I grew up playing piano. Started when I was 3, did the dipABRSM at 16. I was forced to play as a kid so I definitely didn't enjoy piano and as soon as I did the dip, I stopped playing. Plus school work was building up. Then college, then work! I'm now 30 and I plan to buy a piano to get back into it. I'm so excited because for the first time I'll be able to play what I want instead of what the exam repertoire tells me to play. The last pieces I vaguely remember playing were, pathetique, fantasie impromptu and la plus que lente. There were a few more, including a bach fugue + prelude and either a schumann or schubert (i always get these 2 guys mixed up) but I can't remember how they even went or what they were called. These were all part of the dip repertoire at the time. I tried at the piano shop and I can still remember FI (with many mistakes) and I can sight read pathetique's first page to tempo but not the rest. How long will it take me to get back the skills? Anyone else who has had experience with such a long hiatus and how did you get back your technical skills? My hands felt weak while playing like I knew where the notes were but couldn't execute. I'd love to get into some jazz and break away from only playing classical. It would have been so much more enjoyable had I explored the piano as a kid rather than being drilled!

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 😂

It really does, I swear!

Sources: Tony Barrow, Derek Taylor

ALBUMS:

Please Please Me:

Pop picking is a fast ‘n’ furious business these days whether you are on the recording studio side listening out, or on the disc-counter side listening in. as a record reviewer I find myself installed halfway in-between with an ear cocked in either direction. So far as Britain’s record collecting public is concerned, The Beatles broke into earshot in October, 1962. My natural hometown interest in the group prevented me from taking a totally unbiased view of their early success. Eighteen months before their first visit to the EMI studios in London, The Beatles had been voted Merseyside’s favourite outfit and it was inevitable that their first Parlophone record, LOVE ME DO, would go straight into the top of Liverpool’s local hit parade. The group’s chances of national chart entry seemed much more remote. No other team had joined the best-sellers via a debut disc. But The Beatles were history makers from the start and LOVE ME DO sold enough copies during its first 48 hours in the shops to send it soaring into the national charts. In all the busy years since pop singles first shrank from ten to seven inches I have never seen a British group leap to the forefront of the scene with such speed and energy. Within the six months which followed the Top Twenty appearance of LOVE ME DO, almost every leading deejay and musical journalist in the country began to shout the praises of The Beatles. Readers of the New Musical Express voted the boys into a surprisingly high place via the 1962/63 popularity poll…on the strength of just one record release. Pictures of the group spread themselves across the front ages of three national music papers. People inside and outside the record industry expressed tremendous interest in the new vocal and instrumental sound which The Beatles had introduced. Brian Matthew (who has since brought The Beatles to many millions of viewers and listeners in his “Thank Your Lucky Stars”, “Saturday Club” and “Easy Beat” programmes) describes the quartet as visually and musically the most exiting and accomplished group to emerge since The Shadows. Disc reviewing, like disc producing, teaches one to be wary about making long-term predictions. The hit parade isn’t always dominated by the most worthy performances of the day so it is no good assuming that versatility counts for everything. It was during the recording of a Radio Luxembourg programme in the EMI Friday Spectacular series th

Hurrah! I've finally moved into my Diddly Squat mansion. But why did we order nine beds?

By Jeremy Clarkson (Sunday Times, Nov. 21)

Even by my own dizzying standards, last week was busy. Due to the fact I hadn't read the small print in my contracts, I was legally obliged to whizz about on a promotional tour for my new book and for the next instalment of The Grand Tour.

And on top of the cheery chats with Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles, Zoe Ball, Steve Wright and everyone else with access to a microphone, my cows needed impregnating, and I had a day's shooting with my neighbour and a book signing at my local bookshop. Plus the puppies needed their second vaccination, my car needed servicing, I had to do a photoshoot for The Sunday Times Magazine and there were three newspaper columns to write. Oh, and on Wednesday I was moving house.

It's claimed by the weak and the unbusy that a house move is the most stressful thing you can do — apart from dying in a car crash, presumably — but I reckoned I had all the bases covered.

As the builders were supposed to have finished at the end of July, I'd had plenty of time to do all the necessary shopping.

I'd done a thorough trawl of Peter Jones to buy all the kitchen and bedroomy things I'd need, and in addition I'd been to various house sales and to a place called Lorfords, in Tetbury, which is two gigantic hangars full of a billion things I wanted. Including an 8ft-long model of a French railway station.

I'd even spent some time with a local and quite brilliant taxidermist, from whom I'd bought a fireguard full of brilliantly coloured hummingbirds, and a stuffed lapwing. And over the past few months everything was delivered and neatly stored in various barns waiting for the Big Move Day.

Obviously, as the house was being built by builders, the wait was long and littered with broken promises. But eventually they said they'd be finished in mid-October, and then, when they missed that deadline by a mile, they assured me that if I gave them just one more month, they'd definitely be done.

The month was up on Wednesday, so the moving men turned up to find that the staircase banister wasn't fitted, the wallpaper man had gone on holiday and both the joiner and the electricians had gone Awol. Not since Schubert has the world seen anything less finished. But, as someone once said, the only way to get builders out of your house is to move in. So that's what we did.

It was harder than I imagined, because ev

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

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.

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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You take away their little brooms

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.

There hasn't been a post all year!

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Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

When I got home, they were still there.

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)