# The Canadope Café, 2014 Edition: In 3-D! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612 "2014-01-01T05:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/61 "2014-01-04T01:36:49Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > We had that already, several years ago. > > I remember golfing at the local course here, north of Barrie, and being beset by swarms of orange ladybugs. They were biting us. Apparently Toronto imported them in order to combat an aphid problem, and they multiplied like crazy. I remember _drifts_ of them in bus shelters in Mississauga. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/62 "2014-01-04T02:12:51Z")
Oh boy! More snow for Sunday night! 🙂 🙂 (/sarcasm) ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/63 "2014-01-04T15:11:00Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > The weather in Toronto this past year must be a Biblical judgment on the city for electing Rob Ford. 😃 > > First a flood, then an ice storm, and now … ice quakes? Not for electing Rob. Just for being Toronto 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/64 "2014-01-05T01:06:52Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Oh boy! More snow for Sunday night! 🙂 🙂 > > (/sarcasm) Last night, I caught up with a friend who has just returned from Cuba; and today, I spoke on the phone with a friend who is leaving for Jamaica in a couple of days. I just got back in from shovelling snow in -18C temps. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/65 "2014-01-05T01:33:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I just got back in from shovelling snow in -18C temps. ☹ 17C here. No snow to shovel. No yard to worry about as the grounds staff do it all. The major worry this winter is if I look too much like an outsider if I go down to the grocery store in a t-shirt, shorts and sandals - those aclimatized here are wearing, well, what I’d be wearing if I had to shovel snow at -18C.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/66 "2014-01-05T01:38:56Z")
As an fyi, there are 295,000 Canadians living in HK. More Canadians in this city than most cities in Canada. It would be 17th on the list. > **[Canadians in Hong Kong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians_in_Hong_Kong)** > > Like their American counterparts, a significant number of Canadians live and work in Hong Kong. In February 2011 research from the Asia Pacific Foundation, conducted with Hong Kong Baptist University, suggests there are at least 295,000 Canadians in Hong Kong, which is more than the population of places like Regina or Saskatoon. Near 85% of Canadians in Hong Kong are Hong Kong-born, a figure higher than in Canada itself (80.2%). This represents the third largest community of Canadians, after C... ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/67 "2014-01-05T01:39:32Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > 17C here. No snow to shovel. No yard to worry about as the grounds staff do it all. > The major worry this winter is if I look too much like an outsider if I go down to the grocery store in a t-shirt, shorts and sandals - those aclimatized here are wearing, well, what I’d be wearing if I had to shovel snow at -18C.😃 Then they can all stare at you like I stare at the people here who wear parkas and mitts in +15ºC weather. 🙂 Okay, it’s really freaking cold in the middle of Canada. It’s chilly here, but it sounds like Sask. and Man. are truly frigid. I won’t tease you guys for not wanting to go out in -48ºC temps! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/68 "2014-01-05T02:12:15Z")
Happy 2014 from Vancouver. 2013 was… challenging. Here’s hoping for better, or at least curtailing the three-front insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/69 "2014-01-05T02:24:26Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Then they can all stare at you like I stare at the people here who wear parkas and mitts in +15ºC weather. 🙂 > > Okay, it’s really freaking cold in the middle of Canada. It’s chilly here, but it sounds like Sask. and Man. are truly frigid. I won’t tease you guys for not wanting to go out in -48ºC temps! It’s COLD here in Winnipeg. Heading out tomorrow, hoping the roads are good. Apparently yesterday’s storm combined with the crazy slippery ice from the few days before was too much for our most excellent drivers - they were reporting 750 claims in at Autopac (our insurance) by 4:30 yesterday afternoon. For one day. Please, let it be a little warmer out West. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/70 "2014-01-05T04:10:42Z")
Prediction for southern Saskatchewan tomorrow morning: -45 to -50, including wind chill. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/71 "2014-01-05T04:23:05Z")
Crikeys.Take care mes amis. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/72 "2014-01-05T04:56:58Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Prediction for southern Saskatchewan tomorrow morning: -45 to -50, including wind chill. We went through that for a couple of weeks or so, until the day before yesterday. Then it warmed up to -20 or something and dumped massive amounts of snow on the already massive amounts of snow (the snowblower went through a five-litre gas can since October; I had to fill it again today). I prefer -45 or -50 to snow. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/73 "2014-01-05T07:31:38Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Prediction for southern Saskatchewan tomorrow morning: -45 to -50, including wind chill. Yeowch! I’ll send warm thoughts your way. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/74 "2014-01-05T15:25:39Z")
Couldn’t find my skates, so I borrowed my mom’s to go on the Rideau canal yesterday. Never had a pair with a toe pick before. I started getting a pretty good speed and kind of low and squat, as I’m used to with hockey skates. As I came down low, the picks dug into the ice, and I FLEW into the air, landing kneecaps first on the ice. I’m in pain today. First time skating on the canal in five years. I always forget how crappy I skate, how crappy the ice is, and how cold it is outside. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/75 "2014-01-05T17:24:11Z")
Pick-tripping couldn’t have helped your skating any, either. One of my fondest memories of working for Opera Lyra in 2005 - my apartment was about 4 blocks from the canal. At least once a day, I’d skate from the Drill Hall to Carlton U. and back. It was glorious, even for a crappy skater like me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/76 "2014-01-05T19:20:54Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > Couldn’t find my skates, so I borrowed my mom’s to go on the Rideau canal yesterday. Never had a pair with a toe pick before. I started getting a pretty good speed and kind of low and squat, as I’m used to with hockey skates. As I came down low, the picks dug into the ice, and I FLEW into the air, landing kneecaps first on the ice. > > I’m in pain today. First time skating on the canal in five years. I always forget how crappy I skate, how crappy the ice is, and how cold it is outside. 😃 I have two words for you - [toe pick.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keBSNn_ofSM) 😃 It’s only -21 here today, so I’m going to go for a nice walk. Later, dudes! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/77 "2014-01-05T19:26:09Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > Couldn’t find my skates, so I borrowed my mom’s to go on the Rideau canal yesterday. Never had a pair with a toe pick before. I started getting a pretty good speed and kind of low and squat, as I’m used to with hockey skates. As I came down low, the picks dug into the ice, and I FLEW into the air, landing kneecaps first on the ice. [Toe pick](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnMh0M5H9E)! Scooped again. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/78 "2014-01-05T19:27:54Z")
I found yet another reason (among many) to hate the current Canadian government: [Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives](http://boingboing.net/2014/01/04/canadian-libraricide-tories-t.html) Geez. As if I needed another reason. Though I’m not really familiar with the website (boingboing) and how reliable it is, but this sounds serious to me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/79 "2014-01-05T19:40:34Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > [Toe pick](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnMh0M5H9E)! > > Scooped again. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I mean, sorry. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/80 "2014-01-05T20:18:18Z")
[quote=“Cat\_Whisperer, post:79, topic:677612”] AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I mean, sorry. :)[/QUOTE thhttphhpthhtht! Oddly enough my wife and I were just recently discussing that movie with some 30 yo friends who had never heard of it. That was the “thing that makes me feel old” for that day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612.md?page=5)