Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by Piff Poff
(Post 11773849)
2003 Chev Malibu
I can't remember what I paid as a youngster, wasn't very much maybe 800/yr but I was in California back then. |
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. |
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by alpine_swift
(Post 11773969)
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.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...08fc3e1ffb.jpg If you close your eyes they pass for hobnobs. |
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?
Originally Posted by alpine_swift
(Post 11773969)
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. |
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by alpine_swift
(Post 11773969)
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. Jacob's Cream Crackers | Walmart.ca Products - Bulk Barn :) |
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 11774004)
#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? Since we're on the topic folks, just discovered chocolate chip Hobnobs! Progress is sweet. |
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 11774004)
Why are cookies called biscuits?
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 11774079)
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.
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 11774177)
Why are scones called tea biscuits here? ;)
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Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by magnumpi
(Post 11774218)
Lol wild n wacky ehh, some times it feels like we live in a foreign country, crazy world !!
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. |
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 11774234)
This can't be answered by reference to Canada's proximity to the USA because Canada does many things not the American way.
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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 |
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by magnumpi
(Post 11774252)
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 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). |
Re: What do you dislike about living in Ontario?
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 11774079)
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. |
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.
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