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.

I still think it’s funny that while there was indeed a real study (NASA tech brief if I recall correctly), this is the video that gets shared. Plus the Hinterland Who’s Who trappings warm my lil’ millennial Canadian heart.

Love this!

Oof :( Sorry to hear about that. Best wishes for a speedy and successful recovery!

Real talk they’re probably toothpaste. My god do I hope they are toothpaste.

Since someone went ahead and posted the image source (I was wondering how long that was going to take, lol), ‘Are you sexually aroused’ is a different question than ‘Are you being sexually aroused’ - as in, is someone/something trying to arouse you. This speaks to the original context of the image (the idea that images like this may contain subliminal cues to induce arousal). Might not have been as helpful a clue as I thought it would. A better one would probably have been ‘ignore the word ‘sexually’, then read the sentence with and without the word ‘being’’ or something.

I’m thinking I went waay too weird/unnerving here. Honestly, I just liked the picture and the weird feeling it has - obviously folks can dig deeper on it (both re: its original context and what kind of things it might point to when recontextualized as a shitpost, particularly here), but that’s truly not what I was going for. For my purposes it’s just a glass with a spooky vibe.

Will say I’m super open to anyone on the spectrum narrating their experience looking at this, as it does look like it frustrated/pissed off some people a bit and I’d be curious to hear exactly why.

So I like the OP as just a standalone, kinda surreal combination of image and question, removed from its original context. But to try and add a little back, without just giving it away: think about what the word ‘being’ does to the sentence, and the difference taking it out would make. Then think about which question you said ‘I am not’ to.

Idk, seems pretty straight forward - is you is or is you ain’t?

It’s the reason that while Joe Flaherty is a legend in his own right, the first thing to comes to mind when I hear his name is this:

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).