I will tell you what: we start working out (by means of lists) whether Montreal is a good place to live or not. Conclusion: yes it is (mainly) but if you are from a big city (e.g. London, Paris, Swindon), you will have to adjust a bit, both up and down.
If you are considering moving to another country (and if Montreal is on your list), here is our analysis, reproduced via the means of the computer for your reading ease*. (After many beers, our various writings were not legible and the paper was stained with dark beer):
* Not all of these are mine. Far from it. I will award a prize if you can guess correctly three that ARE mine,
8 comments:
I'll guess: Bagels, husband happy and definitely bad newspapers.
Portuguese chicken sounds nice.
How perspicacious to put 'joie de vivre' in the negative as well as the positive. But why is 'bad newspapers, TV etc" in the emotional rather than the rational column? And shouldn't 'Risible accent in French' be somewhere in the negative row?
This is some good science, but I did not see poutine on your list. Into which section would poutine fall? Or would it depend on the day and the amount of beer consumed?
Mr Farty: correct! Also Portuguese chicken.
Baron, because these things dictate my very happiness. Good newspapers available: happy; weekends given an extra added crystal of joy. Only bad newspapers available: Oh cock.
Do not be rude about the accent. like the English, or the French of France, it comes in different versions. LIke the English, or the French of France, some are so ugly your ears bleed; some, however, are jolly pretty. And I will say one thing about the French of my (new) people: they are excellent at expressions, sayings etc.
Purest Green: we did not even consider it!!!! I think men would have to be involved, and approximately 3 pints more beer. Also not on the list: hockey (incomprehensible unless you are from a hockey-playing nation) and S. Harper, who is a bellend.
Oh and Baron before I forget: the reason that you are one of my favourites (not that I have them of course!!!) is that you understand EXACTLY why 'joie de vivre' is in both and I do not need to explain it at all. If you were in Montreal I would buy you sherry.
Dear Baron,
of course, the risibility of any accent definitely depends on what your own accent is. There is nothing risible about the Qc accent to a quebecois, obv. However someone speaking with a frenchie accent, even if it's Jacques Mesrine, will invariably sound like a complete and utter pansy to any quebecois. This I can explain to you, despite my Small-Mindedness, because I have an International Outlook.
Thanks for the double kicking over my suggestion about the accent (I always like to do my bit for marital harmony).
I reverse my position entirely. 'Risible accent in French' should be on the positive side. I ought to have known this from the outset, since my own accent is widely appreciated as a source of good clean fun for young and old.
Baron!!!! Come here and give me a (platonic) cuddle. Also, you are looking very attractive today. What is your accent?
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