Angampora Puns

The claim

In 2019, a video circulated widely on social media, making the claim “A ban prohibiting the practice of the ancient Sri Lankan martial art Angampora has been lifted. Fighters will now be able to openly practise their art for the first time since 1817”.

The video’s claim appears to be supported by Wikipedia’s article on Angampora, which says “The British, who occupied the whole island by 1815 (and who had full control of it by 1818) issued a gazette banning the practice in 1817 with harsh punishments for flouters, paving the way to its decline. This was because the British forces found it difficult to face the Sri Lankan revolutionaries who were practitioners of this art”.

However, the only reference provided in support of this claim is a link to a non-scholarly newspaper article which does not cite any sources. Although the source cited in the Wikipedia article refers to a British “gazette” banning Angampora in 1817, this news article dates the ban to 1818. The discrepancy is minor, but the lack of detail encourages further investigation. Meanwhile, an Sri Lankan blog article on a different site says Angampora was used successfully in an uprising in 1818, and was then banned by a British gazette in 1827.

According to one Sri Lankan news source, Air Marshall Kapila Jayampathy (Commander of Sri Lanka Air Force), recently requested the president of Sri Lanka to lift the ban on angampora, to which the president agreed. The Sri Lankan government website has made note of this, also making the claim of a ban on angampora in 1818. This would seem to give credence to the claim that the martial art was banned, and that it was banned in 1818.

There is clearly a long standing belief that the British banned angampora in the nineteenth century, but exact date and circumstances under which this took place are obviously inconsistently reported. The years 1817, 1818, and 1827 have all been cited, with the Sri Lankan government itself regarding 1818 as the correct date.

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I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

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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.

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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.

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

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There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

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There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

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