- One of the best moments ever was when I was like 17,
and Drake took a photo with me,
and captioned the photo with me Pickering Gawd.
It really meant a lot to me and Pickering.
What's up, Vanity Fair?
I'm Shawn Mendes, and I'm here to teach you.
I'm gonna try to teach you some Pickering slang.
Let's do it.
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Ajax.
Ajax is a town very close to Pickering.
My grandma and my aunt and my cousins live in Ajax.
It's the newer version of Pickering.
It's the little brother to Pickering.
So yeah, Ajax is cool.
I'm not from there,
so I won't say it's better than Pickering, though.
Mickey?
I thought that was a world thing.
A Mickey is a flask-sized bottle of liquor,
a Mickey of vodka.
Yeah, my mom's British, and she always said Mickey,
so I always just thought it was her,
but maybe it was her being Canadian.
You get a Mickey, and then you can get a two-six,
which is the bigger bottle.
Two-six of Ciroc.
I've been in the US, and I've been like,
we should get a two-six of something,
and then people have no idea what I'm talking about.
The GO Train is basically the train
that you can take from Pickering to downtown Toronto.
If you wanna go see a Leafs game,
or you wanna go see a Blue Jays game,
or you wanna go see Drake at the Scotiabank Arena,
it's whatever you choose.
Famous Players.
Famous Players is the theater in the Pickering Town Centre.
I don't even know if it's a Famous Players anymore.
I think they turned it into something else,
but Famous Players on Tuesday,
you could go and watch a movie for like $4.99
when I was a kid, and that's what we did.
I think I might've had one
of my first kisses in that Famous Players.
Snowbirds is somebody who goes
to Florida for the winter.
So like me, 'cause I'm in Miami right now.
[laughs]
And yeah, so that's a snowbird,
is if you just go to Canada and reap the benefits of summer,
and you leave during the winter, I don't know.
I don't know if you can do that.
I'm dying to get back home to that cold weather.
If you're a loafter, I have a few loafter friends.
My friend Brian is a huge loafter.
It's like when you're trying to go do something,
and they're just taking forever,
and they're loafting around the place,
and they're just not sure what they want to do,
or they're trying to get things to bring.
They don't know what they're doing.
They're just loafting.
They're just taking their time, too much time.
Pioneer Village is a school trip go-to,
and I remember Pioneer Village,
because they gave you bread and jam,
and that's what I remember about Pioneer Village.
I think you go in fifth grade,
and they teach you about the pioneers,
and they teach you about the natives,
and they give you bread and jam,
and it was a lovely experience.
I highly recommend it
if you ever find yourself in Pickering.
Beauty, a beauty is like, for instance,
if [laughs] you do anything that is good for your boys,
they'll call you a beauty.
I don't know how else to exactly explain that,
but "That guy's a beauty" means that guy's such a good guy.
He's just a beauty, you know?
He's a good guy.
What you sayin'?
Bro, what are you saying?
I mean, my friends completely abandoned "What's up?"
probably 10 years ago.
The only thing we ever say is "What are you saying?"
or even more so from just WYS, what you saying?
Which is like, "What's going on?
What are you doing?"
That's jokes.
[laughs]
So funny.
That's jokes is basically exactly what that sounds like.
That's hilarious.
That's jokes.
No way, that's jokes.
[laughs]
The saying That's jokes is pretty jokes.
A BeaverTail is the most famous Canadian pastry.
You can get them in Ottawa,
and they sell them on the side of the road,
and it looks like a Beaver tail,
but it's just a pastry,
and you get cinnamon and sugar put on it.
Darts.
Darts are gross.
Darts are cigarettes.
If someone's smoking a dart in the backyard,
they're smoking cigarettes in the backyard.
I love being Canadian.
I love these words that we use.
Guy.
Yo, guy.
Guy is pretty much the most common used word
I've ever heard in Pickering, or just in Toronto,
and it's like the way you just call a guy
that you don't know.
You just say "Yo, guy!"
Or, I mean, my friends call me guy, like,
"What are you saying, guy?"
And then my neighbor's name is actually spelled G-U-Y,
and he texted me, saying, "What's up, it's Guy."
And I thought he was kidding,
but it's actually pronounced Gee.
What's up, Guy, if you ever watch this.
The washroom is the bathroom.
That's a weird one.
I went to America and I asked where the washroom was,
and people were pretty confused by that,
although I don't understand why,
'cause it makes sense still.
That's what people say when you tell them
that you're from Pickering,
instead of saying Toronto, and that's why I say Toronto,
but that's why it's good to be bringing up Pickering.
Durham Region Transit is,
I guess, like the public transit of Durham Region,
and Durham Region is the mama bear
of Pickering and Ajax, and yeah.
Timmies is another way of saying Tim Horton's,
which is like, "You want some Timmies, bro?"
Although I don't know if I ever asked my bros
if they want Timmies.
That's like something my mom would say, she would say,
"Hey, I'm passing by Timmies, do you want some?"
And I always say yes.
Tim's is a long-time old friend of all Canadians.
Toque.
A toque is basically what we call a winter hat,
like a beanie.
I guess you in America, you guys call them beanies.
That's called a toque in Canada.
Bare is basically, if you're like,
"I don't know if we have enough food,"
and then you're trying to reassure your friend
that you have enough food.
You go, "Bro, there's bare food.
We're good.
We got bare food," which means a lot of food,
and that's used for basically every single,
we don't say it a lot in Canada, me and my friends,
which is bare.
Scarberia, a way to say Scarborough, Scarberia.
A lot of people will say Scarbs too.
No one says you're from the borough, though.
[laughs]
If someone's like, "Whose mans?"
It's really when if you're in a public place,
and your friend is being weird
or doing something uncomfortable,
or something really obnoxious,
maybe you'd just be like, "Whose mans is this?
Whose mans?"
And you kind of disassociate from being with that guy,
'cause he's being weird.
It's kind of mean, but it's not meant in a mean way.
It's more endearing when someone says "Whose mans?"
It's funny, I think, to Canadians.
Thank you so much, Vanity Fair.
I hope I taught you some very important Pickering slang
that you'll be able to use for the rest of your life,
if you go to Pickering.
It's getting cold, so please put your toque on.