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clementineI am amused by the Facebook group "You know you're from Toronto when..." Some of them are SO true!
You can recommend about 3 good body piercing parlours. - I don't even have any body piercings, but I definitely can. It's probably because of the people I hang out with.
You realize there are far more rainbow flags in the city than Canadian Flags. - Toronto (and Montreal, so maybe all of Canada?) is so different from the US. They have 426938293 flags on every block; I rarely see Canadian flags except for on ~official~ buildings. However... yeah. Quite a few rainbow flags.
You're guaranteed to know at least one person on every episode of Speaker's Corner. - Not every episode, but I've seen a lot of people I know on it.
You haven't been to the CN Tower since you were six, but still have nightmares about that damn turbo elevator. - Can you believe I have never been to to the CN tower? :o
You've had at least 3 bicycles stolen in the past 10 years. - Yep. Once we ran into a guy riding my bike. My dad yelled at him and we got it back.
You turn your nose up at any establishment frequented by the S&M crowd. (Scarborough and Mississauga) - OH MY GOD, totally. Scarborough and Mississauga are for losers. The GTA is where it's at. I would also include Etobicoke on this list. What can I say, I do not like suburbs.
You never, never, never swim in the lake. - Yeah, but all you have to do is take one look at it and you figure that out.
You know "The Beaches" are really called "The Beach", but still say "The Beaches" just to annoy all the nitwits who live there. - I didn't know "The Beach" is the proper name! I definitely say "The Beaches".
You can say "world's tallest freestanding structure" ten times fast. - They drill that in your head from a very young age. It's our main claim to fame, even if Dubai apparently now has the world's tallest freestanding structure.
The word "cabbagetown" doesn't strike you as particularily amusing. - I have never even thought about that. :P
You don't know where Fort York is, but have a vague recollection of being there in a past life. - Come on, we used to go there every year for school!
For the last time, it's pronounced 'TRONNA'! - NO IT'S NOT! IT'S PRONOUNCED "TRONNO". :P
You consider eye contact a sign of hostility and an invasion of your privacy. - but that's just because I'm antisocial.
It takes you half an hour to get to work by TTC and you are the envy of all your friends. - Argh. It takes me 45 minutes to get to school every day. ;_; And, yes, the TTC is so slow. The Dundas streetcar took 40 minutes to take me 12 stops yesterday. I could have walked faster. Lame.
You mourned the death of the Spadina Bus. - ... there was a bus on Spadina? I don't care; the Spadina streetcar is decent when you're used to Dundas. Unfortunately it goes through China Town, which always means insane crowding for a few stops.
You laugh heartily at people who refer to highway four hundred and one. - Ew, people say that? It's the four oh one, people who apparently say that!
You know the difference between souvlaki, moussaka and spanakoptia. - Come on.
You can name at least three locations of The Beer Store that are open till 11 PM. - HAHAHA, YES.
You have NEVER been to the Hard Rock Cafe. - I don't think I will ever go there.
Some random person on the TTC tries to make some form of communication with you. - All the time. I guess it's how you pass your time when you're stuck on public transport for four hundred years every day.
You know and have met Zanta! - I haven't met him, but I have seen him up close.
You know that the real name of the Rogers Center is the Skydome. - Um, duh. If you call it the Rogers Center you are a) a sports broadcaster, b) not from Toronto, or c) completely lame.
You notice that the Transit increases their fares every six months. - Yes, and they make it a stupid inconvenient number so that you end up giving them extra money. (Student fare is $1.85 so when I don't have tickets I usually give them a twoonie. Also, somewhat related, my brother's child tickets cost 1/3 of the price of my student tickets!)
You pass up on an overpriced $3 coffee from Starbucks for a box of Timbits and a coffee from Tim Horton's. - COME ON, Timmy's is 400 times cheaper and way better.
You wish to see the day the Leafs will win their first cup since 1967. - Actually, I don't. I wish to see them cease to exist. GO FLAMES GO!!
You know Yonge St. is the longest street in the world. - Who doesn't? :P
You have friends from the US dying to come over to take advantage of the 19 and over drinking age. - I'll have to ask Josh about that one...
You're proud great actors like Jim Carey, Mike Myers, and John Candy are from your hometown. - I'm actually really sad that Avril Lavigne's hometown is pretty close to mine.
Acronyms like "da T-Dot" puzzle our friends across the border. - I don't know, I actually know more people who say T-Dot who AREN'T from Toronto. Most people here don't really say it. Tee-Oh, sure. T-Dot, not so much.
Y-TV was your favorite TV station growing up. - AHHHHH YES!
During the World Cup, you don't feel like you live in Canada anymore. - Yeah and I live in a really Portuguese/Italian area so it gets insane. (I'm assuming we're referring to soccer here.)
You see that same damn one legged pigeon following you around. - Yeah, I can tell pigeons apart.
During the summer, when the weather is warm, waiting for the bus is chaos but during the winter when the weather is freezing, people start lining up in an orderly fashion to get on the bus ASAP! - Um, where do you live? Where I'm from, people push to get on the Dufferin Bus. I'm too nice to push little old ladies so I usually end up getting on last.
Toronto music artists like George Nozuka make you proud. - Hell yeah! Metric is from Toronto!!
You're not surprised when you've been waiting for an hour in the freezing cold for the TTC and 4 buses or streetcars come at once. - Yeah, or when 50 go the other way and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING comes the way you need to go.
On the subway, you see a Daniel Boone character, and then on the next subway, you see a random cowboy. - The subway is certainly an interesting place. I would know, taking it for half an hour twice a day. *nod nod*
You try to pass off a dime as a TTC token when you think the subway man isnt watching!!! - Haha, I don't use tokens, but ever since I was, oh, three, I've thought about ripping them off like that.
When it takes you longer to get downtown on the TTC, than it does your friend who lives in Burlington who took the GO (or drove.. or walked) - Oh yeah. TTC is kind of a total waste of money.
The thought of living anywhere in the 905 area code (or the thought of moving back!)makes you shudder - NO SUBURBS FOR ME PLEASE!
when riding the TTC usaly the bus or street car,on more then one occasion u get an overwhelming stench of B.O or poo.Usaly in the summer months. - Usually on the bus.
wen you live a systemic life everyday like a robot and the government takes away most of you money on 14% tax !!! and income tax - Excuse me, it's 13% now. It's like... 1% in Alberta. Maybe I'm exaggerating a little.
you can spot the out-of-town'er because of their slow walking habits. HATE THAT! - Yep. Walk faster, dammit!
you go to the ex every year even though you realize its slowly getting worse with each passing year... - I've only been once. I was eight. It sucked.
you see your former mayor on TV in an old-fashionned prison jump suit trying to sell you a discount-priced sofa. - Yeah, gtfo.
u know to transfer at st. george instead of spadina, even if that seems longer on the little map. - Mhm, you learn these things when you don't have a car.
you have tasted the best burrito in the world! - I SO HAVE.
You can never figure out the difference between Malton and Milton, Brampton and Brantford, Ajax and Aurora, Willowdale and Whitby. They are all far, far away. - No, because I don't suck.
You remember the dingy coffee shop at Queen at John prior to it being at st*rbucks not to mention the Santuary... - That Starbucks is pointless. There's another one like 2 blocks away on Queen and Spadina. Lame.
uve missed the last subway and had to endure a jam-packed Bloor bus with the other drunks - The Bloor Bus is groooss. I'd rather walk.
When u're watching a movie and can name the place in the scene and have a story to go with it... - Hai, Hairspray was filmed at my middle school.
when the sound of contruction outside your window can put you to sleep. - For me it's the College car. :)
you dont get startled anymore by the guy at Yonge and Dundas who always suddenly yells when you least expect it "JESUS!! saaaves" - Ha, I had to turn a few of them down yesterday. Also, once this guy there yelled and swore at me and Nicole for no apparent reason. I hate that area. Yesterday I told Eric to protect me, even though I'm a full head taller than he is.
when you know your TTC subway stop by the color of the wall tiles - Yep. Dufferin = nasty mint green. Landsowne = dingy yellow. Dundas West = white. Keele = more dingy yellow. High Park (aka where the teacher at Jarvis killed himself aka RIGHT NEAR MY SCHOOL OKAY D: D:) = white. Runnymede = green.
when you call Danforth Avenue - "The Danforth" - Does anyone not? :P
when you've shopped at Honest Ed's with your parents when you were a kid - Yes, and I admired all the signs outside of it.
you feel an unsurpressable urge to take a shower while riding the Spadina streetcar.. even if you just took one - No, I already said the Spadina streetcar is decent.
when you have met the guy that does the Olivers Jewelry commercial and he asked you for your gold. - I ACTUALLY HAVE MET HIM!
You hate going to the beer store in Parkdale cause its so sketchy. - Parkdale in general is just getting out if its sketchiness.
You say Torono. - No. Like I said, I don't say the first "o".
YOU STILL HAVE HOPES OF ANOTHER STANLEY CUP COMING TO THE CITY OR IN THIS SEASONS CASE, HAVE HOPE THAT THE LEAFS WILL EVER MAKE THE PLAYOFFS AGAIN!!!! - ACTUALLY, THE LEAFS WILL NEVER WIN A GAME AGAIN AND I LIKE IT THAT WAY.
you say 'Toronto Time' instead of 'Eastern Standard Time'. - Course I do. :P
If you are abroad and someone says they are from Toronto and you want ot prove it to yourself, ask them "What is Pizza Pizza's phone number?" 967-11-11, call pizza pizza, hey hey hey!
The fact that Sam The Record man is becoming a Ryerson campus depresses/enrages you. - Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. I bought my Dixie Chicks CD there! :P
You can recommend about 3 good body piercing parlours. - I don't even have any body piercings, but I definitely can. It's probably because of the people I hang out with.
You realize there are far more rainbow flags in the city than Canadian Flags. - Toronto (and Montreal, so maybe all of Canada?) is so different from the US. They have 426938293 flags on every block; I rarely see Canadian flags except for on ~official~ buildings. However... yeah. Quite a few rainbow flags.
You're guaranteed to know at least one person on every episode of Speaker's Corner. - Not every episode, but I've seen a lot of people I know on it.
You haven't been to the CN Tower since you were six, but still have nightmares about that damn turbo elevator. - Can you believe I have never been to to the CN tower? :o
You've had at least 3 bicycles stolen in the past 10 years. - Yep. Once we ran into a guy riding my bike. My dad yelled at him and we got it back.
You turn your nose up at any establishment frequented by the S&M crowd. (Scarborough and Mississauga) - OH MY GOD, totally. Scarborough and Mississauga are for losers. The GTA is where it's at. I would also include Etobicoke on this list. What can I say, I do not like suburbs.
You never, never, never swim in the lake. - Yeah, but all you have to do is take one look at it and you figure that out.
You know "The Beaches" are really called "The Beach", but still say "The Beaches" just to annoy all the nitwits who live there. - I didn't know "The Beach" is the proper name! I definitely say "The Beaches".
You can say "world's tallest freestanding structure" ten times fast. - They drill that in your head from a very young age. It's our main claim to fame, even if Dubai apparently now has the world's tallest freestanding structure.
The word "cabbagetown" doesn't strike you as particularily amusing. - I have never even thought about that. :P
You don't know where Fort York is, but have a vague recollection of being there in a past life. - Come on, we used to go there every year for school!
For the last time, it's pronounced 'TRONNA'! - NO IT'S NOT! IT'S PRONOUNCED "TRONNO". :P
You consider eye contact a sign of hostility and an invasion of your privacy. - but that's just because I'm antisocial.
It takes you half an hour to get to work by TTC and you are the envy of all your friends. - Argh. It takes me 45 minutes to get to school every day. ;_; And, yes, the TTC is so slow. The Dundas streetcar took 40 minutes to take me 12 stops yesterday. I could have walked faster. Lame.
You mourned the death of the Spadina Bus. - ... there was a bus on Spadina? I don't care; the Spadina streetcar is decent when you're used to Dundas. Unfortunately it goes through China Town, which always means insane crowding for a few stops.
You laugh heartily at people who refer to highway four hundred and one. - Ew, people say that? It's the four oh one, people who apparently say that!
You know the difference between souvlaki, moussaka and spanakoptia. - Come on.
You can name at least three locations of The Beer Store that are open till 11 PM. - HAHAHA, YES.
You have NEVER been to the Hard Rock Cafe. - I don't think I will ever go there.
Some random person on the TTC tries to make some form of communication with you. - All the time. I guess it's how you pass your time when you're stuck on public transport for four hundred years every day.
You know and have met Zanta! - I haven't met him, but I have seen him up close.
You know that the real name of the Rogers Center is the Skydome. - Um, duh. If you call it the Rogers Center you are a) a sports broadcaster, b) not from Toronto, or c) completely lame.
You notice that the Transit increases their fares every six months. - Yes, and they make it a stupid inconvenient number so that you end up giving them extra money. (Student fare is $1.85 so when I don't have tickets I usually give them a twoonie. Also, somewhat related, my brother's child tickets cost 1/3 of the price of my student tickets!)
You pass up on an overpriced $3 coffee from Starbucks for a box of Timbits and a coffee from Tim Horton's. - COME ON, Timmy's is 400 times cheaper and way better.
You wish to see the day the Leafs will win their first cup since 1967. - Actually, I don't. I wish to see them cease to exist. GO FLAMES GO!!
You know Yonge St. is the longest street in the world. - Who doesn't? :P
You have friends from the US dying to come over to take advantage of the 19 and over drinking age. - I'll have to ask Josh about that one...
You're proud great actors like Jim Carey, Mike Myers, and John Candy are from your hometown. - I'm actually really sad that Avril Lavigne's hometown is pretty close to mine.
Acronyms like "da T-Dot" puzzle our friends across the border. - I don't know, I actually know more people who say T-Dot who AREN'T from Toronto. Most people here don't really say it. Tee-Oh, sure. T-Dot, not so much.
Y-TV was your favorite TV station growing up. - AHHHHH YES!
During the World Cup, you don't feel like you live in Canada anymore. - Yeah and I live in a really Portuguese/Italian area so it gets insane. (I'm assuming we're referring to soccer here.)
You see that same damn one legged pigeon following you around. - Yeah, I can tell pigeons apart.
During the summer, when the weather is warm, waiting for the bus is chaos but during the winter when the weather is freezing, people start lining up in an orderly fashion to get on the bus ASAP! - Um, where do you live? Where I'm from, people push to get on the Dufferin Bus. I'm too nice to push little old ladies so I usually end up getting on last.
Toronto music artists like George Nozuka make you proud. - Hell yeah! Metric is from Toronto!!
You're not surprised when you've been waiting for an hour in the freezing cold for the TTC and 4 buses or streetcars come at once. - Yeah, or when 50 go the other way and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING comes the way you need to go.
On the subway, you see a Daniel Boone character, and then on the next subway, you see a random cowboy. - The subway is certainly an interesting place. I would know, taking it for half an hour twice a day. *nod nod*
You try to pass off a dime as a TTC token when you think the subway man isnt watching!!! - Haha, I don't use tokens, but ever since I was, oh, three, I've thought about ripping them off like that.
When it takes you longer to get downtown on the TTC, than it does your friend who lives in Burlington who took the GO (or drove.. or walked) - Oh yeah. TTC is kind of a total waste of money.
The thought of living anywhere in the 905 area code (or the thought of moving back!)makes you shudder - NO SUBURBS FOR ME PLEASE!
when riding the TTC usaly the bus or street car,on more then one occasion u get an overwhelming stench of B.O or poo.Usaly in the summer months. - Usually on the bus.
wen you live a systemic life everyday like a robot and the government takes away most of you money on 14% tax !!! and income tax - Excuse me, it's 13% now. It's like... 1% in Alberta. Maybe I'm exaggerating a little.
you can spot the out-of-town'er because of their slow walking habits. HATE THAT! - Yep. Walk faster, dammit!
you go to the ex every year even though you realize its slowly getting worse with each passing year... - I've only been once. I was eight. It sucked.
you see your former mayor on TV in an old-fashionned prison jump suit trying to sell you a discount-priced sofa. - Yeah, gtfo.
u know to transfer at st. george instead of spadina, even if that seems longer on the little map. - Mhm, you learn these things when you don't have a car.
you have tasted the best burrito in the world! - I SO HAVE.
You can never figure out the difference between Malton and Milton, Brampton and Brantford, Ajax and Aurora, Willowdale and Whitby. They are all far, far away. - No, because I don't suck.
You remember the dingy coffee shop at Queen at John prior to it being at st*rbucks not to mention the Santuary... - That Starbucks is pointless. There's another one like 2 blocks away on Queen and Spadina. Lame.
uve missed the last subway and had to endure a jam-packed Bloor bus with the other drunks - The Bloor Bus is groooss. I'd rather walk.
When u're watching a movie and can name the place in the scene and have a story to go with it... - Hai, Hairspray was filmed at my middle school.
when the sound of contruction outside your window can put you to sleep. - For me it's the College car. :)
you dont get startled anymore by the guy at Yonge and Dundas who always suddenly yells when you least expect it "JESUS!! saaaves" - Ha, I had to turn a few of them down yesterday. Also, once this guy there yelled and swore at me and Nicole for no apparent reason. I hate that area. Yesterday I told Eric to protect me, even though I'm a full head taller than he is.
when you know your TTC subway stop by the color of the wall tiles - Yep. Dufferin = nasty mint green. Landsowne = dingy yellow. Dundas West = white. Keele = more dingy yellow. High Park (aka where the teacher at Jarvis killed himself aka RIGHT NEAR MY SCHOOL OKAY D: D:) = white. Runnymede = green.
when you call Danforth Avenue - "The Danforth" - Does anyone not? :P
when you've shopped at Honest Ed's with your parents when you were a kid - Yes, and I admired all the signs outside of it.
you feel an unsurpressable urge to take a shower while riding the Spadina streetcar.. even if you just took one - No, I already said the Spadina streetcar is decent.
when you have met the guy that does the Olivers Jewelry commercial and he asked you for your gold. - I ACTUALLY HAVE MET HIM!
You hate going to the beer store in Parkdale cause its so sketchy. - Parkdale in general is just getting out if its sketchiness.
You say Torono. - No. Like I said, I don't say the first "o".
YOU STILL HAVE HOPES OF ANOTHER STANLEY CUP COMING TO THE CITY OR IN THIS SEASONS CASE, HAVE HOPE THAT THE LEAFS WILL EVER MAKE THE PLAYOFFS AGAIN!!!! - ACTUALLY, THE LEAFS WILL NEVER WIN A GAME AGAIN AND I LIKE IT THAT WAY.
you say 'Toronto Time' instead of 'Eastern Standard Time'. - Course I do. :P
If you are abroad and someone says they are from Toronto and you want ot prove it to yourself, ask them "What is Pizza Pizza's phone number?" 967-11-11, call pizza pizza, hey hey hey!
The fact that Sam The Record man is becoming a Ryerson campus depresses/enrages you. - Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. I bought my Dixie Chicks CD there! :P
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Date: 2009-10-21 03:03 am (UTC)No one I know says the "hundred" in a highways name. That would be weiiiiird.
Hey, even I've been to the CN tower! lol.
Rogers Centre/Skydome - I'm guessing Rogers bought the Skydome? Do you know how long ago the name change happened? There was a similar issue in O-town when Scotiabank bought the stadium that Corel used to own (according to wikipedia, it was Feb 06). People still call it the Corel Centre sometimes, but the percentage who call it Scotiabank Place increases every day. We're adjusting ;P
If you're ever in Ottawa, it's 737-11-11.
I bet more people would go for the 18/over drinking age in Quebec!
Oh yeah, a lot of people in O-town call your city T-dot. I don't know why they think it's cool; it doesn't sound very nice to me.
YTV - oh come on, that has to be a Canada-wide thing! Only channel I watched... actually, I would go to TVO for Arthur.
I am jealous of the atmosphere during the World Cup. I miss that kind of craziness and excitement they always had in Egypt.
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Date: 2009-10-21 11:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, Rogers bought the Skydome in... 2004/2005? Everyone is outraged, because, seriously, Skydome sounds SO MUCH cooler! Nobody will ever adjust to Rogers Center! It's also sad that the Leafs moved the ACC, since Maple Leaf Gardens sounds a million percent better.
I watched TVO too! It started to get lame once Phil and Tumbleweed left, though. I still sometimes watch it for Art Attack, but don't tell anyone...
Ugh, you can take my place during the World Cup! It's horrible. D: The traffic gets so bad and everyone gets completely smashed at around 6PM, so that they're passed out in the streets before it's even dark. Laaame.