Missing British Television in Canada
Jun 7th 2005, 8:14 pm
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by pollard
I work in accounting, and the wife works in Telecommunications. I know there are a lot of pigs in southwestern ontario, and even northern ontario, we saw a lot of them on saturday, driving up to tobermory.
Jun 7th 2005, 9:09 pm
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by pollard
I can't believe you lot are getting all worked up about football and the broadcast of it over here in Canada. Well.....it's not the number 3 sport over here, it's way behind curling, hockey, and canadian football.?
Originally Posted by pollard
We all have to sacrifice something during times like these
As for being way behind "curling, hockey, and canadian football" - watch this space. North amercans are discovering just how exciting it is compared against most american slow moving sports such as baseball (yawn!). I'll accept that hockey is an exception to this as it has similar attributes to football and is nice and fast.
Us immigrants are evangelising soccer to the natives. In Montreal, 'the Impact' soccer team is drawing bigger and bigger crowds whilst the crowd for the 'expos' got smaller and smaller before eventaully being sold to washington and rebranded.
Originally Posted by pollard
Would you rather stay in the UK and get your soccer fix, or move to canada and have a better life, and enjoy the scenic area and nature?
M.
Jun 8th 2005, 3:40 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by pollard
I work in accounting, and the wife works in Telecommunications. I know there are a lot of pigs in southwestern ontario, and even northern ontario, we saw a lot of them on saturday, driving up to tobermory.
Jun 8th 2005, 8:01 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by crazydaisy
I had to read that twice then - I thought you said the pigs were driving - is that in Nivlad's research I wonder?? Yeah, and pigs drive (I mean fly!) and poop
Jun 9th 2005, 1:14 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
very funny....we were driving, on our way to tobermory, and we saw a lot of pigs on our way there, thru hwy 86, southampton, lions head, and sauble beach
Originally Posted by crazydaisy
I had to read that twice then - I thought you said the pigs were driving - is that in Nivlad's research I wonder?? Yeah, and pigs drive (I mean fly!) and poop
Jun 9th 2005, 1:18 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Am actually from england, herts to be specific. Am a rugby, cricket, and tennis fan. Even though I don't get to see the rugby as much as i like, it hasn't been the end of the world, there are more important things to do, like drive around to see stuff.
Have you seen the pics, in the posting pics thread?
Have you seen the pics, in the posting pics thread?
Originally Posted by Quinn of Québec
Pollard I'm guessing you are north american? For a european/south american/asian/arabic (in fact if you come from just about anywhere in the world apart from north america) you would know that football ('soccer') is the most passionate and popular sport in the world for many good reasons. We LOVE it!
sacrifice football? - have you taken leave of your senses?
As for being way behind "curling, hockey, and canadian football" - watch this space. North amercans are discovering just how exciting it is compared against most american slow moving sports such as baseball (yawn!). I'll accept that hockey is an exception to this as it has similar attributes to football and is nice and fast.
Us immigrants are evangelising soccer to the natives. In Montreal, 'the Impact' soccer team is drawing bigger and bigger crowds whilst the crowd for the 'expos' got smaller and smaller before eventaully being sold to washington and rebranded.
OR . . .? I want both and I shall have it - come on you Arsenal!
M.
sacrifice football? - have you taken leave of your senses?
As for being way behind "curling, hockey, and canadian football" - watch this space. North amercans are discovering just how exciting it is compared against most american slow moving sports such as baseball (yawn!). I'll accept that hockey is an exception to this as it has similar attributes to football and is nice and fast.
Us immigrants are evangelising soccer to the natives. In Montreal, 'the Impact' soccer team is drawing bigger and bigger crowds whilst the crowd for the 'expos' got smaller and smaller before eventaully being sold to washington and rebranded.
OR . . .? I want both and I shall have it - come on you Arsenal!
M.
Jun 9th 2005, 4:11 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by Voyager970
James
Put your dummy back in
You are in a new land, go out and explore, meet new friends, forge new relationships, forget british TV, its a load of crap.
Dont think you can get Sky etc over in Ontario, but I stand to be corrected
Eddie
Put your dummy back in
You are in a new land, go out and explore, meet new friends, forge new relationships, forget british TV, its a load of crap.
Dont think you can get Sky etc over in Ontario, but I stand to be corrected
Eddie
Winters here are extremely cruel with little alternative but to sit in watching TV. A few hours of watching dire US sitcoms and you'll be praying for British TV I promise!
Jun 9th 2005, 6:29 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by seacreature
With all due respects you don't live in Canada!
Winters here are extremely cruel with little alternative but to sit in watching TV. A few hours of watching dire US sitcoms and you'll be praying for British TV I promise!
Winters here are extremely cruel with little alternative but to sit in watching TV. A few hours of watching dire US sitcoms and you'll be praying for British TV I promise!
Unless you're wasi or Willmore then you have to put up with this!
Jun 9th 2005, 6:40 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Tell you what would be great to have in the winter though...a few episodes of "Only Fools and Horses"
Cannot understand why it hasn't gone out for sindication and the CBC haven't picked it up.
Cannot understand why it hasn't gone out for sindication and the CBC haven't picked it up.
Jun 9th 2005, 6:43 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by Iginla
There's always hockey to fill the gap.
Unless you're wasi or Willmore then you have to put up with this!
Unless you're wasi or Willmore then you have to put up with this!
Thanks for those - sums it up really.
Jun 9th 2005, 10:30 am
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by Iginla
There's always hockey to fill the gap.
Unless you're wasi or Willmore then you have to put up with this!
Unless you're wasi or Willmore then you have to put up with this!
(or was that you?
)
Jun 9th 2005, 3:02 pm
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by seacreature
With all due respects you don't live in Canada!
Winters here are extremely cruel with little alternative but to sit in watching TV. A few hours of watching dire US sitcoms and you'll be praying for British TV I promise!
Winters here are extremely cruel with little alternative but to sit in watching TV. A few hours of watching dire US sitcoms and you'll be praying for British TV I promise!
Jun 9th 2005, 3:06 pm
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
I don't why I didn't think of this earlier but... yes Willmore and I have Cloutier to put up with but you in Cowtown have this --->
(or was that you?)
(or was that you?
)I heard about that one. Apparently the worst streak in sports history.
He landed on the other side, slipped on the ice and knocked himself out!
Goes to show you, you should always take your socks off when running on ice.
Jun 9th 2005, 3:23 pm
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Originally Posted by seacreature
With all due respects you don't live in Canada!
Winters here are extremely cruel with little alternative but to sit in watching TV. A few hours of watching dire US sitcoms and you'll be praying for British TV I promise!
Winters here are extremely cruel with little alternative but to sit in watching TV. A few hours of watching dire US sitcoms and you'll be praying for British TV I promise!
In the winter I read a lot more, and my Sax (with an "a"
) gets more practice. Hell, we even play cards and have "conversations" too! Hard to believe I know for some.Much to my amazement I did stumble into a cricket highlite show on CBC. It wasnt on the Kingston or Peterborough affiliate, but the Ottawa one was showing "ICC cricket world " (or something like that) around 6.30pm on Saturday. It almost made my day. The OH had no idea what that was all about...and I wasnt going to waste three days trying to explain the LBW rule to a north american!
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Jun 9th 2005, 9:48 pm
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Re: Missing British Television in Canada
Okay I've only been here 5mins but tellywise, you don't even know you've left the UK. The programs that aren't direct imports are remakes...almost everything is "familiar" (I didn't say good!).
From memory, I've flicked over Corrie, Eastenders, Emmerdale, Strictly Come Dancing, Hells Kitchen, cricket, rugby union, loads of kids stuff (Balamory, Fimbles, Kipper, Boobah, Tweenies, Thomas...), Rough Guides, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Little Britain, a remake of that Graham Norton dancing thing, Pop Idol, Dead Ringers, a ton of home improvement rubbish, the Antiques Roadshow, Vets in Practice --I could go on and on. Hey, it's been raining here and my computer was broken, not much else to do!
Add in the american stuff we got in the UK and it's pretty familiar to me.
From memory, I've flicked over Corrie, Eastenders, Emmerdale, Strictly Come Dancing, Hells Kitchen, cricket, rugby union, loads of kids stuff (Balamory, Fimbles, Kipper, Boobah, Tweenies, Thomas...), Rough Guides, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Little Britain, a remake of that Graham Norton dancing thing, Pop Idol, Dead Ringers, a ton of home improvement rubbish, the Antiques Roadshow, Vets in Practice --I could go on and on. Hey, it's been raining here and my computer was broken, not much else to do!
Add in the american stuff we got in the UK and it's pretty familiar to me.