Canadian Growers Thread - Canucks Represent!

Amarok

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So was it a hat, or a toque?

If you're gonna train these southerners you gotta teach 'em the proper lingo as well. ;)
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OldG

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A toque should have the ball on top
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This is a millenial...who thinks he is wearing a toque...but no. This is some head freezing thing that is not a toque
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It looks like his hair is on fire...and he is probably not even warm.

Real toques...
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You need them for your toboggon eh. I was talking this morning about what a fond childhood memory this was. Mom and Dad me and Sis we would have our own sleds each too...but the big one was for the family. Dad would wax the shit out of it...
4 people on riverside hill.... sometimes we could hit the stop fence.

This was like my moms version
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this was more our family version.
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Amarok

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OK, Canucks... you got some 'splainin' to do.
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Our meteorology rodent says early Spring this year.

This has been one of the mildest winters in memory out here. I see reports of shitty weather all over North America, and I empathize, but I can't complain at all. (Now watch us get 4 feet of snow and endless storms in March)

Edit: -16 right now, going up to zero today and staying decent for a while. Going to let it warm up a bit and then hit the hardwater.
 
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Amarok

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You know the ball on the top of those hats was to help you not bang your head on lower entrances. I think the idea was you'd feel it touch the ball and not bang your head in return.
I did not know that.

None of my toques? have the ball on top though, because the balls are a pain and get caught on shit.
When ducking in and out of fishing tents, it's just a hassle.
 

Hugh Jass

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Our meteorology rodent says early Spring this year.

This has been one of the mildest winters in memory out here. I see reports of shitty weather all over North America, and I empathize, but I can't complain at all. (Now watch us get 4 feet of snow and endless storms in March)

Edit: -16 right now, going up to zero today and staying decent for a while. Going to let it warm up a bit and then hit the hardwater.
Well, you went and typed it out for all to see, so buckle up next month! ???
Spring is already here in GA - crocus and forsythia blooming, roses already leafing out, and algae growing in the pool.
The 10 day forecast has several days in the 70s (21-26C), so I'll be mowing in February again... ?
 

Psychobilly

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I did not know that.

None of my toques? have the ball on top though, because the balls are a pain and get caught on shit.
When ducking in and out of fishing tents, it's just a hassle.

Well for a tent they don't really need to be there, I think the idea was for like a naval ship you'd be able to walk through and know where your head was compared to the metal top portion that, I can only imagine, would hurt like hell LOL. Those solid steel entrances would give you one of those whacks you wouldn't soon forget. The little ball would let you know when your head was about to come into contact with it though.
 

Hugh Jass

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Well for a tent they don't really need to be there, I think the idea was for like a naval ship you'd be able to walk through and know where your head was compared to the metal top portion that, I can only imagine, would hurt like hell LOL. Those solid steel entrances would give you one of those whacks you wouldn't soon forget. The little ball would let you know when your head was about to come into contact with it though.
It's actually pig-iron, and I used to clip my right elbow on the side of those hatches all the fucking time. Don't know that one could hit one's head on a hatch, but I'm only 5'9". That poor elbow was rewarded, though, by being granted the power to predict rain.

Fun Fact - When you're in the Sea of Japan, the pig-iron retains the cold. Arafura Sea by Oz, just the opposite - hot as the hinges of Hell.
 

Cadizzles

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Well for a tent they don't really need to be there, I think the idea was for like a naval ship you'd be able to walk through and know where your head was compared to the metal top portion that, I can only imagine, would hurt like hell LOL. Those solid steel entrances would give you one of those whacks you wouldn't soon forget. The little ball would let you know when your head was about to come into contact with it though.

I have heard this as well first hand when I was a civilian volunteering in a cadet corps in Alberta for a while. Next thing you know you had kids wearing them to see if this was actually the case. Good times watching kids purposefully walk into things trying to "not" bump their heads.
 
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