Norway continues to devolve

[Verbal]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ad_1327108588

[monchavo]

NB; only Americans use "devolve" to mean the opposite of evolve. A more accurate description would be "recidivist behaviour", where an individual or group (or indeed an entire nation or race) somehow appear to retreat evolutionally, or return to a less enlightened way of life.

For those of you with a liveleak aversion, the video shows an individual with a very nasty streak aboard a snowmobile, repeatedly running over a young wolf.

[Sickbag]

I blame Norway.

[Ancient Mariner]

Speechless, but with an irrestible urge to perform violence.
Per

[Sickbag]

Speechless, but with an irrestible urge to perform violence.
Per

Are there any wolves near you?

[Ancient Mariner]

Speechless, but with an irrestible urge to perform violence.
Per

Are there any wolves near you?

I'm afraid not, would like to have some around. The nearest thing is a few "tame" foxes that are being fed regularly at our cabin. All leftovers including bread, potatoes, pasta, cookies and what not are being placed in the outdoor fireplace. They do not however eat tomatoes and raw onions. The kids love them (the foxes).
Per

[Sickbag]

Got foxes here in london too, only safe place for 'em: they get chased by dogs and twits in red coats out in the countryside.

They live on scavenging bins and discarded fast food, carry a lot of disease are unkempt and mangey and have a limited life expectancy so as you can imagine, they fit right in with the human population.


kinda like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuUnTJgD9M

[OldSowBreath]

Had one follow us around on a golf course in Idaho. A real begger. Would stand in front of you on the tee-box waiting for a handout. Was feeding it potatoe chips. But while we were putting, it got sick of that one at a time approach and ran off with the whole bag of chips.

[Sir Gallivant]

Had one follow us around on a golf course in Idaho. A real begger. Would stand in front of you on the tee-box waiting for a handout. Was feeding it potatoe chips. But while we were putting, it got sick of that one at a time approach and ran off with the whole bag of chips.

Was that a wolf, a fox or a Norwegian?

[OldSowBreath]

Well, everybody called him Quisling, I don't know why.

[Ancient Mariner]

Well, everybody called him Quisling, I don't know why.

Who, the wolf, the fox or the Norwegian?
Per

[blueblack]

sickback is sick---
turn it down a little
Ha ha
Are you Viktor Orbán in an amarikan way?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3hWKV-fX3g

[blueblack]

verbal is gay and vebal isgay

[Not_Karl]

verbal is gay and vebal isgay

And that's why we love him.

[Princess Leia]

verbal is gay and vebal isgay

And that's why we love him.

Concur. We love him hard.

[Sickbag]

Verbal is a friend of Dorothy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck8z_Rb0 ... ture=share

[schmusimausi73]

verbal is gay and vebal isgay

And that's why we love him.

Concur. We love him hard.

And often!

[Verbal]

And I love all of you. Truly. Except Ed. Not Ed.

[Ancient Mariner]

Where's Unloved Ed?
Per

[Rabbi O'Genius]

Hmmm

http://nrk.no/227/dag-for-dag/her-legge ... -1.8176749

[Ed]

Where's Unloved Ed?
Per

Scotland.....Vienna...........other places.........................

[Not_Karl]

Where's Unloved Ed?
Per

Scotland.....Vienna...........other places.........................

Option C, "other places".
Did I win(ned)?

[Ancient Mariner]

Where's Unloved Ed?
Per

Scotland.....Vienna...........other places.........................

Do you not have a choice? Poor Ed.
Per

[Ed]

Where's Unloved Ed?
Per

Scotland.....Vienna...........other places.........................

Do you not have a choice? Poor Ed.
Per

No choice. It is feast or famine with traveling and I.

All I want to do is work in my garden. Oh wait, I don't have a garden this year since I was traveling for over 3 weeks straight. The more places you go, the more you realize they are all the same. Same gothic churches, same European towns invaded by North African beggars and gypsies, same old same old..........better to stay at home and prepare for Armageddon.

[Verbal]

9 July 2012 Last updated at 07:18 ET
Norway faces oil output shutdown as pension talks fail

Oil and gas production in Norway will be shut down from Tuesday because of a dispute over pensions, a government minister has confirmed.

Energy companies announced they would lock out workers from late on Monday after talks to try to end the fortnight-old strike broke down for a third time.

The industry had hoped the move would force the government to use its emergency powers to end the strikes.

Oil prices rose on the news.

In London, Brent crude rose back above $99 after rising more than $1.

Norway's three main unions have been on strike for 15 days. The dispute is over offshore workers' demand for the right to retire early, at 62, with a full pension.

"As the situation stands now, the lockout will be enforced from midnight (2200 GMT Monday)," petroleum and energy ministry spokesman Haakon Smith-Isaksen said.

The government possesses emergency powers giving it the right to force an end to a strike if it believes that safety is being compromised or national interests are being harmed.

Norway, the world's fifth largest oil exporter, has already seen its oil production cut by 13% and its gas output by 4% since the strikes began on 24 June. OLF estimates this has cost Norway 2.9bn (£300m) kroner in lost production.

Jan Hodneland, chief negotiator at the Norwegian Oil Industry Association said talks had failed despite over 13 hours of negotiations.

OLF said it now sees no option other than to lock out all 6,515 oil and gas workers covered by offshore pay agreements from their workplace from Tuesday.

"Oil company employees have an average annual income of 1m Norwegian kroner (£105,000) and a retirement age of 65. This already makes them Norway's pension winners. They've nevertheless opted to use their power to win even better terms," said Mr Hodneland.

"We're living longer, so we've also got to work longer," he added.

State-owned energy company Statoil, a member of OLF, said the lockout "will halt all production" on Norway's continental shelf, where about 50 companies operate, including BP and Royal Dutch Shell.

Statoil said it expected a shortfall in production of around 1.2m barrels of oil per day, which it said would cost it 520m kroner per day.

The row between oil workers and employers centres on the elimination of a pension add-on introduced in 1998 for workers who retire at 62, three years ahead of the general age for oil workers and five years ahead of Norway's official retirement age.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18767000