The Bandit Lives

"Dunnik" (dunnik) 11/02/2015 at 17:08 • Filed to: TRANS AM, TORONTO

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Stopped at some lights in downtown Toronto today, I couldn’t help but notice the circa 1978-1981 Trans Am stopped on the other side of the intersection, and not just because of the car.

It was the rarer blue with gold trim including the famous screaming chicken and gold OEM rally wheels. Looked like it had a full respray. He had his lights on for safety, and I was pleased to note that the headlights and driving lights seemed to be new units, but matching the OEM style perfectly.

Then I looked at the driver. He was wearing a Stetson. I shit you not. Now, before you say, shit, I see dudes with big hats all the time in our neck of the woods, I’ll remind you this is downtown Toronto: the Manhattan of Canada.

And then I noticed a GoPro mounted on his hood, pointing back at the driver.

And then I noticed his custom plate. TUHRAWNO.

Which is a clever and somewhat inside joke. Natives will pronounce the name of the city like that: Tuh-RAW-no or T’ronno. Non-natives will over-pronounce the name, with emhpasis on the last T, so Tor-ron-TO.

The sight of all of this pretty much made my day.

CB > Dunnik 11/02/2015 at 17:20

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Stetson? Muscle car? Camera on the driver? Shit, he’s probably filming a cop movie.

Also, I use the second T test in order to see who is really from Toronto, or at the very least the GTA.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Dunnik 11/02/2015 at 17:24

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I keep imagining this driver with a serious moustache. Was he moustached?

Dunnik > gin-san - shitpost specialist 11/02/2015 at 17:26

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Somewhat disappointingly, no.

Tohru > CB 11/02/2015 at 17:27

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In my work I find the one way Canadians are assholes - you like to rattle off your stupid postcodes really fucking fast so I have to ask multiple times for it.

You’re calling an American company, jackass. When I say “zip code” I’m anticipating just numbers, not a fuckload of letters too. Fuck Canada.

CB > Tohru 11/02/2015 at 17:35

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You’re just angry that your accent gets mistaken for a Canadian one, bud.

Dunnik > Tohru 11/02/2015 at 17:36

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Switch the metric system, like the rest of the damn world, and maybe we’ll switch to zip codes.

Postal codes are part of our British DNA, you don’t have them because you went your own way before regular gov’t postal services were set up, so really, it’s your own damn fault for starting a revolution :)

Tohru > CB 11/02/2015 at 18:08

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Oh piss off ya hoser. I hope the next time you go to Tim Horton’s they’re out of Timbits.

Tohru > Dunnik 11/02/2015 at 18:10

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Screw you, metric is for commies and people who can’t count higher than 10.

Our system works just fine and we’ve got a country with 10x the people.