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Thanks for the education.

I see that I wasn't that far off when I said it reminded me of the bog.

And, courtesy of wilkepedia for providing the gory details, it sure is satisfying to know that the biological dad had his ejaculation before he made himself scarce.

No question I find UK alot friendlier. (Maybe not at night in a town center)
I came from Montreal and strangers (shopkeepers, drivers, neighbours, cops) are much more friendlier. It took me about a year of driving back in UK not to try to run someone over crossing the road or not letting anyone in a queue on the road. I even alomost ran over a few people on a Zebra crossing. I was ashamed of myself but these habits were ingrained from 20 years of driving in Montreal. I now smile and say hello to my neighbours, enjoy friendly banter with shopkeepers and slow down for old ladies crossing the street and let three people a day in before me on the roads.

I can well understand this. We have a few Zebra crossings here but people just drive through them. Expecting a motorist to automatically stop is plain foolhardy.

There is one zebra crossing I use on Cote des Neiges just north of Queen Mary. I always make sure I make eye contact with the driver first.

I think the zerba crossings in the UK are helped by the fact that most every traffic corner seems to be monitored by CCTV cameras and the penalty is HUGE for not stopping at a zebra crossings... of course they'd probably only levy the fines if an accident with a pedestrian occured on them, but I've finally learned to just walk out onto them & poor drivers if they fail to stop. Not only would they be levied with huge penalties, the laws in this country mean i could sue them for every penny they're worth.... ahhhh the confidence of crossing streets here is wonderful

Depends on the season. In Montreal it is almost always "Open Season" on pedestrians. Not so in the rest of Canada. For instance in Canmore, Alberta cars stop for pedestrians crossing the street even if they are not on crossings.

Sadly I must agree. In Ottawa, a mere 120 miles away, all one has to do is step off the pavement and traffic comes to a halt.

Yes. I was walking down the road in Calgary and merely looked out across the street and all the cars stopped. I didn't know what to do. I looked at them apologetically and continued on

In Sylvan Lake, Alberta cars only stop for the twenty-something blonde girls in bikinis. So if you have kids with you get in behind them and follow them across the road!

I find the people on the East side of Canada are not as pleasant as from the West. but non are as pleasant as the people in rural Norfolk in England,.
I have lived in Canada France and Germany and Norfolk tops the lot

Been driving here for 5 weeks and IMO the standard of driving is utterly crazy. No such thing as letting people out in a queue. Just barge on in and the devil take the hindmost. Saying that, I haven't seen any hand gestures yet.

Maybe I just haven't got the confidence yet??

It's a cultural thing and you get used to it after a while. For instance British drivers scare my Canadian wife when they drive along the narrow twisting roads at high speed.

I still have to shut my eyes sometimes when my partner is booting it down the M61 & changing lanes so close to other vehicles. Scared the piss out of me when I saw how close to one another you drive here... mind you, thats probably due to the lanes being so narrow & so many 2 lane roads turning into 1 lane because of people parking on the side of the roads... need more free parking & driveways in this country *lol*

Had to drive from SK to AB in the pissing rain on Friday ... zero visibility ... speeding ... random lane changing ... excessive dumbass tail gaiting ... reminded me of driving in the UK.

Funnily enough, most of the traffic was from SK to AB, not that many people going from AB to SK ... guess that the Prairie have not provinces are the new Atlantics.

If you've not experienced it yet, just wait for your first winter snowstorm with high winds... literally the car that was just in front of you disapears and all you see is white stuff blowing past your windscreen.... that even sh*ts up the Canadians & they tend to slow down (believe it or not) on the highways