Sylhet Division Puns

Hello bd people,

Bangladesh is too pretty to not travel, so we are making a list!

I will go first:

- Sreemongol tea gardens

- Ratar gul swamp forest

- Hason raja's house

- Jaflong border with India / Dawki river

- Shunamgonj haor / lake

what other amazing places should people visit in Sylhet?

Also, if you have visited these places and have some useful guide or knowledge, please share!

Your contributions will get added to the r/bangladesh wiki in the future.

Thanks in advance!

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've been seeing this question a lot recently, and I thought I'd answer it: "Are Sylhetis Bengali?"Sylhetis being Bengali depends on who you ask. Bengali is a language that arose in the 9-10th centuries when Magadhi Pankrit diverged into modern-day Bengali-Assamese, Maithili/Bihari, and Orissa (skipped a lot of intermediate transitions). Bengalis weren't a fully defined identity until the Bengal sultanate in the early 1300s, which was more socio-religious and united many Muslims of different ethnic backgrounds (who tended to be upper-caste Hindus that converted to Islam). However, this caused pushback from many groups including tribal kingdoms (like the Koch-Rajbangshis, Tripuris, and Khasi/Jaintas). Under the Bengal Sultanate, there was actually a conversion of some Rajbanshis from Hinduism/Buddhism to Islam but many rejected identifying as Bengalis (around 300 years later under the Mughals these Muslims were known as the Nashya Sheikh sub-clan of the Rajbangshis). Sylhet historically has been part of tribal kingdoms that belonged to the Khasi/Jainta tribes of Meghalaya. After the fall of the Kamarupa Empire, Meghalaya, Rangpur, Sylhet, parts of Assam and northern West Bengal (Darjeeling/Cooch Behar) got divided into smaller "petty" kingdoms like the Koch Hajo/ Koch Bihar, Jainta (and then Gour/Dimisa Kachari) Kingdoms, and Laur Kingdom. During the rule of the Jainta from around 630-1100, the natives of the southern region of the Jainta Kingdom were known as the plains people and were called the Dkhar (this was a generic term that applied to the Rajbangshis, modern-day Sylhetis, and some other groups). The Khasi/Jainta and other hill tribes were known as the "Hills People". In fact, if you ever met a Khasi or Jainta person with the last name Dkhar it means that have mixed Plains-people (either Rajbanshi or modern-day Sylheti) and Khasi lineage. If you noticed I kept using "modern-day Sylheti" so far, this is because in the 700s it was unclear what the people of the Southern Plains (who weren't Rajbangshi) called themselves. These people were (like the Khasis) early Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burmese settlers that mixed with early Dravidians. Many of the Khasis referred to these people as "Shelia Haat" meaning "people of Shelia" in reference to the fact that many of these Dkhars lived in the Shelia district of southern modern-day Meghalaya (borders Sylhet). "Shelia Haat" later became "Sylhoti" (which is what the Sylhetis call themselves in their language) a

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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

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!!!"

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!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

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

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

And boy are my arms legs.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

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.

India is characterized by more ethnic and religious groups than most other countries of the world. Aside from the much noted 2000-odd castes, there are eight "major" religions, 15-odd languages spoken in various dialects in 22 states and nine union territories, and a substantial number of tribes and sects.

Three ethnic or religious conflicts have stood out of late: two occurred in the states of "Assam and Punjab; another, the more widely known Hindu-Muslim conflict, continues to persist. The Assam problem is primarily ethnic, the Punjab problem is based on both religious and regional conflicts, while the Hindu-Muslim problem is predominantly religious.

ETHNIC CONFLICT IN ASSAM

Of the three conflicts mentioned, Assam has attracted the largest attention of late. Not since the 1947 partition of India have so many people been killed and uprooted as a result of ethnic or communal violence. By most available reports now, mob violence has claimed four thousand lives, rendered about 200,000 homeless, and forced a large number to leave the state for protection elsewhere. The immediate occasion of this bloodshed was the election held in February, though conflict and tension have been present for the last three years. In Assam, three culturally disparate groups have been in collision: the Assamese, the Bengalis (both of which have segments of Hindus and Muslims) and the tribals, which are localized communities.

Historical Pattern of Migration

Assam has had the highest rate of population growth in India since the beginning of this century. Migration into the state accounts for a substantial part of this growth. Most migrants came from Bengal, including what is now Bangladesh (known as East Bengal before the 1947 partition and East Pakistan from 1947-71). Bengali migrants were both Hindus and Muslims. Bengali Hindus started arriving after the British created tea plantations in the middle of the nineteenth century. Because of their educational advantage over Assamese, they were better suited to man the growing administrative and professional machinery.

Bengali Muslims on the other hand, were mainly peasants. They originated predominantly in East Bengal, a highly populated area with low agricultural productivity and a fragmented landholding pattern incapable of supporting large families. In contrast, Assam was less populated, many areas were unsettled, and there was less pressure on the land. Bengali peasants made large tracts of waste, flooded and forested land

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

I won't be doing that today!

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!