Hi all, long time Parisian here, I thought it'd be a nice exercise to give my own insights in an evolving post to guide people new to the city, staying only for a few days or planning to live here for a while, and interested by "the other side of the postcard".

First and foremost, to get a general understanding of the city checkout the great wiki put up by some redditors https://www.reddit.com/r/paris/wiki/index. Also, the reddit search tool being not really efficient, to improve your search in the r/paris subreddit history, you can use third-party tools like https://redditsearch.io or https://redditcommentsearch.com

Second, a small disclaimer: this post doesn't aim at being a full guide on Paris but a selection of alternative or less touristic things to do. Post size being limited, choices have to be made : famous landmarks and museums are skipped, nice residential areas omitted. NB : websites in English are promoted when they exists.

"C'est parti mon kiki !!" (40 yo boomer ©)

EVENTS SEARCH

• Facebook events page is often the most complete, prefer the mobile version that displays events for a specific date without the need of any keywords. Facebook mobile events search (obviously display is not optimized for desktop)
• Concerts agenda
  • Lylo (general)
  • ParisJazzClub (en) ( jazz)
  • Resident Advisor or Shotgun (techno)
  • ParisKiwi (alternative), check this for a focus on alternative music venues
• General information on Cultural events
  • SortirAParis (en)
  • Que Faire A paris (official website of the city)
  • Timeout (en)
  • OFFI
  • Paris Etudiant
  • Enlarge Your Paris : lovely name heh ? Only in french, focuses on the greater paris i.e the surrounding suburbs, great to go beyond the cliches a

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!

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Kuching, the humble capital of the Maharaj, is famed across Asia as a capital where decidedly not very much happens. Life here is relaxing and slow, with little of the bustle of Manila, the rapid construction of Tokyo, the revitalisation after war of Seoul or Hanoi or any of the festivals and processions of Bangkok. Kuching is a city of stability and peace, where economic growth is moderate, just like everything else.

However by now this is coming to be seen as not so much of an advantage. Of the 5 major cities of Sarawak, all others aside from Kuching were heavily bombed during the war and so their repairs and restorations have given them a vitality and modernity not seen in Kuching. Meanwhile rapid population growth in Kuching due to refugee influxes as well as internal migration has led to the development of "kampongs", unofficial settlements that are described in government documents as "slums not out of place in a Dickens novel".

The masterplan for a new Kuching has been divided into 2 sections: Kuching Garden City to be built south and west of the existing town centre and ** Fort Margherita**, to be built north of the Sarawak River and the Sarawak Astana.

Kuching Garden City

Kuching Garden City is designed to be full-integrated district of the city, focused on daily life and public amenities. The area, roughly 12km^2, will be bounded on the east by the upgraded and expanded Market Street, on the north by the Sarawak River, on the south by Stone Pot Road and on the west by Elizabeth Road.

The main unit of KGC will be small "new kampongs", each consisting of 4 7-storey tall residential towers which face each other around the edges of a square, creating an enclosed communal space in the centre. 4 new kampongs will collectively form a "garden". Every garden will also host a titular garden park, as large in surface area as all residential areas combined, as well as a small public centre which will contain public amenities, small shops, a bank, and so on. These garden parks will become prime areas for public socialising, and on festivals and holidays will be the designated areas for public celebrations. Around the edge of the gardens will be the places of worship, carefully positioned so that from each mosque you may see a Buddhist temple, a church, a Taoist temple and vice-versa. Diversity and coexistence will be built into our town plan.

In total there will be 12 new gardens established, named on the recommendation of the Mahar

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.

Nothing, he was gladiator.

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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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!

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

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Il ritmo sincopato del vivere, la solitudine che nutre i legami sociali e l’inciampo che manda in burnout. L’antologia Si chiamerà Futura, edizioni BookTribu, è una raccolta di sei racconti scritti da autori e autrici, nata all’inizio dell’estate 2021. Era quello il momento in cui abbiamo abbandonato il coprifuoco e ci siamo ritrovati a riprendere confidenza con la vicinanza e la presenza. Abbiamo ricominciato a pensare che avremmo potuto fare progetti e lanciare un po’ più in là il desiderio. Gli autori si sono allora posti domande su come riappropriarsi del tempo davanti e su quale sia l’occasione giusta per la felicità. I sei racconti (Fame d’aria di Filippo Tapparelli, Non voltarti indietro di Eliselle, Amor fati di Eugenio Fallarino, Creature di sabbia e di colla di Gianluca Morozzi, La quarantena di Clelia Pulcinelli, Caffè di Luca Ferrari) tracciano una trama di storie che si nutrono di interrogativi e ci fanno da specchio: il cambiamento è un processo, ci scorre davanti in maniera evidente, eppure è solo a un certo punto che tutto si fa più chiaro e avviene la scelta, la svolta decisiva. Gli scrittori di questa antologia hanno allora creato storie e personaggi che cambiano, desiderano, spezzano, si abbracciano. Si chiamerà Futura è un’opera che proprio perchè miscellanea di autori diversi tra loro per età e formazione, offre un affaccio sul nostro tempo: le pagine parlano di trasformazioni avvenute grazie a una profonda rielaborazione del vissuto. Tutti i personaggi attraversano un passaggio obbligato, che è una rottura verso uno stile di vita, una visione di sé, una pratica del vivere che non regge più. La possibilità allora di imprimere il cambiamento è una forte attrazione, una strada da cui non si torna indietro.
I sei racconti sono completati da interviste agli autori che hanno parlato di cosa voglia dire scrivere: per sé, per gli altri, a volte per nessuno. Scrivere per anni lasciando tutto nel cassetto e poi un giorno farne un romanzo, oppure scrivere dall’infanzia per un’urgenza di dire, liberarsi, condividere, ma anche scrivere come terapia. Ho raccolto le interviste durante l’estate, tutti e sei gli autori mi hanno dedicato tempo e si sono posti più domande di quante io ne stessi già facendo a loro.
E allora ho scoperto che Gianluca Morozzi definisce i suoi libri “pizza alla nutella” o “pizza margherita”, possono piacere a molti oppure a pochissimi

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.