We been called
Luckily, they are not superstitious. Already a week we decided to publish yesterday about the views a new series of posts on discontent. Coincidentally, yesterday there was the counting for the regional elections ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Beer.
From the first access to what was then called MSN Messenger (and then I basically stopped using), I chose the nickname "wings (b)" so that my name appeared next to a nice mug of beer. I did it just because I liked it, and it took more than a year before anyone seemed to notice that I did it on purpose, since English ale means beer (or a type of beer , to be more precise). Since then I have at least one friend who calls me just Beer.
Here are the most common form of beer here in Quebec:
You will now understand that this long dissertation on the beer (for more caz ... er, curiosity about, I refer you to the excellent The Oatmeal ) it's all an excuse to introduce the real subject of this post: the units of measure.
If you think that the American system is crazy, you is not lived in Canada. Here officially using the metric system, but in practice many older units still in use, both imperial and American ! This situation becomes almost understandable when you consider that Canada is a member of the Commonwealth (formerly Empire) and borders with the U.S. (one of three countries in the world that has not officially adopted the metric system, along with Burma and Liberia ! ). But the trouble with the metric system in Canada is mainly due to political issues. Apparently, the conversion process began in the early '70s through the initiative of the Liberal government of Trudeau between obvious and continued controversy, until the Progressive Conservative Party (no joke ) came to power in the eighties, slowing and eventually stopping the process in mid-1985. The current situation is the result of this demonstration of political acumen.
To give another example of this madness beyond the beer in Canada road signs are in kilometers, railways miles.
short, if you had problems in elementary equivalence , take a brief moment of shame for the poor children in Canada.
Note: Most of this post was created under the influence of a rousse de verre. I know, not much, but I'm easy and so was my dinner ...
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| photo by kevincrumbs |
Here are the most common form of beer here in Quebec:
| French | a une verre | pints | a pichet | une bouteille | une canes |
| English | half pint to a pint pitcher | in a bottle can | |||
| Quantity | 284 ml 568 ml 1705 ml | 341 ml 355 ml | |||
| approximately 10 fl oz (imperial) | 20 fl oz (Imp) | 60 fl oz (Imp) | 12 fl oz (Imp) | 12 fl oz (USA) | |
| | ½ pint imp. | | 3 pints imp. | 0.6 imp pints. | ¾ pint USA |
You will now understand that this long dissertation on the beer (for more caz ... er, curiosity about, I refer you to the excellent The Oatmeal ) it's all an excuse to introduce the real subject of this post: the units of measure.
If you think that the American system is crazy, you is not lived in Canada. Here officially using the metric system, but in practice many older units still in use, both imperial and American ! This situation becomes almost understandable when you consider that Canada is a member of the Commonwealth (formerly Empire) and borders with the U.S. (one of three countries in the world that has not officially adopted the metric system, along with Burma and Liberia ! ). But the trouble with the metric system in Canada is mainly due to political issues. Apparently, the conversion process began in the early '70s through the initiative of the Liberal government of Trudeau between obvious and continued controversy, until the Progressive Conservative Party (no joke ) came to power in the eighties, slowing and eventually stopping the process in mid-1985. The current situation is the result of this demonstration of political acumen.
To give another example of this madness beyond the beer in Canada road signs are in kilometers, railways miles.
short, if you had problems in elementary equivalence , take a brief moment of shame for the poor children in Canada.
Note: Most of this post was created under the influence of a rousse de verre. I know, not much, but I'm easy and so was my dinner ...
Monday, March 1, 2010
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As you probably know even the least sports fans on Sunday were closed Winter Olympics in Vancouver. For me, the disappointment of the Italians little success has been somewhat 'relieved of gold Razzoli , who arrived only on the penultimate day, and the triumph of the host country both me and the Games, Canada. All this leads me to share with you some considerations and curiosity.
As you probably know even the least sports fans on Sunday were closed Winter Olympics in Vancouver. For me, the disappointment of the Italians little success has been somewhat 'relieved of gold Razzoli , who arrived only on the penultimate day, and the triumph of the host country both me and the Games, Canada. All this leads me to share with you some considerations and curiosity.
- Canadians, who played in the Winter Olympics in the other house ( Calgary '88) had failed to win even one gold in Vancouver have taken 14, a number which, in addition to the head of medals, that is the record for the Winter Games (previously held by the USSR and Norway, with 13 gold medals, respectively, obtained in '76 and 2002).
- While this may arouse some suspicion, it must be said, however, that Canada has always scored at least six gold medals in the last four editions of the Winter Olympics, and otherwise anti-doping controls this edition of the Games will continue for another eight years .
- Speaking of medals, Canadians are used to show how Americans, and that is sorted by total number of medals rather than the number of gold medals as used by us. What you must pay to their disadvantage, because while the European media in Canada show that the head, but here on newspapers are the first USA, followed by Germany and then Canada. By the way, the States with their total of 37 medals have scored a record. On these two records, it should be noted, however, that Vancouver has played the most number of races of all time (86, two more that Torino 2006).
- Gold felt by Canadians, and the last assignment was to men's hockey. As the national sport, you can imagine that this victory (for more in a final battle against the U.S.) for what they represent for us is a victory for the World Cup. Yet after the match I noticed no major events of jubilation on the streets. It will be that Canadians are basically , which will have great difficulties to overcome since there is no longer the Soviet Union, the fact is that everything I saw coming home was a girl with a flag of Canada underground. Not quite as we after the final in Berlin ...
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