Originally Posted by Aviator

30 years since heading to the South Atlantic 258 British lives lost, friends lost, but not forgotten, 264 veterans have taken their own lives since the campaign. Many survivors still suffer, quite often in silence.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

I've been struggling to wring out of my addled brain the date of our first arrival in Canada, but I think it was today +/- a few in 1982. We arrived after 5 years in California (so 35 years since leaving the UK in total) across a land border from the US (Saulte St. Marie for irrelevant reasons) obviously by car and with our then 6 week old first child in the back seat.

We stayed in Toronto for about 4 years, then moved to Germany for about 8, returning in 1993 and living here for most of the year since then.

What to say?

I suppose a few points of advice:

Quickly learn to avoid Canada's Wonderland.
Never watch Iced Hockey.
Never buy a Ham and Swiss with Honey & Mustard dressing from Timmies.
Only drink Canadian lager when necessary.
Avoid sweet potato fries.
Celebrate the years of Trudeau and his successors.
Lament the ludicrous destructive fools currently in the federal government.
Leave before you retire.

HTH.

Originally Posted by jimf

You off to gauche caviar land soon?

Originally Posted by roofingman

Funny how people were always moaning about Trudeau when in power--Hes was a Dink..!!........Harper is great and has surrounded himself with great people like Kenney..( a future Prime Minister), Flaherty etc....Dont drink Canadian lager--lots of good ales out there-Okanangon Spring ales for instance.....I marvel at Canada's wonderland and miss it when abroad...retire abroad..??...betcha ya cant drink the water from the tap like we do here.....I came here 47 yrs ago with just a $100, (borrowed $400 to get here) no friends , no relatives , no job.....only worked for one employer -47yrs.....My house is worth one and a half million and I drive a Cadillac........Canada is great...!!

Originally Posted by shelley748

oh look who is here wrecking someone elses thread- bully for you- Mr my Greenfly are bigger than yours- people like you make me cringe!

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Caviar comes from Russia mostly and gauche in English means clumsy.

But yes, last day of June.

Originally Posted by jimf

Separately the words are as you suggest, however as you know when combined in the language of your destination country.............

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/w...a-7737519.html

Originally Posted by shelley748

oh look who is here wrecking someone elses thread- bully for you- Mr my Greenfly are bigger than yours- people like you make me cringe!

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Oh Christ. Can't you understand that someone can be well off financially and still be a dedicated socialist? Do you think perhaps that the the only ways to become well off are inheriting wealth, to screw everyone you work with, or to have no principles at all?

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Ooh, do you two have history? I looked at his previous posts and just concluded "ignore".

Originally Posted by Tangram

Why would anyone boast about having a Cadillac ?????

Originally Posted by shelley748

no he just wrecked my thread of my 10 year anniversary and I wasn't in the mood for it cos I just lost my dog if 15.5 years 2 days after I posted. Then I went back in to see who had replied and saw that idiots post.