box - DNF 50%. Felt cliche, the writing juvenille. I don't think Hill is a bad author - I fucking love Horns - I just thought this one was a miss.

The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell - Not a terrible short story collection, but certainly not great. Most of the stories are super short and super lackluster. To Breathe the Air is probably the longest story, and it's definitely the best; I enjoyed it a lot more than the rest. The rest are forgettable.

The Turtle Boy -  Forgettable horror novella. Wasn't terrible, but felt like it was missing something.

Widow's Point - Forgettable horror novella. Cool idea, didn't love the execution.

The Night Parade - I read 4 Malfi books this year, this one being the most recent, and this was the only one I disliked. I have little tolerance for idiot characters, and I found David to be a complete moron - his 8 year old daughter was waaaaaaay smarter than him, and they honestly should've died a bunch of times because of his incompetence, but main character plot armor. DNF'd at 50%.

Enjoyed

A Cosmology of Monsters - I enjoyed reading this book a lot, and there's a ton of great moments, but ultimately this book left a sour taste in my mouth. It takes a bad turn that feels like complete wish-fulfillment, and it paints abusive behavior in a good light.

Come Closer - A very readable possession story. Didn't hate anything about it, didn't love anything about it.

Fragments of Horror (manga) - Junji Ito is pretty hit or miss for me. This was an okay collection, nothing too terrible, nothing too great. Too much Women Scary as a theme for me though; Japanese culture can be hella weird (and the other Japanese book on this list only cements that more lol).

Amygdalatropolis - Had way too high expectations because of Yeager's newer work, Negative Space, but this

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.

Hey r/SubscriptionBoxes,

I'm Shawn, one of the co-founders of Mascot Monthly Mix. It's been exactly 1 year since we started sending out our Mixes from Japan, and a lot of our early subscribers came right from this sub! We wanted to thank the R/SubscriptionBoxes community for helping us get to where we are now, and for all the amazing feedback along the way. This sub is a fantastic resource for everyone, and we want to give back a little something in return! ☺️

With this in mind, we're doing a giveaway of one of our July MegaMixes and August MegaMixes, curated by the mascots Taimee of Mie Prefecture and Yahatainu of Yamanashi Prefecture, respectively.

Everyone is free to enter! All you have to do is comment with a fun fact about Japan. For example "the most famous mountain in Japan is Mount Fuji" or "liquid water has been found in Japan and scientists believe there might be enough to sustain human life". We will randomly select a winner for each Mix a week from now and DM them.

Tldr: give fun Japan fact, possibly get fun Japanese snack box

--update: thank you everyone for participating, and for your wonderful fun facts! The MMM team hopes you enjoyed reading them as much as we did :) We've randomly selected the winners and will be messaging them within the hour. Thank you again for doing this with us 😉--

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

Faction:

Ironblood

Class:

Converted Steiermark-class Auxiliary Cruiser

• Auxiliary cruisers function in a manner akin to a light cruiser in terms of displacement and armament, due to their ability to equip itself with light cruiser-type main guns, with secondary weapons ranging from additional Anti-Aircraft guns, to Torpedoes to Mines. In terms of stats however, the are largely poorer compared to ships specifically built for combat with other combatant ships.

Background:

Originally known as the merchant vessel Steiermark, Kormoran would be requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and converted into a merchant raider under the designation “Schiff 41.” With a gross registered tonnage (GRT) of 8,736t, she was the largest of the eleven merchant raiders utilized by the Kriegsmarine upon her commissioning on 9 October 1940. Breaking through to the Atlantic on 13 December, Kormoran, under Captain Theodor Detmers would embark on her raiding career, sinking a total of seven merchant ships (four of British origin, and three of Greek origin) and capturing a Canadian oil tanker (Canadolite) between 13 January and 12 April 1941 before proceeding into the Indian Ocean, where she would sink a further three merchant vessels, as well as mining various bays in Australia.

Kormoran’s biggest claim to fame would come on 19 November 1941, where she would engage in a one-on-one duel with Perth-class Light Cruiser HMAS Sydney roughly 106 nautical miles (196 km or 122 miles) off the coast of Dirk Hartog Island in Western Australia. During the battle, Sydney approached Kormoran too closely that it negated the light cruiser’s armor and gun range advantage, which contributed to the Kormoran sinking the light cruiser after a thirty-minute battle. But Kormoran suffered severe damage from the battle, and would be scuttled, with 82 dying during the battle and the remainder being PoWs for the remainder of World War II.

The battle garnered a great deal of controversy, with several post-war publications stating that Sydney’s loss was the result of an extensive cover-up, among which included Detmers not following the rules of engagement, by using illegal ruses to lure Sydney into range and massacring all of Sydney’s crew members, as well as the involvement of a Japanese submarine. (Despite Japan not declaring war on Australia until the following month, on 8 December) These claims were not substantiated however.

The wrec

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

I was reading https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a37706311/lee-pace-foundation-coats/ and was overjoyed to read this:

> Lee Pace and I have formed a sci-fi book club. His idea. Without anyone intending it, dinner at a Japanese restaurant in Brooklyn has turned into our club’s unofficial first meeting. There’s The Lord of the Rings and Dune, of course, which the actor has read more times than he remembers. He also sings the praises of his favorite writer, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the universe-rattling Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu. He pulls out his Kindle to show me the Bobiverse series, which he’s currently reading, and to download a couple books I suggest (Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice and Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire). I have no doubt he’ll read them immediately... Pace strikes me as not just a fan but a scholar of sci-fi.

There is perhaps no work more relevant to the adaptation of Foundation than A Memory Called Empire (Amazon link), which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel last year. And if you're a fan of the show and of written sci-fi, you should absolutely read it too.

Like Foundation, Memory revolves around the spacefaring history-steeped Teixcalaan empire that seems (but perhaps only seems?) infinite and indomitable, and revolves around that core question of empire: how can a leader project their influence and consciousness across future generations? And should a leader project their influence and consciousness across future generations?

Into this world comes a plucky Gaal-esque ambassador from a newly-annexed space-station culture, one that has developed a secret and groundbreaking technology (no spoilers, this is from the very first pages): a neurological implant that allows a person to see the memories of, and consult with, the predecessors for their job or role. No doubt this would be gamechanging in the context of Foundation's Empire, and in Memory the myriad consequences, intrigues, and culture shocks of the worldviews of these colliding civilizations are explored with vivid detail, massive worldbuilding, and incredibly empathic writing.

Of course, nothing is quite as it seems. What happens when the barrier between oneself and one's predecessors starts to break down? Is an individual truly an individual? It should go without saying that Lee Pace is perhaps the single best person to read a book like this in the entire world.

Foundation's adaptation is a bel

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

Christopher Walken

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "