caretaker

Tell the whole story Milly, we're incredibly good looking too!

MillieF

You know me far too well!! I couldn't possibly comment!!

januarymix

Drivel if I may say so. This is a forum so if people want to "complain" (which in some cases is saying it as they have experienced it), they can, just like you are complaining about people who "complain".

MarylandNed

I'm not complaining about people who complain. There's a difference between complaining about something and talking complete nonsense for the sake of it simply to make a point.

For example, if someone says it always rains in Vancouver and the sun never shines there, then that's obviously complete drivel because it's simply not true. However, if someone complains about the amount of rain (or number of rainy days) Vancouver gets (particularly between fall and spring), then it's harder to dispute that. You might be able to argue about the amount of rain or number of rainy days but you can't deny that it rains there. Similarly you can't deny that Vancouver gets a lot of sunshine hours annually.

See the difference?

dbd33

I'll rephrase. I don't like Vancouver because, when I'm there, it rains.

BristolUK

When are you going again. Just want to note it in my diary.

Steve_

The UK is very Euroskeptic, I think you have a misunderstanding of how British people view Europe. They view it the way Albertans view Quebec, by and large.

Freedom of movement means little if you don't speak the language. I guarantee you that no British person you will ever meet has the vaguest idea who their MEP is.

Well Canadian culture is an immigrant culture by and large, a combination of the cultures of the immigrants, although Canada does have the First Nations culture.

I always think the people who are against seal hunting don't seem to understand that it is part of Canadian culture. They see white people clubbing seal cubs and think that is cruel, but if it was First Nations doing it, they'd say "okay I don't like that but it is part of their culture". However the reality is that the Newfies who do it are descendants of the very first Europeans to settle Canada back in the 1500s and okay yes they are white by and large but they are purely Canadian and they picked it up from the Inuit.

There is no "European" society or culture per se. Canada has a population smaller than France, Italy, Germany, Poland or the UK.

The only consistency I can think of is that Canadians like to stand further apart to talk to each other than Europeans.

MarylandNed

I'd say the better analogy is that the UK views Europe much as Quebec views the rest of Canada. An uneasy alliance that could one day be no more.

I don't think Brits consider themselves to be part of Europe at all. They see themselves as somewhere between the US and continental Europe.

The other day I was talking to my daughter about visiting Europe and then going to the UK. She said "Isn't the UK in Europe?"

Almost Canadian

How you think Albertans view Quebec? From my experience, they care little about what Quebec does until the politicians in Quebec state that they are going to petition the Federal Government for more funds. When that happens, Albertans comment upon equalization payments and the conversation then returns to something far more interesting; such as hockey

james.mc

Once I had a card rejected at a petrol station in the UK. The card was issued in Luxembourg. The girl at the till looked at the card and said.. "Oh! It's one of those foreign cards, the system doesn't like foreign cards!"

I pointed out that it works all over the EU, except this part of the EU! Funny that

Novocastrian

A bit like trying to use Interac in Florida then.

JonboyE

And the sun came out the day after you left.

Mikeypm

Are you trying to say dbd brings the crap weather with him

dbd33

I saw it as being metaphorical sunshine though it was literally true of the last trip there.

james.mc

I guess.... Not tried that one there..... yet.