Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Oct 5th 2006, 3:11 pm
#16
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Souvenir
Are you a GU poster too?
Oct 5th 2006, 3:14 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by dbd33
I mentioned Guardianista Acres as being the name of the "farm" otraynor and I are trying to buy (or have bought contingent on getting rid of the house). The name was a bit of a joke but now the accountants and lawyers have run with it so we may be stuck with it forever.
Where are you buying the farm?
Oct 5th 2006, 3:23 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Souvenir
I never did ask you the origin of YAL's nick.
Where are you buying the farm?
Where are you buying the farm?
Oct 5th 2006, 3:25 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Souvenir
Are you a GU poster too?
Oct 5th 2006, 3:30 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
No, but when I met dbd and his OH in the pub he recounted tales of heated debates on the GU board. You shoulda seen the look on their faces when I told 'em I was a Telegraph reader!
<glosses over which UK broadsheet he has saved in his favourites>
Oct 5th 2006, 3:31 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by dbd33
otraynor? That's a corruption of a family name, maternal grandparent I think, nothing thrilling there. The "farm", which is really a back yard with enough room for a couple of horses, is on the fringe of the GTA. Details to follow when and if it happens.
Oct 5th 2006, 3:38 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Does this mean you'll stop pouring scorn on those benighted folk, like myself, who choose to live north of the 401?
Oct 5th 2006, 3:44 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by dbd33
there's talk of one day seeing Barrie.
Oct 5th 2006, 3:48 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by dbd33
Having to do that is just one of the many humiliating aspects of the idea. I lived quite happily for years without going past Bloor, never mind the 401. Now I shop at the highway 9 market and there's talk of one day seeing Barrie.
<settles comfortably into new scorn-pouring mode>
Oct 5th 2006, 3:55 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Souvenir
You do like to walk on the wild side, don't you?
Oct 5th 2006, 4:00 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by willmore
Haven't lived in canada long have you?
Oct 5th 2006, 4:01 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by dbd33
No. I don't like animals. I don't like the outdoors. And I don't like abroad. I never wanted even to see Watford, but I am a man and I must go where my dick leads me; even if it's to nags, dogs and Orangeville.
Oct 5th 2006, 4:22 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
I'm tempted to let that be the last word on the subject.
He has a point though. Had I been castrated at birth, as opposed to in a divorce court, I wouldn't now be living in Gatineau and I certainly wouldn't have a bleedin' dog. I guess it's the price to be paid for being horny.
Oct 5th 2006, 5:00 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Souvenir
As if it could be.
He has a point though. Had I been castrated at birth, as opposed to in a divorce court, I wouldn't now be living in Gatineau and I certainly wouldn't have a bleedin' dog. I guess it's the price to be paid for being horny.
He has a point though. Had I been castrated at birth, as opposed to in a divorce court, I wouldn't now be living in Gatineau and I certainly wouldn't have a bleedin' dog. I guess it's the price to be paid for being horny.
Oct 5th 2006, 5:04 pm
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Re: Anybody about to move to Ontario / GTA ??
Originally Posted by Buchan6
Come on lads, I,m trying to flog me wares here, You're putting prospective punters off
