The Super Dooper Canadian Thread (now with 47% more Canadian Bacon)

Eriol

Eriol

In case anybody here wants to talk about the video of the beating some cops gave a suspect in Montreal, there's a thread over in politics already for it: https://www.halforums.com/threads/some-cops-are-about-to-get-fired-in-montreal.29070/

Back to our regularly scheduled irreverence. This thread should remain "clean-ish" I hope.


And that resemblance is something, but I've seen simliar. There's actually a friend of ours that my wife Dirona goes to school with who looks a lot like Wil Wheaton. It's actually kinda scary how similar they look. Decade (at least) age gap, but still kinda freaky. I'd love to see them at a convention together or something just to get a picture of them together.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

I have a doppelganger in my own neighbourhood. Every now and then I will get into conversations with a random stranger at the market, it can go for a while before we figure out that I am not who he thinks I am.
 
Eriol

Eriol

HCGLNS said:
I have a doppelganger in my own neighbourhood. Every now and then I will get into conversations with a random stranger at the market, it can go for a while before we figure out that I am not who he thinks I am.
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I had a similar experience in my hometown, culminating when I worked at Safeway in high school. When I was bringing the carts in from the parking lot, a little kid that was like 8 came up to me and said "Hi Jeff!" (my name's Kevin). His mother was with him, took a look at my puzzled expression and said "Sorry, you look at lot like his counselor at Bible Camp" (I've never been to Bible camp, as a counselor or otherwise). I've encountered a few other instances of this around town when I lived there, so there's apparently some guy in Calgary who's name is Jeff who looks a LOT like me. Supposedly we even went to the same Gym for a bit, but I never ran into him. I wish I had, as that would have been kinda cool. Or maybe really creepy. Who knows?
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Eriol said:
I had a similar experience in my hometown, culminating when I worked at Safeway in high school. When I was bringing the carts in from the parking lot, a little kid that was like 8 came up to me and said "Hi Jeff!" (my name's Kevin). His mother was with him, took a look at my puzzled expression and said "Sorry, you look at lot like his counselor at Bible Camp" (I've never been to Bible camp, as a counselor or otherwise). I've encountered a few other instances of this around town when I lived there, so there's apparently some guy in Calgary who's name is Jeff who looks a LOT like me. Supposedly we even went to the same Gym for a bit, but I never ran into him. I wish I had, as that would have been kinda cool. Or maybe really creepy. Who knows?
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Probably you would've ended the universe or something.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Well, see, that's what happens when you guys decided to allow Confederate spies hunker down in Eastern Canada during the Civil War.
 
Frank

Frank

A lady at Staples the other day asked me if I was from England.

I was baffled.

She thought I had an English accent. I barely have an Albertan accent, let alone an English one.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

Random, but I just wanna mention how whenever I've eaten at a canadian restaurant and paid with a credit card, they always come back with this little receipt printer that also gives me the option of typing in a tip, or typing in a percent. I think thats so incredibly handy and I don't know why we don't have those in the US. Or if we do have them, why have I never seen one?
 
Frank

Frank

My tax is 5% in Alberta and it's all federal, we don't do the provincial tax and yeah, the proliferation of Interac machines in Canada is great.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

A little known fact about the rules of the World Baseball Classic:

In the US-Canada pool round game, there was a pre-arranged agreement that the winner would get all of Vancouver Island.

The loser - would get Detroit. :D
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

We have curlers who could beat any Canadian teams, eh?

You guys just don't want to come down here and play on our home rinks.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Frank said:
My tax is 5% in Alberta and it's all federal, we don't do the provincial tax and yeah, the proliferation of Interac machines in Canada is great.
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Yup, our tax sucks in Ontario. I've never noticed whether those pinpads tip on the after-tax price or the before tax one.
 
Jay

Jay

blotsfan said:
Random, but I just wanna mention how whenever I've eaten at a canadian restaurant and paid with a credit card, they always come back with this little receipt printer that also gives me the option of typing in a tip, or typing in a percent. I think thats so incredibly handy and I don't know why we don't have those in the US. Or if we do have them, why have I never seen one?
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In Quebec they tax you your first born at every meal at the restaurant.

However, meals are generally pretty cheap.

I love this option but anything under 20$ I pay cash.

When we went to Vegas and ate anywhere with friends, we were somewhat dismayed (annoyed even) when they would only put our table to one bill. Where I live we all get separate bills or when we come in they politely ask us how billing is handled. So, when you're 8 people eating breakfast and people eating all kinds of different things, you had 8 Canadians break out their cell phones and start calculating who owe's what, how much tip should be... a process that took well over 15 minutes because half the time we spent complaining how horrible Americans are to use this archaic system.

(Much like their medicare)

I downloaded an iPhone app for the next time it happens, of course, if I even go on vacation again with a child coming. :)
 
Frank

Frank

Yeah, that bugged me about Vegas as well. Separating bills should be easy to do.

Even bumfuck Alberta does that everywhere.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

I've seen some, and even those that charge a fee for separate checks. You'd think they'd prefer it because it'd get people out of there faster, but I guess not.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Two of the best Indian restaurants in Houston won't do separate checks. They'll split a check evenly between parties, but they won't actually separate out who ordered which item. Really frustrating, though the food is so good I need to find someone willing to eat there with me (my family does not like spicy, except for my dad and I.)
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Th
Jay said:
In Quebec they tax you your first born at every meal at the restaurant.

However, meals are generally pretty cheap.

I love this option but anything under 20$ I pay cash.

When we went to Vegas and ate anywhere with friends, we were somewhat dismayed (annoyed even) when they would only put our table to one bill. Where I live we all get separate bills or when we come in they politely ask us how billing is handled. So, when you're 8 people eating breakfast and people eating all kinds of different things, you had 8 Canadians break out their cell phones and start calculating who owe's what, how much tip should be... a process that took well over 15 minutes because half the time we spent complaining how horrible Americans are to use this archaic system.

(Much like their medicare)

I downloaded an iPhone app for the next time it happens, of course, if I even go on vacation again with a child coming. :)
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This is still how they deal with groups in a lot of restaurants in Ontario too. Its never a problem to get the bill seperated, but 50% chance they will combine it into one and you'll need to ASK for seperate billing. I don't think there is a set standard, I think it's just dependent on the server. I've been to the same bar or restaurant on different occasions and had to ask for seperate bills, had the server ask US, or had the server seperate it without asking on different nights. But I am nonetheless familiar with the scenario you just described.[DOUBLEPOST=1363188157][/DOUBLEPOST]
figmentPez said:
Two of the best Indian restaurants in Houston won't do separate checks. They'll split a check evenly between parties, but they won't actually separate out who ordered which item. Really frustrating, though the food is so good I need to find someone willing to eat there with me (my family does not like spicy, except for my dad and I.)
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DAMN I love Indian food. Especially since switching to a (mostly) vegetarian diet, Indian food is the best. Just had to throw that in here.[DOUBLEPOST=1363188400][/DOUBLEPOST]You know how my location says "Toronto's Taint"? :
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/03/13/three_women_shot_at_brampton_strip_club.html
That's like right around the corner from where I was living. I actually haven't been living in the taint (it ain't Brampton, it ain't Toronto and it ain't Mississauga) since October. I've since moved to what I would consider Toronto's armpit (South Etobicoke). It's a big step up from Malton.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

The great thing about only having the 5% tax in Alberta when at a restaurant is that you can just triple the tax and know what you're tipping. Minimal math.
 
Frank

Frank



This almost made me smash my tv. I don't even like Trudeau but this shit is complete fucking nonsense. This actually enrages me and leaves me nauseated.

I don't want to live in this country anymore.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

The last couple of mornings have been interesting. Nine out of ten people coming through the lobby for breakfast or checkout were Canadians. If they weren't workers and were there before 6am, I knew they were Canadian without even looking at their folio.

And in three years not one of them has disputed "raised on 5am hockey practices.":)
 
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