By far the best account on twitter
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#cliches #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(don’t tell me you’ve never wondered what happened to Canada in an American dystopia story) #(okay it’s possible you haven’t) #(but I sure as hell have)
Day-Month-Year makes the most sense to me, smallest to largest. How about you?
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#our home and cherished land #fucking Canada man #just pick one #I don’t care which just fucking pick one #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #and thus has Feelings about expiration date ambiguity
I just want to remind everyone in the US (excluding Arizona) that Daylight Savings Time begins tomorrow (March 8th, 2015) at 2:00 am.
That means that tomorrow morning, some automatic clocks (especially satellite-operated ones) will go from 1:59 am to 3:00 am. If you are awake during that time and see that change, do not worry! You did not lose time!
Try to remember to change your clocks tonight so that you’re on track for tomorrow if possible!
I’d really appreciate it if this gets reblogged so nobody panics due to the time change tomorrow. Thank you!
(Note: the above information also applies to Canada, except for Saskatchewan, which is already on DST because it is always on DST. Europe’s change is three weeks from now. I figured that if I was talking about the U.S. and Canada, I ought to include Mexico, but Wikipedia informs me that Mexico’s relationship with DST is too complicated to fit in this parenthetical.)
That faint sound you hear in the distance (or, if you are justice-turtle, the fairly loud sound nearby) is the sound of Arizonans laughing.
No matter. I will be eating dinner by sunlight tomorrow, and that is the important thing.
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#Daylight Savings Time #PSA #nearly time to switch modes on my brain’s Arizona<—>Eastern translator #(…close enough) #and turn on the short-term correctors on the European translators
A lesson in Canada’s bilinguality.
Bilinguisme au Canada: une leçon.French puns on products are seriously one of my favourite things.
Like, sometimes the french translation of a slogan is dumb and long and really bad. And sometimes it’s beautiful.fromidable i’m peeing
When they’re good, they’re really good.
(When they’re bad, they’re Christmas crackers making “where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving? in the dictionary!” jokes, and straight up translating the English without stopping to consider that “Noël” doesn’t come before “Action de grâces” in the dictionary.)
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#our home and cherished land #puns
californians: every time you complain about it being somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 degrees, i add a dollar to the fight jar. eventually i will have enough dollars in the fight jar to purchase a plane ticket to california and fight each and every one of you individually
I was nodding along with this post at first, but then I remembered:
Natural disasters Ontario is prone to: basically nothing except ice storms.
Natural disasters California is prone to: basically everything except ice storms.
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(Pretty sure living in Ontario, CA does not let you have the best of both worlds. Alas.)
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#our home and cherished land #home of the brave #weather
It is currently colder in Canada and in the northern US than on Mars!
Thanks to the polar vortex, it felt like -35 degrees Celsius with the wind chill at our headquarters near Montreal, Quebec this morning (January 8th, 2014). That’s colder than where Mars Curiosity is roving in the Red Planet’s Gale Crater!
Source: CSA
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#our home and cherished land #…fucking *hell* #I mean that is with windchill and all but still #I’m increasingly glad we cancelled our grocery trip for tomorrow #we’ve got more than enough food to last until next week #we’ll just go without red meat and unprocessed fruit for a few days #and potatoes #and whatever else it is that we’re missing
And New York is into the New Year! Now that my spirits are lifted, I’m feeling a little better. :)
Happy 2015, my dears!
Happy 2015!
#also some guy just took his shirt off on abc
Looks like we were watching the same program. Apparently he promised David Letterman he would? Or something? It was weird. Like, I appreciate being a man of your word (though not that way, I’m ace), but it’s too damn cold to be taking your shirt off.
I was glad to see he’d put a coat on by the time we turned the TV off a couple minutes later.
Relatedly, my first Googling of the year was “Tony Bennett”, to check how old the old guy doing the concert with Lady Gaga was. He’s 88, which is almost a decade older than Mom had guessed. I’d never heard of him before–he’s before my time, I suppose–but my parents were impressed by how well he’s holding up.
(Yes, we get the Times Square feed in Canada, at least in the Eastern time zone. It’s just that there’s also another low-number channel showing the Niagara Falls feed. Some years the Niagara Falls feed even has a split-screen so you can see both ball drops at once.)
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#New Years #reply via reblog
The Canadian Space Agency is proud to have many Veterans among its employees. On this Remembrance Day, join us in thanking them and all Canadian Veterans for their courage, service and sacrifices that have kept our nation strong, proud and free.
(The poppy pin shown above is either old-fashioned or foreign, I’m not sure which. This is what a modern-day Canadian poppy pin looks like. I’m not complaining about the CSA’s choice of picture, but I thought I should give you the correct mental image for what I’m about to tell you.)
The importance Canadians place on Remembrance Day and World War I is probably the biggest thing that surprised me about Canada. I had no idea until after I moved here.
My first November here, the very first time I ever saw someone wearing a poppy pin, I told her I liked her flower. She was rather surprised. I was nearly fourteen: surely I knew what a poppy pin was? But I didn’t, and the people there had to explain to me.
The first time someone referenced “In Flanders Fields” in front of me, I didn’t know what they were talking about. They were surprised: surely I’d had to memorise it in school a few grades back? But I hadn’t, and they had to explain to me.
I memorised it on my own not long after that; I wanted to be more a part of my adopted country. I visited two World War I museums to learn the things a Canadian ought to know. I bought a poppy pin from one of the countless donation boxes for the Royal Canadian Legion, and I try to wear it whenever leaving the house during the first eleven days of November, as Canadians do. This is my country too, now, and its customs are mine.
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#Remembrance Day #our home and cherished land #cultural differences #the more you know
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