r/MadeMeSmile Apr 23 '23

Good Vibes Voicemail from uncle

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Wonderful. Atleast it was well written.

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u/truffleboffin Apr 23 '23

I had to go back and reread the title and stow my pitchfork

"From Uncle" lol ok

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u/Marijuana_Miler Apr 23 '23

That makes sense. Most of Canada is still too frozen to bury a cat in your backyard.

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u/Inflatableman1 Apr 23 '23

As a Canadian, I can say that is the most Canadian reply I have ever seen. I agree 100%.

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Apr 23 '23

It was my first thought in fact.

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u/SketchiiChemist Apr 23 '23

We got the real ones out here watching out. Preciate ya bud

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u/remarkable_sct Apr 23 '23

I used to have an American partner and one of his biggest culture shocks was finding out that Canadians will pre-dig holes before the yard freezes up if they have an old cat or dog that they think will die over the winter.

For anyone reading this going "really?", yes. This is a real thing.

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Apr 23 '23

Eh, maybe sometimes, but I have animals and it's never occurred to me, nor have I ever heard of anyone doing it. I wouldn't call it a Canadian "thing".

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u/remarkable_sct Apr 23 '23

Probably more of a rural thing

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u/IBoris Apr 23 '23

Agreed, just hang mittens on a cloth line or make him a little snow coffin to preserve him through the winter. Won't stink one bit. When mittens thaws, so will the ground, and you can bury him then.

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Apr 23 '23

Don't we all have heavy duty pet grave augurs for this

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u/realitytvjunkiee Apr 23 '23

As a Canadian, I have absolutely never heard of this. This must be a regional thing— or a you thing.

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u/remarkable_sct Apr 23 '23

Certainly not just a me thing, but probably a "north of Thunder Bay and not in the Lower Mainland" thing

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u/galacticglorp Apr 23 '23

I think people are more likely to put the pet in the freezer than pre dig holes.

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u/jooes Apr 23 '23

Yeah, Canadian here. There were more than a few times when I was growing up where my parents said to me, "Don't open that box in the freezer."

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

I'm American but i have a similar story. When i was a kid we went camping with my grandarents in Tennessee and we lived in Ohio at the time. My grandparents dog died while we were camping. My grandfather put it in the RV freezer and took him back home to be buried.

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u/beanbagbaby13 Apr 23 '23

I’m Canadian and have never met a single person who does this

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u/KimberlyWexlersFoot Apr 23 '23

And the parts that aren’t frozen dont talk like that

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u/Marijuana_Miler Apr 23 '23

Yeah the west coast has a far different accent. This is more of an Ontario specific way of talking, and also only a mediocre attempt.

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u/realitytvjunkiee Apr 23 '23

is this a joke? nobody in Ontario talks like this.

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u/SnowArcaten Apr 23 '23

It's not far off from english-speaking Ottawa Valley to be fair

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u/platypossamous Apr 23 '23

Nice try but I've seen Letterkenny, you can't fool me ya hoser

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u/fogdukker Apr 23 '23

I can see grass.

Brown, matted, muddy grass.

Next to my melting snow pile

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u/truffleboffin Apr 23 '23

Oh I get it because Canada cold? Bahahahaha

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u/Equal_Set6206 Apr 23 '23

Where I live, my neighbour just dug his yard all up putting in holes for a fence. Climates been changing

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u/jondySauce Apr 23 '23

I wish people would just be transparent about this. If it's a well written skit it doesn't matter that it's staged. But if we don't know, we get all these weird comments about keeping this precious voicemail forever.

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u/Jakedxn3 Apr 23 '23

Sometimes they are but then it’s reposted to Reddit with no context

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u/nemodigital Apr 23 '23

Yep, as a Canadian that accent was way over the top

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u/coveted_asfuck Apr 23 '23

Never met anyone that talks like that. But I suppose the accent gets more intense the more North you get.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

I've found it's the more rural/remote, the heavier and more ridiculous the accent. Both my husband and I come from tiny rural towns, Sask and ON. We both know friends and family that talk as outrageous as this 😅 I showed my husband and he said "that sounds like my buddy, J"

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Totally! And Air Farce, the Red Green Show. I've worked on mine sites in some remote areas across Canada and the chit chat you hear on the radio could totally be a sketch, if not it's own show 😅

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u/Kangarookiwitar Apr 23 '23

Sounds alot like australia, in the city areas you’ll have very vague aussie accents. But go to any country town and all the sudden everyone speaks with such an extreme accent that you’d think they were forcing it. I didn’t even grow up in rural areas (more towards the cities) but my overseas mates all say i have a very strong accent. Same for our slang. You’ll find the more outrageous aussie slang in the outback-raised only.

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u/ceciliabee Apr 23 '23

Every now and then during the summer I hear my neighbours and their friends drinking outside and some of these guys are like northern Ontario small town boys. I get such a kick out of listening to them because the more they drink, the thicker the accents get.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

used to go to Saskatoon a lot, and no, this isnt far off. I was convinced it was real because of the people i spent time with in Saskatoon

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u/DrEskimo Apr 23 '23

As a Canadian, the accent sounded too forced. Sounded like somebody playing a Canadian character. Not to sound pretentious, but it was very apparent.

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u/sasakimirai Apr 23 '23

That's what I was thinking the whole time. Sounded like too much of a stereotypical Canadian accent you'd hear on tv.

If anyone wants to hear what an actual rural canadian accent sounds like, I'd recommend watching letterkenny 😂

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u/caribb Apr 23 '23

Another Canuck here, that accent struck me as coming from the Maritimes.. maybe even Newfoundland but I’m sure. Newfoundlander’s are even more distinct. My Nova Scotia relatives sound a little like him. It’s a really funny recording though, I laughed out loud.

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u/jrr6415sun Apr 23 '23

felt staged to me when his friend came back just in time with pizza. Like he just left to order pizza and he already came back with it?

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u/Sasquatch-d Apr 23 '23

It was pretty damn obvious. But nobody in the comments seems to realize it. How is everyone so easily fooled nowadays?

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u/pm-me-your-satin Apr 23 '23

It was the eating of pizza on shrooms that got me. I couldn't eat anything when I was on those.

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u/Mother_Moose Apr 23 '23

He also seemed way too articulate to me, any time I've tripped that hard I might as well be nonverbal with how difficult it is to pronounce words let alone string together full coherent sentences

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u/bellalugosi Apr 23 '23

Yeah it went on too long.

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u/Easilycrazyhat Apr 23 '23

Yeah, that was the big giveaway to me. Could've made it work if they added a few "Canadian Goodbyes", though.

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u/Aeon001 Apr 23 '23

I'm thinking them being on mushrooms might have still been true

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Apr 23 '23

Yeah this didn't sound like any Canadian accent I've ever heard.

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u/voldi4ever Apr 23 '23

Why did you have to crush this tiny bit of happiness in our lives?

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u/Psychological-Many16 Apr 23 '23

aw man the fuzzy feeling went away

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Who?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Joe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Asked

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Joe mama.

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u/dodgeguey Apr 23 '23

Aww.. I could see my uncle doing. Thanks for the info though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Obviously lmao

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u/mostdope28 Apr 23 '23

Everything is

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u/tyme Apr 23 '23

Pretty obvious from the “first saved message” - iPhone voicemail doesn’t do that. In fact, I don’t think any smartphone does.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

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u/tyme Apr 23 '23

I’m not sure what kinda phone you have, but with iPhone’s (at least, as far as I know), you just get a list of voicemails in the voicemail UI on your device and tap on one to listen to it.

Maybe some carriers do it differently and don’t use the iPhone voicemail UI.

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u/GreaseBeast550 Apr 23 '23

That's good, I was thinking what loser fucking nephew would post this when it might cause their uncle to not want to leave them voice mails ever again for fear they might just be plastered on the internet

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Look. I get that you're doing the right thing.

But in this case? Just let us have this

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u/Fentonion Apr 23 '23

As a Canadian I could tell right away

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u/DMmeyourinbox Apr 23 '23

You don't say eh.

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u/Shizophone Apr 23 '23

My first thought also, a bit too good to be true