Robin led us through the crowds with a practiced ease, entirely at home in the dense swarm of people. He seemed to possess a sort of urban charisma, the crowds parting around him even though we were walking a fair bit slower than the average speed.
"To begin I'm taking you to the perimeter wall, which might explain some of how this all started," he said, as we made our way past row after row of skyscrapers, "As you're aware, vertical living was not always the way of the Dutch. From as early as the 1300s, land reclamation was seen as the path forward. Natural processes exposed land over time - it wasn't much of a leap for people to build a barrier, and stop the water taking it back. Then you had new inventions - pumps, dams, that sort of thing, and the reclamation industry became a hive of activity. This was a strategy employed in various forms for about a thousand years, and it had a great deal of success. By the end of the 2100s, about 20% of the land in the Netherlands was reclaimed land. The Netherlands had the constant problem of too many people, and not enough land to fit them all in."
He stopped and turned around to me suddenly. "But of course, you know most of this, having lived there. Hoho, perhaps you know some of it better than me? I'll focus more on the time after your own."
He resumed his slow movement forward and continued his narrative, all three of us walking side-by-side to listen carefully. "It was a strategy that had worked for a very long time, as I said. But there was a unique challenge ahead. Climate change. A good deal of work was done on that front by the end of the 2100s, but not enough. Some nations continued to use fossil fuels and carbon-contributing processes long into the 2200s, and there was a slight runaway greenhouse effect that wasn't solved for about 150 years. Eventually Earth arrived at what we historians call the Carbon Arrest Point in 2317, the point at which carbon emissions and processes were controlled to the extent that human industry stopped significantly contributing to the greenhouse effect."
He slyly tapped his nose twice as if sharing a secret, "Of course, that only related to carbon - other ecosystems and areas were still being affected in other ways - microplastics, long-term waste disposal, mining, all that nonsense - but that is a story for another time. All that is necessary to say at this time is that sea levels continued to rise, and the Netherlands - a country made of flood and water defences,
... keep reading on reddit β‘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.
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 π
It really does, I swear!
Theyβre on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
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.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
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.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
Why
Itβs pronounced βNoel.β
After all his first name is No-vac
It was about a weak back.
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
Where ever you left it π€·ββοΈπ€
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
Bob
