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Forum: Canada
Apr 1st 2014, 9:21 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

If the weather was like this in the UK, we'd all have moved to Spain. Why do people move to Canada again?
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2014, 11:00 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

The girls got the strap (the belt) for whistling. "Girls whistling makes Our Lady cry."
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2014, 10:30 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Depends how bad you'd been... a minor transgression, you were whacked with a 30cm ruler. For a serious crime, like sneezing during the Hail Mary, the nuns beat you with a metre-stick.
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2014, 12:22 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

-31C here this morning. Due to warm up significantly this week, thank ****.
Forum: Canada
Mar 27th 2014, 4:26 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I started on £8,600 in central London in 1989 as a fresh-faced teenager, and I was flat broke.

I think I took home about £600 a month - my rent was £300, my travelcard about £80, other bills about...
Forum: Canada
Mar 26th 2014, 12:52 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Agree with Novo. I've made plenty moves in my life, never once with a recce or even a lot of forethought. But all with an aim, to advance my career or fill the piggy bank.

Some of these places...
Forum: Canada
Mar 22nd 2014, 5:16 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

More mud bath than swimming pool, I'm afraid. And I concede that the mud is worse.
Forum: Canada
Mar 22nd 2014, 1:29 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I don't know where you are, Tirytory, but generally it can disappear very quickly... a week of warmer days will see off most of it, if not all. The danger we have up here is that the overnight...
Forum: Canada
Mar 22nd 2014, 12:30 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

-29C here this morning. We've had snow on the ground since October, it'll only clear in May. I make that 8 months.

What I can't get my head round is that at some point in the past, native people...
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2014, 9:03 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

The use of nouns as verbs is very poor grammaring.
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2014, 7:43 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

True, but one of those two questions sounds like a nail scraping down a blackboard, while the other one doesn't. Both are correct, but only one is right.
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2014, 6:59 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Very good. :)

But you're still wrong. It's possible to be technically correct and yet quite wrong.
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2014, 6:24 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Perhaps, but by their very nature, dictionaries are for people who don't know better. ;)
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2014, 2:57 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Just because something is allowed doesn't make it right. Tailored shorts, for example.

The dictionaries probably also say that "medal" is a verb as well now; as in, "Canada tipped to medal in...
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 12:15 pm
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Erm... I didn't.
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 11:01 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Golf is a game, not a verb. North Americans "go golfing". Gentlemen play golf.
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 9:17 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Hey iain, when are you going to head out west to do some real skiing?! ;)
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 6:10 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Picture of winter in Canada and a strangely converted speed limit sign.
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 1:47 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

I just had a conversation with an engineer about a 3 metre length of 8" pipe. this is normal, the length is in metric, the diameter in imperial.

For me,

Temperature is Celsius - I don't...
Forum: Canada
Mar 18th 2014, 8:55 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Maybe the order goes up in cm, but God still uses inches.
Forum: Canada
Mar 15th 2014, 3:40 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Ah well. You've got to laugh, apparently.
Forum: Canada
Mar 15th 2014, 3:05 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

If this thread proves nothing else, it's that Canadian winters f**k up people's sense of humour. :rofl:
Forum: Canada
Mar 14th 2014, 12:15 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

Remember not to fold your customs card when you come back. Apparently it's very important.
Forum: Canada
Mar 13th 2014, 12:06 am
Replies: 544
Views: 35,798
Posted By Jingsamichty

Re: The truth about winter in Canada.

We had the first warm spell up here in northern Alberta yesterday, with temps above 0C, meaning that the conditions are atrocious. Filthy, dirty, slushy, skiddy... it still freezes again overnight so...
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