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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)
-   -   Gah. (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/gah-847126/)

JamesM Nov 16th 2014 1:24 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11473543)
I can't see the relevance of the question.
Sometimes to see you just need to look.

JamesM Nov 16th 2014 1:29 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11473516)
I can't engender any sympathy or empathy for the winter whiners here. Most, if not all on here, had the luxury, through t'internet, of learning of the severe, cold winters in most of the country and should have gone to OZ. Once there, they could have whined and moaned about the oppressive heat, so on the Canada forum we wouldn't hear from them again and again and again, ad infinitum.
But, despite that, Brits still want to come here, regardless of reading serious negative posts by you and others.
You're a bit strange really?

I don't know if you have many friends but pretty much everyone I know in Toronto was miserable, fed up and whiney last winter. It is what binds us Toronto folk together. Not enjoying the black ice and wind chill is not at all exclusive to immigrants but shared by all.

Tirytory Nov 16th 2014 1:31 am
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Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11473561)
Brits will moan about the weather wherever and whatever it is. National pastime.
Honestly I think Canadians are more weather obsessed than Brits!

Gozit... You'd hate it up here.. -10 already and a few inches of snow already and more forecast all week!:thumbsup:

JamesM Nov 16th 2014 1:34 am
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Originally Posted by Tirytory (Post 11473585)
Honestly I think Canadians are more weather obsessed than Brits!

Gozit... You'd hate it up here.. -10 already and a few inches of snow already and more forecast all week!:thumbsup:
I was looking at snowboarding stuff today.

Possibly some new gloves and a balaclava for the really cold days.

Gozit Nov 16th 2014 1:36 am
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Originally Posted by Tirytory (Post 11473585)
Gozit... You'd hate it up here.. -10 already and a few inches of snow already and more forecast all week!:thumbsup:
Euuugh:eek:

Novocastrian Nov 16th 2014 1:43 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11473516)
I can't engender any sympathy or empathy for the winter whiners here. Most, if not all on here, had the luxury, through t'internet, of learning of the severe, cold winters in most of the country and should have gone to OZ. Once there, they could have whined and moaned about the oppressive heat, so on the Canada forum we wouldn't hear from them again and again and again, ad infinitum.
But, despite that, Brits still want to come here, regardless of reading serious negative posts by you and others.
Were you to parse the post you quote, you might divine that I wasn't whining about winter (although I am thoroughly sick of Canadian ones after 30 years) but rather about the intolerant churlishness of Canadians these days.

I specifically referred to Our Glorious Dictator, one S. Harper, because producing this deterioration in the quality of Canada has very clearly been his objective for at least one and a half decades.

On a less important (more trivial) point, the internet hadn't even been dreamt of when I first came here.

Tirytory Nov 16th 2014 1:49 am
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Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11473587)
I was looking at snowboarding stuff today.

Possibly some new gloves and a balaclava for the really cold days.
Where do you snowboard?

JamesM Nov 16th 2014 1:56 am
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Originally Posted by Tirytory (Post 11473596)
Where do you snowboard?
My preference is Mount St Louis.

An hour and a half from Downtown.

https://mountstlouis.com/

Really nice facility.

plasticcanuck Nov 16th 2014 2:14 am
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Originally Posted by not2old (Post 11473566)
you wouldn't would you, then again .... what would you know about anything?
I must say that's a stupid response, but given the tenor of many of your prior posts I really shouldn't expect anything better from you.

plasticcanuck Nov 16th 2014 2:15 am
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Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11473580)
Sometimes to see you just need to look.
Did you write this sitting on a bar stool?

Novocastrian Nov 16th 2014 2:18 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11473606)
Did you write this sitting on a bar stool?
James has almost always been drinking. As have I. How about you?

It's just that some of us can hold it.

dbd33 Nov 16th 2014 2:50 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11473516)
I can't engender any sympathy or empathy for the winter whiners here. Most, if not all on here, had the luxury, through t'internet, of learning of the severe, cold winters in most of the country and should have gone to OZ. Once there, they could have whined and moaned about the oppressive heat, so on the Canada forum we wouldn't hear from them again and again and again, ad infinitum.
But, despite that, Brits still want to come here, regardless of reading serious negative posts by you and others.
This is silly, everyone complains about the winter, even those cradles who love the scenery of Saskatchewan and the music of Cancon bands. It's an unpleasent feature of the country.

MillieF Nov 16th 2014 3:02 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11473516)
I can't engender any sympathy or empathy for the winter whiners here. Most, if not all on here, had the luxury, through t'internet, of learning of the severe, cold winters in most of the country and should have gone to OZ. Once there, they could have whined and moaned about the oppressive heat, so on the Canada forum we wouldn't hear from them again and again and again, ad infinitum.
But, despite that, Brits still want to come here, regardless of reading serious negative posts by you and others.
Shut up....some of us ended up in tender relations, married with children involved...and a lot of international experience that didn't involve dealing with a bloody snowbelt! I (just because I am English too) put up with people like you whining about bloody gravy granuals? etc...I didn't want to stay in whining Britain (i left a long time ago, for a 'proper' life of travel and adventure...did you, or would you, had you had the chance?) but I'd sure prefer any strange continent to one with you in it! You are one negative moaner:thumbdown:

JamesM Nov 16th 2014 3:11 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11473606)
Did you write this sitting on a bar stool?
I've been known to enjoy sweet potato fries at Hooters every now and then.

Did you get out of the wrong side of bed this morning? You seem to have a chip on your shoulder this evening. Is it the weather?

JamesM Nov 16th 2014 3:18 am
Re: Gah.
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11473609)
James has almost always been drinking. As have I. How about you?

It's just that some of us can hold it.
I think a certain someone needs a drink.


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