discouraged

Ha! Bastards can't understand a bloody word I say because of my accent which as a Former Lancastrian you will undoubtedly relate to.

Strangest culture I have ever come across. They were superficially interested in me for about 5 minutes after I arrived before cutting me off and retreating into their Canadian lawyer cliques, no doubt to discuss why the Law Society allowed somebody like me who wasn't trained at a wonderful, world-beating Canadian university and law school like them to join "their" profession.

Shard

Do you not have any common interests with any of the 75? There must be an Anglophile or two amongst that number.

discouraged

Very difficult to even identify common interests, let alone share them, when they aren't interested enough to talk to you socially, and on the occasions that they do speak on work matters, treat you like you are a lower form of life. Bloody awful.

Shard

Yes I suppose. Do they have any do-gooding iniatives (charity run, etc) you could join? Sometimes breaks the ice.

discouraged

Thank you for your kind concern and suggestions, but they're made of ice. Time for me to move on I think.

Lychee

My point is that we all make generalisations based on our limited, biased experiences. This forum is full of examples.

I'm reminded of my American colleague who recently spent a week in Vancouver. He's from Michigan. At the end of the week, he remarked, "You Canadians love your public transit!"

caretaker

You go to jail for Anglophilia in Saskatchewan.

Shard

Oink

But being a caninophile is culturally acceptable. That why all your dogs keep running away.

caretaker

I'm a dog person, dogs that haven't moved all day get up to say hi.

Oakvillian

I think, largely, yes. My mum (a very slight 5'1") pushed my dad around in his chair for the last few months of his life, and he walked (very slowly) with a frame for a while before that. She is full of lovely stories of people going significantly out of their way to help her, from pushing him up the steep hill outside the Royal Hampshire County hospital in Winchester, to stopping traffic to help them across a road, to small gestures like holding open a door or stepping aside from a dropped kerb at a zebra crossing.

Oakvillian

The day I catch myself saying "awesome job," likely in concert with addressing one of my children as "buddy" is the day I will demand some sort of intervention support. And if that utterance is accompanied by a rather awkward and limp high-five with said offspring, I shall encourage anyone in the vicinity to put me out of my misery forthwith on humanitarian grounds.

Juggernaut1064

Hmm intervention ? Would that be being force fed real fish n chips while having your eye lids taped open and made to watch Match of the Day & World of Sport with Dicky Davies (showing my age now lol) And said fish n chips washed down with Dandelion & Burdock ?



Note: I found a little Brit shop in WEM that sells Dandelion & Burdock in cans !

xxdb

Did I do that? Or do you not know how to read either?
Fact is there are signficant percentages of people in Canada who are rude, bullying, offensive, unfunny etc etc when compared to the average in the UK. That you don't want to accept that changes nothing.

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Oink

Present company excepted, I don't find them terribly offensive just utterly dull.