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Dec 1st 2007, 3:54 am

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by sam/stu

I've stopped 'bumming a fag'!!

Why the blatant homophobia? Why can't you just live and let live?

Dec 1st 2007, 11:42 am

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by dbd33

Not a phrase, but an expression I've found hasn't worked well is curling my finger and thumb and jerking them back and forth out of the window of the car. I often find that I have to walk over to the other driver and say "you are such a wanker" in order to make myself clear.

You can get arrested for that....I believe is called road rage, especially when you get out of your jamjar

Dec 1st 2007, 11:54 am

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by steve666

And what does the driver say back to you?

Usually they raise a finger.

Dec 1st 2007, 11:55 am

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian

dbd33 old chap, I'm told cruikshank requires our presence in advance of 6 pm so that Thorbjorn (sp?) will be suitably surprised. Is this also your understanding?

It is my understanding but I doubt we'll get there on time.

Dec 1st 2007, 11:57 am

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by Judy in Calgary

The Canadians in your part of the country know what a wanker is?

Depends where they came from. Usually, yes.

Dec 1st 2007, 12:02 pm

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by sam/stu

I wish I had never started this thread - this was supposed to be some 'light-hearted' banter, not this :-(
By the way, its fact not fiction! Although I'm sure that you meant nothing by it!! :-)

I find it hard to believe that not one of the teachers nor the principal of a secondary school in Ontario would know your child meant eraser when he said rubber. All during my childhood in Ontario we called the little pink thing at the end of a pencil a rubber. Same for the good old pink pearl rubbers they gave us in September every year.

Dec 1st 2007, 12:17 pm

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by dbd33

Usually they raise a finger.

You ought to be carrying one of your partner's hand guns. Or at least a dead chicken to whack him/her with.

Dec 1st 2007, 12:18 pm

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by bazzz

Why the blatant homophobia? Why can't you just live and let live?

Are you 'coming out' bazzz?

Dec 1st 2007, 12:33 pm

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by steve666

You ought to be carrying one of your partner's hand guns. Or at least a dead chicken to whack him/her with.

I'm hoping Santa will bring me my very own road rage expression device.

Dec 1st 2007, 10:40 pm

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

"Account Deleted", does that mean the poster deleted their account, or it was deleted for them?

Dec 1st 2007, 11:58 pm

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Originally Posted by steve666

Are you 'coming out' bazzz?

Why, do you fancy a bit?

Dec 2nd 2007, 12:10 am

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

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Why, do you fancy a bit?

Well, you know where I am.

Blatant homophobia? Have you just come out of university?

Dec 2nd 2007, 12:32 am

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Re: Canadian/British phrases!!!

At work on Friday I updated my iChat status (something we all use at work to communicate during the day) to say that I was feeling a little delicate that day (I have a bad cold). Apparently to my Canadian colleagues, being female and being in a "delicate" condition is being pregnant...NOT what I intended, and since my husband works 20 feet from me at the same company it was even worse!