Just joined - hi!

Eto-who? Do tell - I've never heard that one before :D

I figured the Ontarian thing had to be something to do with voting patterns.

Anyway, apart from a liking for mountains, the relative absence of liberalism is another good reason why we're headed west. How I laughed when I heard that the proposed Liberal handgun ban was scuppered by the western provinces sticking two fingers up to the idea! Wish somebody had done that when Blair banned handguns here, the vote-grabbing little turd.

Yes, I'm looking forward to being somewhere where PC is not tolerated. Unfortunately, Britain has descended into a civil war of words over the issue in recent years and not a day goes by without some new outrage assailing our freedoms - much of it down to the EU I might add.
 
I'll help out with translation for you Jon.

Canadian to English... Etobicoke, Ontario ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etobicoke,_Ontario add http in front ) suburb of the new and improved City of Toronto.

English to Canadian... "sticking two fingers up to the idea" -> "giving the middle finger to the idea"
 
Well, come on out, and give us a hollar when you get here. My last Brit buddy was Ian from Dover, who came out a couple years to chase moose, whitetails and bison around. I'm sure we still have some room for a right thinking gun guy (and family of course), although we are filling up at ahorrible rate. Damn oil. - dan
 
I'll help out with translation for you Jon.

Canadian to English... Etobicoke, Ontario ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etobicoke,_Ontario add http in front ) suburb of the new and improved City of Toronto.

English to Canadian... "sticking two fingers up to the idea" -> "giving the middle finger to the idea"

Thanks - I was going to use the middle finger metaphor but we're in a transitional phase over here and both rude gestures are now in common use on the roads and elsewhere. I suppose when it comes to swearing, I still use "imperial" :D

Dan, thanks I will. It'll be a few years yet before emigration, but we're hoping to come for a sniff around next year or the one after.
 
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