The Swimming Lesson

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When a raccoon invades your swimming pool, you may as well put him to work -as a swimming instructor! La Piscine (The Swimming Lesson) is the latest from Faireset and his magnificent YouTube channel Parole de chat. You may have to watch twice, because unless you're fluent in French Canadian, you'll have to follow the subtitles. See more of Faireset's nonsense in our previous posts.  -via Metafilter

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Honestly, I'm not sure if the French really can't understand us or if it's just bad faith sometimes - I've been told by several people that when they tried talking to a French person in French, they were replied to in English, which is extremely insulting (I mean, why??). However, I've met some French men and women who had no problem understanding us.

But I'll clarify : there are only minor differences between written/formally spoken Canadian French and French from France - the rift lies in the informal register (again, slang and swear words).

If the topic interests you, this article explains the differences between Quebec French and French from France much better than I can :
https://www.talkinfrench.com/canadian-french-difference/
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Yes! They're as different as, let's say, for example, English spoken in London and English spoken deep into the Scottish Highlands - maybe more different.

They just don't sound the same to the ear - a lot of words are pronounced differently, swear words and slang are VASTLY different, etc. French Canadian just evolved a little bit differently from Old French overall.

To give you an idea, when I went to France, people just wouldn't understand me unless I made an effort to sound like them. (But we Québécois understand the French just fine.)
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This is a 19th Century British toothbrush and was particularly useful for removing barnacles and trapped weasels. Soft polishing bristles were of course avoided completely in order to maintain that famous "British Smile."

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Ugh... it's too early for Abbey. Let me try again:
A key?
mmm... pi in the color of chocolate and the size of medium, if I'm right of course.
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it is one of the first "Surgical staple" (i.e. a replactement for surgical sutur)...
The wound is closed by and and each of the two rows of dents are piereced into skin/tissue with a Hammer...
After the wound healed it can be removed with a crowbar.

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It is the Connach Anc Brannect, 'The Key to Happiness.' In old scottish legend the hero Divver McMuff forged the key from an entire mountain of ore, only to have it stolen by the Skaever king, Broelebogan, who through it in a lake. Forty years of war followed for no known reason, but a horrible curse was laid upon the finder of said key. You may keep the keep but I would like (if I win):

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It's a tool for people who dye cloth. It grabs the wet cloth from the vats so you don't have to use your hands.
size 2xl t-shirt
"Fine line between genius and insanity"
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Campfire sausage holder. You have to use sausage not hotdogs because the points are too wide for thin hotdogs. Stick them on the dull points and put it into the campfire. yummy!
size large t-shirt "mmm...pi"
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Before the invention of the waffle Iron, King Henry was bored with pancakes because the syrup always ran off and since plates with curved up edges didn't exist, this was always messy. He commissioned the kingdom's blacksmith to make a tool ( this one) to create dimples in the pancake and also make consistant rows thus allowing the syrup to not run off.
protect your nuts 2 xl
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The Wrench for the "Hex-Hole-Nut" an early variant of the "allen wrench" using six holes instead of a single hexagonal shaped hole in later times..

Alcohl, Tabacco, Firearms, who brings the chips? 2X
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