quote: Quid, I actually meant no one's accused the north of being unimportant yet. But I guess it's just been ignored, which is the same difference, only passive.
The little nuances I miss because of massively pounding heads.
Are you planning on inviting those in the west, or is this going to be an exclusive gathering?
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Thanks, Astaril. I found it after I posted in this thread.
So. Once more, the exclusionary east ignores the west as unimportant! One more example to put into the annals of Canadian history! Down with the east! Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Um, yeah, pretty much. I was a Vancouverite, and I had/have relatives living in Toronto, and they were all stuck up and snitty, so I was basing it on them rather than the rest of the general population, whom I have not met that I know of. But, yeah. Then again, Vancouverites tend to be granola people, so Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Well we're liberal here, of course, but not granola liberal, more "there are far too many people living in a small space here and they all are different than if we don't just get along and have a good time we'd explode" liberal.
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By granola, I mean a lot of sandals with socks and shorts, vegetarians, tree-hugging tree-spiking don't care who it hurts people. Okay, not all of them, but there do seem to be a lot more extremist environmentalists there. And panhandlers, and squeegee boys, and beggars wearing Doc Martens which I could never afford, and . . . Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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quote:I've heard that many Vancouverites think Toronto is stuck up and snitty. Is it true?
Everybody west of, say, Kenora thinks Toronto is stuck up. If we knew what snitty meant we'd probably have thought that to.
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1978 Washington Post 17 Sept. H1/4 In 1977..snitty bickering between the Hollywood and New York factions of the TV Academy reached a new pitch of schismatic feverishness. 1981 T. BARLING Bikini Red North ii. 58 Don't make me laugh when I want to be snitty. 1986 City Limits 29 May 59 Before we get a snitty letter from Sir Peter we would like to recall the last time the NT staged ‘Othello’. 1987 People 4 May 7/3 A sixteen-year-old orphan, the child of an affair, who lives with her half brother..and his snooty, snitty wife.
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I lied when I said I'd never been west of Ontario. I stopped in Vancouver on my way back from New Zealand last fall.
quote:I've heard that many Vancouverites think Toronto is stuck up and snitty. Is it true?
That's hilarious! I mean, if Vancouverites weren't so busy sipping their green tea lattés and eating their gelato, they might have time to look down on Toronto. Basically, the impression I get is that Canada resents Toronto the way America resents New York, which is to say that Toronto thinks its the centre of the universe. But stuck up? No, that's reserved for Vancouver.
(That's not to say that I don't really like the city, and wouldn't gladly have moved there if I'd gotten the job I interviewed for there.)
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The way it works in the US (in my experience, at least) is that New Yorkers go all over the country exclaiming in loud voices--and often using a lot of profanity--that whatever place they happen to be in is not as good as New York, while the rest of us usually don't think about New York at all.
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I think the Arrogant Worms described Toronto the best:
"The rents too high, the airs unclean The beaches are dirty and the people are mean And the women are big and the men are dumb An the children are loopy cuz they live in a slum The water is polluted and the mayor's a dork They dress real bad and they think they're New York In Toronto, Ontario"
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Tsk. That's not the Arrogant Worms. That's Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. Although, realistically, if there were three dead *anythings* in a baggie, there'd probably be some worms in there with them... But as to their arrogance, that's questionable. How does one tell if a worm is arrogant?
And, incidentally, I've got to say that even people living just a couple hours north of TO tend to think of it as fairly stuck up... Admittedly, that could be because all the ones that we meet are generally coming to use our land for their cottages, and are of the stuck-up, rich variety. Toronto's really too diverse to classify as anything specific, I think. Not that that stops people
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