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30 Problems Only Canadian People Will Understand.
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30 Problems Only Canadian People Will Understand. #11 Is So Accurate It Hurts.
12th August 2014
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1. People asking you to say ‘aboot ‘ for them.
2. Having roads in our potholes.
3. Accidentally setting your keyboard to French and not realizing for the longest time.
4. When I Travel Abroad, Locals Think I’m American.
5. When I Type '?,' It Comes Out As 'É'
6. Constantly getting duds when it’s roll up the rim season.
7. Uses Canadian Spelling... Gets Corrected By U.S. Spell-Checker.
8. Asks For A Double-Double... U.S. Cashier Doesn't Understand.
9. Paid $1.98 Charge With A Toonie... Got No Change.
10. Shipping with the US: free. Shipping internationally: 3 BILLION DOLLARS.
11. Panicking at the scent of burnt toast.
12. Just Got Netflix... U.S. Selection Is WAY Better.
13. If you pronounce the second 't' in Toronto, you obviously don't live in Toronto.
14. Tim Horton's withdrawel while abroad.
15. Wearing heavy-duty winter boots to school and looking like a hoser all day.
16. 3 second milk ads that leave you wondering what just happened.
17. Being asked if you ski to work.
18. Your international friends and family visit the other side of Canada but still expect to see you.
19. Wildly overestimating the price with tax, just to be safe.
20. Travelling to England means that half of your luggage is filled with plug adapters.
21. Ooh, 15 cents. That's really helpful Canadian Tire.
22. "I have a friend named ______ in Vancouver, do you know them?"
23. Salt stains on everything in the winter.
24. Fahrenheit is a confusing and impenetrable mystery.
25. Need to fake an American zip code because there isn’t a postal code box.
26. "And remember class, it must be by a Canadian."
27. The air hurts my face. Why am I living where the air hurts my face.
28. Having to take your mitts off in the winter to text someone back.
29. "What's your background?" I'm Canadian. "no, before that."
30. The calories in poutine. Seriously, the stuff tastes like heaven.
12th August 2014
...
1. People asking you to say ‘aboot ‘ for them.
2. Having roads in our potholes.
3. Accidentally setting your keyboard to French and not realizing for the longest time.
4. When I Travel Abroad, Locals Think I’m American.
5. When I Type '?,' It Comes Out As 'É'
6. Constantly getting duds when it’s roll up the rim season.
7. Uses Canadian Spelling... Gets Corrected By U.S. Spell-Checker.
8. Asks For A Double-Double... U.S. Cashier Doesn't Understand.
9. Paid $1.98 Charge With A Toonie... Got No Change.
10. Shipping with the US: free. Shipping internationally: 3 BILLION DOLLARS.
11. Panicking at the scent of burnt toast.
12. Just Got Netflix... U.S. Selection Is WAY Better.
13. If you pronounce the second 't' in Toronto, you obviously don't live in Toronto.
14. Tim Horton's withdrawel while abroad.
15. Wearing heavy-duty winter boots to school and looking like a hoser all day.
16. 3 second milk ads that leave you wondering what just happened.
17. Being asked if you ski to work.
18. Your international friends and family visit the other side of Canada but still expect to see you.
19. Wildly overestimating the price with tax, just to be safe.
20. Travelling to England means that half of your luggage is filled with plug adapters.
21. Ooh, 15 cents. That's really helpful Canadian Tire.
22. "I have a friend named ______ in Vancouver, do you know them?"
23. Salt stains on everything in the winter.
24. Fahrenheit is a confusing and impenetrable mystery.
25. Need to fake an American zip code because there isn’t a postal code box.
26. "And remember class, it must be by a Canadian."
27. The air hurts my face. Why am I living where the air hurts my face.
28. Having to take your mitts off in the winter to text someone back.
29. "What's your background?" I'm Canadian. "no, before that."
30. The calories in poutine. Seriously, the stuff tastes like heaven.
24. The day I realised I'd gone metric.. I'm watching a news show from an American channel in winter and the weatherman says 'It's a balmy 53 degrees' and my first thought was 'BALMY??? That's like half way to boiling... *pause* Ohhh. FAHRENHEIT'
7. See word four in the previous sentence. :)
True story - My first visit to Paris. I ask someone 'Parlez-vous anglais?' He replies 'Anglais-anglais ou anglais-américain?' I reply 'Anglais-canadien.' And he proceeds to respond in French and stays in French. Yeesh.
25. Getting stuck buying gas in the US because they want your zip code at the pump at the gas station. (Trick: doesn't work everywhere, but in many places, take your postal code and pull the numbers, and add '00' to the end.. so if it was H1H 2H3 - enter 12300.)
31. The same company has Canadian and American websites - but they sell only a fraction of the choices of the US site on the Canadian site - but charge 20% more for the same product and you can't order from the US one, even if you have a US shipping address because they won't take the Canadian credit card.
"Hey little Donna, still wanna? / You said to ring you up when I was in Toronto"
- The Kings, This Beat Goes On
#4: I was in Paris. Someone asked me where I was from. I said "Canada". He thought I had said "Scandanavia".
I explained, "No, from North America". "America?" "No, not America... the continent of North America." Sigh...
#24: We used Fahrenheit until 1973 or so, when Trudeau forced metric down our throats. Thanks, Pierre!
Metric was always legal to use. We learned it in science class.
So if you're old enough, you know both SI and Imperial systems of measurement.
#27: beyond "hurts my face" is "I can't breathe!". One big reason I moved to the west coast.
#31 Having to explain to people that Neil Young and 4/5 of The Band are Canadian; that we had Spoons long before Spoon; that Loverboy are NOT one-hit wonders; and the genius of Ian Thomas, Gino Vannelli, Patsy Gallant, Jerry Doucette, and Lawrence Gowan.