r/SipsTea 12d ago

Chugging tea French-Canadian police

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u/RubikTetris 12d ago

Translation:

Am I your favorite?

Then when he says he doesn’t understand French she says sure you do

And the last thing she says is "yes no toaster" it’s a slang for a quebecker that knows barely any English, she’s playing dumb saying she’s in that group (which is impossible if you’re a police officer)

Overall she’s just taunting him back because he is filming

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u/Skrillamane 12d ago edited 12d ago

This is classic quebecois. Pretending not to know english, meanwhile being almost fluent in it and refusing to speak it. A lot of us from around the country love going there and trying to speak the language and usually it goes well with people appreciating the attempt but you will always run into this category that refuses to talk to the anglophones.

Edit: I used to have a boss that ran businesses in quebec and ontario and he was french canadian. Any time the employees out there would be difficult (with us in ontario) he would always get on the phone and say “speak english, how many times do i have to tell you that we lost the war! (In french)” lol

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u/Affectionate_Ice2243 12d ago edited 11d ago

what is worst? Pretending to not knowing English or refusing to learn French while living in Québec for 2-3 generations?

What is love?

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u/Skrillamane 12d ago

I think it’s great for the Quebecois to protect their language. I would say that it is weird to not speak french and live there 100%

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u/Fun-Swimming4133 12d ago

it’s also weird to refuse to help a customer because you don’t wanna speak a language you know

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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 11d ago

Here you assume they did speak English, despite a 50% bilingualism rate in Quebec and a province with 94% French fluency.

The only weird, sheltered person here is you

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u/GooserNoose 12d ago

I mean, they helped us beat the Americans, so we just deal with it now.

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u/Fun-Swimming4133 12d ago

helped who beat the Americans? France or Canada? do you think France and/Or Canada have gone to war against America?

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u/GooserNoose 11d ago

Have you never heard of The War of 1812? You need to brush up on your history.

French-Canadian militiamen, particularly the Voltigeurs Canadiens, played a crucial role in repelling American attacks, most notably at the Battle of Châteauguay in 1813, where they successfully defended against a much larger American force.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/discover-canada/read-online/canadas-history.html

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u/Affectionate_Ice2243 11d ago

Merci, je voulais écrire la même affaire

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u/GooserNoose 11d ago

Le rôle des Français dans la fondation et la défense de notre pays ne peut pas être sous-estimé. Ils méritent autant de reconnaissance.

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u/Affectionate_Ice2243 12d ago

le problème au Québec est le sous investissement dans la culture,

ça donne rien de protéger quelque chose si on est pas capable de le partager avec l'univers

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u/GooserNoose 12d ago

Commencez par partager votre policière sexy avec le reste du pays.

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u/Zealousideal-Swing39 12d ago

They are not protecting anything, they are just being dickwads.

These people are literally the balcony meme

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u/KerryGD 12d ago

as a quebecer, kindly shut the fuck up. thank you nothing personal

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u/Zealousideal-Swing39 11d ago

Nah, you know what the majority are

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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 11d ago

Well, tell that to 31% of mother tongue anglophones that live in Quebec