What do you think about Spangled Drongo? Vote/Comment here:
http://wingsplain.com/wingspan-card-poll-spangled-drongo/
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Decided to take an effort post crack at what clubs might actually be called if they used animals representative of their area. There’s always someone that takes a joke too far, and in this case I’m someone.
Adelaide Flying Foxes
Brisbane Crows
Carlton Dragons
Collingwood Eels
Essendon Falcons
Fremantle Ravens
Gold Coast Koalas
Geelong Harriers
Greater Western Sydney Frogs
Hawthorn Miners
Melbourne Bats
North Melbourne Rats
Port Adelaide Mites
Richmond Turtles
St Kilda Gulls
Sydney Sharks
Western Spiders
West Coast Cockatoos
Process
Used the Atlas of Living Australia to get lists of species observations around club’s “home” area. For the Melbourne based clubs this was a 1km radius around their traditional home ground (Princes Park, Victoria Park, Windy Hill, Glenferrie, MCG, Arden Street, Punt Road, Moorabin, Whitten Oval), For the two Adelaide clubs it was a 1km radius around Football Park and Alberton (due to how close together they are). The others I used 10km radii, using Veterans Parade in Cockburn for Freo and Mineral Resources Park for West Coast, the others just using their AFL home grounds.
Once I had the list I looked at what were the most commonly observed species in that area, and how much more frequently it was found in that area compared to around the other grounds. That gave me a bit of a shortlist and I tried to pick the most appropriate sounding mascot based on that.
Some of the clubs were a lot more challenging than others, particularly the ones in built up areas without large parkland around them (Port, North, Footscray the main culprits).
Notes
Adelaide – Grey-headed Flying-fox | Pteropus poliocephalus
The blue-ringed octopus was a worthy contender, but I mostly didn’t want to get into a fight about what the correct plural is.
Brisbane – Torresian Crow | Corvus orru
Second most recorded species around the Gabba, and far more common there than other grounds (Average rank across all grounds was 180th most common). I have my suspicions this is because people elsewhere don't bother recording crows, but this is the data I've got. Shout outs to the Spangled Drongo or the Wild Turkey as good alternates.
Carlton Dragons - Water Dragon | Intellagama lesueurii
Carlton’s results get thrown off by proximity to the zoo and people recording sightings there, but I decided to go with it. Another option was the Carlton Penguins.
Collingwood Eels - shortfin eel | Anguilla australis
Collingwood’s list
... keep reading on reddit ➡Version 2.2 is live: https://wingsplain.com/wingspan-bird-card-tier-list/
What changed from 2.1: https://wingsplain.com/wingspan-bird-card-tier-list-update-version-2-2/
Slated changes for v2.3:
T2 to T1:
European Goldfinch
Snow Bunting
Spangled Drongo
Savi's Warbler
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What alternate rules does everyone use when playing wingspan?
Looking at Uno for example, you could probably play with 3 different groups of people that use their own rules such as adding combining +4s.
For card activations that say "tuck a bird from the deck", we actually are allowed to tuck from the bird tray.
For cards like the ravens that say "discard an egg to gain 2 foods", we say that you can't gain a nectar unless the activation specifies gaining nectar (like the spangled drongo)
I dont know why we play like this but this is what we have done from the very start.
Our favourite adaptations to the game is having 2 round end goals instead of 1, and having 8 turns every round instead of 8,7,6,5.
Would love to see if anyone else plays the game differently!
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.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
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!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
And boy are my arms legs.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
