#38

They get smelly and then die quickly though isn’t it not.

#41

No.

#42

That’s why we never had one. They age rapidly and you can tell they are going to snuff it because they go smelly. Or at least that’s what my parents used to say… although we had a Great Dane and he died at 7 which is fairly usual. Wasn’t too smelly though.

Plus you should get a rescue dog.

#44

Yeah, sorry, shouldn’t have said that. Hope you have many happy years with your lab (they are nice dogs and won’t take the face off your cats or any kids).

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#46

Could just be bullshit my dad spouted that you take into later life believing to be true like American Football is stop start with minor gains due to the attritional nature of American wars vs freeflowing football due to GB’s empire building.

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#48

Great Danes dying at 7 and shit feels like a biological fuck up. Like something that big and Irish Wolfhounds and stuff should live to 30+. Would like one but would be worried I would be digging a massive hole in the garden in under 10 years (or give it to the vet I dunno) and I cba

#49

Yeah the problem is we probably don’t know that most of it is bullshit.

My mother also has German words that she says that she claims are true (for baggy trousers, a protruding upper lip etc) but when I have ever mentioned them to other Germans it turns out they are pure nonsense.

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#50

BAGENTROU

#51

Yeah RIP Bruno. He was massive too. His paw print was bigger than the paw print of the world’s biggest dog published in the GBoR. He wasn’t taller though. Soft as fuck and thick too.

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#52

My partner has Gujarati equivalents but they’re often words that do exist that she is using in completely incorrect ways.

#53

Bullermanns Hosen

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#54

met some random lady in Bushy park one time and she had 2 irish wolfhounds and my kid (who was 2ish) was fascinated, so she asked if he wanted to sit on them and ride them around like a horse for a bit. So he did. They seemed happy about it. Then we kept walking

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#55

I was never allowed to ride Bruno although I must have been five when we got him.

#56

What’s the protruding upper lip one? Flappenlippen?

#58

I can’t write it phonetically but something like this Glooh Be. Turned out to be some fucking cartoon bird with a big top bill.

#59

Just don’t be tempted by a chocolate lab. My uncle’s didn’t stop being a ridiculous nippy puppy sort of dog even at the age of 4.

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#60

Glooh Be Glooh Be Glooh Be Glooh Be (ah ah ah ah ah ah)

#61

Yeah chocolate labs are full on idiots, love em though.

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#62

Dad Dee Dad Dee Dad Dee Dad Dee (Ha n s m m m)

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#63

Going back to the op the actual answer is thinking your pet is the stupidest isn’t it