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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 14th 2025, 5:40 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,081
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: BBC sounds

The Tunein App on my Iphone works for me and I can 'cast' it in the car via Apple Car Play. It gets the BBC national stations and lots of the local ones as well.
Forum: Canada
May 13th 2025, 10:05 am
Replies: 32
Views: 22,657
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Anyone flown to the UK recently

Thanks. We're going to Norway, and Ireland in October and November from Canada and changing planes in France and the Netherlands. We're both Canadian Citizens and I'm a UK citizen (passport...
Forum: Canada
Jul 28th 2024, 11:53 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 3,109
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Where to live in Ottawa but not too far from Montreal

Lancaster, Ontario or in particular South Lancaster which is the part of Lancaster south of the 401 is nice and in half an hour you could be at stores in Cornwall or Valleyfield, QC.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 26th 2023, 1:25 am
Replies: 78
Views: 12,724
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: What happened to this place?

Dial up has reached a few areas and that is as good as it gets.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 28th 2023, 5:05 am
Replies: 44
Views: 4,608
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: How long to feel Canadian?

You are truly Canadian if you like the Tragically Hip. Sorry, just can't get into them and to me they (and Bryan Adams, Celine Dion) are net beneficiaries of Can Con quotas. I've been here more...
Forum: Canada
Jan 28th 2023, 5:01 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,769
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Ottawa

He comes across as an insufferable pompous windbag. Maybe related to Conrad Black?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 18th 2023, 11:06 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,183
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Dry January

I think going from I think it was 10 drinks/week to 2 drinks/week is some sort of drastic change and it seems as though Canada is the only country recommending that. I decided on January 1 to just...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 16th 2023, 9:28 am
Replies: 2,433
Views: 280,588
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?

Watched Season 1 and making our way through Season 2. Could you imagine working for 'Lamb' in that office :(
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 13th 2023, 11:28 pm
Replies: 340
Views: 50,076
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Life's Turning-Points

In Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/girl-guides-change-brownies-name-to-embers-1.6710193

The Brownies are to be called the Embers. You couldn't make this stuff up. A...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 10th 2023, 11:09 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 4,497
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: No direct flights from Ottawa to London UK

Good point. I think the OP is closer to Kingston and the train from Toronto to Montreal stops in Kingston and most trains stop at Dorval. An inability to speak french is not an issue at all at...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 9th 2023, 3:31 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 4,497
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: No direct flights from Ottawa to London UK

The 'french' signage is never something I've considered. My french isn't the greatest, I find the pictures on the signs are very good and a map app on your phone or GPS can get you there easily. ...
Forum: Canada
Jan 8th 2023, 8:30 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,212
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Car hire in the UK

Cars come in automatic transmission. Whatever will they think of next?

All kidding aside, I taught my late teen son how to drive manual in a few sessions going around empty business parks and...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 6th 2023, 6:35 am
Replies: 340
Views: 50,076
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Life's Turning-Points

I find it one of the more interesting threads on this forum which seems to have less and less traffic these days. I find the main posters input to be interesting to read. I would think that only...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 20th 2022, 3:57 am
Replies: 9,778
Views: 803,251
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

For the 1998 World Cup, the 'official' song was by Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Colour Scene, Space and the Spice Girls. I can't imagine that Echo and the Spice Girls had much in common. One of...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 19th 2022, 1:07 pm
Replies: 9,778
Views: 803,251
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I hope I"m able to blast that at a couple of scottish and welsh guys I know who have a viceral hatred for any England success. Greatest football song...what about the New Order one. World in...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 9th 2022, 11:48 pm
Replies: 2,433
Views: 280,588
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Goggle box- anything worth watching on TV?

Watching it now and I find the motorcycle gang parts to be boring and I prefer the previous 2 seasons of Trapped.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 22nd 2022, 11:26 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 2,211
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Tip nudges, tipping, etc

There is an 'artisinal' doughnut place near me that does this. They charge $4 I think a doughnut and I think 6 are $20 (tax in I think) and if you pay by card the card reader defaults to 15, 18 or...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 24th 2022, 12:57 am
Replies: 51
Views: 6,291
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: when your accent becomes a figure of speech

Despite living here now for over 40 years, I still drop 'numpty' and 'yobbo' into my conversations.
Forum: Canada
Jul 4th 2022, 4:41 am
Replies: 32
Views: 3,887
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Driving in Canada?

I routinely parallel park in a manual transmission car in one consistent movement between parked cars. Pull up to the steering wheel of the car in front and reverse in one continuous movement and...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 2nd 2022, 8:41 am
Replies: 9
Views: 5,004
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Bonking Boris

A friend of mine here in Ottawa did a year or two at Oxford at the same time that Boris was there (my friend, Boris and myself are all born the same year) and Boris basically had women drooling over...
Forum: Canada
Jun 30th 2022, 10:39 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 3,887
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Driving in Canada?

I seem to recall that they removed parallel parking away from the test in Ontario recently.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 30th 2022, 1:34 pm
Replies: 93
Views: 7,545
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Pierre Poilievre

I'm a 20 minute drive or so away from the 'Tick' where you say the anti gatekeeper lives.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 30th 2022, 9:04 am
Replies: 93
Views: 7,545
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Pierre Poilievre

https://twitter.com/_llebrun/status/1542547959061135360

Pierre is one of the 'folks'.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 29th 2022, 12:21 pm
Replies: 93
Views: 7,545
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Pierre Poilievre

He cherry picks information and for someone who rails against government intervention in our lives and the increasing presence of 'gatekeepers' in our lives acting as jobsworths and interferences in...
Forum: Canada
Jun 29th 2022, 12:19 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 3,887
Posted By Partially discharged

Re: Driving in Canada?

Failing a driving test in Canada is as difficult as finding Canadian television riveting :)
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