Vanua Levu Puns

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Staying at the Koro Sun and thinking about renting a car for week. Is it worth it? Are there notable places to go and see if we have a car to get us around?

November 12th, 2041

It has been announced today, by leading General of the Pacific Theater Li Xiang, that Vanua Levu Strategic Base is due to receive an additional 72 DF-21D(X) anti shipping ballistic launchers, scheduled for deployment in a month's time by the PLAN.

Further in the pipeline, the TLS1 defense saturation warhead has been approved for a primary procurement to the PLARF logistics facility on the base, ensuring that strategic forces there receive the system ahead of mainland tactical units.

The launchers, and associated warheads, compliment the considerable armament of the geographically significant base, and have been classified as "critical" by the CPC, giving them expedited funding and lessened regulation by Beijing Command.

Speaking to the assembled press officers at BHQ, General Xiang commented that the deployment was "simply a routine reshuffle of forces to ensure that our facilities abroad are protected."

In response to PRANF intelligence monitoring detecting a United States Naval Presence in the South Pacific indicative of a naval landing, commanders at Vanua Levu in Fiji have given the order for all non-essential personnel and equipment to be recalled. In addition, the deployment of the following defensive artillery has been issued by the CMC:

A base commander, Senior Captain Liu Kai, stated to the Chinese Media that "if the Americans would like to waste their fleets and lives against our hail of missiles, we invite them to do so."

Thank you again for voting, the mods enjoy seeing you guys getting to pick the topics you want. Feel free to mention potential topics in the comments that you'd like to see in the future too! Now, for some background on Fijian unification...

Fiji, whose name derives from a Tongan corruption of the native "Viti," was considered one of the most dangerous regions of the Pacific during the era of exploration. Long periods of internal strife lead to many Europeans avoiding the archipelago until the early 1800s, when beachcombers began to succeed by selling Sandalwood - Fiji was one of the last major reserves. Soon after this, other markets opened up, and European powers began eyeing Fiji as a potential area for major settlement and trade. In 1815, Seru "Cikinovu" Cakobau, a Ratu and warlord of Viti Levu was born on Bao island, to have a major stake in the future of the archipelago. Soon, independent kingdoms arose across the archipelago. Cakobau ruled much of Eastern Viti Levu, and others controlled the island of Vanua Levu, other parts of Viti Levu, and the Lau islands (interestingly ruled by a Tongan dynasty instead of a Fijian one). Soon, Cakobau was surrounded on all sides by equally powerful kingdoms, and hounded by Americans whom he was in debt to, by 1850 his previous goal of becoming sole monarch of Fiji seemed impossible. However, he devised a plan - help British colonial interests in the islands, in exchange for military and financial help, and the retainment of his title as the Vunivalu of Bau. With the new British backing, he spent 20 years in conflict to unify the islands, finally establishing the Tu'i Viti (Paramount Chief of Fiji) title. After his success, the unified kingdom was officially ceded to Great Britain. He lived the rest of his life in luxury, and after his death the title was passed on to Queen Victoria - and continued down the British Royal line until the title was abolished in 2012, making Elizabeth II the last of Cakobau's incredible line.

Resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seru_Epenisa_Cakobau (On Cakobau)

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG183197 (On Cakobau's personal details)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_during_the_time_of_Cakobau (On Fiji during Cakobau's reign)

[https://archive.org/details/fijiandfijians00ca

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Zastava Fidžija

Gdje se nalazi Fidži?

Glavni grad: Suva

Stanovništvo: 926.276 ( 161. na svijetu )

Službeni jezik: Engleski, Fidžijski, Fidžijski Hindustanski, Rotumanski

Površina: 18.274 km2 ( 151. na svijetu ) ( usporedba Fidžija s balkanom )

Valuta: Fidžijski dolar

QUICK FACTS

• Republika Fidži je otočna država u južnom Tihom oceanu, istočno od Vanuatua, zapadno od Tonge i južno od Tuvalua
• Otočje se sastoji od 333 otoka, većina otoka je nenaseljeno. Najveći otok je Viti Levu ( gdje se nalazi glavni grad ), te zatim Vanua Levu Tavenui i Kadavu
• Na otocima Vitu Levu i Vanua Levu živi oko 87% stanovništva Fidžija
• Neovisnost od Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva 10. listopada 1970.
• Kanibalizam ima dugu povijest na Fidžijskim otocima, koji su prethodno bili poznati kao Kanibalni otoci ( posljednji poznati čin kanibalizma dogodio se 1867. godine )
• Ratu Udre Udre, bio je najaktivniji kanibal. Navodno je tijekom života pojeo između 872 i 999 ljudi. U Guinnessovim rekordima naveden je kao "najplodniji kanibal" ( lol )
• Preko polovice stanovništva Fidžija su domaći Fidžijci. Indijci su sljedeća najveća demografska skupina
• Fidži je prilično religiozno raznolik; dok je većina domaćih Fidžija metodista, među preostalim stanovništvom ima i mnogo katolika, hindusa i muslimana
• Fidži se može pohvaliti s gotovo 800 vrsta biljaka koje nema nigdje drugdje na svijetu. Najpoznatiji od njih je cvijet tagimoucia, koji raste samo na jednom planinskom grebenu na sjevernom otoku Taveuni
• Planinski teren Fidžija uglavnom je vulkanskog porijekla
• Glavni komercijalni izvoz Fidžija je voda koja se puni u boce iz prirodnog vodonosnog sloja
• Turizam i poljoprivreda gospodarski su stupovi Fidžija. Uz uzgoj tara, kopre, kakaa, kave i ananasa, Fiji je vodeći svjetski proizvođač šećerne trske
• Samo 59% stanovništva Fidžija ima električnu energiju
• Fidži je poznat kao "svjetska prijestolnica mekih koralja", koja se može pohvaliti s 4.000 četvornih kilometara koraljnog grebena u kojem boravi preko 1.000 vrsta riba
• Fidži ima 28 zračnih luka, samo 4 od njih imaju asfaltirane piste
• Moguće je istovremeno biti u dvije različite vremenske zone na otoku Taveuni
• Hrvatska je uspostavila diplomats

There are nine tribe colors that have been on Survivor. I will be assessing their stats with winner count and I will just be doing the winner’s original tribe. No swapped or merge. Let’s begin.

There have been eighteen orange tribes on Survivor, with seven winners coming from this specific color.

Richard Hatch (Tagi)

Brian Heidik (Chuay Gahn)

Earl Cole (Ravu)

Rob Mariano (Ometepe)

Tony Vlachos (Aparri)

Adam Klein (Vanua)

Nick Wilson (David/Vuku)

There have been twenty two yellow tribes in Survivor, with nine winners coming from this color.

Ethan Zohn (Boran)

Vecepia Towery (Maraamu)

Jenna Morasca (Jaburu)

Danni Boatwright (Nakúm)

Bob Crowley (Kota)

Natalie White (Foa Foa)

Fabio Birza (La Flor)

Tyson Apostol (Galang)

Michele Fitzgerald (Gondol)

There have been nineteen green tribes on Survivor, with three winners coming from this color.

Tina Wesson (Ogakor)

Aras Baskauskas (Viveros)

Yul Kwon (Puka Puka)

There have been twenty five blue tribes in Survivor, with nine winners coming from this color.

Sandra Diaz-Twine (Drake)

Sophie Clarke (Upolu)

Kim Spradlin (Salani)

Denise Stapley (Matsing)

Natalie Anderson (Hunahpu)

Mike Holloway (Escameca)

Sarah Lacina (Nuku)

Ben Driebergen (Levu)

Chris Underwood (Manu)

There have been twenty red tribes on Survivor, with six winners coming from this color.

Amber Brkich (Chapera)

Chris Daugherty (Lopevi)

Todd Herzog (Fei Long)

J.T. Thomas (Jalapao)

Sandra Diaz-Twine (Villains)

Tony Vlachos (Dakal)

There have been two magenta tribes in Survivor, with one winner coming from this color.

Jeremy Collins (Bayon)

There have been fifteen purple tribes in Survivor, with four winners coming from this color.

Parvati Shallow (Malakal)

John Cochran (Bikal)

Wendell Holland (Naviti)

Tommy Sheehan (Vokai)

There have been fifteen black tribes in Survivor, but no winners have come from this tribe color.

There has been one brown tribe in Survivor, with one winner coming from this color.

Tom Westman (Koror)

Overall

Blue and yellow are tied with nine winners from each color.

Orange has seven winners.

Red has six winners.

Purple has four winners.

Green has three winners.

Magenta has one winner.

Brown has one winner.

Black has no winners.

Bula Fijians!

I am looking for some help/ideas with the Fijian language.

Not sure how many of you are gamers but a new version of my favorite game is coming out soon where you turn an uninhabited island into your new home and live there with cute animal villagers (I'm referring to Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizon's game for those of you who may have heard of it.)

I fell in love with Fiji when I visited in November last year and the happiness and peace I felt there was similar to the happiness and peace I get when I play this game. It's a slice of life game that's all about relaxing, fishing, catching bugs, and making friends. It's a great way to ditch the stress of work and city life. Which brings me to this post...

I'd like to come up with a cute name for my island and would love to use something in Fijian so I can feel like I have my own little version of Fiji that I can visit any time.

I don't have a big Fijian vocabulary at all - the most awesome word I know right now is wananavu ;) The only thing I've been able to come up with using my limited knowledge so far is Viti Lailai.

I would love some help coming up with some more ideas for this if anyone would be so kind.

Vinaka!

The year is 1860.

Abraham Lincoln had just been elected President. Italian Unification is in full swing. The first debates on evolution are being held at Oxford University…

…and in the shipyards of Spencer’s Island, Nova Scotia, a ship is being constructed.

Built using locally felled timber, she is 99 feet long and 25 feet wide, smaller than the Galleons or Ships of the Line we normally visualize when we think of old sailing ships.

Her owners intend her to be a merchant brigantine, an investment that will make them all exceedingly wealthy through lucrative trans-Atlantic trade.

By agreement, they name her the Amazon.

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Her maiden voyage takes place in June of 1861, with the Amazon sailing to the nearby Five Islands to take on lumber destined for Great Britain. Her Captain for the voyage, Robert McLellan, was in fine health and an experienced sailor. Yet after supervising the loading of the Amazon’s timber cargo and guiding his vessel into Atlantic waters, Captain McLellan began to feel ill.

At first, he insisted that the voyage continue, but as his condition worsened and he required more advanced medical attention, the crew made the decision to return to their home port. But it was no good, Robert McLellan died in his sleep on June 19th, 1861.

The voyage resumed under the captaincy of a man named John Parker, but the ship’s misfortune did not abate. She ran into fishing equipment of the coast of Maine and collided with a fellow merchant vessel in the English Channel.

Sailors are superstitious folk and the ship had endured such terrible misfortune that many spoke of her being cursed. Her crew told tales that the Amazon was doomed to suffer the wraith of the cruel, unforgiving sea wherever she may sail.

Finally, in 1867, the Amazon was driven ashore Cape Breton Island by a storm. She was so badly damaged that her owners abandoned her as a wreck, cutting any further losses that the Amazon may incur. It is entirely possible that they too believed the sailor’s stories of cursed ships.

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Alexander McBean knew his maritime law well. He knew that a derelict was considered abandoned property in the eyes of the law, and thus he was free to claim it as his own. McBean made a lot of money this way, for he also knew that the construction of a brand new vessel from scratch was sometimes hideously expensive. Some shipwrights would pay handsomely for a derelict to act as a kind of skeleton for a new ship, salvaging the keel or ma

The Survivor producers are obviously having no difficulty coming up with new ideas for the show. Fire Tokens, the Idol Nullifier, the Ghost Island/EoE/IoI twists, the Legacy Advantage, the Vote Stealer, Safety Without Power, etc. But there is one area in which they have been unable to innovate. I am talking about the names of the tribes. So many tribe names are the same as a previous one, with just a letter or two that is different. Below, I have listed the tribe names that are the most similar to each other. I am discounting merged tribes, because the players come up with those names, and they often do that by combining the names of the starting tribes.

Yanuya (Ghost Island)

Vanua (Millennials vs Gen X)

Tavua (Game Changers)

Nuku (Game Changers)

Vuku (David vs Goliath)

Nakum (Guatemala)

Gota (Caramoan)

Kota (Gabon)

Dakal (Winners at War)

Malakal (Micronesia)

Bikal (Caramoan)

Lesu (Edge of Extinction)

Levu (Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers)

Yawa (Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers)

Yara (Winners at War)

Yaxha (Guatemala)

Manu (Edge of Extinction)

Mana (Game Changers)

Casaya (Exile Island)

Masaya (Worlds Apart)

Manono (One World)

Malolo (Ghost Island)

Bayon (Second Chance)

Bayonetta (Exile Island)

Salani (One World)

Savaii (South Pacific)

Morgan (Pearl Islands)

Boran (Africa)

Mana (Game Changers)

Tadhana (Blood vs Water)

Galang (Blood vs Water)

Ulong (Palau)

Ravu (Fiji)

Galu (Samoa)

Are there any that I'm missing?

So I saw someone do this for each "decade" a couple weeks ago, but didn't do the 30s, so I'll see if I can speculate.

30- Nagarote loses and boots Shirin. Post-merge likely plays out the exact same as it did in reality, we just don't get the Will incident.

31- Haven't seen this season

32- Chan Loh loses and boots Michele. Aubry never has the mistake of crossing out Julia's name, and thus never loses her, Scot, or Jason's trust. I don't really know how this would play out.

33- If Vanua loses, they probably boot Michelle, which likely leads to Jay using his idol at the merge and Taylor going home, followed by him next. I don't really know the rest because everyone had bigmoveitis, and Michaela is, well, Michaela.

If Takali loses, Taylor is gone and it probably plays out fairly similarly.

34- Mana probably votes Cirie out. We don't get advantagegeddon or the Varner incident, but at what cost?

35- If Levu loses, Joe uses his idol to take Devon out. The Healers probably still get pagonged, but then Ryan becomes a swing vote between the Heroes and Hustlers later on. Ben or Ali probably wins.

If Yawa loses, Ben goes, and this changes everything. The first 3 merge votes probably stay the same, but I imagine that Devon/Lauren/Ashley/Ali probably go after Chrissy instead of JP. Devon probably wins?

36- If Malolo loses, Michael uses his idol to take Kellyn out. It's interesting to see where Bradley falls at the merge, but with him, Dom, and Noble all together, it's easy to see Naviti completely collapsing, in which case someone like Michael has a really good shot.

If Yanuya loses, Noble goes, no civil war means that Malolo gets pagonged. Wendell or Kellyn probably wins.

37- If Tiva loses, I can see Dan being blindsided with both idols. The Davids then have the majority at the merge and Christian probably wins.

If Vuku loses, I genuinely have no clue how that vote plays out.

38- If it's Kama/Manu, Wendy is a unanimous boot and nothing changes.

If it's Kama/Lesu, Lauren and Kelley probably both play their idols and take out Joe. Ironically, this probably leads to Kama sticking together, and either Ron or Victoria wins.

39- Vokai loses and probably gets rid of Tommy. Kellee idols Dan out at the merge and probably goes soon after for being a big threat. Jamal still has an idol then, so who knows what he does with that, but I think Missy could probably end up winning

Bula! 31 female from Fiji. My heritage is a mixture of both Chinese and Fijian (however I only speak English - hopeless I know!). I am an analyst/projects assistant in the area of property investments and project management. I enjoy jogging and playing squash during my free time. Sometimes I prefer to sink into my sofa and watch re-runs of FRIENDS or war movies.

Basically looking for people to chat with and hopefully learn new things.

Hello! It's time for the casting of our fourteenth season, Kqmza's Survivor: Fiji! This time 19 contestants will be marooned for 39 days on the island of Vanua Levu in Fiji. In the end, only one will be left, and they will become the next sole survivor of this series.

Note: Due to spots being full for the previous season, u/Gemini_B's character James, u/asiansurvivorfan's character Danielle, u/Burbadurb21's character Ella, and u/RaistlinSlayz's character Satana will have reserved spots for this season.

Previous seasons:

• Borneo
• The Australian Outback
• Africa
• Marquesas
• Thailand
• The Amazon
• Pearl Islands
• All-Stars
• Vanuatu
• Palau
• Guatemala
• Panama - Exile Island
• Cook Islands

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The funeral director was asking us what we think Mum should wear in her casket.

Mum always loved to wear sarongs (fabric wraps that go around the torso and drape downward a bit like a long skirt would), so my uncle suggested that she wear a sarong in there.

The funeral director looked a bit confused, as did some of our family members, to which my uncle added:

"What's sarong with that?"

I started laughing like an idiot. He was proud of it too. The funeral director was rather shocked. We assured her, and our more proper relatives, that Mum would've absolutely loved the joke (which is very true).

His delivery was perfect. I'll never forget the risk he took. We sometimes recall the moment as a way help cushion the blows of the grieving process.

--Edit-- I appreciate the condolences. I'm doing well and the worst is behind me and my family. But thanks :)

--Edit-- Massive thanks for all the awards and kind words. And the puns! Love 'em.

Welcome to our thirteenth season!

20 contestants have signed up to be marooned for 39 days in the Cook Islands, where they will be divided into four tribes based on ethnicity. In the end, only one will be left, and they will become the next sole survivor of this series.

Previous seasons:

• Borneo
• The Australian Outback
• Africa
• Marquesas
• Thailand
• The Amazon
• Pearl Islands
• All-Stars
• Vanuatu
• Palau
• Guatemala
• Panama - Exile Island

The Castaways:

Aitutaki:

• Adam "AJ" Perez, 24, Lifeguard, u/Twig7665
• Eduardo Rivera, 27, Musician, u/anonymousguy100
• Isaiah Ortiz, 20, Law Student, u/asiansurvivorfan
• Jennifer "Jenny" Gonzalez, 40, Nurse, u/Gemini_B
• Santana Azucar, 18, Waitress, u/gameoftorches

Manihiki:

• Darnell Jordans, 45, Bodyguard, u/swoldow
• Jamar Brown, 19, Student, u/blxxdymxry
• Keshia Callun, 26, Musician, u/Rylandoesreddit
• Tanisha Potter, 24, Medical Student, u/blxxdymxry
• Tia Ward, 20, College Athlete, u/wordonthestreet2

Puka Puka:

• Amy Wong, 33, Crossfit Coach, u/Gemini_B
• Ayumi "Yumi" Hidakki, 26, Stylist, u/percypjo
• Eric Chang, 26, Professional Gamer, u/asiansurvivorfan
• Fuji Naoto, 64, Martial Arts Instructor, u/swoldow
• Robert "R2" Reyes, 25, Medical Student, u/Gemini_B

Rarotonga:

• Andy Jennings, 25, Character Performer, u/thatssobranson
• Ashley Burgess, 27, Hair Salon Receptionist, u/Mpeluzzo66
• Bella George, 24, Grocery Store Employee, u/Ilovedogs1100
• Ella

Because 10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too..

Edit: thank you for awards, I have never gotten one before. I apologize that this is a repost, I did see it on TikTok and thought that it was cute and wanted to share. In the future I will check the sub for similar content before I post anything.

I would have a daughter