Canada/US differences tumblr

[janiejones]

This is fun!
whatsdifferentincanada.tumblr.com/

[margotmacomber]

That is fun.  Gutters = eaves?  Mind blown.

[snickers]

You call rockets smarties? You don't have actual smarties? Oh my word!

This explains why no one knew what I meant by frozen in my post about the dentist.

What do you guys call a "two four"..a case of beer?

My mind is blown you guys.

[janiejones]

My favourite was this one- "Basically everybody who has lived in Canada their whole lives has access to some kind of cottage near a lake, which is essentially a small, shitty house with maybe one working bathroom and lots of spiders."

[mx27]

i never heard so much about canada until i came to the nest/gbcn.

[janiejones]

I think so, but with submissions by readers from either country?


I will never "get" the freshman/junior/senior/whatever one I'm missing thing. They are GRADES. Grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12 and OAC (an Ontario phenomenon which ceased to exist in 2004). And then it's first year, second year, third year, fourth year.

[bananapancakes]

That was a fun read. I had no idea that some of those were "Canadianisms".

[margotmacomber]

May 31, 2013 20:41:17 GMT -5 snickers said:

You call rockets smarties? You don't have actual smarties? Oh my word!

This explains why no one knew what I meant by frozen in my post about the dentist.

What do you guys call a "two four"..a case of beer?

My mind is blown you guys.

We call it a case.  Yes.  You guys are weird.  

Hey grab a case while you're at the store! <-- not weird

[LeggsBenedict]

pencil crayons? wtf?

[Deleted]

Haha, that was funny. I really do hate microwaves though.

[snickers]

I've never heard of a sub being called a supply teacher.

[janiejones]

Can we also talk about May two-four [weekend]?  Or May-long? or May-run?  or I guess Victoria Day weekend?  that's one of my fave regional Canadian things.

[snickers]

May 31, 2013 20:50:30 GMT -5 Que? said:

May 31, 2013 20:41:17 GMT -5 snickers said:

You call rockets smarties? You don't have actual smarties? Oh my word!

This explains why no one knew what I meant by frozen in my post about the dentist.

What do you guys call a "two four"..a case of beer?

My mind is blown you guys.

Oops, reader fail. You're Canadian. Lol.

Lol!

[meggers5]

Traffic cones are called pylons because we use them for hockey. You wouldn't line up traffic cones at a hockey practice. That's just silly.

[Jermys]

Garburators is now in my personal lexicon. I love it.

[bananapancakes]

May 31, 2013 20:54:57 GMT -5 janiejones said:

Can we also talk about May two-four [weekend]?  Or May-long? or May-run?  or I guess Victoria Day weekend?  that's one of my fave regional Canadian things.

Definitely called May two-four in my neck of the woods even though the holiday was on the 20th this year.

[bananapancakes]

May 31, 2013 20:54:34 GMT -5 snickers said:

I've never heard of a sub being called a supply teacher.

I'm a supply teacher and that is the term that most people use although my official title is "occasional teacher" (which I think is dumb). Some schools also use "guest educator" but most of the time it is just "the supply".

[Kristinmo]

Zed? I have never heard that.

[snickers]

May 31, 2013 20:56:33 GMT -5 @jehc said:

Wait, wait. Americans boil water in the microwave? The fuck? I have NEVER seen someone do that. I wouldn't even know how to go about it.

That is crazy talk, eh?
Sounds like a lot of work.

[bananapancakes]

Americans don't have kettles? That's crazy talk!

[snickers]

May 31, 2013 20:59:34 GMT -5 bananapancakes said:

May 31, 2013 20:54:34 GMT -5 snickers said:

I've never heard of a sub being called a supply teacher.

I'm a supply teacher and that is the term that most people use although my official title is "occasional teacher" (which I think is dumb). Some schools also use "guest educator" but most of the time it is just "the supply".

Huh.
Sounds kinda demeaning.....

[bananapancakes]

May 31, 2013 21:00:24 GMT -5 @jehc said:

May 31, 2013 20:59:34 GMT -5 bananapancakes said:

I'm a supply teacher and that is the term that most people use although my official title is "occasional teacher" (which I think is dumb). Some schools also use "guest educator" but most of the time it is just "the supply".

Where do you live?

ON, about an hour east of TO.

[Deleted]

May 31, 2013 20:56:33 GMT -5 @jehc said:

Wait, wait. Americans boil water in the microwave? The fuck? I have NEVER seen someone do that. I wouldn't even know how to go about it.

Right? 

I did witness my American ex BF's mom boiling her tea water in the microwave once. Oh, and she cooked some veggies in the microwave when I was over for dinner and I was all " rubber veggies wut?". Bizarre. 

[bananapancakes]

May 31, 2013 21:01:52 GMT -5 @ygmg said:

May 31, 2013 20:56:33 GMT -5 @jehc said:

Wait, wait. Americans boil water in the microwave? The fuck? I have NEVER seen someone do that. I wouldn't even know how to go about it.

Right? 

I did witness my American ex BF's mom boiling her tea water in the microwave once. Oh, and she cooked some veggies in the microwave when I was over for dinner and I was all " rubber veggies wut?". Bizarre. 

Strange! But that would explain why tea always tastes like crap when I order it in restaurants in the States.

[janiejones]

We got an electric kettle a few weeks ago. Until then we used a kettle on the stove. Our microwave is used mainly for magic bags.

[kdmac]

I am a bad Canadian.. I do not have a dish wand.

[DaisyCakes]

I'm in Minnesota, some of these have definitely leaked across the border.

[chickadee77]

I grew up in northern WI, and none of these are weird to me. Lol.

[spk926]

May 31, 2013 21:11:01 GMT -5 DaisyCakes said:

I'm in Minnesota, some of these have definitely leaked across the border.

This is what I was going to say as well!

[latte]

May 31, 2013 21:00:42 GMT -5 Que? said:

May 31, 2013 20:54:57 GMT -5 janiejones said:

Can we also talk about May two-four [weekend]?  Or May-long? or May-run?  or I guess Victoria Day weekend?  that's one of my fave regional Canadian things.

We say May Long. People I know from Sask. say May two-four. 

I am originally from SK, and we always called it May long, I haven't ever heard it called May two-four.

We use gutters and eavestroughs interchangeably, and I haven't heard of a sub being called a supply teacher.

But seriously? No kettles?