Canajan, eh?

[profen4]

Originally Posted by Isilya

Checking in as another Canadian. I'm currently in Ontario but I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

And for the sake of a time honored Canadian tradition, 'How's the weather?"

ao lot bon bon quan ao nu tat so sinh cho be chan vay cong so nu thoi trang cong so nu cho thue trang phuc
Welcome, easterner Being someone who has lived in Calgary, and now lives in Victoria, I can't complain about the weather.

[DomesticImp]

Originally Posted by Isilya

Checking in as another Canadian. I'm currently in Ontario but I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

And for the sake of a time honored Canadian tradition, 'How's the weather?"

Freakishly warm here, considering it's the end of Jan!

[Hip-Hop-a-potamus]

Originally Posted by DomesticImp

Freakishly warm here, considering it's the end of Jan!

Compared to LAST January, I'll take it!

HH, who escaped to California during the worst of last year's mile high drifts, but had the hubby calling me letting me know of -37 temps while I was at the beach. :P

[DomesticImp]

Originally Posted by Hip-Hop-a-potamus

Compared to LAST January, I'll take it!

HH, who escaped to California during the worst of last year's mile high drifts, but had the hubby calling me letting me know of -37 temps while I was at the beach. :P

And I thought I liked you...deserter you!

[CharacterInWhite]

My friend from Vancouver informed me it "snowed" after sending me a picture of some loose powder on his lawn.

I sent him a picture of my BMW trapped in a twelve-foot tall snow bank.

[sailor]

It snowed in Victoria too. There wasn't quite panic in the streets but some calls for military intervention. This is, after all, a city of the newly wed or nearly dead. However, the citizenry held up, stiff upper lip and all that.

Then it rained.

The few centimetres of snow washed away.

[DomesticImp]

I admit to giggling when Van gets 'hit' with snow.

[CharacterInWhite]

Originally Posted by DomesticImp

I admit to giggling when Van gets 'hit' with snow.

It's so hard to take them seriously when they think the sky is falling from a bit of fluff after you just shoveled your car's weight in snow off the driveway.

Hurray for landlocked mid-west.

[DomesticImp]

Originally Posted by CharacterInWhite

It's so hard to take them seriously when they think the sky is falling from a bit of fluff after you just shoveled your car's weight in snow off the driveway.

Hurray for landlocked mid-west.

No kidding! They go into hysterics over what we'd consider diddly squat.

If it's going to melt in 24 hrs or less, it's diddly squat, imo.

[Hip-Hop-a-potamus]

You should see Texans. In January, we usually get about a week of winter, where it tends to sleet instead of snow.

The news stations all have reporters reporting from "out in the field," and they bat at the pavement with their microphones to show everyone that yes everyone, LOOK. It's SNOW.

They actually had a freak snowstorm in March last year, which is UNHEARD of. I can only imagine the frenzy of terror that engulfed Dallas.

[AlishaS]

It's a snowly plus 4 here in Red Deer, AB, the snow is melting... I can see GRASS on my lawn. It's glorious, though I know it won't last. We are for sure doomed to have at least another week of -30 temps, a huge snowstorm, and at least a few more feet of snow.

But I can dream. I can pretend it's going to just magically be spring lol

[Bushrat]

I love the CBC North weather forecast. "We're in for a cool day. Temperatures for Old Crow up to -48, -53 with the windchill." Cold starts at -50 without the windchill.

[Isilya]

Originally Posted by Bushrat

Cold starts at -50 without the windchill.

Damn.

Now I have to go curl up under a blanket just from thinking about it.

[DomesticImp]

Can I just say that the Indigo near me SUCKS?!

I never realized how flipping hard it is to find literary mags around here...for pete sakes.

[Hip-Hop-a-potamus]

Originally Posted by DomesticImp

Can I just say that the Indigo near me SUCKS?!

I never realized how flipping hard it is to find literary mags around here...for pete sakes.

Is that the one on 137th Ave at 97th? Haven't been in there yet. The Chapters down south has a good selection of writing books, and it seems like I found the one in the West End had decent mags. Sorry, i know it's a little far....

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by DomesticImp

Can I just say that the Indigo near me SUCKS?!

I never realized how flipping hard it is to find literary mags around here...for pete sakes.

Go to Hub Cigars just south of Whyte. Good literary magazine selection there.

[L M Ashton]

Originally Posted by CharacterInWhite

My friend from Vancouver informed me it "snowed" after sending me a picture of some loose powder on his lawn.

I sent him a picture of my BMW trapped in a twelve-foot tall snow bank.

Yeah, I used to live in Vancouver. People there had no clue how to drive in the centimeter of snow that dropped once or twice a year and disappeared in under 24 hours. Okay, in all fairness, it once snowed about 4cm... People parked their cars everywhere, including on bridges... Idjits.

ETA: I should add that I'm now in Sri Lanka, which is a tropical country with temperatures of 30-35C during the day, and perhaps down to 28C at night. That's every day of the year. I complain of the heat here.

[DomesticImp]

Originally Posted by Hip-Hop-a-potamus

Is that the one on 137th Ave at 97th? Haven't been in there yet. The Chapters down south has a good selection of writing books, and it seems like I found the one in the West End had decent mags. Sorry, i know it's a little far....

Yeah, it's that Indigo. The problem, being in the north end, and not driving is def hampering me in this.

Originally Posted by Xelebes

Go to Hub Cigars just south of Whyte. Good literary magazine selection there.

I'll have to see if my friend wants to hit Whyte sometime soon, thanks!

[CharacterInWhite]

But I like that Indigo It's so big and well-stocked.

Mind you, a staffer there actually recommended Matched to me as good YA literature. Ugh. Needless to say that individual's opinion will not be given much credence to me from here on out!

[DomesticImp]

Originally Posted by CharacterInWhite

But I like that Indigo It's so big and well-stocked.

Mind you, a staffer there actually recommended Matched to me as good YA literature. Ugh. Needless to say that individual's opinion will not be given much credence to me from here on out!

Apparently, they have no control over the mags. They rent the space out.

I dislike Indigo for the children's section. More toys than anything else, and the majority of the books are hardcover, and are $$$! Went to get my kids some books, and they wanted $20 for 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie'! The kids books are 'gift books' primarily that they carry, not every day read 'em til they fall apart paperbacks.

I just about had heart failure.

[Hip-Hop-a-potamus]

Originally Posted by DomesticImp

Apparently, they have no control over the mags. They rent the space out.

I dislike Indigo for the children's section. More toys than anything else, and the majority of the books are hardcover, and are $$$! Went to get my kids some books, and they wanted $20 for 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie'! The kids books are 'gift books' primarily that they carry, not every day read 'em til they fall apart paperbacks.

I just about had heart failure.

Have you tried Mandolin over in the Highlands? It's small, but they have a neat little kids section in the back. Plus, they're used, so a little cheaper. Plus, there's always Value Village. I LOVE that place.

[prrrfukt]

hello fellow canucks
its just me...thought id check in seeing as there is a thread for us now

[DomesticImp]

Originally Posted by Hip-Hop-a-potamus

Have you tried Mandolin over in the Highlands? It's small, but they have a neat little kids section in the back. Plus, they're used, so a little cheaper. Plus, there's always Value Village. I LOVE that place.

No, haven't heard of them. I hit the Wee Book on Whyte, and there's a used book store in the same strip mall as my Dr, so I go there too.

[Carrie Ann Maxwell]

Just a note on "the Canadian Accent"

i find that it's really more of a regional thing
there's the Maritimes accent, the Toronto-area Eastern accent, sort of Manitoba/Sask/AB sort of accent, and then there's the West, which doesn't really have one (not usually anyways)....

(not even including Quebec!)

it's best illustrated on regional/national news shows.

Anyone else find themselves playing "Spot the Canuck" in shows and movies?

[CharacterInWhite]

Everybody has an accent--it's just that the Western North Americans all have a roughly homogenous accent. I can go down to places like Montana and they won't know I'm from Alberta, and even spent two days in Seattle without anyone suspecting I was from elsewhere.

Heck, Nathan Fillion (i.e. the guy who plays Castle, and Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly) who was raised in Edmonton, blends in with the California peeps (don't know their adjective) unless he says "pop" instead of "soda", which isn't an accent thing so much as it is a regional idiosyncrasy.

We (western Canadians) only get flak for saying "about" like "a boat" (not "a BOOT") when talking to the Eastern Americans. New Yorkers in particular seem sensitive to the "a boat" thing.

In other words, it's retarded to try and generalise anyone by their accent. A "Canadian" accent is about as descriptive as a "British" one--and if you ever travel in the UK, you know all it takes to hear a completely different accent is to drive 15 minutes to the next village!