#just canadian things

[icedbatik]

My husband just showed me this photo (or a similar one) he'd found online, with a caption underneath it noting it as "the most Canadian museum exhibit ever."

I took one look at it and said, "Oh, that's Sid's dryer."

My (non-hockey-loving) husband was not impressed with my familiarity with Canada's most Canadian museum exhibit ever!

I'm waiting to see what he says when I send him the pic of Sid's 30th birthday cake! 😂

#Sidney Crosby #just Canadian things #May 6 - 2023

[localplaguenurse]

I just had a realization that the only confirmed canadian moots/followers I have are my irl friends

Do not look this up before answering because that's cheating

#tumblr polls #canada #just canadian things #north american house hippo #house hippo #it is so crucial to me that I know this #this is an important part of canadian culture

[mhalachai]

Word of the week: Canadianisms: Loonie and Toonie

getting back to things, here's a join word of the week/just Canadian things for you.

Loonie

The loonie, aka the $1 coin. Named such as, in 1987 when Canada moved from the $1 bill to the $1 coin, the winning design for the back was a lovely loon. To differentiate from the quarter (and other coinage that are silver in colour, the loonie is brass). Called huard, or loon, in Quebec.

From this...

to this:

However, the move to the coin resulted in an explosion in popularity of the $2 bill (which prior to this was as popular as the $2 bill is in the States today), which in turn led to the introduction in 1996 of the…

Toonie

When the chuckleheads at the Mint decided to turf the $2 bill in favour of a $2 coin it was in turn nicknamed the "toonie" (a portmanteau of "two" and "loonie"), because Canadians love a two-trick pony. Also known as the twoonie if you're trying to make up points in Scrabble. Apparently called deux piastres or deux piastres rond in Quebec because at that point the linguistic logic fell apart - if anyone out there is Québécois, please correct me if that's wrong.

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To:

Fun fact, when they introduced the toonie, everyone tried to get the two parts to pop apart. I was working at a fast food restaurant at the time and i had a couple of ten-year-olds trying to buy an ice cream cone with a separated toonie. I swapped it out for a $2 bill in my pocket and kept the outer part on a chain; still have it around somewhere (unless you're from the Mint in pursuit of criminal charges as it relates to currency defacement in which case I didn't and I don't)

And bonus:

If you’re ever up in Canada and at a liquor store and someone suggests you get a mickey, they’re not offering to spike your drink,  they’re suggesting you get a bottle of liquor that is 375ml, or 13 florida ounces.

And I cannot find anyone who has a reason as to why we call it that.

#word of the week #just canadian things #monetary gains #history lesson #what else can i tag this as #loonie #toonie #canadian slang

[davnittbraes]

Me waiting for the temperature to rise above -20 so I can experience sunshine without my face hurting again

#just canadian things #january problems #we’re getting there today! #minus 10 with the wind chill #and climbing

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

Sorry but when I heard that the bodyguard's name is Alessio, it just inspired me to do this:

Original:

#just canadian things #helluva boss #helluva boss memes #crim's bodyguard #alessio #helluva alessio #helluva boss alessio

[doomedlvr]

Me when I meet that spineless little weasel Trudeau

#just canadian things

[kaaaaaaarf]

going to vancouver tomorrow for a week! it'll be my first time going there!

Hello anon!! Oh, that's very exciting! I lived there for five years and honestly, I miss it. Beautiful city. Lots of my close friends still live there. I hope you have the best time!!

If you're looking for delicious eats, I recommend Las Margaritas, The Naam and The Eatery! They are all in Kitsilano. Oh, and make sure you hit up Granville Brewery on Granville Island if you are so inclined. 🫡

Stare at the mountains for me. 💖

#ask me #hey anonny nonny #just canadian things #toronto anon tag

[planetsoda]

check on ur canadian friends today bc one of the three major telecomm companies in the country is down causing anyone with that company to completely lose phone/internet/network service

people can’t call 911, passport and half of other government services are down, banks have lost certain capabilities, lots of stores can’t take debit/credit payment, and total internet use across the country is down by 25% bc people just can’t connect

#except u can’t actually check on 1/3 of us lol #gotta love an oligopoly #just canadian things #fuck rogers #rogers network outage #oh canada #planetsoda

[theinkbunny]

I genuinely love when I have friends outside of where I am because things you find everyday here they just?? they just don’t have???? And it’s like something you thought everybody had

its a flex)

#Like lmfao #yall don’t have jam jams? #Weak ngl #Or chubby (pop) #OR A THOUSAND POUTINE PLACES?? #just canadian things #They don’t even have timmies

[the7thcrow]

going to shovel the literal foot of snow off my driveway, just to glance at the weather on my phone screen and see THIS:

why tf do i live in this hell-scape

#it feels like -41 with the wind chill too #it physically hurts to breathe #… #at least hell would be warm #just canadian things #corynn thinks

[localplaguenurse]

Happy Halloween

#snow #just canadian things #its not a real Canadian Halloween if you’re not dressed as ‘(character) in a coat’

[aggressionbread]

Every year I never remember when the snow is supposed to start melting, it just feels like winter is forever. Like is this warm weather going to stay, is this the start of spring? Literally what is April, is it supposed to be snowy or rainy or what?

#just Canadian things #like did we do it did we get through winter? it seems kinda soon #all i know is it snows in like october or november and then ???????? and then june is definitely summer

[davnittbraes]

Finally getting around to completing this Canadian Community Health Survey that I’ve been randomly selected for and one of the first questions is “On a scale of one to ten, how satisfied are you with your life right now?”

Like damn J-dawg, you’re coming at me right outta the gate.

#hit save for later IMMEDIATELY #I can’t tell if I need more caffeine or alcohol in order to finish this survey #it’s probably smart that they didn’t put an additional comments box on that one #statistics canada #justin trudeau #you’re really going for the throat here #just canadian things

[fancykraken]

I wish I didn’t feel so guilty about ordering delivery when the weather is so terrible out.

#just Canadian things #or more like #just anxiety things #The Personal Files

[tyetknot]

The absolute soul-crushing despair you feel when you wake up after a heavy snowfall and see a two-foot pile of slush and wet snow that the plough left at the bottom of your driveway.

#just canadian things

[justplainsimon]

The Punisher from YTV's Uh-Oh! Really did something to my subconcious as a kid.

You're watching a game show as a kid, when suddenly a guy in a gimp outfit comes out of nowhere, drags away one of the contestants that lost, shoves them in a tube and pours slime on them.

The guys's mask had a zipper mouth or a black hockey mask and a leather harness on his chest...

#ytv #r.i.p. teletoon #uhoh the game show #just canadian things #canadian nostalgia #stuff that turned me gay