Canadians call their cans for disposables garbage cans and Americans call them trash cans so I believe. Today as I was walking in the mall to meet my friend for lunch there were these lovely silver metal looking cans for disposables, they must have been new for the Olympics. And they were labelled TRASH! What is happening to Canadian culture when even the garbage cans are called Trash cans. Is trash a more upscale word, more sexy, more refined I ask you .
Other news on the Olympic front, Heineken House is set for 50,000 visitors all wanting to drink the elite of beers. I think it is elite but then I am not a drinker so don't truly know. Other attractions may be a visit from the Dutch Royal family, a chance to meet Dutch athletes, food drink and fun for all. Sounds like fun to me.
Did you know that there is now a fabric made from the inner down of the Muskox, called qiviak. Apparently it is extremely soft and took a lot of experimentation to get it usable. It is very expensive , a scarf can cost up to $500, too costly for this peasant:>)) Not too expensive for Sara Jessica Parker though.
By the way you may want to learn a few words of Canadian so that you can blend in with the natives. Double double is a synonym for coffee at Tim Hortons where all Canadians go for the morning Java. Do we actually say learn ya as one jouranalist said? I think not. Or homogenized milk, not homo milk,and don't forget garbage can , that is what you'll hear no matter what the new trash cans say.We have trucks, not lorries as the Brits say and our trunks are not called boots either LOL, boots are for the feet. And all the packaging is in French and English as we are a dual language nation ,well except for all the other tongues that abound. That is all the language instruction I have room for today. LOL
As for the Aussies the banner is still up and the controvery is high!! Actually there is no controversy , we are all for the Aussies 100%. The mayors of all the surroundong cities have stated that they will be very happy to hang the boxing kangaroo!! So we are all weighing against the IOC .
2 comments:
Didn't your mother used to call tha can down on the lane a rubbish can, or was it just the contents that were rubbish?
My mom was a Scot, who knows what she would call things LOL
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Mom
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