*snork*, also GIP

[commodorified]

And, indeed:



*Hysterics. Polite ones*

(From Canadian Problems.)

ETA



ETA2OKSERIOUSLYICANNOTBREATHENOW

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

Re: problem #179: For the first time in my life this year I have a Canadian keyboard. AHAHAHA.

Shoes! In the house! I still do it sometimes when I'm in a hurry, but it always feels All Wrong.

Surrey! LOL

[trouble]

179 is totally my favourite. It happens to me at least once a day. :D

[nenya_kanadka]

I am actually unaware of which key to hit to get that special character, although this keyboard has a / key where I expect the corner of the shift or hard return to be, which ends up with me typing

Hi, how are you/ I had a good morning/1

instead of

Hi, how are you?
I had a good morning!

Drives me batty! But I didn't realize I had the "Canadian" keyboard until after I got the otherwise-awesome laptop, so.

[momijizukamori]

....I saw the 'Surrey' one and cracked the hell up. Oh Metro Vancouver.

[staranise]

OMFG SURREY.

This is amazing.

[commodorified]

SURREY.

[staranise]

I don't think I've ever been to Surrey, but I know exactly what it means.

[con_girl]

I have absolutely no idea what it means.

[gale_storm]

Yep, shoes in the house applies in Scandinavia, as well.

[cynthia1960]

Also Hawai'i. Bay Area, not so much.

[amadi]

Cultural references! I feel so left out! My faithful viewing of Flashpoint is not helping me here! *cries*

(Seriously though, what's up with Surrey?)

[nenya_kanadka]

The one I don't get is "When the cat comes back the next day." Anyone want to explain that one?

I get the feeling that Surrey is kind of...oh hell, I have a *feeling* that the word "Surrey" invokesm but don't know how to explain it. It's kind of one of the non-awesome portions of Greater Vancouver, I gather, not in the economically depressed way so much as the lifeless, soulless way...but I don't think I'm describing it well. Someone native to the region, help?

[dagibbs]

National (Canadian) Film Board short.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM

[con_girl]

Also, it was first a song. It will completely get stuck in your head.

[dagibbs]

Definitely a song, first. But it is a Canadian icon because of the NFB short.

[nenya_kanadka]

Ahaha. I have been enlightened. :D

[tei]

My keyboard gets stuck on French sometimes and there is nothing at all that I can do to make it go back except wait until it feels like it.

Is shoes in the house an American thing?

[commodorified]

It's a "climates with less rain and no snow" thing, I think.

[trouble]

Have you tried hitting left-shift/left-ctrl simultaneously? That's how it flips for me.

[nenya_kanadka]

OH I bet that's what mine does when it suddenly decides to be weird! I am never sure if it's the French-Canadien keyboard or the fact I've got mine set to "International" (with the umlaut shortkeys and such) and sometimes it wants to not do that when it's supposed to.

Left-CTRL/left-SHIFT, I'll keep an eye out for that!

[medie]

AHA! I've always thought it hit on that combo randomly, but that must be it. With my typing speed I don't even know I've done it until I'm getting those damn És!

[nenya_kanadka]

Itès just done it for me, and I canèt figure out how to fix it!

Help.

[tei]

So I was just getting annoyed at my keyboard for being in French again, and then I remembered that once upon a time someone on dreamwidth told me how to fix that. So I dug up this comment and OMG IT WORKS. Best. Day. Ever. Thank you!

[niqaeli]

I've seen #180 before over on Tumblr and was v. confused by it being a Canadian thing. (I'm USian, for reference -- Tennessean originally, if region matters). Shoes are not a thing you wear in the house, in general, and they sure as hell aren't a thing you wear in someone else's house. I mean, I run barefoot everywhere anyway but that's not even the point, the point is not being an ass who tracks dirt in all over someone else's house.

I dunno, I mean, I have heard of this being a thing other (USian) people do, but I was brought up that it's very rude.

[brownbetty]

;alkdfj I just got a new pair of boots to replace the ones that Stinkerpie ate, and they are the sock-eating-est.

[brownbetty]

Oh my goodness this is so beautiful Fuddleduddle!

[nenya_kanadka]

LOLLLLL. I am unfamiliar with French-Canadian cursing, but did know it included a lot of religious terms. This....explains so very much. Hee.

[brownbetty]

Some of the "Actual English Meaning" is a joke, rather than, um, a reliable guide.

[nenya_kanadka]

I figured it was approximating the general impression, more than an exact translation.

[brownbetty]

Yes, and "Fuddle Duddle" is a now somewhat dated joke about a dead prime minister, for example.

[nenya_kanadka]

Oh, right! Oh Trudeau. ♥

[dagibbs]

Lots of *snicker*

I especially like #179 -- I've had that happen to me a few times.

[twistedchick]

canadian problem #23






not enough cheddar for the apple pie

[commodorified]

There's always ice cream...

[lenora_rose]

Forget the cat coming back (which I now link much more to Fred Penner than to NFB, damn you, childrens' cds)... I'm still wondering where all those log-drivers are that are supposed to be in the town this evening.

[dagibbs]

They were eaten by the black flies!

[legionseagle]

Oy! A close friend had her life saved by a black fly, thus proving that against all the odds for every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.

...

[commodorified]

Ok, this I HAVE to hear...

*sits at your feet and listens eagerly*

Re: ...

[legionseagle]

In May/June 1985 a friend and I had the three week VIA rail pass which allowed us to travel by rail across Canada for what was, even in those days, the surprisingly great value of $CAN 320*. A week or so after our return, she was troubled by a lump at the back of her head and took it to the doctor. Who said, effectively, "the lump is an inflamed black-fly bite; here's some ointment and there's nothing to worry about. But what we're going to rush you into hospital for emergency surgery is the six-inch ovarian cyst I've just detected."



*We could afford the ticket but not to eat in the dining car, so had to take food which would not go off, which could be eaten cold without preparation and which preferably came in tins, for ease of transportation. When the annals of the trip come to be written "Across Canada by Sardine" is likely to be the title.