Five Canadian Things

[commodorified]

1)
(A stopsign in PEI altered to say Stop Harper)

The writ has dropped, election October 19.

2) Fire out West. Water back East.

You're almost certainly not as concerned as you should be.




(Two maps showing temperature and precipitation changes across Canada, 1950-2010)

3) Stop carding. Stop carding now.

4) I'm still not switching back to Rogers.

Rogers apologizes for showing porn on CHCH: Gaffe marks 2nd time in 3 years pornography was aired instead of news

5) We like Canadian Music..

Comments

Whew!

[thnidu]

Till I opened the story, I thought you had something against hand-working wool!

Re: Whew!

[commodorified]

Yeah, "carding" seems to be a Canadianism, broadly used for years to refer to requiring proof-of-age at bars and liquor stores, now expanding to mean any demand for ID and in particular police ID checks as described there, i.e. without arrest or probable cause.

Re: Whew!

[thnidu]

No, we use it here too, though ISTM more with a patient than absolutely: i.e., I was carded or They carded all of us, even Jen's grampa more than Carding is a pain in the butt).

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Re: Whew!

[krait]

Yep, we tend to use it always in past tense - I hate being carded rather than I hate carding.

Re: Whew!

[thnidu]

Thanks!
[Pedantic note: That's the passive voice, not the past tense. In fact, "being carded" is explicitly present, or as present as such an expression can be.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody]

Re: Whew!

[commodorified]

Hon, we've talked about correcting my commenters. Don't correct my commenters.

Re: Whew!

[thnidu]

Oh facepalm, I'm SORRY!

Re: Whew!

[commodorified]

<3 <3 <3

[nineveh_uk]

That temperature chart is seriously worrying.

[graydon]

Oh yes.

http://rabett.blogspot.ca/2012/05/natural-variability-is-not-lukewarmers.html (which has a link to the original paper) is a good high level explanation of why.

The Shark-eyed Man is of course paid to not know these things, and not by the people of Canada.

[commodorified]

I am concerned for the good name of sharks, here.

Though I suppose it's too late to try to get "The Revenant" happening as a nickname instead, he has always looked to me like someone who was found in a graveyard, hastily dusted off, and handed to an experienced undertaker for a convincing makeup job.

[graydon]

Sharks are admittedly much maligned.

I know some quite excellent and lovely people who happen to have inherited the surname of Harper, too.

I try not to think of the Reverend Schilling from Stross' The Apocalypse Codex, myself.

[thatyourefuse]

Someone has been waiting their entire life to use the phrase "saw the sex in question" in a published news article.

[ccommack]

What does it say about me that I've already been following the CBC Polltracker for (at least) a week?

[commodorified]

Well, remember what Dief said...

[ccommack]

It's going to be a very long eleven weeks for my very short fingernails.

[commodorified]

RIGHT?