Recent content by Oldgateboatdriver

Used to share a townhouse with British submariners in Halifax: "What should we do this week-end?" British sub answer: "let's go to Toronto." Me "and how do we get there?" British answer: "We'll just drive". Me explaining why it is nonsensical = Disappointed Brits.

And that, my friend, is a quintessential Canadian unit of measurement that every Canadian will recognize right away, but befuddles everybody else on the planet. :) "How far is it?" asks the British friend. "Oh! Not far. An hour and a half away, 1 hour forty-five at most." replies the Canadian...

I don't know what your source is for that, but there is a difference between "exports" which accounts for trade in goods and services, and monetary movements (money sent over) which includes the financial side of things, such as direct American investment in Canada, payment of dividends or...

They do talk about the beginning, they just don't call it aggression. Pay attention and you will see that they call the first action (theirs) "administration's policy". Of course: Trump's "policy" from the start was to institute unilateral tariffs on everyone - so obviously, it's just a "policy"...

Oh! I do everything in metric. Besides, I weight a lot less in kilos than in pounds. ;)

I was in elementary school when the switch was made to metric. I am now past retirement age. So tell me people: why is it that food labeling at the grocery store indicate the cost per pound in place of pride and cost per kilo in smaller character. In fact why are there cost per pound indicated...

Yes, and BTW, the Americans (US) already produce most of their goods labelled in two languages in the US: they add Spanish and yet, it's not an "official" language, they also then add French for exports to Canada, so for a very large proportion of goods made in the US, trilingual labeling is the...

IIRC, it's because the USS John F. Kennedy should have been in operational trials by now but is still at the yard, delayed by about a year and a half, more if they go by the recent E.O. and replace the EMALS by steam at the president's request - which I don't know if they intend on. However...

Except it was an issue: They specifically listed the Quebec bills that require French and greater fronting of French content in Quebec in their list of irritants. Moreover, and no decision has yet been rendered AFAIK, they (the US) have already challenged these bills at the WTO and are awaiting...

Not just in theory, the French refer to us Quebecois as "nos cousins Americains", i.e. "our American cousins". I am informed also that the Spanish refer to the Spanish spoken in central and South America as "American Spanish"

The source you quote only refers to "distilled spirit". It does not indicate that it was rum, nor that it switched to whiskey at some point. The 13 colonies did not produce sugar cane. They imported their sugar and molasses from the Caribbean at the time of independence. Since those were mostly...

Not quite, while the 13 original states were all American colonies of England, they were not the American colonies, as England had a lot more colonies in the Americas than just those 13. The Declaration of Independence creates the group of thirteen as a group prefaced with "the": It starts by...

I think by massacre, they refer to cold blooded mass murder and burial in unmarked mass graves as part of ethnic cleansing. Putin's war against Ukraine is atrocious and barbaric for sure, but it hasn't reached that level, yet.

And please note that they fight in a F-150.

To misquote Spock: That is illogical. You cannot bring back that which you have never had. The US Navy never had the tradition of rum. Besides, I don't trust their sailors when they are sober, let alone if they were drunk.