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Old Jul 12th 2007 | 1:21 pm
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1. Most likely your incredibly sophisticated mobile phone won't work here. Live with it.

2. None of your electrical appliances (battery operated appliances such as dildos excepted) are worth bringing with you.

3. If you have no initiative to use in finding a job first, forget the whole idea.

4. Canada is a big place. This has several implications.

5. Schools are not a reason to decide where to live (with very minor exceptions).

6. Some folk prefer Alberta, some others prefer Nova Scotia, BC, Ontario, Quebec, etc. This is totally irrelevant. (But if someone suggests Nunavit, they are probably taking the piss). Their opinion is dependent on where they actually are, not on knowledge of anywhere else in Canada. And here I plagiarize a former poster called iainK, "A happy ex-pat is one who enjoys their job...." corollary obvious. ( I hope).

7. there is no seven.

8. An important one here. Canada is a multicultural society. Please do not expect that, just because you come from the former colonial power, you have any special status here. You don't.

9. Trucker's wages are just awful here as they are in most other countries. You're a trucker, what did you expect?

10. Don't mess with dbd33: you won't win.

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Old Jul 12th 2007 | 1:24 pm
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A Marmite answer didn't make your top ten??
 
Old Jul 12th 2007 | 1:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Biiiiink
A Marmite answer didn't make your top ten??
Sorry.

7. M**mite is widely available, if you are thick enough to look for it. I hear it's good with caviar.
 
Old Jul 12th 2007 | 1:50 pm
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3. If you have no initiative to use in finding a job first, forget the whole idea
What do you mean by this? are you suggesting that people only arrive in Canada with a job lined up?
Just curious.
 
Old Jul 12th 2007 | 2:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Danny B
What do you mean by this? are you suggesting that people only arrive in Canada with a job lined up?
Just curious.
No, just that it's really silly if they don't.
 
Old Jul 12th 2007 | 4:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Danny B
What do you mean by this? are you suggesting that people only arrive in Canada with a job lined up?
Just curious.
That offer of voluntary work's still open Danny
 
Old Jul 12th 2007 | 4:09 pm
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
1. Most likely your incredibly sophisticated mobile phone won't work here. Live with it.

2. None of your electrical appliances (battery operated appliances such as dildos excepted) are worth bringing with you.

3. If you have no initiative to use in finding a job first, forget the whole idea.

4. Canada is a big place. This has several implications.

5. Schools are not a reason to decide where to live (with very minor exceptions).

6. Some folk prefer Alberta, some others prefer Nova Scotia, BC, Ontario, Quebec, etc. This is totally irrelevant. (But if someone suggests Nunavit, they are probably taking the piss). Their opinion is dependent on where they actually are, not on knowledge of anywhere else in Canada. And here I plagiarize a former poster called iainK, "A happy ex-pat is one who enjoys their job...." corollary obvious. ( I hope).

7. there is no seven.

8. An important one here. Canada is a multicultural society. Please do not expect that, just because you come from the former colonial power, you have any special status here. You don't.

9. Trucker's wages are just awful here as they are in most other countries. You're a trucker, what did you expect?

10. Don't mess with dbd33: you won't win.
Dear Nov

I object to your tone.

I am a blue-tooth wearing trucker, will this mean that I will have to be out of communication whilst driving long distances? Will this mean that I will have to work to find employment? Will my marmite stirring dildo still work?
 
Old Jul 12th 2007 | 4:11 pm
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Originally Posted by R I C H
That offer of voluntary work's still open Danny
Yeah Thanks, I knew I could count on you
 
Old Jul 13th 2007 | 1:38 am
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Originally Posted by busterboy
Dear Nov

I am a blue-tooth wearing trucker, will this mean that I will have to be out of communication whilst driving long distances? Will this mean that I will have to work to find employment? Will my marmite stirring dildo still work?
Your dental problems are of no interest to me. You will certainly be out of communication for long distances if you intend to drive here from Melbourne.
Yes, as noted, battery operated m**mite stirring dildos function perfectly well in Canada.
 
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BIIIIIIIIINK. Please make this thread sticky. I think it covers everything...
 
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(battery operated appliances such as dildos excepted)
Ahem... Novo, dildos are not battery operated; those are vibrators.
Please do get it straight, it's not that hard.
 
Old Jul 13th 2007 | 1:56 am
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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
Ahem... Novo, dildos are not battery operated; those are vibrators.
Please do get it straight, it's not that hard.
Boom, Boom!
 
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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
Please do get it straight, it's not that hard.
Excuse me. Let's not get personal here.
 
Old Jul 13th 2007 | 2:02 am
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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
Ahem... Novo, dildos are not battery operated; those are vibrators.
Please do get it straight, it's not that hard.
Ah! I bow to first hand experience.
 
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
Ah! I bow to first hand experience.
 


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