Mizz Teapot

I saw this on a "Canadians moving to the UK" forum:

http://www.canucks.co.uk/words.cfm

Steve_P

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Daedra

Sent you some karma teapot, that'll give me 5 minutes to wander round the site and see if its any better then the cr*p one I had bookmarked... I say cr*p because there is maybe 1 post a day on it *lol*

Daedra

Printer - Half the fun is in finding it out by opening your gob and putting your foot in it... I've just about managed to wash out the taste of verucas from my mouth after 2 years

Souvenir

And thus the myth that acetaminophen and paracetomol are different continues.

Daedra

Just thought I'd mention something else that might be useful... my English boyfriend made himself look a prat when he first came to Canada to meet me.

I got him a Molson Dry out of the fridge & handed it to him... he started searching around my kitchen looking for a bottle opener... when I asked what he was doing & he told me, I took the beer out of his hands and twisted the top off and handed it back to him. At first he thought I was really hard for a chick (not that hes wrong mind you) until I explained it to him.

The next evening, I asked him to get me a bottle of Heineken from the fridge while he grabbed himself a Molson... he thought he'd impress me by opening the beer for me... and managed to rip off a couple of layers of skin from his right hand.

Moral of lesson - Canadian & US beer bottles are almost always twist tops (including Buds), FOREIGN/IMPORTS AREN'T

Souvenir

Oh yes. Done that. Once was enough.

Daedra

What makes it more confusing is the identical Bud beer bottles in the UK aren't twist tops like in Canada, so he got his back on me after I moved here and repeated his error

Souvenir

A bigger danger is Carling. Always read the label properly. It comes in a variety of strengths. One of which is 10%.

Daedra

I'll have to keep that in mind... never tried Carling, like Carlsberg and then tried Kronenberg and got hooked on 1664 as my new UK beer of choice (that and Buds, whichever is on offer at Asdas)

ezvanetree

Of course, using the term 'yank' to refer to all Americans is meaningless to Canadians and Americans--a Yankee only refers to someone from the New York/New England area and even then you would never say "He's a Yankee" if he is indeed from the right area--it's a historic word last used commonly probably 100 years ago. Americans are simply referred to as Americans.

And Canadians rarely would refer to the USA as "America". It is the 'US' or 'the states'. I had no idea what people were talking about when I first left Canada and heard people use the term America. The country is "United States of America" referring to North America, just like Canada used to be called "British North America".

printer

YUK, rather you than me.

printer

Thanks for that, i have saved that in my favourites it will be useful.

Souvenir

I used the term only for brevity; to indicate that the person I was referring to was a North American from south of the US-Canadian border. I would gladly use another term but I'm not aware of one.

"American" wouldn't do. My other half is French Canadian and identifies herself as American, which she is.

macadian

Ho hum...in my very much younger days we referred to a can/bottle of Carling (the strong stuff) as 'leg openers'...a must as a 'carry out' to any party...!

Can picture the perplexed expressions if it was used here...jail time being a distinct possibility...:scared:

All a long time ago... ...and memory fades....