Volleyball variations Puns

Rules, culture & history of the sport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6hKD9DQho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-man

> NACIVT rules stipulate that at any given time, each team must have at least six players of "100 percent" Chinese descent on the court. The remaining three players must be of Asian descent; the NACIVT explicitly states who qualifies as Asian based on the country of origin of his ancestors - (Asian: origins from: Myanmar (formerly Burma), Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam). In addition, only men are allowed to play 9-man.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-Man_(film)

> The documentary follows several modern-day 9-man teams throughout one season framed by a historical portrait of Chinatown history and the game of 9-man. The first act of the film introduces the Boston Knights, Washington CYC (Chinese Youth Club), Toronto Connex, and the Boston Freemasons as they begin the season preparing for competition with other teams. As the first act closes a character from New York Haiyan Townsmen is introduced, and East Coast regional teams compete in the New York Mini tournament crowning an early-season favorite. The second act of the film introduces the history of the game—traveling to Toisan (Taishan), China—and its modern-day rules, which include limiting participation by players who are not "100% Chinese." The sport and isolation of the game are revealed as direct descendants of the Chinese Exclusion Act and racism faced by the community. The final act of the film unites the characters, teams, and conflicts at the NACIVT championship tournament in Boston's Chinatown, setting up Olympian Kevin Wong as the player to beat. As teams fight for the title, they also bring to light the cultural belonging and loss of the modern Chinatown and 9-man community. The film concludes with a scene featuring the funeral of a beloved community member and another scene where 9-man leaders contemplate moving the tournament to a new city—with no Chinatown.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volleyball_variations#Nine-man_volleyball

> Nine-man volleyball is a variation of volleyball utilizing nine players and a slightly larger court (10 by 20 meters) originated in Asia in the 1920s when American missionaries introduced the game in China. The birthplace of 9man can be speculated to be the city of Tai-Shan, China where 9man tournaments are played regularly,

So this is a thought experiment I like to do sometimes. I like to take something that exists today and go "ok, would a medieval person have access to the materials that created this?" Oftentimes the answer is "if you're a noble, you could probably get away with this."

I like doing this because it's easier to put yourself in your character's shoes. Like, my players have no frame of reference for just how big and scary a joust is, and how thrilling people would've found them. Two giant animals with metal men mounted on them thundering down at amazing speeds until a violent BANG is heard, wood flies everywhere and maybe that guy is dead. That sounds like a lot of things, but not like a sport. But if I put in a boxing match, now they know exactly what I'm talking about.

And besides, sports and games were such an important part of medieval life and conflict resolution that it's strange that they're so often ignored in RPGs.

Before we move on, though, I'd like to avoid magic if we can - at least in the wider scale. Sure, the fancy universities and royals would maybe have access to a court wizard, but most nobles and common people wouldn't. Also, I put my arbitrary limit on "Middle Ages" at the mid-to-later ends of the War of the Roses, before cannons and musketeers were a thing, and definitely before the New World was a thing. Don't feel beholden to Europe, though, lots of different things existed along the world and putting them in other places can be fun too.

Anyway, here's a few modern games that were played in the Middle Ages in some form or another:

Chess (and it's many variations), Backgammon, Checkers, and Dice - These are the gold standard. They're very easy to make, Backgammon is even so abstract that it exists for thousands of years almost unchanged, and they're DAMN compelling. Chinese chess - xiangi - may be even older than that, and while "Japanese chess" (Shogi) is more recent, there's really no reason why people couldn't have played it before.

Go - One of the oldest tabletop games, I'm sure a lot of nobles at Richard the Lionheart's court would've enjoyed it.

Bowling and Bocce - Shouldn't surprise anyone that they're so old. You get a ball and you throw it at some wooden pins, that's it.

Tug of War and See-Sawing - Two very simple children's games. For the first one you only need a long cloth, and for the second one just a long plank and a barrel.

Tennis, Badminton, and Volleyball - Surprisingly, at least to me,

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.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Here's my answer to every number game question except the weird ones

1.16

2. Female

3. 5'6

4. 105lbs

5. The US

6. Capricorn

7. Strawberry

8. Dechert

9. Okay actually I'm not answering this one

10. January 16th, 2006

11. English

12. Pink

13. Fajitas or ice cream

14. Talking with people

15. Idk, I kinda like all of it

16. Glass Beach (Classic j ig if it's a single artist)

17. Glass Beach by Glass Beach

18. The Shawshank Redemption or Koe no Katachi

19. Slime Rancher

20. Flip Flappers

21. I used to play basketball and volleyball, but none anymore

22. Debate

23. No

24. I wanna do something creative, like singing or writing or something, I also want to kill myself in a romantic way with someone I love, but I've given up on that dream

25. I drink every now and then to forget about my problems, never smoked

26. Painkillers but other than that no

27. A dog and twenty-something cats

28. When a guy I used to like made me promise I wouldn't kill myself

29. My mom asked me a really simple math problem and I got the answer wrong

30. A private villa on a beach sounds pretty friccin epic

31. Immediate family, 10/11

32. A lot, but I only have like 4 friends that are super close

33. Yes, I do

34. Yeah, I use Discord and YouTube, and very rarely Twitter

35. I never follow anyone

36. Yeah, all the time, it's different from irl rhetoric but it's still fun

37. Probably YouTube, since I use it while doing other things

38. Strawberry, Princess Strawberry, or some other variation of such

39. Indeed

40. No

41. Idk, probably Brian

42. "Because"

43. Idk, like 200 or so I think

44. 10-15 hours a day ig

45. My watch that I never actually use

46. No

47. Stuffed Pikachu

48. No

49. A shot glass with a corgi butt on it

50. No, not really

51. No

52. No

53. Cotton candy flavored sparkling water ig

54. My mom's old desk from when she was a girl

55. I rarely buy stuff, but clothes ig

56. Pretty basic ig

57. Medium ig

58. Brown

59. Nice

60. Idk what that means

61. White

62. Currently a magenta t shirt, a light pink skirt, and gray stripy thigh-highs

63. Green

64. No

65. Light pink t shirt and black skirt with black socks

66. None

67. Bisexual with a preference for men

68. Single

69. A "friend" of mine by the name of Alex

70. Zac Efron ig

71. No

72. Alex

73. Nothing fancy, probably just a fast food place or something

74. Yes

75. Idk, love ig

76. Yes

77. I have before, I don't know if I ever will again

78. No

99

The doctor says it terminal.

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

So this is a bit of a different kind of a post, less training and more tactics, but it might help some people who, like me, are more interested in long free routes than boulders or single pitch sport climbs. This list of tactics is also definitely a work in progress, and I don’t do all of these things all of the time, but I have used all of these at different times, and they really help. Some of these seem like common sense, but still worth mentioning.

Bringing stuff on the route:

• Don’t wear a pack if you can help it. Wearing a pack, especially on vertical or steeper terrain sucks and puts more strain on your upper body than necessary. Haul the damn thing if it’s hard or steep. Hauling can happen with a thin tag line (I typically use the Edelrid II rap line) or even the lead line. I’ll get into the latter method later.

• Another thing with tag lines: if the pitch is long and requires a large rack, or has a hard crux towards the bottom, start the pitch with just enough pieces to get to a rest or stance, and then haul the rest of the rack for the second part of the pitch.

• One last thing with twisty tag lines, mini packable reusable shopping bags make great rope bags at hanging belays or during rappels.

• Use a microtraxions, or even two, to haul. Hang one microtraxion off the anchor, and clove it to a carabiner on your harness and squat. The other method is stomping in a sling to haul it, hanging the sling from a microtraxion, a tibloc, or even an autoblock. I tend to do the squat haul and just take one micro.

• Instead of a normal pack I use a little haul pack. Everything you’d normally carry in a pack goes in this bag. On low angle pitches the follower wears it as a pack, on steep or crux pitches it gets hauled (basically anything over 5.9) I've used both a BD Creek 20 and a Metolius Express Haulpack.

• Sometimes bringing two pairs of shoes is worth it. Have floppies with socks for all the 5.10 climbing, then bust out the tap dancers for the 5.12 face pitch, or whatever.

Partner tactics:

• Lead in blocks that make sense. Do transitions at ledges if possible. There’s a lot of pros to block leading, including keeping people warmer (you’re at belays for a shorter time), and being able to stay in one headspace for a while.

• Play to strengths. If one person is more likely to send the one crux pitch on lead, the other person’s job is to free everything to get them there. Alternatively, for multiple cruxes, match strengths with leaders. If one

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

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.

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.

33 M looking to broaden my circle of friends. Music, jamming/recording, board games, video games.

A lot of my friends are starting families or live in different cities so it’s been a bit challenging during Covid. Hoping to meet some new people that live in the city and have some hobbies in common.

I live in the St James Town area and work fully remote in Healthcare/Technology. I lean a bit on the introverted side but still love socializing and meeting new people, I just take some down-time days occasionally in between.

Hobbies-wise, I’m going to provide an excruciating level of detail to see if any of it resonates with anyone, bear with me:

- Music – Love all kinds of indie rock variations, especially blues/funk inspired. Been listening to a lot of old school Black Keys lately. Also love Bahamas, Jungle, Dope Lemon, Fruit Bats, Glass Animals, etc. I like some EDM too (Ben Bohmer, Tourist, Lane 8). Love discovering new music and I’m really missing the live music scene/festivals. When life gets back to normal, I would love to just see which bands are playing in the city in the upcoming 6 months, check out their catalogue, and go to a small show. I did this a few months ago and discovered the band “Good Morning”; was about to pull the trigger on tickets but then Omi started raging in full force.

- Playing/Recording music – I play guitar and half-decently sing (I think). Love jamming, writing songs, and recording stuff. I have one or two friends that I do this with sporadically and have recorded some very amateur (but fun!) songs. I occasionally try my hand at making more EDM style songs on my own; I have a couple I think sound pretty good. Would love to collaborate with anyone interested in similar genres.

- Board games – Love Codenames, Camel Up, and Catan is always fun. Always down to try new games. For a while I had a monthly board game thing with a couple buddies but it has been on pause for a bit.

- Video games – Love couch coop/multiplayer games. Mario Kart, It Takes Two, etc. Recent single-player games I’ve enjoyed: Mass Effect, Subnautica, Guardians of the Galaxy, Outer Wilds.

- Movies/Books – I love movies and love discussing movies. I’ll watch almost anything but Sci Fi and Mystery genres have a special place in my heart. We can talk about how Dune was pretty good but Bladerunner 2049 is still better. Or how “Pig” with Nicholas Cage was actually awesome and made me unexpectedly feel things. Books are similar but I also read non-fict

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!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

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

Amy

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

BamBOO!

A play on words.

Which sports would you like to see an anime made about? It doesn't need to have manga. top 3 picks please, and why. Please stick to "main or most popular variants" - see originality remark below. There is only 1 rule:

It doesn't already have an existing serious-action-realistic-full-fledged anime centered around boys (unless it's strictly women's sport)- serious action meaning that it's not comedy and/or slice of life and/or yaoi; full fledged meaning those anime where the sport is in the center (e.g. volleyball is excluded because of haikyuu); realistic meaning real life rules apply (e.g. if Kuroko no Basuke was the only basketball anime then basketball would count); centered around boys so that there is no temptation for panty shots.

Originality remark: Of course there is million of sports but consider main sports, not (too) similar variations (netball (basketball is too similar), bandy (too similar to ice hockey), rugby league/7/union (all out covers rugby for all intents and purposes) , fistball (similar to volleyball))...

There is quite a bit of mainstream team sports that haven't been featured: american football (E21 is a comedy, imo), handball, lacrosse, cricket, softball (I hate it when they force girl's baseball anime and manga, when there is perfectly good sport available), sepak takraw, ice hockey, field hockey (or roller hockey), bossaball, indian kho kho (there is a kho kho pro league in India). I am on defense about waterpolo (Re-main) and swimming (Free!) - those are like half slice of life half sport action anime.

And, of course there is even more individual sports that haven't made an appearence yet.

I am more of a fan of team sports in real life and team sports in a story setting. In all honesty I would like to see all of the above, but my top 3 are:

1. sepak takraw or kick volleyball - it's explosive, flamboyant and crazy in real life. I can only imagine how anime would level it up but still make it feel realistic. pure anime material.
2. lacrosse - it's violent, fast. there could be a number of different characters exploting different strategies - big and strong, small and fast, passer... great anime material.
3. softball - I would like to see girls having ace of diamond type battles soaked in dirt but with dropball, riser, back-hand flip changeup...

honorable mention (because I posted it): kho kho. I was impressed with kabaddi in burning kabaddi. The anime was far from perfect but it featured an unusual and interesting spor