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02-22-2017 , 02:43 AM

#51

shrewsbury91

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Move on, and flee to the United States to a better climate and stronger dollar.

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02-22-2017 , 05:21 AM

#52

ninetynine99

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pics of girl with glasses yada yada yada

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02-22-2017 , 06:57 AM

#53

Kristy

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Originally Posted by Didace

I know language changes as time goes and I'm an lolold, but "cottage weekend"? What ever happened to just going to the lake? This right up there with "session beer" for sounding dumb.

Not a language change; "cottage weekend" has been in use in Canada my whole life.

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Originally Posted by shrewsbury91

Move on, and flee to the United States to a better climate and stronger dollar.

This has not been my experience in the last 7 years. Our dollars were rarely in the "normal" $1CDN=$0.65USD range and ime it is much colder.

Plus, there are more Americans and less Canadians here. That's an obvious negative.

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02-22-2017 , 07:20 AM

#54

Howard Beale

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Originally Posted by Didace

I know language changes as time goes and I'm an lolold, but "cottage weekend"? What ever happened to just going to the lake? This right up there with "session beer" for sounding dumb.

In my 20's we didn't call it anything but our group had a few when skiing in Vermont or on the Jersey Shore and had the cops called on us at 4am each time.

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02-22-2017 , 11:13 AM

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Didace

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Originally Posted by Kristy

Not a language change; "cottage weekend" has been in use in Canada my whole life.

1. lolCanada
2. Your whole life! Well I guess that settles it.

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02-22-2017 , 12:22 PM

#56

grando1.0

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It's pretty common Canadian slang. What do Trump#1 people say?

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02-22-2017 , 01:05 PM

#57

Alobar

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Originally Posted by DangerNoodle

buy her new glasses, then wait patiently, maybe years, until you have the opportunity to slip them under her as she is sitting down

haha, nice

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Originally Posted by shrewsbury91

Move on, and flee to the United States to a better climate and stronger dollar.

Canadian women much hotter than american women tho

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02-22-2017 , 03:08 PM

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gregorio

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Is your objection with the word "cottage," or with referring to a weekend at a cottage as a "cottage weekend?"

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02-22-2017 , 03:21 PM

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cs3

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Are there actual cottages all over the place up there, or is any weekend trip called a "cottage weekend" in lolCanada?

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02-22-2017 , 03:25 PM

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florentinopeces

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Originally Posted by Alobar

haha, nice

Canadian women much hotter than american women tho

Only because of all the layers of clothing.

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02-22-2017 , 04:14 PM

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Kristy

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Originally Posted by Didace

Your whole life! Well I guess that settles it.

I'm sorry, did you need your hand held through the entire history of the English language?

It has been a part of the common vernacular for decades. If you want argue that it wasn't accepted in the Elizabethan era...be my guest, but it is a stupid argument.

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02-22-2017 , 04:38 PM

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Are there actual cottages all over the place up there, or is any weekend trip called a "cottage weekend" in lolCanada?

A "cottage weekend" is a weekend when you go to the cottage. There are enough cottages that almost no matter where you live, there is an area within a few hours drive known as "cottage country." On Fridays and Sundays traffic reports include a "cottage country traffic" report.

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02-22-2017 , 04:40 PM

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Didace is older than we are. No wonder he's not used to the term yet.

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02-22-2017 , 04:57 PM

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Okay, so long as it's contained in lolCanada where apparently they say things like "cottage" on the regular, I deem the use of "cottage weekend" to be acceptable. But here in USA#1 we use more proper terms like "lake/mountain cabin", or "beach house". Now you kids just go along and play.

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02-22-2017 , 05:00 PM

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Cabin is area-specific in Canada - to some cabin=cottage, while others use cabin to describe the run-down wood structure hunters and fishers sleep in

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02-22-2017 , 05:44 PM

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cs3

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Why didn't Canadians ever learn proper English?
In USA#1 the only time we need to say cottage is if we're talking about a kind of cheese made by Knudsen

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02-22-2017 , 08:48 PM

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What is a cottage weekend?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottaging

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02-22-2017 , 10:43 PM

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Jbrochu

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My grandfather owned what we called a cottage in York Beach, ME. But he was born in Canada so I guess that makes sense.

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02-22-2017 , 10:49 PM

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottaging

Everything becomes clear now.

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02-22-2017 , 11:01 PM

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ec_outlaw

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Cabins are at the lake or in the woods. Cottages are at the beach.

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02-23-2017 , 04:36 AM

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florentinopeces

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cabins are in the mountains or the woods. by the lake you have a house or a trailer. There are probably some cottages in the Hampdens or the Cotswolds.

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02-23-2017 , 02:04 PM

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Csaba

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Haven't read past the OP...

It's her fault for leaving them in a place where they could be broken. This is coming from someone who comes from a house in which everyone wears glasses and who has been wearing glasses since the age of 5. My glasses have never been broken by someone else as I'm not stupid enough to leave them where someone can break them.

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02-23-2017 , 02:19 PM

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Incident: Getting into the girls car while she is driving us back to someone else's car. I move 3 items (tablet, glove and bottle of water). Girl is getting into her car 1 minute after I get in as we were loading stuff up. See her glasses in the cup holder area and says they are broken. Asks if I sat on them. I say no, I moved other stuff. Then asks me to stand-up and sees one of the lenses under me (I didn't see if she found it there or some where else). It looks like I broke her glasses. I apologise (looks very bad for me, because it seems a though I broke them and lied about it). I say I will pay for them.
I say to the other guy with us after we get dropped off to his car that I don't remember sitting on them. He thinks that the girl was lying and that they were already broken.

It does not look like you broke them.

If you had broken them and were trying to hide what you did, you would not have left one lens on the seat and sat on it. You would have either tried to replace it in the frame, or put it in the cupholder with the frame.

The scenario that she is implying here is that you sat on them, then decided to put the frame in the cupholder while sitting on a lens. There is pretty much no scenario where that happens other than you moving the glasses without noticing a missing lens which is highly unlikely. Even in that scenario, they were already broken.

If the lens just popped out of the frame, you can probably just pop it back in.

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02-23-2017 , 03:07 PM

#74

WateryBoil

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Originally Posted by gregorio

lolpoors.

In northern Ontario, they call cottages, "camps," which never made any sense to me.

every cottage ive owned or visited was on a lake. ive never heard the term camp and ive lived my whole life in rural canada.

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02-23-2017 , 03:40 PM

#75

General Tsao

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Originally Posted by Csaba

This...

Any of my friends would have been like "Guess that's what happens when you leave your glasses on a car seat, huh?", then everyone would have laughed, and we wouldn't be thinking about it five minutes later.

But, OP already agreed to pay for it, so....

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