Winnipegers cluster together no matter where they are. What you're showing us here is not Montreal, but Winnipeg in disguise. You cannot hide Winnipeg.
Yeah, even when I was in Toronto, I noticed how the 'peggers are just of a different breed. I don't know what it is we get about eachother, but we get it. And it always feels nice.
So, if a Winnipegger has kids in a different city, but hangs out with Winnipeggers, therefor exposing the child to the ways of the Winnipegger, will the child have "the Winnipeg" instilled in him/her, or will he/she just miss out on the coolness we have cause he/she isn't growing up IN the environment, as we had the luck to? just curious about your thoughts on this.
hmmm, I think the value of 'winnipegger' usurps all. It's a dominant trait, whether you were born there, lived there for a long period, or hang out with people from there, eventually it swallows everything up and whatever/whomever it touches eventually becomes more 'winnipeg'. Dru was born in Montreal, so he might be a Montipegger.
And I think the Winnipeg presence is far reaching. If you did a poll of how many winnipeggers there are in Canada I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers showed a massive population.
Once a pegger, always a pegger? Anita, you're still a pegger. And when you come to the peg please come over and make some portabello burgers.
But really, about being a pegger, I think there is nothing better than hanging with people from your hometown, nothing feels quite like it, and besides, is there anywhere in the world that has people who can party like winnipeggers, with that carpe diem type attitude?
During my time in Montreal I was often told, while introducing myself to new people, that Winnipeger's make up the vast majority of individuals that others meet while travelling. I'm not sure if that's in Canada alone, but it's still a profound statement.
At my first ever open-mic I was sitting at the bar and got to talking to another guy who was there for the first time. We were both nervous so we had a few beers together. Over the course of the conversation it came out that he had been in Switzerland a few years earlier for one day only, and without a place to stay he was put up by a really nice guy who worked at the hostel. It was the only real "friend" he'd made in Switzerland. That guy was Krisjan Vincent. Crazy.
funny, how these photos are taken in Montreal, yet all we see is Winnipeg.
Winnipeger is certainly about more than a singular geographical location but I still wonder if my own daughter will be a Winnipeger after she has lived in T.O. for 3 or 4 years? Will I still raise her as a Winnipeger? Can I raise her as a Winnipeger in a place like Toronto?
I do think that living somewhere else and will help me define winnipeg and winnipegism.
oops, I spelled winnipegger incorrectly in that last post. I wonder what that means? I haven't even left yet and I've already forgotten how to spell it.
I think we're forgetting the climate. The climate we grew up in doesn't live anywhere except for on that vast prairie landscape. Let's not underestimate how much that factors in to what it means to be from Winnipeg, or anywhere, really.
Thanks jc I didn't even know that was a doorbell, since it doesn't even work! We still have the sign on the door that says "cognez fort". Stupid Valerio.
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What happened to Tony's face?!?! Why is it so hideously......wait....nvermind.
Har har.
Winnipegers cluster together no matter where they are. What you're showing us here is not Montreal, but Winnipeg in disguise. You cannot hide Winnipeg.
Am I still considered a Winnipegger?
Anyway, all that matters is that i made frickin delicious portabello burgers that night.
Yeah, even when I was in Toronto, I noticed how the 'peggers are just of a different breed.
I don't know what it is we get about eachother, but we get it. And it always feels nice.
So, if a Winnipegger has kids in a different city, but hangs out with Winnipeggers, therefor exposing the child to the ways of the Winnipegger, will the child have "the Winnipeg" instilled in him/her, or will he/she just miss out on the coolness we have cause he/she isn't growing up IN the environment, as we had the luck to?
just curious about your thoughts on this.
hmmm, I think the value of 'winnipegger' usurps all. It's a dominant trait, whether you were born there, lived there for a long period, or hang out with people from there, eventually it swallows everything up and whatever/whomever it touches eventually becomes more 'winnipeg'. Dru was born in Montreal, so he might be a Montipegger.
And I think the Winnipeg presence is far reaching. If you did a poll of how many winnipeggers there are in Canada I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers showed a massive population.
Once a pegger, always a pegger? Anita, you're still a pegger. And when you come to the peg please come over and make some portabello burgers.
But really, about being a pegger, I think there is nothing better than hanging with people from your hometown, nothing feels quite like it, and besides, is there anywhere in the world that has people who can party like winnipeggers, with that carpe diem type attitude?
During my time in Montreal I was often told, while introducing myself to new people, that Winnipeger's make up the vast majority of individuals that others meet while travelling. I'm not sure if that's in Canada alone, but it's still a profound statement.
At my first ever open-mic I was sitting at the bar and got to talking to another guy who was there for the first time. We were both nervous so we had a few beers together. Over the course of the conversation it came out that he had been in Switzerland a few years earlier for one day only, and without a place to stay he was put up by a really nice guy who worked at the hostel. It was the only real "friend" he'd made in Switzerland. That guy was Krisjan Vincent. Crazy.
wow.
that IS crazy.
but i find that all the time too.
the only other anglophone in the resto i work in, with 70 people, is from winnipeg.
a kelvin grad. he said: "everyone in winnipeg has babies, and then they all leave".
and as c-dog once phrased it:
we're tougher, and we're more creative.
that's part of what makes Wpg-ers so fabulous.
we're tougher, and we're more creative.
we're real.
(as in, real, the french/spanish word for "royal")
like louis
riel (maybe).
Wolfboy tries on wry for size...love the photos.
funny, how these photos are taken in Montreal, yet all we see is Winnipeg.
Winnipeger is certainly about more than a singular geographical location but I still wonder if my own daughter will be a Winnipeger after she has lived in T.O. for 3 or 4 years? Will I still raise her as a Winnipeger? Can I raise her as a Winnipeger in a place like Toronto?
I do think that living somewhere else and will help me define winnipeg and winnipegism.
oops, I spelled winnipegger incorrectly in that last post.
I wonder what that means?
I haven't even left yet and I've already forgotten how to spell it.
If it weren't for the long neck beer bottles and the microwave in the background, these photos could be from 1979.
You all do look happy, must have been a fun night.
I just realized that these are pictures of my old apartment! wowo, what a transformation...
You wouldn't even recognize it now. It's a girlie lair.
I see you have left the door bell that freakie orange red color, that's what tipped me off.(bottom picture).
Once Winnipegger's get a stink on a place, it's very hard to remove.
I think we're forgetting the climate. The climate we grew up in doesn't live anywhere except for on that vast prairie landscape. Let's not underestimate how much that factors in to what it means to be from Winnipeg, or anywhere, really.
Thanks jc I didn't even know that was a doorbell, since it doesn't even work! We still have the sign on the door that says "cognez fort". Stupid Valerio.
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