Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	LGG mon amie, bonne chance!	Good luck lil miss froggie. =) Hopefully it's as easy as a slap chop with nuts.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-01-25 08:52:00
Canada	Congrats Danu on your wedding!	Congratulations!	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-01-21 11:19:00
Canada	Welcome to America....	Welcome LGG! I tried, but my skills at finding a picture of a hedgehog and frog together, so I could put something witty on it.... failed. This is the best I got. Oh well. HAPPY!	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-01-26 13:46:00
Canada	What do you refrigerate?	That's what I do, Carla. We eat so very little bread that I keep it frozen and take out a slice as I need it. And it tastes different than refridgerated?	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-01-29 14:27:00
Canada	What do you refrigerate?	I actually refrigerate bread too. I found out a long time ago that, if I don't I can't make it through a loaf before it gets moldy. If I do, I don't have to throw it out.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-01-27 13:06:00
Canada	Montreal Consulate Payment	I'm assuming you mean the money for your K1 interview, and if so then yes - they take cash. If I'm remembering right, it was 131 (USD). One of the guides said exact change only, but when we talked to the lady who took the payment, she said they do have some change. Hope this helps. Edited by Varba, 01 February 2010 - 09:36 AM.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-01 09:32:00
Canada	What This Thread Needs is More Kittens		Varba	Male	Canada	2009-12-16 14:34:00
Canada	What This Thread Needs is More Kittens	I can not have pets myself, much as I'd love a hedgehog. So, I shall leave you with this. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/pets_war	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-12-07 14:03:00
Canada	What This Thread Needs is More Kittens	QUOTE (Sam and Ben @ Dec 6 2009, 09:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (charles! @ Dec 6 2009, 09:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Krikit @ Dec 6 2009, 07:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You're definitely going to have an adventure. i think she should invest in lint brushes now. Oh believe me, I have them! Nothing but dark clothing and white pups... I've got a whole drawer full of lint rollers. You'll also be happy to know, they make paint roller sized (like 10" wide) lint rollers now too. My best friend uses them constantly to keep the sofas clean.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-12-07 13:50:00
Canada	Thanks guys...	Oh PS... MY 20 year old Nephew's girlfriend sent me a friend request yesterday... I have never met this girl, she's 20, I have no desire to have idle chitchats with people I don't know so... I declined it. Is that rude? Am I going to internet etiquette hell? Some people might say yes, but I'll stick my opinion in here. Heck no. If you don't want to talk to someone, or have them snoop at your pictures, ect. Perfectly fine to ignore. If they throw a tantrum just say you never got the invite.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-02 10:20:00
Canada	Thanks guys...	Blippy? http://www.blippy.com You hook up your creditcard/bankcard and blast your purchases to the world. http://www.cnn.com/2...dex.html?hpt=T2 <-- article on it Why anyone would use this is beyond my comprehension. Edited by Varba, 02 February 2010 - 09:02 AM.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-02 09:02:00
Canada	Thanks guys...	Facebook is The Evil. You're confusing Facebook with Blippy. Comparatively, facebook is tame.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-01 10:49:00
Canada	How close/far away are/were you from your American/Canadian significant other?	Before she moved, Peachey was about 700 miles away. I made the drive in 11.5 hours once, usually it was much closer to 13.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-03 08:28:00
Canada	Hyphenated names	Hyphenated names ensure that your offspring have zero chance at ever playing professional sports. Oh, and they will be the cause of the destruction of the rainforests. What will happen when people with hyphenated names start marrying other people with hyphenated names. Soon people will have paragraphs for last names and wedding announcements and obituaries will take full pages. Think of the trees.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-04 12:21:00
Canada	Canalien Houses	I mean usually my husband would have a large say in all of it, he feels that because he is a designer that he has better taste... which may be true because my style is kind of wonky. Our tastes are different. I love whimsical, midcentury stuff, and he loves contemporary. I know he doesn't like want to live in Smurf village so I go with the contemporary look. I don't mind it. Until now, I didn't think I cared at all about decorations... Now I know how I want to decorate!!!!	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-05 14:46:00
Canada	Canalien Houses	Not really sure how to answer so I picked some. Typically we are involved in decisions together completely but from different aspects. As an example, furniture, I get hung up on stuff like: size/spacing, feature comparisons, and cost. Peachey thinks about things like: do we actually need it, will it match, doe it fit in the car. Decorations.... I have a hard time caring about. As long as there are some pictures around, and a calendar so I know what day it is - I'm happy. So I tend to leave that soley to Peachey. Most other things we at least talk about to have some level of agreement before we get anything. Our last couple "big" purchases were the TV and fishes. For both of those, we agreed before we got anything. Again, we weren't looking at the same things - but we balanced each other out and agreed and all was happy. Cept for the fish tank base not quite fitting and I ended up sitting outside a closed fish store for 35 minutes or so till Peachey could come back with her car to pick me and it up. I really gotta remember to take into account the small opening on my car trunk, and not the overall volume.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-04 12:39:00
Canada	Last Minute Question for POE	Horay!	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-02-03 08:38:00
Canada	Networking	QUOTE (lgg @ Dec 2 2009, 12:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OH also agree with the mainland/island thing. I lived in Nanaimo for about most of my childhood/teenager-hood. I lived in Vancouver for a couple of summers on break from Uni in Montreal and I used to ride my bike from downtown Vancouver to Horseshoe bay ferry terminal. What I think about that now? #######, I must have been totally insane. All uphill, windy roads and long and terribly difficult. Geez. You lived in a desert for most of your youth?! WOW!	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-12-02 12:50:00
Canada	So foxy loxy, how do you like your turkey lurkey?	QUOTE (Sprailenes @ Oct 12 2009, 10:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ugh. Traditionally around here, you scoop that stuff out and make it into the gravy to serve. Hence gizzard gravy's name. Sometime though, since my mom didn't like gizzard gravy, she'd bake it and let my dad and I eat them for snacks while the bird baked. I know, I'm weird.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-12 09:20:00
Canada	So foxy loxy, how do you like your turkey lurkey?	QUOTE (Sprailenes @ Oct 12 2009, 09:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mike: "Are you comfortable taking that stuff out from the inside... do you usually do that... I don't think I can do that..." We don't cook meat very often. That's the best part!!! Mmmmm.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-12 09:06:00
Canada	So foxy loxy, how do you like your turkey lurkey?	QUOTE (Rhiann @ Oct 12 2009, 09:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I had turkey yesterday. I kind of remember why I don't like it that much. I'd prefer chicken... and my family really, really needs to learn how to make gravy. All they do is thicken the drippings and it lacks flavour big time. I _love_ gizzard gravey. Sooooo yum.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-12 08:24:00
Canada	So foxy loxy, how do you like your turkey lurkey?	Happy Thanksgiving!	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-12 07:19:00
Canada	So foxy loxy, how do you like your turkey lurkey?	QUOTE (Sprailenes @ Oct 6 2009, 02:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So foxy loxies, what are you doing for turkey lurkey day? As I'm not a lady, nor Canadian, I don't belong posting here but screw it I'm going to anyhow! I'm going to eat stuffing and turkey!!!! I figure, if I'm marrying canadian, that makes me an honorary canadian. Plus someday in the future, I'm going to immigrate there. So I might as well get started now celebrating two thanksgivings. Double turkey and stuffing. *drool*	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-06 14:14:00
Canada	In these Olympics, Canadians only paid attention to Canada.	Next they'll want to stop showing any flags, cease playing the national anthem of the winners, dress everyone in all grey, and disallow any sort of celbratory actions or vocalizations. I mean.. come on.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-03-03 14:02:00
Canada	In these Olympics, Canadians only paid attention to Canada.	People take things as they wish and even my fiance agreed with my point on the hocket thing (again same thing as this with the arrogance). That's the point of the article though, is it's not that normal.. Usually you see all nations fairly represented and the olympic rings everywhere to be seen. In Vancouver though, it was a sea of red and white w/Maple leafs everywhere. Hell, it had been that since almost a year prior. Even when I was in Toronto 3 times this past year (starting with May) it was all over the place. The Olympics are supposed to be about togetherness, not nationalism. You may want to go back over footage. To me, it has always been VERY apparent what country is hosting. There always is a large celebration of nationalism that surrounds the games, and it's a good thing. It's not taken to the extremes of violence or hatred (at least most times), but it's always there - and typically just as blatant as it was in Vancouver. As for the Olympics, they're actually ALL about nationalism. It's about the host country putting on a spectacular show and awesome face to the rest of the world and I really think Canada did a great job. I agree completely. There was nothing wrong with the celebrations, decorations, or people's attitudes that I saw.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-03-03 13:37:00
Canada	Good Luck, Wyatt's Torch	Good luck Cowboy! May the hedgehogs be with you. =) Seriously though, hoping for the best and soon the waiting and torture will be a "fond" memory.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-03-04 09:24:00
Canada	Visa: Denied	Very sorry Avery. Hopefully everything goes quickly and smoothly with your additional information! It is heart wrenching to get moved backwards in this process, but you're still really close. You can make it.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-14 07:29:00
Canada	Is it an AMERICAN thing???	One variant of it that I had a hard time getting used to was a group I stayed with down in Birmingham AL. They taught their kids that the respect prefixes were "brother" or "sister". But again, it was only for people that were their elders... I was brother Varba the whole time I was there. The whole Miss/Ma'am thing, I often do, especially if I don't know the person or am talking to them on the phone. My brother in law (from NC) calls everyone ma'am up here.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-04-05 08:21:00
Canada	I dream of VJ	I don't think I've ever had a dream of VJ. But then again, I only have 1454 posts. Maybe I'm not on here enough?? Obviously. I've had dreams about VJ. I think in one of them Krikit was chasing around people with a hammer who were flaming Kittyfang. (Like in that hammer smilie.)	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-01-21 11:10:00
Canada	Zed or Zee	QUOTE (kristy_sea @ Oct 7 2009, 02:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is it really true that you can't find decent cheese curd in the states? (I'll make my own poutine if I must..but grated cheese is where I draw the line! ) You can find them, it's just much less common. I never heard it called Zed in my life until I met Peachey. It still sounds weird when I hear it, but I know what it is. Is it weird that, as an American, I miss Swiss Chalet? I think Peachey is going to kill me if she says she's not in the mood to cook, and where should she eat - and I say Swiss Chalet one more time.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-08 07:18:00
Canada	Zed or Zee	QUOTE (Rhiann @ Oct 7 2009, 02:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm still in Canada, but I can't afford to eat out much. And I've never had a donair, are they good? What is a donair anyhow?	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-07 13:27:00
Canada	Zed or Zee	Zee! But, I don't really count.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-10-07 13:13:00
Canada	Health Insurance Help - Non-Employer?	That's actually a good point. Most employers only let you in opt in and out of coverage during their 'open enrollment' which is usually once a year. I forgot about that. There is also "significant life events" that allows you to change. Weddings count, I think most places give 30-60 day windows around these events... if that helps.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-04-16 10:05:00
Canada	Health Insurance Help - Non-Employer?	I guess it's really hard to compare plans because does anyone know what the employer is paying? I think in the case of Sam and in our case, the employer just wasn't paying very much (well they were probably paying a lot but that does not necessarily equate to a lot of coverage). Yeah, price compares only work when you factor in employer costs. If your insurance is through a job, I'm betting that they are paying quite a bit for your insurance Huggles. One thing to bear in mind especially is the rising rates. Every year at our company this is a painful event, over the past 4 years the lowest increase in price has been 50%. That might sound exaggerated, but it's really not. My company typically ends up changing insurance once a year because of it. I honestly do not understand how the rates can keep climbing like that, but I can't find a better deal anywhere else either.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-04-16 09:39:00
Canada	AOS transferred???	Does it mean I will get my work authorization and travel document quicker too??? I just want to go on a honeymoon before I start working thats allll Nope, those documents seem to vary significantly in length and not be dependent on the AoS transfer.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-04-19 14:41:00
Canada	AOS transferred???	So I checked the online status of my I-485 today and it said it had been transferred to the California Service Center... what does this all mean??? Good or bad? Can imply good. Typically this means you won't get an interview. =)	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-04-19 14:37:00
Canada	OMG... And she thought I was lying!!! **You're SO gonna laugh!**	QUOTE (Peachey @ Dec 10 2009, 03:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Varba's grandma thinks it's "very mean" of the government not to let me visit before moving, and not letting me go back to Canada when I want. She had that look in her eye like "I'm going to stick Pres. Oboma in timeout till he lets Peachey visit her family whenever she feels like it!" too.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-12-10 16:11:00
Canada	Montreal denied!!!	Danele, I am very angry reading over what this clown said to you. I truly hope it works out for you _quickly_ so you can continue with your lives. Very sorry you had to go through this.	Varba	Male	Canada	2009-11-24 13:50:00
Canada	The Vent - Part Trois	Grrrr. Four years ago one of my front incisors shattered. It had had a root canal previously so the tooth wasn't in great shape. So I went in and they put a crown on it. Last friday, the whole crown came off - the remaining bit of tooth that was holding it was very fragile and had just broken off. So, they put in a post, took an impression and made a temporary crown while they prepare the permanent crown. I was in the dentist's office for 4 hours. Tonight, the temporary crown just came off even with the post. I am so annoyed! If the post doesn't work then the only option left will be an implant and crown -which are very expensive and not covered by insurance. Grrrr. Yikes, that is never fun. I hope they can get it fixed for you soon, and as pain-free as possible!	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-04-20 06:39:00
Canada	The Vent - Part Trois	I've been watching a show called Breaking Bad, it's really, really, really good but I find that I have been adding "yo" gangster style to the end of my sentences, yo. At first my husband and I did it for giggles but now it's starting to take. Please help me, I seem to have a problem, yo. :\ Only thing that fixes a urban infection is a good dose of outdoors, maybe a weekend camping trip with some good old fashion cooking over the fire. You wanna do it quickly or the infection can fester and spread. Other symptoms can include clothing style changes, enjoying the smell of smog, installing bizarre devices into cars, and holding guns sideways. (edit: I am kidding, all you urbanites don't sick your gangs on me, yo.) Edited by Varba, 19 April 2010 - 02:17 PM.	Varba	Male	Canada	2010-04-19 14:16:00