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2008 Jul 13, 1:46am   8,664 views  360 comments

by Patrick   follow (60)  

Some observations of Canada from my 10 day house-swap with a Canadian family in Toronto:

Native Canadian people are helpful, but Canadian immigrants don't talk to strangers.
Most things are more expensive than in the US, like $6.50 Canadian for a Hagen Daas ice cream bar in Toronto Island park.
The Lindt chocolates are all forgeries, just crap in elite wrappers. Canadians are unaware of the fraud, since they've never had good chocolate.
Via Rail beats Amtrak by a long shot. Via Rail is clean, on-time, and cheap.
Tap water tastes pretty good.
There are two sales taxes instead of just one: provincial and federal.
Beer and wine in Ontario are sold only by the provincial liquor monopoly, at twice the cost as in the US. BYOB/W
Public pools are free, though run-down.
Immigrants in Toronto are the largest percentage of any city in the world.
The subway system in Toronto is efficient and inexpensive.
Milk comes in a bag rather than in a gallon jug.
Prostitution advertising is brazen and cheap.
There are many Muslim women, some completely covered in Burqas.
Women have more tattoos than in the US.
Marijuana can be smelled in the air on many major Toronto streets.
There is a visible gay population in Toronto.
There are a surprising number of Canadian flags on cars and houses.
The Canadian accent becomes more noticeable the more you hear it.




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295   HeadSet   2025 Aug 18, 5:31pm  

MolotovCocktail says






Australia donated to Ukraine and did not get a seat either. The meeting was for Europeans. Besides, why invite Canada when they are just a future US territory anyway.
297   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 19, 12:43pm  

Why is the white privileged lady anchoring instead of an Indian transfreak in a sari?


299   Kepi   2025 Aug 22, 3:05pm  

Patrick says


Native Canadian people are helpful, but Canadian immigrants don't talk to strangers.


My first interaction with a Canadian was in the 1980's. I dialed a phone number in the Midwest and I got it wrong. I got the wrong number to some place in Alberta. A lady picked up the phone and we quickly realized I had dialed the wrong number. But, the lady just kept talking to me. She was so damn nice. It was like she had made a new friend.

Next interaction -- Canada in 1998. I drove through Windsor heading to Toronto. My piece of crap car broke down. No cell phones in those days. I hopped a fence in the rural area and went to a nearby house.

The fellow inside actually answered and opened the door!! Got the local towing company called and could not have been more kind, helpful, nice, (I am running out of words).

Patrick says


Immigrants in Toronto are the largest percentage of any city in the world.


I was with my soon to be wife in the late 1990's (who was in Canada), and I wound up spending some time in the greater Toronto area. It did not take too long before I decided to change the Canadian national anthem.

"Oh, Canada, where are the white people?
Everyone I see is a Chinee."

It never caught on.

Patrick says


Milk comes in a bag rather than in a gallon jug.


Oh, this one is too easy. Aside from being sold in a bag, these Canucks actually call whole milk "homo milk". What else to say?
300   mell   2025 Aug 22, 7:27pm  

Agree with the above. Besides their recently shitty commie marxist fag leaders Canadians are among the nicest people
303   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 26, 7:57pm  

MEHAKDEEP SINGH, truck driver, collided with the Giroux family’s vehicle while he was preoccupied by his phone, unaware of the slowing vehicles in front of him. Killed two children in back of car.

Émerik was 7.

Maélie was 3.

The Indian murdered their 68-year-old grandmother too.

304   MolotovCocktail   2025 Aug 29, 9:04am  

Elbows Down...


310   PeopleUnited   2025 Sep 1, 7:13pm  

MolotovCocktail says

MolotovCocktail says
Elbows Down...

Winning!
320   MolotovCocktail   2025 Oct 15, 7:01pm  

Beef in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia:


322   Patrick   2025 Oct 15, 7:14pm  

MolotovCocktail says

Beef in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia:


Well, Canada lacks the wide open spaces required to raise cattle... oh wait.
323   Misc   2025 Oct 15, 7:25pm  

Patrick says

MolotovCocktail says


Beef in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia:


Well, Canada lacks the wide open spaces required to raise cattle... oh wait.


It is a good price just what you'd expect from Costco.

It comes to about $20 per pound in US dollars. I doubt if anyone can find ribeye at a better price in their local Supermarket.
324   Patrick   2025 Oct 15, 7:30pm  

$61.99 / 2.2 lb/kg = $28.17 / lb

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