Argentinien-Deutschland 0-4
Grüss allen meinen deutschen Freunden!
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Merci Patrice!
That was a very nice Match, the second best Match of the Turnament for us in Germany. Here is going on a big happiness taday..
All my best back to you Patrce,
Thank`s for sharing thie pleasure with us!! ;D
Germany 0, Spain 1. Sorry guys.
Viva España! ;D
If our German friends need a good recipe for octopus cooking, the best one is "pulpo a feira" ;D
Hi have no problem with whom Spain wins the World Cup. Could there anyone who deserves it
Regards Peter
Hi Jose, what is "Pulpo a Feira" Can we eat it? Weis does not exist. Sorry! Can not Spanish. Rather stay at Audi S5 ;D
Regards Peter ;)
It is a traditional Galician dish. If you want to take revenge against Paul, the German octopus that did pick Spain to win Germany, this will be the most delicious way to do it :) Best served with a bottle of albariño (a very good Galician white wine), but if you can't get it, a good riesling is also fine.
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This dish is prepared by first boiling the octopus inside a copper cauldron. Before actually boiling it, the octopus is repeatedly dipped in and out of the boiling water, held by its head. The objective of this operation is to curl the tips of the tentacles. The tentacles are preferred over the head, which sometimes is discarded. The tendrils are sometimes best cherished by children. After the octopus has been boiled, it is trimmed with a scissors, sprinkled with coarse salt and paprika (pemento picante) and drizzled with olive oil. The optimal cooking point is the one in which octopus is not rubbery but not overcooked either, similarly to the al dente concept in Italian pasta cooking. This is achieved after approximately a 20 minutes boil, provided that the octopus is left to rest for a further 20 minutes inside the boiled water away from the fire.
(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w123/cenlumes/proba_4.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Polbo_a_feira.jpg/800px-Polbo_a_feira.jpg)
I know little about football but here is a compilation of (live) octopus videos and information. You can decide whether an octopus has the intelligence to understand this game, or indeed psychic powers.
:)
http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php?topic=3429.0
.. or will just take the flag with the highest "red" color part.
... or will just swim to the nearest box from where he was before.
Besides that i prefer those fishes in anture then on a tanle as food.
They are such nice creatures and even a bit intelligent.
Did you know they have one prefered leg which they use for handling of most things?
Quote from: José Roca on July 08, 2010, 10:29:34 PM
If our German friends need a good recipe for octopus cooking, the best one is "pulpo a feira" ;D
Now, you just leave poor Paul the Octopus out of this. He made his predictions fair and square; no need to be threating him with becoming someone's dinner in retaliation. ;)
(http://eskup.elpais.com/Imagenes/7F/67/1278748780-86156785cf13aae6ed2e7ba607c47888.jpg)
QuotePaul wird nicht ausgeliefert
Ganz anders die Haltung in Spanien. Dort soll der weltberühmte Paul unter anderem zum Maskottchen eines Gastronomiefestes werden, bei dem Spezialitäten aus Tintenfisch im Mittelpunkt stehen. Das Fest findet alljährlich im August in der kleinen Ortschaft Carballiño nahe Orense im nordwestspanischen Galicien statt. Die Idee, Paul als Werbefigur zu erstehen, stammt von Bürgermeister Carlos Montes.
Die Unternehmer des 14 000 Einwohner zählenden Ortes legten zusammen und kamen so auf 30 000 Euro. ,,Wir wollen Paul nicht aufessen", sagte Manuel Pazo, der dort einen Fischereibetrieb besitzt. ,,Er soll auch weiter Fußballergebnisse tippen, zum Beispiel die unserer Toto-Gemeinschaft." Sollte das Aquarium in Oberhausen Paul nicht verkaufen wollen, hoffen die Geschäftsleute darauf, ihn zumindest für das Fest am 8. August ausleihen zu können. Die Chancen darauf stehen schlecht: Das Aquarium in Oberhausen ließ wissen: ,,Das geht nicht. Wir können verstehen, dass alle jeck auf Paul sind, aber der gehört zu uns. Er bleibt bei uns."
paul said spain will win the soccer world cup, that's very right! yesterday evening, I didn't believe that pauls said the truth about germany will win 3th. place, but he didn't failed, very good ! :)
I have seen all soccer matches of germany team with over 1000 peoples in a big "E-Werk" club, it was amazing the enthusiasm, exciting and feelings. It's quite other thing if you are looking tv with some friends or your wife will go out for shopping or horse riding or other things ;)
I've played soccer over 30 years and I know it's every day if you have a match an other thing how you are feeling and if there are some pressure for you that "you have to win!" for reaching big final, you are blocked or mental stressed so you don't hit the ball with right affect to hit the goal or your contrary is quite quicker, more vitale and has full physical power, you can despair, but the team will win, so you are feeling very overwhelmed. I like and love the young german team, because that was a risk to dive the young fish into cold water and they have managed to swim and they are very technical fitted.
I hope spain will win the soccer cup, because this way germany has lost the match only against the world cup winner. spain has better single player with high quality and they are very routine. This may be the only missing lack of german team to hold against this mature team of villa & co.
netherland is our lovely enemy concern to soccer. I cannot believe that netherland has the power to hit the spain team. paul has a winning quote of over 80 per cent for prediction. I am on paul's side :)
enjoy the game this evening, 20:30 pm MEZ time.
best regards, frank
Victoire très méritée !
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Next triumph: Le Tour de France :)
Game was very hard with a lot of rotten. In the Basic Forum, it is sometimes so
Regards Peter
Somebody has to teach the Dutchs that to win they have to hit the ball, not the opponent.
(http://eskup.elpais.com/Imagenes/23/FF/1278875080-eeab544a35d40e23539d5b2f725bcd25.jpg)
I see this, too! I think it is not nice! That he deserved the red card.
Regards Peter
Congratulations to Paul the Octopus. He was right again :)
(http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20100712elpepuvin_2/XLCO/Ges/20100712elpepuvin_2.jpg)
What a month! First Wimbledon, then the World Cup and today le Tour. I have exhausted my reserves of champagne :)
Oui, toutes ces victoires font du bien au moral, çà nous change de la crise.
Yes Patrice, all these victories are good for the morality...
But what's the reason that crisis changes us?
I don`t really understand, my english isn`t the best and my french
is the Hell... ;)
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Ok, after a while the light is on..
I was a bit confused and asked myself on to wich Crisis do you think.
But thank`s for starting this Thread, it`s also good for the morality to
live it and nice to do a part here at the forum.
Also talking about other things as PB...
I wasn`t sadly much involved in Discussion here, because to busy the last time...
;)
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Yes Patrice, all these victories are good for the morality...
It has nothing to do with morality, but with the mood.
Thank`s for your accurate translation, Jose!
In German i would say Gemütslage and this word included the Word Mut or mood.
That makes Sense, related to German as well.
I`ve learned also new things about Paul the Octopus and his Family..
About the intelligence, how they are living and how to eat them on a delicious Way.
I will try to cook "Pulpo a Feira" and prefer a german Riesling.
it sounds and looks really good!
Thank you for the recipe!
Now we are going to close down the spanish banking system.
Hope besides the chamapagne you have some water left after all :-)).
And be sure your bak account still exists.
Of the 9 banks to close in next crisis are 8 from spain if i see it right. :-)
You must be joking. If it has been a clear winner of the recent banks stress tests, it has been Spain. Now it is Germany, home to some of those rumors that damaged the Spanish debt (e.g. the dirty maneuvers of the Deutsche Bank and the false rumors of the Financial Times Deutschland), which is under scrutiny: Financial Times [UK] warns that German banks could have hidden data in the stress tests [specially its high exposure to the Greek sovereign debt] and prescribes the transparency that Spain has had with its financial sector.
Spain shines on stress test, Germany flunksQuote
The refusal of some Landesbanken and German lenders to reveal exposure to EMU sovereign debt has raised suspicions that they have something to hide. Credit default swaps measuring bond risk jumped from 140 to 150 points for HSH Nordbank, with smaller rises for West LB (127), Norddeutssche LB (125) and Deutsche Postbank (121).
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Spain was rewarded by the markets for the high quality of its tests, which cover 95 of its banks and include a 28pc fall from peak-to-trough for finished houses, and 61pc for development land.
Yields on 10-year Spanish bonds dropped 11 basis points to 4.24pc on Monday, outperforming the eurozone. The cost of bond insurance fell for Spanish Cajas. These savings banks are already being restructured. The US buy-out firm JC Flowers has agreed to inject €450m (£377m) into Banca Civica.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7911318/Spain-shines-on-stress-test-Germany-flunks.html
QuoteThe US buy-out firm JC Flowers has agreed to inject €450m (£377m) into Banca Civica.
It not so much a Firm then one of those persons having their hands in the banlig system everywhere.
The money he pays now to Spain, "Mr. Flowers", he got it from our State for the HSH Bank in North Germany (Hamburg). Its just one of those bigger state-accepted Mafia Clans out there.
Nothing compared with the Deutsche Bank, betting against Spain.
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The full extent of Deutsche Bank's short positions on the Spanish economy have been revealed, and the target is not just the country's public debt.
Deutsche Bank is shorting five different Spanish companies in addition to its €1.1 billion ($1.35 billion) sovereign debt short of Spain, according to Cotizalia. Those companies are:
* BBVA - €370 million - or 1.14% of the firm
* Ferrovial - €46 million - or 1.1% of the firm
* Banco Popular - 0.69% of the firm
* Grifols - 1.7% of the firm
* Gamesa - 0.7% of the firm
The positions were announced by Deutsche Bank's London office, which is not subject to the same trading regulations as the German headquarters.
With the invaluable help of the Financial Times Deutschland and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, spreading false rumors that the EU was preparing a rescue plan for Spain (rumours angrily qualified by the European Comission as twisted speculations), and by Angela Merkel, none the less, with his "calculated uncertainity" (please, remove her from office soon).
Sheesh, you fall into the water and your partner tries to drown you...
And now Rafael Nadal has won the U.S. Open, becoming the seventh man to complete the career Grand Slam.
I'm panicking. What else are going to close, besides our banks :'(
little hint: no more "bravo l'Espagne", sorry.
tour de france:
QuoteNext triumph: Le Tour de France :)
some new facts about Tour winner Alberto Contador:
he said it was: "veal tenderloin"
the medicinal scientists said it was: "self blood doping"
Alberto Contador said about himself: He is only a stupid victim of a veal tenderloin ?
(Opfer eines Kalbsfilets?)
sad news about a new incident from the "doping tour de france". sometimes I am thinking it's better to give the drugs for free. so every body has same possibilities to win that unhuman bicycle race climbing up the mountains every day without losing any power ;)
frank
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The concentration found by the laboratory was estimated at 50 picograms (or 0,000 000 000 05 grams per ml).
I don't think that such a tiny quantity can be the result of doping.
QuoteEr hatte mit 39 Sekunden vor dem Luxemburger Andy Schleck gewonnen – der würde stattdessen nachträglich zum Sieger gemacht werden...
short:
Quotehe has 39 seconds advantage before Andy Schleck, so Schleck would be the winner afterwards ...
I would bet on you dear jose for answer NOT DO ANSWER ONE WEEK HERE AT FORUM, that alberto contador is no victim ;) there are some more incidents that alberto has done doping with glenbuterol. It's a thingy he knows and even a very few pictogram is still forbidden. I am curious to see how this race will finish :) I am pro clear sports engagements and races with human power, don't forget!
you bet ? the other side would be to quiet here for me for "ONE YEAR!". that's ok ?
best regards, frank
What I bet is that the ICU (International Cycling Union) will state that there is not case. Such a tiny amount could not provide any performance benefit.
So long he did not eat well made Rice with Salmon, there can be no serious doping attempt :-).
Regarding cooking rice, the Valencians are the indisputable world masters :)
I eat almost everything, but I prefer to eat steak in front of a fish with rice! ;D
Greetings Peter!
The last exploit of Nigel De Jong: to break the leg of another player.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/04/article-1317591-0B758605000005DC-88_468x298.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1317591/Nigel-Jong-dropped-Holland-tackle-broke-Hatem-Ben-Arfas-leg.html
Vive le sport!
Today: Toni Elías World Champion of Moto2.
(http://www.elpais.com/prom/201010/pro_photo1286693226.jpg)
... and Jorge Lorenzo, World Champion of MotoGP.
(http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20101010elpepudep_12/LCO340/Ies/20101010elpepudep_12.jpg)
The Demise of Paul
Sadly octopuses do not have a long life span.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/27102010/58/world-cup-2010-conspiracy-claim-paul-death.html
Vettel World Champion
Congratulations!
28 May 2011: Barça wins the Champion's League
29 May 2011: Contador wins the Giro.
29 May 2011: José writes a GDI/GDI+/OpenGL control :)
Not bad for a weekend :)
Euro 2012. We have made history :)
As an Italian living in South Africa, there was not enough Grappa in the house to wipe away the memory of this game. Having seen the Italian against England and Germany I started with high hopes and ended with a big headache... I wonder if I will still be alive to see "La rivincita"