Odd names Canadians use for DIY stuff

[Anonymous No.1629261]

If there is one thing I cannot abide its Canadians pretending that they are better than us with all their fancy slang.
Here is a list of terms that really upset me when I stop to think about why they say them.

1 Garnish
They use this term whenever they mean a trim piece or an escutcheon

I guess thats the only one I can think of right now besides the way the say the word decal , but still , it should not happen

[Anonymous No.1629273]

I have never referred to an escutcheon as a 'garnish', but I have referred to the numerical nonsense of Fahrenheit as 'caveman units'. Oddly enough, I still use degrees F for cooking, but only because every recipe uses them.

[Anonymous No.1629303]

>>1629261
As a life long Red Green fan, massive admirer of The Kids in the Hall, and recent discoverer of LetterKenny, I gotta say, you are letting this Michigander down OP.
DeGrassi can suck it. And you're not getting Neil Young back.

[Anonymous No.1629336]

Robertson screws are infinitely better than Phillips

[Anonymous No.1629356]

>>1629261
>post about canadians
>pic of bill gates

[Anonymous No.1629390]

>>1629303
>And you're not getting Neil Young back.

That's ok. We don't need him around anyhow.

[Anonymous No.1629396]

>>1629273
Fahrenheit is no more ridiculous than Celsius, they both center around arbitrary points, use Kelvin if you want something that makes 'sense.'

[Anonymous No.1629407]

>>1629390
well done

iv never used garnish in that way. i dont think we use too many strange names. aussies are the worst. they shorten everything into a word a child would say who hasnt quite learned to speak yet.

[Anonymous No.1629451]

>>1629407
>aussies are the worst
This
Also when the women have sex, they yell OY OY OY at the top of their lungs for some reason.
The women are also ugly as sin while the men are above average in attractiveness. This is why you should never bring your gf to australia. She will get hit on unmerciful and you are sitting there looking at ugly ass women.

[Anonymous No.1629452]

>>1629261
>Garnish
Must be a French Canadian thing.

[Anonymous No.1629536]

>>1629452
>French Canadian
Bricolage.

[Anonymous No.1629754]

>>1629356
That isn't Bill Gates anon...but he also isn't Canadain, so half credit

[Anonymous No.1629809]

>>1629754
Its Bill Grates the inventor of Michealsoft

[Anonymous No.1629811]

When Canadians try to act better than you always remind them that their flags is...
>A FUCKING LEAF

[Anonymous No.1629842]

>>1629336
This.
Also I hate when yanks make fun of how we say certain words. As if they don't have hilarious accents all over their country. Yall, you be sayin, inpordant or importint, etc. Yes we have newfies but no one knows wtf they are saying.

[Anonymous No.1629844]

>>1629842
My impression is that a lot of Americans confuse the Canadian accent(s) with the Minnesotta one.

[Anonymous No.1629852]

>>1629261
Only the Great Shittain uses the term Garnish for an escutcheon.

Also...

>Pronouncing decal as "deckle" instead of "Dee-Kal"
>Pronouncing roof as "ruff"
>Still using the caveman Imperial system instead of Metric like the rest of the world
>Using OSD for construction in earthquake zones & tornado alley
>Thinking that Family Guy is better than Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Red Green, LetterKenny, Beach Combers & Trailer Park Boys
>Preferring Lonestar over Labatt (though Canadians still prefer Heineken over Canadian beer)
>Using Phillips or flat head screws instead of Robertson
>Voting instead of letting the electoral college vote for you
Typical Americans

[Anonymous No.1629856]

>>1629451
>Also when the women have sex, they yell OY OY OY at the top of their lungs for some reason.
Are you not confusing Australia with Israel?

[Anonymous No.1629875]

>>1629852
>Metric
I'm Canadian and fuck the metric system. I couldn't tell you my weight in kg or height in cm. No one builds using metric, it's still 90 percent imperial. Yes lots of products have mm dimensions on them but that's as useful to me as the French written on it. Ever heard someone ask for a 243.84 5x10 ?

[Anonymous No.1629940]

>>1629261
>hydro
'make sure you turn off the hydro before replacing the outlet, or else you might get electrocuted by the hydro'
I also have it on good authority that canadians, and especially frogs refer to 12v vehicle electronics as hydro as in 'ya well I just had to run a new hydro line to the taillight and it fixed her right up eh'. makes no sense.

[Anonymous No.1629960]

>>1629844
I pretty much consider Minnesota, Wisconsin, and at the very least North Dakota nothing more than southern Canada anyway. Same mindset, same initial immigrants (not counting aboriginals), same food... The only difference is which side is the border they're on.

[Anonymous No.1629994]

>>1629940
>hydro
Westerner here. This is totally an ontario Quebec thing. Also the bagged milk thing, I've never in my life seen that.

[Anonymous No.1629996]

>>1629842
nucular bombs

[Anonymous No.1630480]

>>1629994
>>1629940
But hydro means water

[Anonymous No.1630536]

>>1630480

annoying factoid: a crossword clue that is considered a classic is "hijklmno", and the answer that goes into the crossword is "water".

[Anonymous No.1630542]

>>1630480
A lot of Ontario and Quebec power come from hydro-electric dams, and the big suppliers usually have 'hydro' in the name.

I'm hoping a gradual shift to nuclear energy will have us change to a cooler colloquialism.

[Anonymous No.1630557]

>>1629396
Except Celcius is much easier to use since it has 3 universaly known temperatures. 0 means ice, 100 means boiling, and 37 is your normal body temp. From there on everything is easily understood, hell with just 0 and 100 it's a pretty obvious system to understand. Also Celcius uses the same units as Kelvin so they are as easily to convert as "+-172". Farenheit is cool when refering to cooking and summer temperatures since it makes it sound much hotter than it actually is.

[Anonymous No.1630563]

>>1629875
>height in cm
You use meters and cm. together like ft. and in. Example: I'm 1;85 as in 1 meter and 85 cm. On the contruction side, yeah nobody uses metric, even here (not canada), we all still use imperial for all working material, specially plumbing.

[Anonymous No.1630565]

>>1630557
>Water boiling
>Water freezing
Humans are pathetic.

[Anonymous No.1630870]

>>1629875
Imperial is better for small measurements, metric is better for big. Cm is too small of a unit to work in, and decimeters is too large. Also fractions are easier in imperial, metric is all decimal places which means more digits to memorize.

>t. a leaf

[Anonymous No.1630877]

>>1630542
>I'm hoping a gradual shift to nuclear energy will have us change to a cooler colloquialism.
Half our power was nuclear in Ontario for a long time. Only about a 1/4 to a 1/3 is hydropower.

[Bepis McKool No.1630891]

Alabama Socket Set

[Anonymous No.1630895]

>>1630557
>Except Celcius is much easier to use since it has 3 universaly known temperatures.
>universaly
Poor choice of a word.
Water boiling isn't a constant, and varies with pressure. At absolute vacuum it boils at ~-70C

[Anonymous No.1630943]

A lot of my friends have been telling me lately that i look and act just like joe pera.
Is this a complement or do my friends think i suck?
Asking for a fre...o wait i fucked that up already...asking for myself

[Anonymous No.1631138]

>>1630895
this fact makes cooking where i live a pain in the ass

[Anonymous No.1631392]

>>1630943
you're talking me to sleep

[Anonymous No.1631574]

>>1631392
Kek

[Anonymous No.1632396]

>>1630891
is that a canadian term?

[Anonymous No.1632405]

>>1630557
>37
lol yeah a really convenient easy to remember number. especially considering it is more like 36.7777 or some shit. yet in F it is a nice 100F

[Anonymous No.1632834]

>>1632405
>yet in F it is a nice 100F
Wat?
Thats a bad fever anon

[Anonymous No.1632980]

>>1629261
>If there is one thing I cannot abide its Canadians pretending that they are better than us

I smell Putin bot b8. No American has ever spent this much time thinking about Canada.

[Beppokowski No.1632996]

>>1632396
Probably not. It’s a boomer midwest term maybe. Close enough.

[Anonymous No.1633000]

>>1629960
I'm from Wisconsin, and I resent that

[Beppokowski No.1633006]

>>1633000
Checked.

And I don’t agree with Wisconsin. It’s mostly the Minnesota people like Margie in Fargo.

[Anonymous No.1633010]

Canadian here

Philips = star screw driver

[Anonymous No.1633011]

>>1633010
American here

Torx = star screw driver

[Anonymous No.1633013]

>>1633011
we call that the "special" screw driver.

[Anonymous No.1633094]

>>1633011
>Torx
Jewdriver.

[Anonymous No.1633157]

>>1629994
>This is totally an ontario Quebec thing.
It's said a lot in BC as well, but maybe not as much in Vancouver.

>>1629261
On the west coast we have the term "skookum" meaning large and powerful. Often applied to vehicles and tools. Our prison slang is different too; don't call someone who looks like they've been incarcerated a "goof".

[Anonymous No.1633181]

In America we have a term for Canadians: PROTIP: it rhymes with 'maggot' and starts with >>/fa/

>implying there is anything fashionable about Canadians

[Anonymous No.1633247]

>>1633157
Whats a goof?

[Anonymous No.1633271]

>>1633247
The kind of prisoner who gets beet up by other prisoners. police informants, child murderers, etc.

[Anonymous No.1633319]

>>1630895
>At absolute vacuum it boils at ~-70C
W R O N G

[Anonymous No.1633566]

>>1630557

0 Kelvin is -273.15 Celcius, so to go from Celcius to Kelvin you add 273.15. where the fuck are you getting 172 from?

[Anonymous No.1633572]

>>1629875

Imperial is for niggers. Only reason I use it is because it's part of the business and I have to. It's a deprecated boomer system

using SI base units and derived units is much more elegant and easier to see the big picture with everything you work with that is applicably derived from STEM

I don't know how people can understand the science behind what they do in Imperial measurement terms when for example the fucking Ohm is defined as 1 kg⋅m^2/s^3⋅A^2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_derived_unit#Derived_units_with_special_names

https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si/si-units

Currently being Canadian and working in the trades you have to memorize shit twice and different conversion factors when if you start from the SI base units, it is much simpler to actually grok how this shit works instead of just memorizing useless shit. Also decimal points, orders of magnitude and SI prefixes are dope

[Sage No.1633827]

>>1633572
>boomer
Why do you hate old people?
They built all this for you.
Do you think there was internet before them?
No, they built it you anon, just for you

[Anonymous No.1634600]

Not my fault you don’t know what a doohickey or athingamajig is b’y

[Anonymous No.1634886]

>>1633827

Arpanet, maybe. The internet as we know it (esp www) was made by gen x.

[Anonymous No.1634896]

>>1634886
Not chance anon. Gen ex was still too young . Take look at who was in charge at places like google.
Baby boomers were born from 46 to 64.
Even bezos is a boomer

[Anonymous No.1634902]

>>1634886
>(esp www)

lol

[Anonymous No.1634903]

>>1634886

well, you're probably thinking of guys like this youngster

[Anonymous No.1634940]

>>1629396
>this standard of measure is less ridiculous than this other standard of measure.

What is your standard of measure when it comes to things in actual reality? Like the taste of an orange for instance?

[Anonymous No.1634942]

>>1630895
>At absolute vacuum it boils at ~-70C
>reifying an absence