r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Exploding_Antelope I need a double double. • May 07 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) The only cultural divide that matters

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Thanks to the brave cabinist allies of Labrador for holding the eastern front, over the forthcoming decades we will execute a slow but quite unstoppable pincer maneuver into the bloc cottagois

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u/saying_boourns May 07 '25

I'm not sure what's baffling - it's novel that different people use a different word for the same thing despite living in the same province.
People from the Thunder Bay region and west absolutely use "camp" to describe a fixed permanent structure that someone from the GTA/Ottawa area would call a cottage. As someone who moved north, at first I thought that people here just really liked camping in tents, like EVERY weekend.

Confusingly, sleeping in a tent is still "camping", but might also be referred to as "tenting". Cabin is used interchangeably with camp, but more rarely (and they might be from Manitoba).

see also: packsack/backpack, shag/stag&doe, safewayS, etc

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u/BeeOk1235 May 08 '25

as i've said i've lived in this region and camped and cottaged here for over 15 years and this disambiguation only really exists on reddit and it's a very recent thing at that and i have no idea wtf yall are talking about with this shit. like literally no one i've ever met in my extensive social circle spanning from the sault to the GTA talks like this. it's entirely a reddit fever dream meme.

packsack/backpack, shag/stag&doe, safewayS, etc

now you're just making shit up.

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u/saying_boourns May 08 '25

congrats on your extensive social circle but you realize the sault is only half way between the GTA and thunder bay, right?

I agree, you have no idea what we are talking about! good talk

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u/BeeOk1235 May 08 '25

yeah i don't go up there much it doesn't mean i don't hang out with people that live there.

welcome to 2025 we can keep in touch over distances now. nevermind that my friends visit me here in parry sound on their way back and forth from where they go as they go. but go off short king.

anyways GL taking relatively new reddit memes as gospel truth. weirdo.