What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
#108
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
I've only moved to Toronto for a few months and yet I'm still struggling to cope with the following below, and by no means I'm not bashing them, they are just what I have experienced thus far.
1. Milk and Cheese way overpriced due to the government policy.(Good for the farmers though)
2. Summer is scorching hot and winter just started as of today where it snowed in Toronto in October.
3. Around 70%-80% of the job information can be acquired by CONNECTION, which leads to corruption and mediocre workforce.
4. Canadian biscuits are simply crap and not many to choose from at all, there're imported McVitie's from the UK but very expensive, even the local cream crackers are abysmal.
5. No distinctive culture.
1. Milk and Cheese way overpriced due to the government policy.(Good for the farmers though)
2. Summer is scorching hot and winter just started as of today where it snowed in Toronto in October.
3. Around 70%-80% of the job information can be acquired by CONNECTION, which leads to corruption and mediocre workforce.
4. Canadian biscuits are simply crap and not many to choose from at all, there're imported McVitie's from the UK but very expensive, even the local cream crackers are abysmal.
5. No distinctive culture.
#109
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
If you close your eyes they pass for hobnobs.
#110
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
#3 there and thats how one ends up with companies full of family members and difficult for outsiders to get in.
Its tough getting good jobs in Canada if you dont know people.
Why are cookies called biscuits?
Its tough getting good jobs in Canada if you dont know people.
Why are cookies called biscuits?
I've only moved to Toronto for a few months and yet I'm still struggling to cope with the following below, and by no means I'm not bashing them, they are just what I have experienced thus far.
1. Milk and Cheese way overpriced due to the government policy.(Good for the farmers though)
2. Summer is scorching hot and winter just started as of today where it snowed in Toronto in October.
3. Around 70%-80% of the job information can be acquired by CONNECTION, which leads to corruption and mediocre workforce.
4. Canadian biscuits are simply crap and not many to choose from at all, there're imported McVitie's from the UK but very expensive, even the local cream crackers are abysmal.
5. No distinctive culture.
1. Milk and Cheese way overpriced due to the government policy.(Good for the farmers though)
2. Summer is scorching hot and winter just started as of today where it snowed in Toronto in October.
3. Around 70%-80% of the job information can be acquired by CONNECTION, which leads to corruption and mediocre workforce.
4. Canadian biscuits are simply crap and not many to choose from at all, there're imported McVitie's from the UK but very expensive, even the local cream crackers are abysmal.
5. No distinctive culture.
#111
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
I've only moved to Toronto for a few months and yet I'm still struggling to cope with the following below, and by no means I'm not bashing them, they are just what I have experienced thus far.
1. Milk and Cheese way overpriced due to the government policy.(Good for the farmers though)
2. Summer is scorching hot and winter just started as of today where it snowed in Toronto in October.
3. Around 70%-80% of the job information can be acquired by CONNECTION, which leads to corruption and mediocre workforce.
4. Canadian biscuits are simply crap and not many to choose from at all, there're imported McVitie's from the UK but very expensive, even the local cream crackers are abysmal.
5. No distinctive culture.
1. Milk and Cheese way overpriced due to the government policy.(Good for the farmers though)
2. Summer is scorching hot and winter just started as of today where it snowed in Toronto in October.
3. Around 70%-80% of the job information can be acquired by CONNECTION, which leads to corruption and mediocre workforce.
4. Canadian biscuits are simply crap and not many to choose from at all, there're imported McVitie's from the UK but very expensive, even the local cream crackers are abysmal.
5. No distinctive culture.
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#112
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Since we're on the topic folks, just discovered chocolate chip Hobnobs! Progress is sweet.
#115
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
You don't necessarily expect a commonwealth country, sharing the same language and many other things to use a word already existing to be used for something different and to use a different word for something already known by the word you use for something else.
This can't be answered by reference to Canada's proximity to the USA because Canada does many things not the American way.
#117
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
My spelling has never been the best but isn't Biscuit and Cookie two totally different words ?
Now tire and tyre they are the same words just spelt differently
And Fries is originally a French thing not USA
Now tire and tyre they are the same words just spelt differently
And Fries is originally a French thing not USA
Last edited by magnumpi; Oct 18th 2015 at 4:36 pm.
#118
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Cookie- North American A sweet biscuit.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Dutch koekje 'little cake', diminutive of koek.
Biscuit-
UK- British A small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet:
a chocolate biscuit
US/North America- North American A small, soft round cake like a scone.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis 'twice' + coctus, past participle of coquere 'to cook' (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep).
#119
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
The question should be the other way round. Biscuit comes from the French word, biscuit. Americans probably found cookie a more homely way of describing the same item. Cookie is now being used in the UK too.
Since we're on the topic folks, just discovered chocolate chip Hobnobs! Progress is sweet.
Since we're on the topic folks, just discovered chocolate chip Hobnobs! Progress is sweet.
#120
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
The last page or so of this thread really takes the biscuit. I think you're all cookie.