Things you never thought you would say
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Things you never thought you would say
Last week I found myself saying the words 'I hope it was a rat'. Not a phrase I ever imagined myself saying in any of my 40 years in the UK. What sentences have you said during your Canadian lives that you couldn't have imagined uttering in the UK?
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Re: Things you never thought you would say
i dont understand the significance of the rat and your hopefulness.
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Something got into the duck shed and attacked our ducks. The dogs heard the commotion and their barking chased it off. It was either a rat or a mink, a rat can injure but would struggle to kill an adult duck, a mink can and would kill all of them, just for fun. I assume that whatever it was will revisit at some point - hence the hope that it was a rat.
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Something got into the duck shed and attacked our ducks. The dogs heard the commotion and their barking chased it off. It was either a rat or a mink, a rat can injure but would struggle to kill an adult duck, a mink can and would kill all of them, just for fun. I assume that whatever it was will revisit at some point - hence the hope that it was a rat.
What I'm going to do is, if and when I'm at work again with a co-worker, pretend to see something in the shadows and say "I hope it was a rat." Just as a bit of apocolyptic dark humor.
Last edited by caretaker; Feb 8th 2021 at 4:50 am.
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I've not actually said it but "it is what it is" has entered my thought process whereas in the UK I would never accept something just because that's they way it's done.
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I may have uttered 'have a good day' and possibly even 'perfect' but never awesome.
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This is from a good few years ago during my traveling years, but it's memory has stuck with me.
"Eat the damn marmot, it tastes just like dog"
"Eat the damn marmot, it tastes just like dog"
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If the answer's 'yes', you know what the next question is!
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The marmot was on a hitch hiking trip in mongolia, the truck stoped for a few hours, time to hunt and cook the marmot, cooked by placing hot stones in the pan, rather than the pan on the fire.