Right, that's it you crazy canucks. 

"Svend" (svend) 03/29/2019 at 05:57 • Filed to: None

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I’ve been watching Corner Gas for a week and currently near the end of season five .

I can take the fact they say math, in stead of maths.

I can take the continuity errors such as the airline assistant in one episode on the other side of the country from Dog River, Saskatchewan turning up in another episode as a local.

or where Lacey’s college friend drives a silver Ford Focus (Season 3, episode 14, A Friend Of A Friend) , yet the same car is used again later in the season for filling material at the petrol station.

But come the f*** on. Season five , episode 13. ‘Outside The Box’.

At the end of the episode it cuts away to ‘Sheep Creek , Scotland’.

Take a look.

Ye’, notice anything, other than the signs are very central and eastern European, the cars seem eastern European, the fact that they drive on the ruddy right for f***s sake. Oh ye’, and that store ‘Romstal’, isn’t even British but Romanian.

Jesus c hrist.

NKato > Svend 03/29/2019 at 06:46

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It’s called geographic illiteracy. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 03/29/2019 at 06:51

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Nobody said the producers were geographically smart :P

That being said, I love that show! It’s the right mix of terrible and hilarious. :P

Also, there's an animated one now!

Svend > NKato 03/29/2019 at 06:59

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I don’t expect it from the Canadians though.

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 07:11

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But they are Canadians, almost all Canadians must know we drive on the left in the U.K. .

I think it’s great. Oscar needs beaten around the head though.

I haven’t watched any of the animated stuff, I don’t think I’ll be into that though.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Svend 03/29/2019 at 07:25

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Do you think Brexit could actually not happen at this point?

Svend > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/29/2019 at 07:33

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There are eight ways it could go, I’m hoping for one of two ways, cancel Article 50 or a second referendum .

But I want it all over and put all this nonsense behind us and get back to pre-referendum crap. 

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Svend 03/29/2019 at 07:53

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Jackass.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Svend 03/29/2019 at 07:56

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Not even Hank? ;)

Svend > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 03/29/2019 at 08:06

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Hammerhead. 

Svend > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 03/29/2019 at 08:08

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Not even Hank. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Svend 03/29/2019 at 08:38

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Next watch Letterkenny

Then come to Canada for a beer

BJ > Svend 03/29/2019 at 08:47

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The store names and sign styles don’t matter to most. E ven well-traveled Canadian viewers likely won’t notice these details because they’re less important than the overall idea being projected .

My guess is that stock footage of “Scottish village ” is hard to come by, but a more generic search for “European village ” turns up a billion options, so the assistant assistant to the assistant assistant producer tasked with finding this footage just took the easy way out .

And then the entire production team missed the obvious point - that everyone is on the wrong side of the road.

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Having said all that, I fully support your right to be annoyed by this. It’s pretty ridiculous!

ST80MND > Svend 03/29/2019 at 08:47

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In defence of the Ford Focus, every canadian gets one when when they enter elementary school, to prepare them for having a real car when they grow up, so there are a lot of them.

ST80MND > Svend 03/29/2019 at 08:49

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Also worth noting that the Trailer Park Boys, and Letterkenny are far better shows than Corner Gas. Trailer Park Boys has way better cars in it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Svend 03/29/2019 at 09:17

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As an ignorant observer from this side of the Pond, it strikes me that a second referendum would be a sensible way to go. I can’t see why leaving the EU makes sense, but what the heck would I know?

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/29/2019 at 09:28

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He could has 2-4 of bud at the cotty, eh.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/29/2019 at 09:41

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“as an American”

Lol

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/29/2019 at 12:12

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That’s Murican to you, Mister. Our politicians is bestest.

Svend > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/29/2019 at 14:18

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I'll share a 2-4 or a 2-6 but don't give me that piss water. 

Svend > BJ 03/29/2019 at 14:20

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It's sloppy, sloppier than Joe's. 

Svend > ST80MND 03/29/2019 at 14:21

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But it was the same car though. 

Svend > ST80MND 03/29/2019 at 14:28

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I’ve not seen Letterkenny.

I don't like the Trailer Park Boys, I just can't get into it. 

Svend > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 03/29/2019 at 14:35

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It would, but I think the government are trying to save face (ye', I know right. Lol), by sticking with the initial leave result so all this won't be for nothing. That way later down the line when people try to complain about how things turn out, the political party can turn around and say, 'we were merely doing what the people voted ford' (completely skirting how it was missold on all sides at the time). 

Svend > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 03/29/2019 at 14:38

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Lol. Shhhhh!

We don't sat it out loud. ;) 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 03/29/2019 at 15:36

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Agreed, it is a very weird mistake to make...

Oscar is hilarious :P

I prefer the live action stuff to the animated, but it’s not bad and is pretty true to the original show (all the same actors voicing their characters except Emma as the lady who played her sadly passed away a year or two ago :( )

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 15:46

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Oscar does my head in.

The whole, everything is mine and I take no responsibility, thing gets boring fast.

There’s a lot more American speak (certain words I'd expect from an American, but not Canadian) than expected. 

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Svend 03/29/2019 at 15:48

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Piss water has its place, is you are drinking all day you want very light beer. 

Svend > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 03/29/2019 at 15:56

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I'd rather do a pint of Guinness, then pint of water than drink Bud, unless it's proper Czech Bud. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 03/29/2019 at 15:59

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Oh, what words?

Hank and Wanda were always my favorites! :)

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 16:32

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I knew you’d ask that and knew I wouldn’t be able to remember them off the top of my head.

I started noticing them after Hank brought up in one of the early episodes how people still do height in feet and inches yet metric for everything else. Though I notice the screenwash is in four litres / one US gallon (Though a US gallon is 3.8 litres). We use both metric and imperial in the U.K. either varying from one to another or equally for the same thing (ie milk). 

I like Lacey, she's neurotic and the outsider trying to make sense of small town life and it's quirks (it doesn't hurt that she very attractive and I love her facial expressions). 

ST80MND > Svend 03/29/2019 at 17:37

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Exactly ;)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 03/29/2019 at 18:03

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Yup....heights and weights of things are often still done in inches / pounds (not things like food, materials, etc but more casual stuff like people weighing themselves or measuring their heights).

Pretty much everything else is metric though, haha! Lacey is pretty awesome too, she has some very good episode where they play up the ‘trying to make sense of small town life’ thing as a major plot point. :P

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 19:13

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All our road signs are in imperial but that’s down to cost as there are so many signs, it’d cost way too much to change them.

Corner Gas also keep the milk in a fridge with ‘ice cream’ written on top. ‘?’.

((they just referred to football as soccer and said aluminum))

((Grrrr, they even said, who even uses proper British terms? When Lacey asks why Davis calls it football ))

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 03/29/2019 at 19:48

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Maybe you should stop watchi ng before your head explodes! :P

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 20:11

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I can’t stop now. I’m watching Season 6, episode 5, All That And A Bag Of Chips. So I’m 93 episodes into the 107.

Mind, if the ‘bag of chips’ turns out to be a bag of crisps. I may need to neck a bottle of Newkie  Brown. 

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 21:19

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Lol. They just found Oscar is American.

Emma says, “That explains a lot, you do tend to fly off the handle a bit. And y ou have a load of loud o pinions not based on fact. You think you should be allowed to carry a gun”. Lol. 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 03/29/2019 at 22:13

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I remember that one, that was a good episode! :D

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 03/29/2019 at 22:16

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That was a good one too! Was that the one where Karen forgot to do something and everybody in town was on her case for it?

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 03/29/2019 at 22:22

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That was the previous episode where Karen forgot to pay for the muffin.

imadick > Svend 04/03/2019 at 08:26

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