To tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resonant step; to stamp.
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Interviewer: Like you have to book a campsite now if you wanna stay in August. Speaker: Isn't that on the Pacific-Rim? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: That I was surprised about but I thought that was an eco-thing 'cause they don't want people tramping. Interviewer: That's right they're green campsites and they're really good about it. Speaker: Which is good because in Ontario we have a bad habit of trampling things to death and over-camping and things change there too. You can't get a camping site anymore so. |
To tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resonant step; to stamp. |
To throw or kick (a person, etc.) forcibly out (occas. off)
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...gig for six-months going up and down the coast of British-Columbia and the guitar player of his band quit because there was illness in his family and the company that had hired them wouldn 't let them hire a replacement guitarist so they turfed them out and so he had- he had to- had to come home. |
To force someone to leave somewhere |
To understand, comprehend.
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And here it wa-- it was a gay bar, the fellas and girls all dancing together, and I didn't twig until I tho- - suddenly thought "What are these guys doing? They're kissing." |
Realize |
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I never went to any, any high-school like after-school type-thing |
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But it 's in- it 's making it so that you can wrap it around meat and stuff and they 're these like circular type-things and they 're really really good. And you put s-- um well we call them, "Speragotchai," but it 's bacon-bits. And you put it on top and it tastes really good. |
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well I don't know if I would call them a snoop but my my next-door neighbour, yeah I would call her a snoop but she 's, she 's somebody who somehow always knows what 's going on in the neighbourhood so yeah if if you have any questions you tend to go to her type-thing, um, my mum says she 's the block-captain, whatever that means (both laughing). |
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Oh, let's see. Um, I use--- I actually I went to a social worker to talk about my relationships and stuff. Well, just like um psychological type-things and uh, with my dad, I don 't really know, I think it 's because it 's just a lot of the things, a lot of the qualities he has are things that tick me off, and it 's just everything that he does ticks me off. So it 's not cause like he 's my father I don 't like him, it 's just happens that he 's a person that has qualities that ticks me off so that 's why I don 't get along with him. |
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So light was shining perfectly on it, like lime-light spotlight type-thing. |
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And of course, what you would call the corner-store now, the little candy-store, smoke-shop type-thing, where- again, like I just remember it being very old inside and there was this- the ones that we went to was called Cronk's and it 's on the south side of Queen-Street. |
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One day, we had a kid fall off his bike and the lifeguard came over and helped out, so. You-know, so there 's other types of first-aid-y thin-- aid-type-things. |
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I expected kind-of quaint little spots and stuff and it wasn 't. It was just basic little motel-type-things all the way down the coast and that. |
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I used to shine shoes actually. My father had a shoe-shine parlor and a tobacco-shop type-thing. |
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But he grew up like in Forest-Hill, East-York type-thing, and my mother grew up in Montreal. |
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Yeah. I mean, at the time, it was thought of as the best. Um, I think even then, it was probably living a little bit on a reputation, you- know, that was sort of long-gone type-thing. I don 't know if it' s necessarily the best anymore. |
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Went to the Matador, but, you-know, I was like in my- Matador was sort-of popular when I was in my like mid-twenties type-thing. |
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Yeah, it 's a great spot. And I 'm sure it was happening when I was even younger, but I didn 't really- it didn 't really become sort-of hip until I was, you-know, sort-of in the late eighties type-thing. |
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Um, well there 's two beaches and then two like field-type-things but they aren 't so great for sports 'cause they 're on a slant. |
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Pretty-much menial labour. I did like part-time like, delivering and going to get coffee type-thing for a law-firm. |
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And I studied psych and I am sort-of interested in helping people on the counseling side so I-mean if I were to do anything I'd r-- I'd try to get involved with like a- kind-of like a youth-gay-helpline type-thing. But the training never worked out with my schedule and (sighs) um if I were to do anything that really really interests me and I'd want to volunteer, help out. |
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A drug (esp. an amphetamine), often in the form of a pill, which has a stimulant or euphoric effect
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And then you 'd ah knock yourself out for a couple of days. And then when you got up, ah the world was a little groggy, so you took some more uppers. So it was just- ah oh- |
A stimulating drug like amphetamine |