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What's the limit? Did you know that Beer wasn't considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2014 (I believe), because of it's relatively low alcohol content?

Formula 1: Drive to Survive https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890

HBO, an Arya sex scene, really?

Guinness is great, that there is no debate. Im a fucking poet when it comes to beer, come at me. A few summers ago I discovered Erdinger weissbier, great summer drink.

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A proper Schwarzbier is class... I also love good dark lagers. Actually found a great one here today; I usually buy their regular lager as it's easily the best beer in SE Asia but went to a bigger city today and found this dark one so bought a few bottles to try and I was so impressed I'm actually going back tomorrow to get a few crates. Not a big fan of Belgian style dark/brown beers like Dubbel etc because there's just too many aromas and tastes there for my liking. Can't stand caramel taste in beer especially.

As someone that hates chocolate, a lot of dark beers are pretty rough tasting. I love a good pilsner, though.

If I need a true connection, I would have gone for Kaiserslautern as I spent many a summers there with my aunt being in the Air Force.

Really looking forward to it! Thanks for the heads up!

@nudge season 2 of The Son is starting on saturday. Let's go!

Yeah, how on earth are Chelsea not in a transitional season? In any case, even if Chelsea trying to completely change the way they play on the pitch to a more attacking style after over a decade of primarily conservative football was somehow not a rebuild of Chelsea... does it make sense to sack Sarri if the transfer ban is upheld? Maybe if you bring in someone with a track record of pushing young players into the first team, since you won’t have any new signings. In any case, Chelsea are going to be in transition at very least until they can sign players. But it’ll likely take more than one transfer window to bring in the right players. If I were a Chelsea fan I’d be obsessed with news re: that appeal and hoping the transfer ban is overturned. That’s far more important for the club’s long term future than whatever happens this season (though obviously you want to do as well as you can). Sarri’s style at Napoli was great, but that Napoli were better built for attacking football that he inherited at Chelsea. At Chelsea I think it’s a solid group of quality players, but the established creative players there are Hazard (world class), Pedro (used to be world class but looks passed it this season, which pushes more responsibility for creativity to Hazard), and Willian (who isn’t even that creative). I suppose Marcos Alonso too, but he’s not balanced enough as a fullback to do well in a proper Sarri system because while he’s great going forward he’s shit going backward. So that’s the vast majority of the side’s creativity coming from one world class player, who’s likely about to leave. If the ban’s upheld and Hazard leaves, I think a Sarri or no Sarri, Chelsea are in for a painful season.

Sterling suggested that if fans are racist, their club should get a 9 point deduction and have to play 3 matches behind closed doors. The problem with that idea is it makes me want to buy a Man City shirt and sneak into the Etihad so I can unfurl a racist banner in that City blue and win us the title. So I’m not sure that actually does anything to prevent racism

This is more to do with the system Johan Cruyff installed at the club several years ago, bringing Ajax to the same model of the past to how it brought them success but with ex footballers running the club from top to bottom. Ajax's recruiting and scouting over the past years has been extremely successful which has led to Ajax making huge profits on players, now they are not in a position to sell players cheap unless it is on their terms.

Scenes like this one make this show... The sense of impending doom was on point, and all of the sudden everyone has a personality again... Good old drunk and miserable Tyrion came back for one episode. Tormund was great too. He's probably had the best moments of this season, of all characters.

Spoiler warning Honestly mate I thought it was a fantastic episode. No major action but lots of great dialogue and character development. Brienne, Jamie, and Sansa were the stand outs. Honorable mentions to Tormund and Tyrion. Interesting to have some insight into what the NK is after but still this group feel totally unprepared for episode 3s events, I definitely don't see how they can prevail.

'Lost' book of exquisite scientific drawings rediscovered after 190 years Czerne Reid 1/3 SLIDES >> https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/lost-book-of-exquisite-scientific-drawings-rediscovered-after-190-years/ar-BBWcBwI#image=BBWcBwI_1|1 © Photograph by Robert Clark Caesalpinia pulcherrima is a species of flowering shrub found in the tropics and subtropics of the Americas. This drawing of the plant, seen in the archives of the Rare and Manuscript Collections of Cornell University Library, is the work of Anne Wollstonecraft, who created volumes of detailed botany illustrations in 19th-century Cuba. Rediscovered after almost 200 years, her work includes historical facts, indigenous applications, poetry, and personal observations about more than a hundred plant types Lost for 190 years, a three-volume manuscript blooming with vivid colour drawings of Cuban flora has resurfaced in upstate New York. Nondescript marbled cardboard covers and a title page in cursive handwriting announce Specimens of the Plants & Fruits of the Island of Cuba by Mrs A.K. Wollstonecraft. This simplicity belies the contents of the slim, well-worn volumes. Pages and pages contain 121 illustrated plates showing plants such as red cordia sebestena, deep purple Lagerstroemia, and white angel’s trumpet in consummate detail. Accompanying them are 220 pages of English-language descriptions relating historical facts, indigenous applications, poetry, and personal observations. Hewing faithfully to scientific conventions, the illustrations show vegetation, life cycles, and dissections of reproductive parts. Some pressed plant material is taped in. The author writes that she did not consult botanists or receive any help with her work. “A jewel of botanical literature in Cuba,” is how Cuban botanist Miguel Esquivel describes the work, classifying it among the greatest discoveries of its kind in recent times. (Also find out how historians rediscovered an alchemy manuscript by Isaac Newton.) “I think the manuscript by Anne Wollstonecraft is of great importance,” says ethnobotanist Paul Cox, executive director of Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson, Wyoming. “Although the plants that she profiles in her drawings and descriptions are generally common, the detailed notes she makes of indigenous uses add a whole new dimension to understanding their possible utility, and could be used today to guide researchers in discovering new pharmaceuticals.” For example, she notes that roots from the soursop tree were used as a fish poisoning antidote and its leaves as an antiparasitic and antiepileptic. She also suggests that "soursop" comes from a phonetic approximation of the island’s indigenous inhabitants’ name for the tree, suir sach, which could help explain a paradoxical moniker for a fruit described as sickly sweet. But if not for historian Emilio Cueto, a retired attorney and self-described collector of all things Cuban, Wollstonecraft and her work may have remained in obscurity. Word of mouth In 1828, Cuban exiles and human rights advocates Father Félix Varela and José Antonio Saco mentioned an American woman in Cuba drawing Cuban plants in their periodical El Mansajero Semanal. Almost a century later, in 1912, Cuban scholar and thinker Carlos M. Trelles cited the work, sight unseen. The citations said that New York Horticultural Society members had likened the work to that of respected naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose legendary 1705 work Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium is considered seminal to the field of entomology. “That comparison triggered my belief that this was important,” Cueto says. “People exaggerate, but not that much.” Thus began his quest. Following Trelles’ lead, Cueto included Wollstonecraft’s work in the catalogue bibliography for his own 2002 HistoryMiami Museum exhibit on Cuban flora and fauna without having laid eyes on it or knowing whether it had even survived. “This was the reality of scholarly networks at that time,” says Anne Sauer, director of Cornell’s Rare and Manuscript Collections. “Part of the scholarly record included a scholar saying, I haven’t seen this thing, but I have heard that it exists and that it is important. You’re sort of bleeding into the realm of oral history in some cases, even.” Each documentation of the manuscript and historical mention of the author seemed to bring a different spelling of her last name. Some use her maiden name, Kingsbury, and her first name was alternately reported as Anne and Nancy—which Jane Austen fans will recognize as a diminutive of the former. Cueto had searched for the manuscript perhaps a hundred times or more in online library catalogues to no avail, but in March 2018, it finally popped up. The author’s name was misspelt as “Wollstonecroft,” reflecting the ambiguous last cursive vowel on the manuscript’s title page. Still, Cueto knew what he had found. “I said, Oh my God! This is that lady. This is what I’ve been looking for. This is what everybody has been looking for!” Cueto says. “It was covered by a series of unfortunate misspellings and access to catalogues.” After his Archimedes moment, however, he couldn’t find the actual manuscript; the catalogue didn’t show him where it was. That’s when he called on University of Florida Library Dean Judith Russell, with whom he had collaborated for Cuba exhibits. She figured out that it was at Cornell University, which received it in 1923 from a faculty member, the author’s descendant. Having caught Cueto’s infectious excitement, Russell joined him on a field trip to Ithaca to see the volumes. “Both of us tried to moderate our expectations,” Russell says. “We get there, and, My God, they are full botanical drawings with pages of narrative. And they’re exquisite.” Women in 'stem' Based on some genealogy sleuthing, Russel reports that Wollstonecraft died in 1828 at age 46, leaving incomplete entries, untranscribed notes and loose draft paper among the volumes. “She was not finished,” Russell says. “It gives you goosebumps, you know, how close we came to losing it.” Cueto is now working to introduce Wollstonecraft, the sister-in-law of famed women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, to new generations. He has travelled to her adopted hometown of Matanzas in search of her grave and contemporaneous mentions in local newspaper archives, and he surmises that she was among the U.S. citizens who flocked to the Caribbean island in the 19th century for health reasons. His many-splendored vision includes having the newfound manuscript on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., where it could be seen by millions who traverse the nation’s capital. He also envisions the manuscript finally published as a book, with a foreword recounting how this lost work came to light. And he wants a Spanish translation, to make it more accessible to Cuban audiences. So far, the manuscript has been digitized and is available for all to experience online. “We have uncovered a new American scientist and artist who has been forgotten by those disciplines,” Cueto says. “Had she lived further, she would have been a major force in illustration.”

Guinness?

There's such little hope that United can help Liverpool win the league that they've already given up hoping and just getting on with kicking them while they're down .

@Machado @Berserker AKA True red and True White

You say this as if the UK hasn't always been multicultural. Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English, there was cultural issues for time immemoriam... Normans, Anglo-Saxons, Pictish, Caledonian, Cornish, Bretons, Celts, Romans, and so forth. Cultural clashes have existed long before different colours made it easy to identify. I garuantee you that if all the people non-indigenous to the Isles vanished one day, it wouldn't be long before all the nasty hatred reserved for 'Pakis' was redirected at something else, Catholics, Protestants, northerners, Irish, Scots, etc. Racism is just a funnel that people use to funnel the blame, hatred, and evil into; it's very easily redirected into something else. People like to believe that time and progress is linear, you say 'this day and age' as if we are meant to be more enlightened as a species than 500 years ago. Well we aren't, we just manifest our evil differently.

I have a cupboard full of these things