Hongkongese Puns

I have to go back to Shanghai with my pregnant wife, I'm Hongkongese and she's mainland Chinese so both of us can travel back to Shanghai. I searched Baidu and other official websites, all of them claims that since 3/28 anyone flying into Shanghai will require 14 days hotel quarantine - except for people with special needs like eldery, parents with kids, and pregnant women - which can be home quarantineed. There are no updates at all since 3/28. Even Ctrip when I try to purchase the plane ticket the notice is still the 3/28.

My wife is pregnant so I think she's qualified for home quarantine, but my concern is that they allow my wife to go home but requires me to stay in hotels.

So today I called Shanghai 12345 to check, and the lady told me - as long as we have a place to stay in Shanghai, we do not require hotel quarantine but home quarantine instead, regardless of my wife is pregnant or not... WHAT??

I double confirmed with the lady 3 times, her answer is firm, home quarantine as long as I have a place in Shanghai.

And yet, I have a friend flew in from Taipei two days ago who has an apartment in Shanghai, they require him to hotel quarantine...

I lives in those old compond 5th floor with no elevators, I need to take care of her, I cant let her to lift luggages up 5 stories alone...

These kinds of situation happens so many times, the policies are so unclear and everywhere/every officials have their own interpretation of the policies, and is extremely fustrating...

I'm not sure if anyone here can help or give suggestions or experience, but thanks for listening to my rant...

Using one or more floats (either currently made or custom built), the activist wait for the right time to strike. When the signal is given, they burst out of the float and charge towards whatever building Xi Jinping is in. The activist are armed with baseball bats, farming equipment, and weapons that were given to them by either The U.S., India, or some other country supporting their cause. They also have battering rams to help break down the doors of the building they hope to siege.

Well, apparently, old country names have been transliterated directly to Chinese from Latin to Cantonese, and when it did, it was with the old pronunciations.

So, Egypt is called 埃及 because the Latin is Aegyptus, and it sounds like "Aigyuptuus". The Ae is pronounced as "ai" and the vowel y is pronounced as 魚, a vowel which doesn't exist in English. Syria is called 敍利亞 because of this.

And then Greece is called 希臘 due to Greek of Greece is actually Hellas.

But two things I have absolutely no idea about:

1. When we use 塞, do we pronounce Tsoi? Or Sak? It seems to me "Sak" is closer than "Tsoi" in 塞內加爾 Senegal.

2. Why is Cyprus called 塞浦路斯, as it is pronounced something like "Kyupruus", consistent to the older pronunciations? Its demonym is "Cypriot", and it kind of gives away this word isn't English. A quick check in Wiktionary also reveals it is "Κύπρος" (Kypros) in Greek, and pronounced as /ký.pros/. Why isn't it called 驅浦路斯 or some such? And even if we are trying to accept 塞浦路斯, do we say Sak or Tsoi?

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.

I guess the concept didn't work

r/HongKong is mainly a foreigners sub and it used to be a really shitty "sexpat" sub. If u dig deep enough, you will find a lot of old posts about how to get local girls and stuffs like that. However, lots of new people (Hongkongese and foreigners) joined this sub after the 2019 protest, which make the atmosphere there a bit different and it's more like an anti-ccp sub now .

I didnt spend much times on r/taiwan so I cant really comment on that one. One look at that sub, it seems like it also populated with foreigners living there and the tone is quite negative

And then there are two famous china subreddits and holy fuck what did I just saw.

r/china, a really anti-chinese sub but users there try very hard to deny it. It basically like this: I hate the CCP not the people but here is 1000 reasons why the Chinese are subhuman and their culture suck. Their hypocrisy really get on my nerves.

Then there is r/sino......on boy I dont even know where to start. Those western tankies are definitely braindead.

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?

Mathematical puns makes me number

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.

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?

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.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges