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As a born and raised Calgarian I can honestly say that Calgary has had and still has its problems. For a boom and bust oil cowtown it has made a lot of progress over the years. If you meet the wrong people in the wrong area, it is bad. If you leave urban areas, the prejudice tends to increase exponentially the more rural you get. Canada is 99% rural. That said, Quebec is Canadas Greece
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Montreal will always hold a special place in my heart because of the time I got into an argument with the Tim Hortons cashier while trying to order the farmers wrap meal who kept asking trio?. While I, in increasing agitation, insisted that I wanted the combo and did not want three farmers wraps.
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Oct 9, 2020 17:11
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the corona quid posted:Montreal will always hold a special place in my heart because of the time I got into an argument with the Tim Hortons cashier while trying to order the farmers wrap meal who kept asking trio?. While I, in increasing agitation, insisted that I wanted the combo and did not want three farmers wraps. i dont get it
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Oct 9, 2020 17:19
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HAmbONE posted:As a born and raised Calgarian I can honestly say that Calgary has had and still has its problems. For a boom and bust oil cowtown it has made a lot of progress over the years. If you meet the wrong people in the wrong area, it is bad. Calgary: We Wont Immediately Beat You To Death If You're Not White, But Prepare For A Lot Of Questions Like, "So, Where Are You From?" (full disclosure: I'm so honkey that when I go to Canadian Tire an employee keeps trying to put me in with the bicycle horns)
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Oct 9, 2020 17:21
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Fojar38 posted:Ontario has the most money. Like, by far. It's also the most boring province so it's more like the member of the family who makes a large and stable income by being CAO of a company that makes paperclips If you like being outdoors, Ontario is pretty awesome. However most of "cottage country" is now starting to turn into turnkey Airbnb operations. Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:This just seems to lead to the question of why bother not allowing them to secede? I believe the last time they wanted to but still wanted Ottawa to pay for poo poo. Its like when you spoiled 25 year-old kid moves out but still wants you to pay their rent and car insurance.
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Oct 9, 2020 17:26
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TheAardvark posted:i dont get it I didnt either until about 5 minutes later while enjoying my farmers wrap that probably had some dick rubbed on it when it occurred to me that trio probably meant combo in french.
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Oct 9, 2020 17:28
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Remember when those dudes flew a helicopter and landed in the yard of a prison to break out some Quebec mobsters That was rad as gently caress
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Oct 9, 2020 17:47
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the corona quid posted:I didnt either until about 5 minutes later while enjoying my farmers wrap that probably had some dick rubbed on it when it occurred to me that trio probably meant combo in french. 
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Oct 9, 2020 17:58
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Im sorry 🤌
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Oct 9, 2020 18:01
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one time at a wedding in ottawa i was trying to make friends with a dog all damned night and it just wasnt happening then i finally realized the dog spoke french and then it went a lot better thanks
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Oct 9, 2020 18:44
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Maybe Florida is America's Qubec with all the quebecers that go there in winter
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Oct 9, 2020 19:03
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Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:This just seems to lead to the question of why bother not allowing them to secede? What does the rest of Canada get from keeping them in the fold other than direct passage to Nova Scotia and whatever taxes PornHub brings in? It's been awhile, but I think part of the whole succession problem was even though Quebec wanted to govern themselves and set their own laws and policies, they also still wanted to keep receiving equalization payments from the rest of Canada. So it was less like "Let's shake hands and go our separate ways" and more "I'm divorcing you and I'll decide how much the alimony payments will be."
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Oct 9, 2020 19:19
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The separatists more or less wanted the Quebec equivalent of Brexit where they get all the advantages of being within Canadas economic and regulatory framework while saying theyre their own independent nation but with also the added ability to override it whenever it appears convenient thereby rendering all the advantages of being inside a larger collective for negotiations null and void.
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Oct 9, 2020 19:27
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Its largely a mute point as every subsection of Canada hates every other subsection of Canada. And it would be out of our national character to admit this nation is just barely held together by our combined mutual fascination with looking moderately better than Americans by relative comparison and its probably time to call it quits on this one nation horseshit.
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Oct 9, 2020 19:30
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Nah, Ontario is Canada's Florida. Alberta is Canada's Texas. The territories and all other provinces are Wyoming, and Quebec is Georgia (is Georgia the classiest southern state?) Corona Quid is right though. Canada is two colonies on the St. Lawrence that hate eachother, and a bunch of marginal trashland filled with assholes who got it from their ancestors' genocide. (the colonies were also acquired through genocide)
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Oct 9, 2020 19:35
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the corona quid posted:I didnt either until about 5 minutes later while enjoying my farmers wrap that probably had some dick rubbed on it when it occurred to me that trio probably meant combo in french. Trio means the same thing in French as it does in English. They were asking you if you wanted to join them in a threesome and you blew it!
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Vakal posted:It's been awhile, but I think part of the whole succession problem was even though Quebec wanted to govern themselves and set their own laws and policies, they also still wanted to keep receiving equalization payments from the rest of Canada. loving alpha move
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Colonel Cancer posted:
We have several, including nudist beaches, hell there's more than one beach choice on Montreal island alone. Dr. Gojo Shioji posted:A lot of people would have been better off if New France had beaten the English colonists. Yes. Pawn 17 posted:Quebec is the fancy plume on Americas Hat. Yes. Milo and POTUS posted:Quebec is the only thing making your country interesting False, there's also BC. EduardoEspecial posted:Bonjour, je m'appelle Poutine Nordiques Tabarnac. Hey salut man! Edgar Allen Ho posted:Qubc is better than Florida except for lacking a Disney World We have La Ronde which has cool rides including several B&M roller coasters and very little floridians so yeah, no. Shumagorath posted:A DISTINCT SOCIETY Yes. Vakal posted:Quebec is the eldest child of the family that never got a real job and never moved out of the house. Yes. Derpies posted:Is their a stereotype of "Quebec Man" like "Florida Man"? The "quebec man" is a resident of Quebec City or one of its suburbs. You do not want to interact with the quebec city man. baalaagaa posted:I hear there's good fishing in Quebec. Yes. GolfHole posted:montreal is pretty much 100% mob-run, it's cool Partial yes. Sekenr posted:I heard that the french find Quebecois dialect ridiculous. Someone posted that its sounds like someone speaks Shakespearian English with heavy New York accent. They make fun of our accent, they sound like monkeys to us, it balances out. DarkSoulsTantrum posted:The first time I visited Montreal we got lost and ended up in a residential area and some guy looked down from his balcony, noticed we were clearly lost, and came running down to help us. I always thought he was being a good fellow, but maybe he just wanted to get rid of us? This just sounds like the average, everyday, very cool Montreal dude. the corona quid posted:The separatists more or less wanted the Quebec equivalent of Brexit where they get all the advantages of being within Canadas economic and regulatory framework while saying theyre their own independent nation but with also the added ability to override it whenever it appears convenient thereby rendering all the advantages of being inside a larger collective for negotiations null and void. While I'm actually for Quebec independence in a very, very ideal world, the reality is anyone you meet that talks to you about Quebec independence is a complete loving moron and very likely a racist fuckjob.
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Oct 9, 2020 19:52
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and there's not even a beach
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the corona quid posted:Its largely a mute point as every subsection of Canada hates every other subsection of Canada. And it would be out of our national character to admit this nation is just barely held together by our combined mutual fascination with looking moderately better than Americans by relative comparison and its probably time to call it quits on this one nation horseshit. This seems about right, except maybe for breaking Canada up
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Oct 9, 2020 20:14
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Toronto has that big pointy dick tower, take that Quebec
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Colonel Cancer posted:Toronto has that big pointy dick tower, take that Quebec do not badmouth drake's house
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Bronze Fonz posted:We have several, including nudist beaches, hell there's more than one beach choice on Montreal island alone. How small are the floridians
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GolfHole posted:do not badmouth drake's house  gently caress you for making me remember that drake lives in toronno
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Oct 9, 2020 20:58
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I maintain that Canada should dissolve into independent states but all join the EU together immediately
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Noblesse Obliged posted:I maintain that Canada should dissolve into independent states but all join the EU together immediately Alberta would immediately declare war on BC.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Alberta would immediately declare war on BC. That's allowed in the EU
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Oct 9, 2020 21:15
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Did quebec burn down the white house? Could they do it again please.
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Bronze Fonz posted:They make fun of our accent, they sound like monkeys to us, it balances out. At least french people say grown up curse words. Also I grew up speaking france french and english and the first time I went to Qubec was certainly an experience. I didn't realize how hard it would be to understand. But now I like a lot of your music and have some canadian twang to my french so thanks for making me seem more interesting to strangers. e: here's the provinces and territories in order of goodness, assembled by a neutral outsider Qubec Ontario Maritimes Nunavut NWT and Yukon Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba BC Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Oct 9, 2020 |
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Oct 9, 2020 21:26
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crispix posted:a french canadyin was once very rude to me online I'm sorry
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What's BC? 
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numberoneposter posted:What's BC? It's basically a pile of fentanyl and real estate money laundering
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Quebec is funny. On one hand they have a vibrant cultural scene and Montreal has a reasonable housing market for a major city in Canada. On the other hand they have a literal Language Gestapo that goes around punishing businesses if they dare not use French. Like imagine if the New York State Police had a special division dedicated to fining businesses if they have the audacity to speak or write too much of the dreaded non-French languages. In summary Quebec is a land of contrasts.
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Oct 9, 2020 21:33
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numberoneposter posted:What's BC? Birth Control
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Quebec is funny. On one hand they have a vibrant cultural scene and Montreal has a reasonable housing market for a major city in Canada. Imagine if a hundred years ago the opposite was true though Also the fact is that basically anywhere but bumfuck rural Qubec you can bluster in and get service in english by yelling and whining, whereas the pissbaby anglos will swear a blood grudge against the francophone world if ever once a franco 50km from the QC border tries french before switching to english. "bilingual country" Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Oct 9, 2020 |
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Oct 9, 2020 21:35
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Its true. The English actually beat the French on the Complains of Abraham It was a mistranslation all along
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Saskatchewan is so boring they named the biggest city Regina to give people something to talk about.
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I took French every year in school and passed but I was never comfortable using it in a conversation. Never really had a chance to use it in Alberta and when I did go to Quebec everybody switched to English for me as I stumbled over the language. Western Canada taught French French and not Quebecouis. My daughter is bilingual due to French immersion school and she used to ask me to help her with her French....she was recording it and playing it to her classmates 
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French classes in my junior high school ended after the teacher and a complete loving mental break down and completely went off on this one kid who, while admittedly was a dickhead, was doing nothing to deserve the absolute wrath of god unleashed upon him. Teacher pretty much figured he was fired 2 minutes after the incident ended too lol
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I really wanna visit quebec some day. sucks because of covid 
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isnt quebec more like canada's louisiana with all the french stuff and also being the only part of a large region with any redeeming value at all
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