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Canadian slang

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Football_Bat, Feb 1, 2007.

  1. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Instead of "dickall" I'd always heard hockey people use "fuckall," as in, "Big game like this, we come out flatter than piss on a plate and don't do fuckall."
     
  2. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Lots of people. We say "fuck all" and "dick all" interchangably.

    We also often shorten the latter term and it means the same thing: "you don't know dick about Canadians, do you?" ;D
     
  3. Gomer

    Gomer Active Member

    Fubar. If you need the reference, rent the movie. Filmed in Alberta.
     
  4. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Or, as Canadian radio tough guy The Champ might say (as he snaps and loses it), "fucked up and far from home."
     
  5. huntsie

    huntsie Active Member

    We go to a "camp" or "the lake." Interchangable.
    Up here it gets "some jesus cold out."
    We just go to "Tim's" or if somebody is taking orders for the group, they're making a "Tim's run."
    A case of 24 beer is called a "flat" or a "2-4"
    Strippers are simply "the ballet."
    If a team or a person hasn't performed up to expectations, they have "shit the bed." (Never in your copy, though).
    "eh", at the end of many sentences, while a stereotype, is true.
    TSN is widely recognized as the "Toronto Sports Network."
    In my neck of the woods, Ontario people who come to the Maritimes thinking they know it all and treating us like rubes are referred to as "Upper Canadians." Couldn't believe the expression when I first heard it 25 years ago -- I was one of them -- but find it to be true. Maritimers are invariably portrayed on the national news as backwater rubes, fishermen or loggers.
    Goddamn Upper Canadians :)
     
  6. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Oh God, what a fucking movie. After a while I couldn't watch it. It was almost as if somebody had followed my buddies and me around in our stupid teenage years.
     
  7. SoSueMe

    SoSueMe Active Member

    Speaking of Fubar. I heard a commercial for this product http://www.stanleytools.com/default.asp?CATEGORY=HT+BARS&TYPE=PRODUCT&PARTNUMBER=55-099&SDesc=FatMax%26%23174%3B+Xtreme%26%238482%3B+Fubar%26%238482%3B+Functional+Utility+Bar last night on the radio and I thought it was a joke.

    Apparently not.
     
  8. ballscribe

    ballscribe Active Member

    Never heard that. Black it is. Probably because so many do not have African roots, rather Caribbean: Jamaican, Bahamanian and, in my area particularly, French-speaking Haitian.

    A little diff. in Toronto.
     
  9. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Nah, about the same except fo the Haitians, but we have a huge Somalian population in Toronto.

    I've never, ever heard African-Canadian.

    It's either "black" or "I came from Jamaica when I was 6)
     
  10. imjustagirl2

    imjustagirl2 New Member

    What about Kraft dinners?

    And they pronounce decals as "deck'-uhls" (Hi HC and JR!)
     
  11. HeadFirst

    HeadFirst Member

    Not sure if this is a Canadian or British thing, but Canadian TV reports invariably say that so-and-so "was taken to hospital." What happened to the "the" in between to and hospital? I know that's not slang, but it's something irregular.
     
  12. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

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    You mean "K-Ds"?

    And like the UN, we provide IJAG with simultaneous translation. :) Or at least her mispronunciation.
     
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