That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever read. How could you do that?
If it’s too long, what’s wrong with Glitz?
It’s animal cruelty 
What’s wrong with George?
I knew someone called their dog Colin.
Another who called their cat Trevor.
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It’s too close to Fritz, and Fritz is clearly a cat.
Nothing per se, but you’ve been handed this beautiful and exciting name and it seems a bit dull to replace it with George.
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How fast is George?
Train him up a bit and maybe he could be a Salah replacement?
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When he is fully grown, they can go up to about 60kph.
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Sign him up!
Edit
On a loosely related note, we had a Greyhound back in the day when I still lived in England. Rescued it. It was an Irish dog and had competed in a number of races. Beautiful thing, in between smoky and black, with a white patch on her chest. Such a lovely temperament, but you had to muzzle her because of a keen hunting instinct developed along the way in training. For example, cats looked like rabbits to her, so you had to be careful…
I remember one day going back to visit family (I grew up on the Wirral) and we took the dog to West Kirby to run on miles of open sand. I remember the seagulls shitting themselves because she just started running at them and they thought they had a lot of time before needing to take off. Whoosh! So fast and graceful when they run.
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So surely that would make him Doggo Kloppo
@Magnus Norway 
is having an election today. What’s the vibe?
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Pretty good ! I am very relaxed and results are quite similar to surveys. Unfortunately, Christian Democrats get 4.2% (4% is the limit where a party gets extra equalising mandates, so is big for small parties), and I wanted them eradicated, or at least only have their 3 mandates from the south. But they got 4 equalising mandates due to reaching 4.2.
Super nerdy this for you maybe.
Main negative is that the Progressive Party is now by far the biggest party on the right, totally eclipsing the Conservtive party; a big worry but not unexpected. The liberal party is punished (got 3.8 % so below the 4 percent where a party is entitled to equalising mandates) due to it’s willingness to cooperate with Listhaug and the Progressive party. A shame, but deserved. But a real shame it’s them and not the Christian Democrats to say the least.
Labour Party up a percent, which is strong after a period in government. The Jens-effect is very strong. The Conservatives and The Progressive Party was actually set for an electoral win and the governing term has been plagued by discussions if Garh Støre should step down as a Labour Party leader or not. There was even an internal party rebellion ! Quite serious stuff. But then he brought home Stoltenberg to be Minister of Finance, as since then it’s been an upward trajectory. Stoltenberg as Minister of Finance is very attractive to most Norwegians, even many on the right who strongly disagree with the taxation policies.
97.6% of votes counted now 
Parliament will look something like this:
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Good to see 
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Can you tell me about where the Frp (doubled vote), Sp and H (both hugely down) sit politically and perhaps if there were specific policies that are being attributed to their huge swings?
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Procedure has been arranged for a week on Friday…..
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Noted.
I will write something substantial about this. I have no such energy tonight nor did I have it yesterday. I don’t want to write about politics in a “for dummies” manner with massive generalisations (but I could, and that would just take 4-5 sentences, I guess).
It would be helpful for you if you understood who the parties in question are, as some fast food:
SP was green before Green was a thing, so Agrarian (today many will call them grey, since they are not among the parties who wants to do most regarding Climate Change for socioeconomic and sociopolitical reasons).
Today, SP is found in the political centre, but narrowly to the left of the Liberal Party (economically of course, as culturally and socially, SP is far to the right of the liberals by a wide margin!) If you are the National Romantic type but you are not racist, chances are you are voting SP. Also if you are a farmer…
The Progressive Party = Norway’s “Right Wing” party. Culture Essensialism + economical liberalism = FRP. They look to America in general.
Høyre (Right)is the Conservative Party. I’ll write more on this when I have the willpower and time. It’s complicated why they do badly now, but Erna Solberg is probably on her way out and she is regarded as a leadership problem these days.
To explain why these parties did badly now and why FRP is so popular and strong (hint, they are a populist party playing around with Culture Essensialism, anti immigration/far stricter, mixed with individual freedom), is a bit more time consuming that writing the above, as their conditions are very different. I’ll get back to you.
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General anaesthetic ?
Apparently so
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Good luck Matty.
Went through similar yesterday for a port removal which was quite straightforward. But still a long day of fasting, prep, post op time etc.
However I made a bad mistake.
Had a few red wines the night before and no big deal I was quite relaxed about the op as I’ve had a few over the last year. But I woke up dry. Oh no I can’t drink water from 9. Furiously start gulping.
Then I’m in the waiting room hungry and thirsty and they delayed the op by 2 hours!! That will teach me.
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Yeah, good luck ! Wish you a swift and uncomplicated surgery and recovery.
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Yeah I plan to have one on the Saturday if all goes well but nothing before then. Got to be up at silly o clock anyhow.
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