Cultural Assimilation
 

As part of my assimilation I have taken up Curling.
My life, I have used muscles I didn't know I had!
Carry on sweeping and the bingo wings will soon disappear!

Anyone else daft enough to play?

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I told my partner that when we move to Canada we have to do curling. :lol:

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That's Scottish....

(and all of the granite comes from Ailsa Craig, dontcha know!)

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As part of my assimilation, I bought an electric smoker last year and have just bought a boat...


:eek:

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Never, never, never, never. No surrender!

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I'm not sure that I am so empassioned...but in my heart I feel "No Surrender"! They don't want me...and I'm not so sure that I want them much...and if you are all looking at the time frame, I have just got home from being a volunteer at the Harvest Jazz and Blues...I'm tired and fed up...but I had lots of "new" Canadians" volunteered and they enjoyed it :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

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Curling, to me, has always been a bit like Bowls on ice. And since I always fancied the idea of taking up bowling, why not curling?

What's the surface like? The players don't seem to wear skates of any kind. :confused:

(I can't skate)

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No, they wear special shoes. They have grippers and sliders! :lol: Sounds very exciting IMO

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I've been thinking about trying it. Love the idea of losing the bingo wings. Lol

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Not ALL of it.

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It's a great pastime and provides a good workout, while having fun. Curlers are usually good, sociable people and it can be played with your life partner if he/she is inclined. I know quite a few couples who play together. I used to play until disability put an end to it.

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I did it as part of a corporate event. It was really easy to get the stone in the middle; on my first and only time playing I think I hit the middle spot about 75% of the time. I assume the skill is in the strategy or something.

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I think the skill is being able to do that when pissed up on rye whiskey and Coke.

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So I might be able to avoid going arse over tit then. Maybe. :unsure:

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I'm looking forward to playing a "sport" where it's ok to be middle aged and overweight. That, my friends is my kind of sport.

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It would certainly make it more interesting. At the time I couldn't wait to hit the bar afterwards, but the event was at 5:30 and everyone pretty much went home after the curling was done.

I don't know if this is normal here, but when I've been to this kind of thing in other countries, everyone ends up at some level of drunkenness afterwards.

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Like Skittles...especially when the bar is left unattended :eek:

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In my teens I was a spare on a team of amputees called The One-Armed Bandits in the CPR Men's League, and we won a lot of games. Some of them had one leg, some one arm or hand, but they'd been doing it so long they were really good.

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I'm a bit of cripple because of a dodgy knee so I play with an assist stick which means i don't have to worry about falling over as I slide the stone down the ice. The grippers that you can wear over regular trainers stop you falling over most of the time!
They seem a friendly bunch, our club has its own very cheap bar so that helps!!

I was quite surprised how much work it was to 'sweep' but ill get used to it! For anyone who is interested look out for a Learn to Curl afternoon, a great way to try it without paying vast sums to join a club!

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Is that Canadian Pacific Railway or really CPR? Just wondering, like, if a team has a bad run whether they come back from the dead or get back on track. :unsure: :lol:

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I was in a sports quiz once where the question involved the name of a particular sport. Something to do with a venue or competition name or some such.

I don't remember whether the answer was Curling or Hurling nor whether I answered Curling or Hurling. I didn't remember which was which.

I do know I gave the wrong answer but the quizmaster misheard and I "won" the points. :o

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What's wrong with good old cricket? It gets quite relaxing and fun once you ban chin music.

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If you aren't totally averse to drinking a bit while playing then darts may be for you. It isn't as strenuous as curling but does require a bit of stamina to play for long periods.

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We used to play shuffleboard at the Legion but then they went put the beer up by a $1.00 per pint so we don't go anymore. :thumbdown:

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I wondered why you hadn't mentioned the legion in a while. Skinflint.

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Darts. That's the sport for me. Beer and throwing sharp projectiles around. What could go wrong?

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Ouch

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It's all fun and games until someone gets poked in the eye.

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Sometimes, in my working life, I don't feel like I have assimilated at all.
I get tired of different terminology and trying to make sure I am understood, not just in what I am saying but in my intentions. Just a slight sentence change can make all the difference to how its perceived.


God only knows how long I have been upsetting people by calling their homes ugly in error in the homey versus homely situation.


I want to hear "who holds responsibility for..." rather than "who owns it" and "the details" rather than "level of granularity" and "lets return to that" rather than "we will do a deeper dive"
I counted the word "leverage" used when discussing new systems about 50 times in one speech the other day.
And when someone wrote "The parking lot" on a sheet of white paper and hung it up in the meeting room I wondered "what on earth...." until I realized that it was where the "deeper dive" items were going to be listed...


ugh


Rant over

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:rofl:

Never heard of these...presumably in the world of work.

Either sound suitable alternative names for the maple leaf part of the forum :rofl:

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Axe throwing is pretty big in the GTA these days. Why limit yourself to pricking someone when you could take a limb?

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I wish I had never heard of these either and yes its in the world of work.

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Last week someone who, I suppose, thought he was "reaching out to have a conversation" said "I'm going to share my values...". I leveraged the following minutes by entering a contemplative state or, as they'd have it here, "zoning out".

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LOL! Love it!!! :rofl:

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"Reach out" makes me want to vomit. As do "leverage" and "paradigm" (I never did look up that last one).

"Deep dive" is very common in corporate/government circles. It means nothing other than "we should use more advanced search terms in Google next time we try to think about something".

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There's loads of them.

I just found this and I was surprised at how many...then I noticed they were all letter by letter. :eek:

The Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary – R - The Office Life

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If ever you need "placeholder text" in a document to do a business-style layout, instead of using the graphic designer's standby "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..." pseudo-Latin stuff, you can try "bullshit ipsum," a collection of utterly useless jargon words strung together in random sentences with not enough verbs. A lot like a management consultant report, really...

Bullshit Ipsum

Here's the first paragraph it spat out for me this morning:

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Going forward my feedback on the on-boarding procedure will concern the utilization of profile images.

Few people have their credibility enhanced by the inclusion of a photograph with their emails "fashion victim", "geek", "slack jowled", "bit of a boozer", "mutton", "childish" are impressions easily conveyed.

"Competent person keen to help" is not.

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Retch out

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I don't have to take any of that, if I don't want to go to a staff meeting because I don't think anything constructive involving me will result I just tell them I'm not going. The concept of total quality management doesn't need any buzzwords.