Mundane_bingo, avec poutine

[chamekke]

Thanks to rhuia, I spent a lot of time this evening thinking about the much-missed mundane_bingo comm over on DreamWidth.

Now there's a bingo after my own heart, although like so many other fabulous comms (yes, I'm looking at you, metafandom) it became moribund long before I learnt of its existence.

Anyway, mundane_bingo was special because it offered prompts

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[chamekke]

I've never developed a taste for poutine myself. Which is probably just as well, as it's basically a heart attack with gravy on it :-)

[basaltgrrl]

Mundane bingo!! I love it! I am ridiculously charmed. There should be a LoM mundane bingo month. And your Canadian version is delightful! I have a Canadian friend who loaned me the first two series of a show called Republic of Doyle, and while watching an episode last night I realized I needed to ask said friend if he speaks French... And upon reading your bingo grid I realized that it was perhaps immaterial!

[chamekke]

Every fandom should have mundane bingo! There's some overlap with curtainfic except that it's not necessarily fluff - or even, strictly speaking, domestic. Can't you see a fic in which Tony Stark steps around a banana skin on the sidewalk, for instance? It practically writes itself.

I've seen a couple of Republic of Doyle episodes, they're funny and sweet :-)

Most Canadians who learnt French at school can still manage a modicum of French... it's just that most of us are very tentative about it (especially if we missed out on French immersion). Still, you do find the occasional person who's reasonably fluent. I am not one of them, hélas :-P

[draycevixen]

I'm actually struck but how many of these would work for England too... but not so much in the US. *g*

[chamekke]

I'm actually struck but how many of these would work for England too... but not so much in the US. *g*

That was my impression too ;-)

By the way, have you seen this?
21 Brilliant British People Problems

My husband immediately recognised himself in most of them, but what struck me is that most of them were true for me too - and, I suspect, a good many Canadians. (Including the cat meowing during the 2-minute silence!)

P.S. Number 13 and 17 are magnificent. And number 18 happened to me yesterday.

[draycevixen]

Egads but they have our number.

I still have days in the US when I trip over cultural differences. it's just so ingrained.

[chamekke]

I know, right?

For that matter I still step to the left every time I meet someone on the pavement sidewalk, which invariably leads to the awkward little dance that Douglas Adams & John Lloyd called the droitwich. And I've only been back in Canada for SIXTEEN YEARS NOW.

*sigh*

[rhuia]

OMG LET ME FALL ON YOU AND LOVE YOU TO TINY BITS.

Could this be any more adorable? Actually, could this be any more Kiwi? Oh Canada, at last we meet and how sweet a meeting it is.

Brief fretting over whether to take elevator vs. stairs

Ahahaha!

[chamekke]

IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY I.E. I HOPE YOU WILL FEEL FREE TO DO A KIWI VERSION DO IT DO IT DO IT.

*ahem*

I'm glad you liked it :-)

[severinne]

Mundane Bingo is one of those things I've never heard of but THIS is amazing :D

(Although I do kinda want to call shenanigans on "Does not know cost of a first-class postage stamp" if only because we only have one class of domestic stamps and one would hardly call Canada Post first class :P)

And thanks to you, I now have the chorus of I'se the B'y stuck in my head. Unsurprisingly, I don't remember any of the verses *g*

[chamekke]

Mundane bingo is indeed awesomesauce and I'm still bitterly mourning its demise. If you want to read examples of mundanity far more entertaining than mine, go here and here (scroll exactly halfway down the page on the second one).

I do kinda want to call shenanigans on "Does not know cost of a first-class postage stamp" if only because we only have one class of domestic stamps and one would hardly call Canada Post first class :P

Conceded. I should probably have said 'domestic postage stamp' but that sounded a little weird to me. *vaguely imagines a postage stamp making an apple pie, hoovering and dusting, etc.*

And thanks to you, I now have the chorus of I'se the B'y stuck in my head. Unsurprisingly, I don't remember any of the verses *g*I looked up the lyrics afterwards (which brought back memories of learning the song in grade school and wondering like crazy who this Sally Tibbo was). Sure enough there were references to the quaintly-named Fogo and Twillingate but I was disappointed to find nothing in any of the stanzas about

[severinne]

I love how the mundane bingo card in your first link has "Writing fanfic" as a square. \o/

You probably could've just gone with "postage stamp" plain and simple, though it's a good question... what do we call those basic sending-a-standard-letter-inside-Canada stamps? There's Canadian mundane for you ;)

Okay, I just checked the lyrics too - definitely needs more Dildo. But fuck, how did I forget about maggoty butter? Ewwww....

[chamekke]

I love how the mundane bingo card in your first link has "Writing fanfic" as a square. \o/

Heh :-) I was delighted but bemused to spot another card (bottom of same page) that includes "Putting fresh camphor in the kimono storage box." Say what now? OK, that's pretty mundane for me, but...

Okay, I just checked the lyrics too - definitely needs more Dildo.

That should go on an icon...

But fuck, how did I forget about maggoty butter? Ewwww....

I second your Ewwww and raise it a Yeuchhh. Come enjoy our Canadian folk music, world! Proudly bringing you maggoty butter, tortured larks, and sunken freighters since 1867!