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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   Canada (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/)
-   -   What's wrong with Canada? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/whats-wrong-canada-594473/)

act1980 Mar 30th 2009 6:00 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7435657)
People say that. I carry a fierce dog to put them in their place:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rHmRYyinWn...h/IMG_3333.JPG
:rofl::rofl: Cute!!:)

act1980 Mar 30th 2009 6:00 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy (Post 7435654)
You've seen her resume (and other half) then?


See above :p
Cheeky sod!!:p

dbd33 Mar 30th 2009 6:05 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Elaine B. (Post 7435680)
Is that a Labradoodle? It looks very like my friends dog.
Goldendoodle; half poodle, half retriever. Yuppie dog.

Oink Mar 30th 2009 6:13 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Rude and unhelpful bartenders. It's not my fault they did crap unmarketable degrees in communications or business studies.

Elaine B. Mar 30th 2009 6:50 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7435756)
Goldendoodle; half poodle, half retriever. Yuppie dog.
Ah not just your common mutt then, very nice.

dbd33 Mar 30th 2009 6:56 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Elaine B. (Post 7435948)
Ah not just your common mutt then, very nice.
Thanks. He's been a great success though deliberate crossbreeds are oddly controversial. We're about to try something more ambitious; pictures on blog.

clynnog Mar 30th 2009 7:24 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7435976)
Thanks. He's been a great success though deliberate crossbreeds are oddly controversial. We're about to try something more ambitious; pictures on blog.
Anything like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Q2HZRjHHQ

danfolkestone Mar 30th 2009 7:28 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by freddyfred (Post 7418576)
So you mean UK beer is measured differently? Because this doesn't effect Leffe being Belgian. Carlsberg in UK has 3.8% and 5% in Canada... explain? What they call in UK as Carlsberg Export has 5%... I thought it came down to consumption target and economics of transport.
I was at the Labbatts brewery in London, Ontario last week and they explained that the alcohol content calculated in metric is higher than the alcohol content calculated in imperial, which is why the same beer sold in the US and Canada will have a higher % marked on the can in Canada than in the US. The same may well apply in Britain.

I'm not quite sure why it matters whether the figures are measured in imperial or metric though - surely the point of percentages is to eliminate that kind of discrepency.:confused: I think it may be down to whether it is measured by volume or weight.

dbd33 Mar 30th 2009 7:31 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by danfolkestone (Post 7436082)
I think it may be down to whether it is measured by volume or weight.
That's true. Nothing to do with metrification.

clynnog Mar 30th 2009 7:40 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7436093)
That's true. Nothing to do with metrification.
Probably not the first and last fib that they would tell you at Labatt's...

Did they tell you that Canadians prefer bland lager with little in the way of discernible taste and that they know best when it comes to Canadians preferences for beer.

Auld Yin Mar 30th 2009 7:52 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7435756)
Goldendoodle; half poodle, half retriever. Yuppie dog.

That's what you call an intelligent blonde...................a Goldendoodle.

MikeUK Mar 30th 2009 8:34 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by clynnog (Post 7436127)
Probably not the first and last fib that they would tell you at Labatt's...

Did they tell you that Canadians prefer bland lager with little in the way of discernible taste and that they know best when it comes to Canadians preferences for beer.
Nope...... its the consumer research groups that tell you that the primary consumer group wants easy drinking lagers, along with the sales figures
A small percentage who think they are a much larger group than they really are (ala CAMERA) would like stronger tasting ales and lagers (it includes the brewers too) but they don’t make up enough volume for it to be economically viable on a large scale
They do produce some less mainstream brands but nowhere near the volumes of the others

clynnog Mar 30th 2009 8:49 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by MikeUK (Post 7436293)
Nope...... its the consumer research groups that tell you that the primary consumer group wants easy drinking lagers, along with the sales figures
A small percentage who think they are a much larger group than they really are (ala CAMERA) would like stronger tasting ales and lagers (it includes the brewers too) but they don’t make up enough volume for it to be economically viable on a large scale
They do produce some less mainstream brands but nowhere near the volumes of the others
You have a very valid point there about the beer snob type people who think their opinions are held by many people.

Novocastrian Mar 30th 2009 9:09 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by clynnog (Post 7436341)
You have a very valid point there about the beer snob type people who think their opinions are held by many people.
Not exactly relevant, but I actually witnessed a middle aged Canadian purchasing a 12 pack of 50 just yesterday. I should've took a photo.

Yogi-Bear Mar 30th 2009 9:20 am
Re: What's wrong with Canada?
 
Originally Posted by CaptainHook (Post 7435506)
A Citroen Deux Chevaux / 2CV, otherwise known as the ugly duckling.
They were also called a "Pram" upside down :)

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