Yet you still can’t smoke a THC rich joint legally (yet, unless you’re participating in the pilot), and women didn’t have full voting rights until the 90s.

Not judging, just thought (as an outsider) this was an odd contrast when most of what I knew about Switzerland until recently was how permissive they were about piracy. Beautiful and interesting place, would love to visit again but it’s so f’ing expensive.

I convert from singing to whistling, then back to singing once strangers are out of earshot.

Never looked up the spelling, so I’ve been calling this ‘sauce for cowards’ for years now:

Well, I’ve found my new ringtone.

Phrases are both acceptable and appreciated!

Also some more interesting common phrase is “voi vittujen kevät ja kyrpien takatalvi”, literally translates to “spring of cunts and blackberry winter of dicks”

As a Canadian, this is the phrase I was looking for when I saw snow sticking on the ground after a nice warm period in the last couple of days. It’s perfect and I love it.

…you know, reading this and thinking about what the JCW is (Juggalo Championship Wrestling), I still think ‘Los Chingadera’ (or El Chingadera, my Spanish is non-existant) works.

That aside I appreciate these extra details! Seriously, ty.

C’est magnifique 🍁

This is a question that’s been brought up irl recently (alongside whether I would date a trans woman) and the honest answer is I simply don’t know. I’d have to be presented with someone non-binary who I’m attracted to (and just as importantly, vice versa) to really form an opinion.

I lean towards probably not, but there’s been two occasions I’ve been surprised at my impression of a non-AGAB, feminine presenting person. But two people vs. many more cis-women, so idk.

It is a pretty striking “well, this is new” experience when you’re not expecting it though. And it did get a warranty sold, that much I’ll admit.

German, I think!

Words cannot express how much I want there to be a JCW wrestler named “Los Chingadera” now.

Ugh, knew I should have checked this thread further before posting, it’s such an obvious pull.

Shake it once (that’s fine), possibly shake it twice (that’s ok), but never three times (that’s playing with yourself)

I’ve done a bunch of work with folks in Nunavut before, and I find it’s a useful distinction given that very fact. Life’s pretty different up north and it’s a term they use to talk about the rest of us.

(Will say I don’t know if it gets as much play in NWT or Yukon).

Edit: According to StatsCan, the line’s further down than I thought it’d be, but honestly it still makes sense. Source: map from this release.

You’re not wrong, and I tried to communicate this in my caveats. But considered as a whole, Southern Canada at least doesn’t seem all that different from the U.S imo (though there’s a U.S. immigrant in this thread who mentioned a little bit of culture shock, interested to read their take if they feel like expanding on that). And I say this as someone who has visited a lot of it (though not everywhere - cheap shots at Saskatoon aside I really would like to go explore Saskatchewan one day).

Most of us get our groceries from large, pretty evil corporations. Most of us want to own single family homes that few can afford anymore. We generally watch the same TV shows, listen to the same music, and have many of the same pop cultural reference points (Quebec, as in most other aspects, being a huge exception. Honestly find their media industry fascinating.). There’s a generation of Canadians that knows waaay more about U.S. history than Canadian history. etc.

Then again, I suppose this is the bird’s eye view - zoom in and you’ll see lots of regional differences (still recall disparaging remarks about ‘Upper Canada’ when chatting with old timers in NS the last time I went).

Seconded, the differences from the U.S. seemed kinda subtle most of the time (but same issue, what I noticed as a tourist kinda thing).

Sometimes cheaper, sometimes simply more available (ex used to go for all sorts of sugar-free shit we don’t get here).

Can’t help but wonder how Ogdensburg, NY is doing these days.

Stronger USD does help, though exactly how much I’ll leave someone from the U.S. who has made the trip to comment on here.

Very similar culturally. Our proximity to the U.S. has had a massive impact on our culture (what exactly constitutes distinct ‘Canadian culture’ is a bit of a fraught question, even if you just stop at ‘Canadian settler culture’. But, beyond leaving this provactive song, I digress.). But lots of regional differences - your experience in Antigonish, NS will be different than Toronto, ON, which is different from Trois-Riviere, QC; Brandon, MB; Saskatoon, SK (lol, jk, no one goes to Saskatoon), etc. Then there’s the North, which is very different from anywhere in Southern Canada.

There’s an impression that we are more polite, in aggregate, than the U.S. I don’t know how true that is and believe it’s a function of population difference (U.S. has way more people, so if the % of assholes is the same that’s still a whole lot more assholes), but whatever.

If someone from the U.S. comes here and isn’t a knob, they’ll generally be treated fine (though perhaps the usual jokey jabs have a little more spike to them these days, given the state of U.S-Canada relations). They usually marvel at the little differences (bagged milk gang what-what).

Curious about your culture, in the North American anglosphere at least Professor has some negative/sarcastic connotations if you’re not actually a professor (essentially suggesting someone is a dumbass). Just be careful with that one.

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