Most of my Canadian border crossings have not been into Quebec. But the border guards are about averagely assholish, slanted to more when I listened to one in particular run through "We're gonna get you, don't even look at Vancouver funny" threats. It was depressingly mechanical bullying.
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2011 11:05:37 am PDT #5155 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela - Apr 25, 2011 11:19:14 am PDT #5156 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Canadian border guards I have met have generally been suspicious of why I would want to go to Prince George, BC. The answer that an internet friend lives there doesn't impress them.
bon bon - Apr 25, 2011 11:31:20 am PDT #5157 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm ok if border guards are assholes. They're not the welcoming committee.
meara - Apr 25, 2011 11:48:21 am PDT #5158 of 30001
Yeah, the one time I've driven to Canada they were mean, but the airport ones have always been nice enough. I don't need super friendly, just efficient and not mean.
Dana - Apr 25, 2011 11:57:19 am PDT #5159 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I'm waiting for shrift's Canada border crossing story, which involves a bridesmaid's dress.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2011 11:57:26 am PDT #5160 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't need super friendly, just efficient and not mean.
Yeah, I don't need super friendly, but asking me over and over if I want to change my "story", and telling me over and over that it will be "easier for me if I admit everything now", just because (apparently) I was a woman traveling alone? Not cool. Lucky I was actually visiting friends who could "confirm my story" after I insisted that, really, as a bilingual French-English doctorate holder, did they really think I couldn't figure out a way to move to Canada legally?
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2011 11:57:38 am PDT #5161 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not okay with anyone being assholes without provocation. Why bother? I am all for a default of detached near-pleasantness.
Speaking of mean: [link] (yeah, that link says homosocial nipple sucking--don't click if you don't want to know).
Liese S. - Apr 25, 2011 12:05:54 pm PDT #5162 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't want to know.
lisah - Apr 25, 2011 12:09:20 pm PDT #5163 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I'm not okay with anyone being assholes without provocation. Why bother? I am all for a default of detached near-pleasantness.
This.
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2011 12:09:57 pm PDT #5164 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But suppose someone asks you about homosociality tomorrow? You'll be all "nipple-sucking-SOMETHING" and then you won't know any more.