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Search : Being a pain in Canada's ass, Montreal, hot-looking girls aplenty, local culture and superstars being completely unknown outside of the province, making the French language sound all grungy and dirty.

Destroy : Worship of beer and hockey, crappy music taste, ubiquitousness of Celine Dion, bad TV, 6-month winters.

― Patrick, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Forget French - making an obscure 17th century dialect spoken by Breton fishermen sound grungy and dirty, that takes some doing.

Oh, and about those transfer payments...you're welcome!

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, that's 'Norman' not 'Breton' isn't it? Whatever, it certainly isn't Parisienne, or even Peter Sellers

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And the worship of beer and hockey is somehow *not* descriptive of Canada as a whole?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All the French Canadians I've met are great. And none of them say aboot either.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Poutine!!! Saint Hubert, Montreal Smoked Meat, Montreal Bagels, the reason behind Montreal's love of the push up bra, Mordecai Richler, Quebec City's old quarter, cheap smokes, 18 drinking age, beer in the convince stores (as opposed to the LC, NB Alcool, Beer Store/LCBO or LCPEI), 2 Litre bottles of real beer (not Colt), "Crazy As A Turkey", tabernac! and Canada's finest strip clubs.

Destroy: Cabano, most of Gaspé, Labbat's, Parazeau, Language Laws, Quebec Provical Police, drunken natives in Montreal, Fin Du Monde, their jealousy of Acadians, franglais, Brian Mulroney and last but not least, the Leafs archrivals Les Habs.

― zacko, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Destroy: Poutine. I've never had it but the idea of gravy and cheese intermingling with chips is not a one that I find aesthetically pleasing.

Search: The crazy separatists in Infinite Jest.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: biker gangs. The ugliest and most psychopathich Hells Angels chapter on Earth.

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wouldnt search or destroy Hell's Angels or Rock Machine. Just stay far far away from them.

Very Far.

― zacko, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

First person I ever saw shoot heroin was a French-Canadian, he just did it right in front of me nonchalantly while talking and watching TV. I was 15 and shocked. He just laughed and said, "I work, up north, big pay, nuttin' else to do eh?"
Search: VoiVod!

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, musically, Search :GYBE, A Silver Mount Zion, Exhaust, Doughboys, Kid Koala (Charlie Brown:"I gotta rock"), Nils/Chino It Came From Canada French garage bands doing the Terra Haute sound and Grenadine Records compilations.

Destroy: You damm well know who.

― zacko, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Voivod = grand, oh yes. We need more of that. And hell, saw Kid Koala the other night DJing before Radiohead, and the man was well on form.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well folks, I am a living in Que. Canada and there is no nicer place on earth. :) Not everyone is into beer and whatever. We are just the same as anyone else. We may have our faults but we are hospitable. I am English speaking as you can see. When I was in school, I pledged allegiance to the Union Jack. Go figure. I would love to visit other countries. Pehaps someday i will. Gale

― Gale, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ostensive defn of Europeans = person doing something nihilistic for the benefit of an audience while pretending to be nonchalent.

― maryann, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weren't Voivod from New Brunswick, not Quebec?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Brunswick? No, Voivod are as French-Canadian as pea soup and 'Headless Bodies in Topless Bars'. I think you're confusing them with Daniel Lanois.

― dave q, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't there a large Francophone community in New Brunswick?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yep

― anthony, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Acadians, but they dont really speak french as anyone else knows it.

Viva L'Acadie!

― zacko, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

Shout up ! Do you know what you're talking about ??? Have you ever been in Quebec, eating a real poutine and talking with Quebecers ??? If no, than you're just a fucking fat ass who criticize evrything that seems different! OPEN YOUR FUCKING MIND !!! Quebec and its people are very nice and the French speaking is way better than english ! English is just a business language. I It's too easy to criticize what you don't know !

― catherine, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingGalleryImages/quebe cers_canoe3.jpg

― Kris, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh my god.. Momus, you need to lose weight.

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[insert obvious Momus joke here]

― DG, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damn Brian, he beat me to it!

― DG, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Prog-rock is not only socially acceptable but celebrated. At least 2 shows of experimental music per week in Montreal (newsweeklies include an "actuelle" section in the listings). The fact that you can buy wine at corner stores (though consequently liquor stores are fewer and further between).

Destroy: The filthy take on French that is harder to follow for someone schooled in Ottawa than the speech of someone from fucking Europe. I'm not sure which category to place the downpour of beautiful women in.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All the quebecois I know are professionally beautiful so I assume qubec to be a land of beautiful people (albeit it the global fashonista style). However 2 out 3 quebecois (sample size 3) never carry their mobiles with them are unrelaibale and still have my suitcase

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Catherine, I really hate to burst your bubble but French is NOT better than English sorry. In fact today the french use many English words and being half French myself I find Quebec French is slang and not proper French. I'd be happy to say we are equal. Wouldn't you? Gale.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

since when are poutines chips & gravy,cheese....its fries goddammit!

― ouija, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can honestly say I'm not one for fries I like chips in a bag myself. lol Potatoes today aren't fit to eat anyway. :( It's time people started to smarten up! Soon nothing will be fit to eat since there are no good farmers anymore. :( Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oooooohhhhhhhh my freaking gawd do I love real Poutine, cheese curds, grazy and pommes des frites. Of course to the Acadians, Poutine is something completely differnt, involving mashed potatoes, pork and boiling water but thats a different point.
and I love Quebec, except for the openly racist cops. They have the Fremont Bakery afterall and make the best bagels available. Plus the girls on Rue St Denis et St Catherine, oh la la.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(someone had a really good night!) heh.

― Kim, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Hello
I'm Audrée. I'm a Quebecer. I believe both french and English are very beautiful languages ! English seem simpler only because it as been simplified for business reason, but it is still a complexe langage. It is also true that 35 % of English is composed of French word, mostly from the Middles Ages : for example : toast, alien, remember barbecue.... Only 5 % of French is composed of English words. Simply because of the famous battles of Hasting and the few hundred years the Frenchman spended in England between 1066 en 1300. That's history. Shakespears still wrote beautifully. A plus !

Audrée

― Audrée Breton, Saturday, 21 December 2002 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

toast alien, remember barbecue!! this is the motto i shall live by audrée!!

i miss gale :(

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 21 December 2002 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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