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General => The Soap Box => Topic started by: hutch-- on June 02, 2012, 12:36:52 AM
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I get to watch a little TV from time to time, mainly online from the OZ ABC and SBS. Just watched the last episode of Extreme Frontiers travelling across Canada and some of the scenery is truly amazing. OZ is old, very old in fact and its really different to Canada which has that new look with high mountains, many lakes, forests, tundra, arctic circle torrain, fast rivers, waterfalls etc etc .... a truly fascinating place. Shame its so PHUKING cold. :P
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Canada, beautiful country and the canucks can be canuts at times. :biggrin:
It was so dry last week around Virden, Manitoba, that frogs were poundin' on the screen door, askin' for a dipper of water.
How cold was it last night in southern Ontario? I saw a squirrel towing a blue jay to get it started south.
Jim Carrey - Canada (http://youtu.be/2ic3xNfEP_o)
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Last summer when EDGAR took his vacation in Banff,...he wrote a couple of posts telling us how great it was.
I was doing an online search (as I was thinking of visiting the area myself),...and, I discovered this Trip Report on a well-known climbing and mountaineering website: Cycling and Scrambling from Calgary to Vancouver (http://www.summitpost.org/cycling-and-scrambling-from-calgary-to-vancouver/531269). The description is fairly interesting,...but, what was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, was the Image Gallery that the author included with the article (at the bottom of the page):
Image Gallery for Cycling and Scrambling from Calgary to Vancouver (http://www.summitpost.org/cycling-and-scrambling-from-calgary-to-vancouver/images/p-531269)
(http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/531659.jpg)
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Canada, beautiful country and the canucks can be canuts at times. :biggrin:
It was so dry last week around Virden, Manitoba, that frogs were poundin' on the screen door, askin' for a dipper of water.
How cold was it last night in southern Ontario? I saw a squirrel towing a blue jay to get it started south.
Jim Carrey - Canada (http://youtu.be/2ic3xNfEP_o)
Umm.... that is only in the winter and the most northern Provinces with almost no population
Here is Toronto's news channel http://www.cp24.com/
In the summer time ...actually this year starting in the spring we had heat alerts and extreme smog advisory ....
It is the humidity that gets you here .....
In the winter (not all places ) yeah your snot freezes to your face but that is only November to February some northern places middle of march .....
right now you need the air conditioning on
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oh - you are Canadian - NOW we know !
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oh - you are Canadian - NOW we know !
Not to mess with you but just when you thought you knew ..... :dazzled:
I can speak with Bogdan in his natural tong fluently...
Can't read or write in it
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i forget - he's either Hungarian or Bulgarian - a gypsy, as i recall
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i forget - he's either Hungarian or Bulgarian - a gypsy, as i recall
LOL
Romanian
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that's the one
Boggie...
(http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5331/boggie.jpg)
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You may like this one, long ago I learnt how to read and write classical and common Greek and while I am rusty, I can still generally read the words, I just forget what they all mean. Some years ago my local shop keeper was Greek and his son Jim (Dimitri) could speak and understand Greek but could not read or write it. Between the two of us we could read the Greek News papers. :P
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@ Hutch I am addicted to souvlaki (National Greek dish) ..... Stop talking about Greeks I am getting hungry
http://www.mrgreek.com/ (Click on the menu ) (http://milepoint.com/forums/data/attachments/24/24802-6eb3b6ac67ad5f2235232625345f3f9b.jpg)
I had that last night
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Well, first of all hi to everyone, I've been away from the net for a while. I'm out in Banff, Alberta, Canada and I just got into a campground where there is cellular service and consequently high speed service for my laptop via rocketstick. Having travelled most of my country I have to say that I prefer the mountains, I camp, white water raft and climb here for much of the summer months (winter to you Steve). Yes our winters are cold but they have to be to freeze the lakes so we can play the only real sport - Hockey. I prefer summer to winter but there's a lot to do in the winter like hockey, snow mobiling, skiing and best of all finding a nice blonde to keep you warm.
At any rate I'm off to Lake Louise in the next day or two and may not be able to connect there but I check in when I can and if I had bought the bandwidth I would upload some pics. There's a reason we call Canada the most beautiful place on earth...because it is. By the way Steve, we do have a summer here, though you wouldn't think it by the spring we've been having out west, cold and wet.
Edgar
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have fun Edgar :t
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Well look at that link that I posted a few posts up ...you can see Toronto's news and weather ...
Today it is 35 Celsius and with the humidity it is over 46 degrees Celsius.....
not so nice to be out ....this will go on for 3 days straight :(
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you're preaching to the choir
the temps will be around 110 F here for the next few days...
...and for the next few months after that
in Arizona, we have 2 seasons; Hot and Not-quite-as-hot
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:biggrin:
Damn, if Canada gets that warm in summer, I could even survive there for a while, 30 to 35c suits me fine, much over 40 is starting to become hard work. Problem is I doubt that my summer fashion (sic) would work in Canada, Stubbies, T shirt and an Akubra if I am out in the direct sun. In my old man's generation it differed only in that it was football shorts and a blue singlet with an Akubra. Steel cap boots are optional. :P
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i always wondered what object modules "looked" like :lol:
Hutch...
(http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/dress-up/acc/hats/australian.jpg)
i guess they wear 'em so their remains will float to the surface after the crock has had his dinner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocker)
The typical ocker is "usually found in a blue singlet and rubber
thongs (foot wear) with a tinnie in his hand propping up a bar".
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Nah, you are way off, you would not wreck an Akubra with corks suspended to drive away the flies. Interestingly enough the term "Ocker" came from an advertising campaign by an ad man called John Singleton and is about as authentic as the folks in New York dressing like they come from the back hills of Dakota.
Maybe you could start a new trend, outfit yourself like something out of the Ozark mountains then hit the boulevard in Hollywood. You may win a part in the new Beverly Hill Billies. :biggrin:
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obviously, you've never been to the corner of Hollywood and Vine :lol:
you don't know how many crazy idiots there are in the world til you've been there
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Well, thats why you wear a different outfit from the Ozarks, stand out from the crowd, you could end up as the new Jed Clampett. :P You may need a few extra talents though, Buddy Ebson was a classy dancer in his youth.
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if you want to get killed, try it the other way around
go to the ozarks wearing your best armani suit :P
they'll take you for a banker or a lawyer, and you'll be shot on sight
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Makes sense to me, I approve of merchant bankers being slow roasted over a fire to make them pay for the 2008 bailout.
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@ Donkey maybe we should send Hutch some maple syrup and a pancake recipe ....
So he can try the Canadian flavor of maple syrup
but it looks Like Australia has a Canadian Flavor Store http://ocanada.com.au/shop/canadian-foods/maple-products
(http://ocanada.com.au/shop/skin/frontend/default/defiance2/images/logo-small.png)
Kinda Funny (http://www.curdforum.net/forum/images/smilies/smilie_flag_Canada.gif)
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Makes sense to me, I approve of merchant bankers being slow roasted over a fire to make them pay for the 2008 bailout.
Hutch for your viewing pleasure :
Government Bailout Cartoon Compilation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weZh6bd3Auo
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the bailout was merely a way to postpone the inevitable
of course, the best way to deal with problems is head-on
if they did that, however, it probably would have meant a colapse of the current system, to one degree or another
so - they elected to postpone it
there was no right answer, because they dug themselves a grave too deep to climb out of
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Hi all, just checking in again, have to drive for a while before cell coverage in the new campground on the Icefields Parkway just north of Lake Louise Alberta. I am making my way back home via Rocky Mountain House in the next week or so and should be online more frequently after that.
hfheatherfox07,
Having lived most of my life in Quebec, I am a biased towards our maple syrup. I think that even with a store there Hutch can't get the really good stuff, straight from a cabane a sucre. Everything else is watered down for the lowest common denominator. I spend a few weeks each winter in the Laurentides, I'll have to pick him up some.
Dave,
Not going to get dragged into a political topic in the soap box or indeed on vacation (well a working one) but I doubt the system would have collapsed, just some extremely greedy people would have got their comeuppance.
Edgar
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hfheatherfox07,
Thanks for the cartoon, I tend to agree with most of it but I particularly like the Palin / Biden cartoon as I watched that "Urrrrrrm" debate. Now Joe is not only useful as a VP, he can talk so fast you could use him as paint stripper (could talk paint off a wall) or even better, he could be used on suspected terrorists instead of gouging their eyes out and paying the bill in Cuba, just play a looped speech of Joe to the suspect and you could force them to confess to the crucifixion of Christ.
Now in an age of financial austerity where every buck$ counts, savings on the running cost of rendition programs could add up to a fortune and you can be sure of this much, all the noise you get out of Joe comes at no cost, the real problem is turning it off.
Now as far as a new human rights record, the trauma of listening to one of Joe's speeches simply would not show (no water board stains, gouged eyes etc ....) so the current administration could claim to have cleaned up the mess left behind by Bush while being far more effective at getting false confessions out of terrorism suspects. :icon_mrgreen:
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I grew up about a 100km NW of Algonguin park, and in the 60's it use to start snowing in the middle of September and snow till the middle of May. The last 5 or so years, it hasn't snowed till Christmas, sometimes later. Welcome to global warming!