Just some context for our American friends. To become a police officer in Quebec its a 4 year program and have to go to college (cégep). It has a very low admission rate.
Very different from the states where it's a 6 months program anyone can join.
Don't forget there really isn't much re-training or re-certs after. Hence why you see police who been there for 10 years not know how to work as a team to tackle a individual. Stuff like that requires constant re-training.
Could you provide some details on this? The only case I've ever heard regarding an IQ test involved a connecticut police department, but it had nothing to do with "being too smart for a college education".
So, Québec has it's own police separate from the rcmp, and if you want to be police in Québec, at the provincial or city level force, it's a 3 years college degree and then a few more montes of police training in nicolet.
6 months, that must be a fancy state. My state requires completion of the 16-week police academy within 18 months of being hired. So you can actually be on the job for a year without even going through training.
I taught at a community college where they offered that 6 month program. I’d walk out my classroom to some of the most out of shape dudes practicing with batons on the tennis courts.
But to increase their rating in school to be admitted they pick the easy mathematics in high school. From this you get the inspiration for my would be pick up line.
« Faque …. Si tu t’es ici c’est que tu n’as pas pris tes maths 436? «
It’s a guaranteed ticket and be sure they know how to do additions.
Dude. Here in the states nurses and physician assistants apparently don’t need a degree anymore either! They’re no longer considered professional degrees per the Big Beautiful Bill. God help us…
Additionally, in spite of the tougher requirements for being a police officer, in Quebec, you wont get in if you dont have a sense of sarcasm and humour. Luckily women here naturally have both. YES, NO, TOASTER. lol.
Time to remeber everyone that Steven Seagal was allowed to be a cop. He patroled poor neighbourhoods and curiously arrested mostly black people. Great summary of the system I think
Please try to act normal, even when you see a video of attractive women. It is entirely possible, and I have faith in you. You'll do it one day. You can be normal. 😊
It's a pretty typical way of saying toaster with the Qc French accent. not really trying to say it properly in English
It's a bit similar to how some people pronounce the "j" and say "jalapeno", instead of saying "jalapeño" with an aspirated "j" (hope that made sense. A bit hard to convey the difference in written form...)
Not surprised you couldn't quite figure it out without context!
Once you get the idea, you hear it but without context, the word is so random, it doesn't catch on in my brain XD (sound quality comes on top: "Yes, No Go, Sir... quoi ???!")
If it helps you explain it better from what I understand you were trying to say, some people pronounce it with a "J" sound instead of the "H" sound it's meant to, so "ja-lapeno" instead of "ha-lapeno" it's supposed to sound like
That looks like Montreal police. The odds of finding three Montreal cops together and none speak English are vanishingly small. Pretty much all of them are bilingual to a greater or lesser degree. They are playing with him.
They obviously don’t want to talk to him, and he’s filming for no reason. Likely just want him to piss off, but as Canadians, are doing it in a funny way
The guy is well-known by the spvm to be an agitator. He gets in the way of interventions for clout and keeps claiming he does not speak French when asked to gtfo. They totally speak English, they're just not falling prey to his antics.
Beyond being a reference, it's just a common saying.
Many French Canadians who have never seen the clip will say it. It just makes inherent sense to us. "Toaster" is more commonly used than the proper "grille-pain." So, "yes, no, toaster" clearly communicates very limited English.
Hey! As a former French teacher in Alberta, I resent your suggestion that this sentence is only good enough in Alberta.
It's way too good in Alberta, because the French curriculum here is a total joke. The first 3 years is basically learning vocabulary for 2 hours max a week.
I did 8 years of French as a Second Language in Alberta but I was still A1 when I went to Quebec for the first time, which is where I actually learned French and now I'm B2.
Consider "votre" to be a bit like adding "sir" to the end of the sentence. It's technically more polite, but in this context it's more to reinforce a more professional dialogue.
Switching to "tu" probably wasn't done with any real intent, but likely signals that she was getting a bit tired of the interaction
It's always funny how incomprehensible Quebecois is to me despite being a native French speaker. Until this comment I had absolutely 0 idea what she was saying lmao
I am Franco-Ontarian and even I had to listen a couple times. It really is a different language. I don't think people realize how much a variety there is to Canadian French
Now I got her hollering, sounding like a siren
Talking 'bout wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee yeah
Wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee Yeah wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee yeah like a cop car.
As im sure most of you havent dealt with the women of Quebec frequently, this is a death squad. These ladies will destroy you, as soon as you no longer amuse them. Not in the good way, in the cop way. Im certain just by looking that these are hard ass cops who push around mobsters.
You actually dont want them to rough you up, because they will for real.
Just some context for our American friends. To become a police officer in Quebec its a 4 year program and have to go to college (cégep). It has a very low admission rate.
Very different from the states where it's a 6 months program anyone can join.
Yeah, and we don't need armoured personnel carriers to catch shoplifters.
This is such an offensive stereotype about American police. They only use the APCs when the shoplifters are black
They had us the first half, not gonna lie.
Lol
In their defense the APCs drive easier over the bodies...
Have you seen the tires on an MRAP? Bodies ain't slowing those things down.
Can I just point out that the Aussie Bushmaster would be the best MRAP for American police, ICE, lifeguards, and girl scouts.
Or when raiding a Home Depot?
Lol, cops here don't go after shoplifters very often. They need those APCs to put down peaceful protests, silly.
I thought the APCs were all tied up driving the National Guard to the protests?
Excuse me I think you mean kill
And we don't employ masked Gravy Seals LARPers to disappear minorities
They DONT catch shoplifters?
Unfortunately, 6 months is much closer to the high-end of police training in the U.S.
Several states have what amounts to 3 month long training programs.
To be fair, there is on the job training as well, but U.S. police academies tend to be pretty short programs.
Wait the police get training? You can’t tell by their accuracy that’s for sure.
That's not what they're trained on 😬
There are actually still a few where you can be hired and start working while waiting up to a year to go to the 300 hour academy.
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And sheriffs, are a political position, so no training needed what so ever.
I've always found that really bizarre
Wait until you find out how much training our FBI Director has.
Wait until you find out how much time the deputy director of the bureau of prisons served.... no wait...
Don't forget there really isn't much re-training or re-certs after. Hence why you see police who been there for 10 years not know how to work as a team to tackle a individual. Stuff like that requires constant re-training.
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What a story. Guy became a security guard instead. Wacky.
JFC, I lived just outside this "city" back then. Things are starting to make a lot of sense right now.
Not anyone! If you are too smart they turn you away.
American police won a high profile civil rights lawsuit where they won the right to exclude anyone who was smart enough for a college education.
Along with one that removed their obligation to protect individual citizens and another regarding enforcing restraining orders.
Could you provide some details on this? The only case I've ever heard regarding an IQ test involved a connecticut police department, but it had nothing to do with "being too smart for a college education".
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So, Québec has it's own police separate from the rcmp, and if you want to be police in Québec, at the provincial or city level force, it's a 3 years college degree and then a few more montes of police training in nicolet.
You're wrong when it comes to Québec.
6 months, that must be a fancy state. My state requires completion of the 16-week police academy within 18 months of being hired. So you can actually be on the job for a year without even going through training.
Hahaha, six months, that's adorable. More like 10 weeks on the average.
How is that context to what's happening in the video?
I taught at a community college where they offered that 6 month program. I’d walk out my classroom to some of the most out of shape dudes practicing with batons on the tennis courts.
But to increase their rating in school to be admitted they pick the easy mathematics in high school. From this you get the inspiration for my would be pick up line. « Faque …. Si tu t’es ici c’est que tu n’as pas pris tes maths 436? « It’s a guaranteed ticket and be sure they know how to do additions.
So they caaaaaaan speak English and are just pretending they can't. Classic Quebec attitude.
Dude. Here in the states nurses and physician assistants apparently don’t need a degree anymore either! They’re no longer considered professional degrees per the Big Beautiful Bill. God help us…
I don't think you know what context means
Additionally, in spite of the tougher requirements for being a police officer, in Quebec, you wont get in if you dont have a sense of sarcasm and humour. Luckily women here naturally have both. YES, NO, TOASTER. lol.
Time to remeber everyone that Steven Seagal was allowed to be a cop. He patroled poor neighbourhoods and curiously arrested mostly black people. Great summary of the system I think
In America it requires a minimum GED.
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Just tell them you don't speak french.
Or you made a bilingual sign with the English letters juuuust a little too big.
use Parisian spelling & grammar instead of Québécois
Nailed it. I was about to suggest telling THEM they don’t speak French.
We have a winner!
Be too rude, or not be rude enough.
You mean the REAL French.
Or even just have the English letters before the French ones
https://preview.redd.it/rvjjfb0qp33g1.png?width=861&format=png&auto=webp&s=97a94ab0f3e728c2f9b1c180336fa2557415cfdb
Annnnd... you'll get whacked upside your head with a big, meaty non-withstanding clause.
"oui oui baguette omelette du fromage" while quickly pointing at yourself then them repeatedly.
Just tell them THEY don't speak French.
https://i.redd.it/qm8ogq97143g1.gif
Be careful, you could have problems with the language police
Getting black-out drunk in public to the point of being a danger to yourself but still respectfull of others.
It comes with a ticket though
Risk it for the biscuit.
If ticket had a phone number...
Put ketchup on your poutine.
Doesn't want to get arrested OR shot.
Point conceded.
Tell them that you prefer the original poutine recipe from Ontario rather than the inferior French copies.
I’ve been very bad. Tres mal
Tell them you eat crepes with ketchup. Oh wait, that'd probably get you arrested. Scratch that.
I am the friend. I want to get handcuffed and treated roughly. Please.
make the english words larger than the french ones.
Ask for freedom fries with cheese and gravy
Mispronounce croissant
User name checks the fk out 🤣
Ask your poutine with Provolone and the gravy on the side
Mix some red wine with a Coca-Cola.
In Quebec, you would only need to go 5 km/h over the speed limit for that to happen. Ruthless there
Just ask “Qu’est que vous faitez ce soir?”
Remind...your friend...that when that happens he is not supposed to smile or make moans of pleasure!
Please try to act normal, even when you see a video of attractive women. It is entirely possible, and I have faith in you. You'll do it one day. You can be normal. 😊
If the accent was not already giving it away, the "Yes, no, toaster" fully confirms that they're from Québec!
It's a quote from a popular Qc comedy sketch from the late 90's, where someone mentions not knowing any English beside those 3 words
Well the SPVM kinda says it's Montreal's police.
Service de Police Ville de Montreal.
Fair, but I couldn't really read the letters from my phone
Plus, I'm not from Montréal, I'm a LOT more likely to see the SQ than the SPVM ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've always felt like they have a grammatical error in their name, and it should be: Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal.
THANK YOU!!!
I was trying to figure out what that was after Yes, No.... And <3 for the context!
It's a pretty typical way of saying toaster with the Qc French accent. not really trying to say it properly in English
It's a bit similar to how some people pronounce the "j" and say "jalapeno", instead of saying "jalapeño" with an aspirated "j" (hope that made sense. A bit hard to convey the difference in written form...)
Not surprised you couldn't quite figure it out without context!
Once you get the idea, you hear it but without context, the word is so random, it doesn't catch on in my brain XD (sound quality comes on top: "Yes, No Go, Sir... quoi ???!")
Merci!
If it helps you explain it better from what I understand you were trying to say, some people pronounce it with a "J" sound instead of the "H" sound it's meant to, so "ja-lapeno" instead of "ha-lapeno" it's supposed to sound like
This is the comment I came here for. I just wanted to know what she had said, and you included context as well. Thank you!
Thanks. I could not understand it but was trying to make it French.
Yes,Toaster pis Parthenais.
That looks like Montreal police. The odds of finding three Montreal cops together and none speak English are vanishingly small. Pretty much all of them are bilingual to a greater or lesser degree. They are playing with him.
They are 100% messing with him,
They obviously don’t want to talk to him, and he’s filming for no reason. Likely just want him to piss off, but as Canadians, are doing it in a funny way
I just imagine a moron filming and bothering cops in France and let me tell you that would quickly end in human rights abuse.
His next try was with some ICE agents. Funnily enough no new videos on his stream since then ;p
He'll found hogtied and hanging in a jail cell after having committed "suicide"...
And just so you know, that's only kinda a joke. At least one detainee has been found that way.
This made me audibly laugh XD
pretending to not speak English to mess with visitors is essentially the official sport of Quebec.
Yessir, it can be a lot of fun
The guy is well-known by the spvm to be an agitator. He gets in the way of interventions for clout and keeps claiming he does not speak French when asked to gtfo. They totally speak English, they're just not falling prey to his antics.
In my experience, everyone is Montréal is bilingual enough. I thought he was hitting on them and they were like, not interested
I think I may need to travel to Quebec and commit some kind of crime... ;-)
Loooove commitin’ some crimes in quee-becks
That’s what I appreciates about yous
Allegedlies
There’s great…crimes… in Quaybec.
Lot's of DGens from Upcountry though.
Fuckin dgens
Oh there's great crimin in Kebekk!
They're also a chance that you'll meet the next "Matricule 728" during your capers. Be careful what you wish for. (You can Google it.).
I'm surprised I'm not committin' crime in K-beck right now
Nothin quite like committin' a crime in Cue-bec
”What are you going to do? Handcuff me and then spit on my face?”
"Please?"
Pour packet gravy on cheddar cheese fries and call it poutine. Boom, jail.
Go up there and steal some hearts. We're rooting for you!
Like processed cheese slices on fries with packet gravy yeah
Yes No Toaster
I feel bad for everyone who didn't get this reference. Absolute classic French Canadian humour.
Is it a reference to something?
It’s an old comedy bit about only knowing the words yes no and toaster in English
Beyond being a reference, it's just a common saying.
Many French Canadians who have never seen the clip will say it. It just makes inherent sense to us. "Toaster" is more commonly used than the proper "grille-pain." So, "yes, no, toaster" clearly communicates very limited English.
If only there was some kind of visual aid to help me understand
Oh la la.
Marty McFly is that you?
Ah, Gérard Depardieu
Jacques Cousteau, baguette, hon!
Ah, oui. Mon bonjour et fromage est dans la bibliothèque
Congrats! You have passed your Canadian French exam! Unfortunately, your grade is only good enough for Alberta.
Si. Je vais lécher ton chien
Username checks out ;3
Hey! As a former French teacher in Alberta, I resent your suggestion that this sentence is only good enough in Alberta.
It's way too good in Alberta, because the French curriculum here is a total joke. The first 3 years is basically learning vocabulary for 2 hours max a week.
I did 8 years of French as a Second Language in Alberta but I was still A1 when I went to Quebec for the first time, which is where I actually learned French and now I'm B2.
Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.
Is it a very weird metaphor for something else?
I blame Monty Python.
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
GUILTY LOCK ME UP ASAP you beauties! Lol.
Damn they're all hot. My locals are NOT hot lol.
Quebec female cops are all either young and beautiful, or 40+ and angry Karen looking
i'm convinced that there was/is a genocide against ugly people in montreal
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What are they saying?
It's a bit hard to hear, but I'm pretty sure she asks him if she's his favorite because he keeps looking at her.
And then when he says that he doesn't understand what she's saying, she tells him that he does understand french.
He says that he only speaks english and asks her why she doesn't speak english, to which she responds "Yes, No, Toaster".
Est-ce que je suis votre préférée? (Am I your favourite?)
Vous passez votre temps me filmer (you are spending your time filming me)
Non
Tu comprends bien le Français (you understand French well)
Ah oui, tu comprends (Oh yes, you understand me)
And "yes, no, toaster" is an old French Canadian meme.
Why the switch from "votre" to "tu" if that friendlier or more dismissive?
Consider "votre" to be a bit like adding "sir" to the end of the sentence. It's technically more polite, but in this context it's more to reinforce a more professional dialogue.
Switching to "tu" probably wasn't done with any real intent, but likely signals that she was getting a bit tired of the interaction
She keeps using vous in the video, but the guy is using tu. He's more familiar than he should be.
It's always funny how incomprehensible Quebecois is to me despite being a native French speaker. Until this comment I had absolutely 0 idea what she was saying lmao
I am Franco-Ontarian and even I had to listen a couple times. It really is a different language. I don't think people realize how much a variety there is to Canadian French
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Exactly! The cops aren't doing anything but just standing around...
Anges de Charlie
“Bon matin, Anges!”
Theres a dude in the back of the car and i did not watch this 10+times to spot that i swear 😐
¡Croque madame!
You just have to have better everything don’t you Canada?
Yes no toaster. Sti de bon
Are we sure they're not actors in a Just for Laughs hidden camera prank...?
crime rates about to go up in Quebec...
Omelette du fromage.
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Theyre all in their late 20s. Its like if the CW did a cop show.
Good PR, but the Montreal police force are known across Canada for being one of the most corrupt police forces in the country.
Yeah they're pretty they're doing their jobs leave them alone it looks really creepy that you're filming of them that's sake
Copaganda
Could definitely get behind that police force
They’re not just emergency services, they’re your emergency services!
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Now I got her hollering, sounding like a siren Talking 'bout wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee yeah Wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee Yeah wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee yeah like a cop car.
"Do you speak English?" - "Non."
"CAN you speak English?" - "Oui."
As im sure most of you havent dealt with the women of Quebec frequently, this is a death squad. These ladies will destroy you, as soon as you no longer amuse them. Not in the good way, in the cop way. Im certain just by looking that these are hard ass cops who push around mobsters.
You actually dont want them to rough you up, because they will for real.
I laughed at this. Thanks
Ok, I admid, I am guilty. Please ruff on me!
Just say tabernak a lot.
https://i.redd.it/raj45w2ux73g1.gif
🎼Cop cutie, cutein on duty, baby blue booties, go ahead and lock me up...🎼
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The speaking guy seems to be an immigrant. I guess he's not used to female officers in his country.
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nICE.
Wo×wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Tabernac boys.
Bookmark for when I can listen
Going to go pour maple syrup on the ground.
“Oh no, I’ve committed a national felony, someone better come arrest me”
Need the trio of butch American female cops for comparison
I put cheddar cheese on my poutine, 🚔🚔take me away
Copaganda
https://preview.redd.it/ot5ig79w0j3g1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc32c5073a725f2d84e8797b913e658a42faefbc
I wish all of you spoke Spanish so you could appreciate the genius of this song:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/mujer-policia/4512458?i=4512416
“Weeooweeoowee weeoweeowee weeoweeowee”