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helmet for riding a bicycle?

I've been tempted to get myself a motorbike for a few years now, but it's probably going to get myself killed, so I'm not too sure.

Oh I completely get it! Go for it

Sexy. But almost 400€? Damn

Ah too bad, thought we'd cook something all together

SirBalon

is your girlfriend away or what?

I used to think Ramsay is a twat until I saw his cooking show with the kids (Junior Masterchef?). While he unleashes his ginger anger by telling the grown ups to fuck off, he's so extremely patient and super nice to the kids, this changed my mind about him completely. While I'm not a fan of bullyish management style, it makes a lot of sense here; no wonder he's being a cunt to professional trained cooks who choose to showcase their alleged skills on TV and have ambitions for a job which is extremely mentally and physically demanding yet can't get their job properly done, while he encourages children who are only starting out with cooking as a hobby and need help learning.

We nudged him to the glory

You made it, Truls, such an incredible achievement that will surely go down in history books

Fair enough, if you like it medium or well-done, by all means go for it, but why would you do that with a prime cut which has the most flavour and tenderness if cooked at least medium rare? I mean, a 50$ well-done steak from a dry-aged prime cut of a grass-fed cattle will taste pretty much the same as a 10$ well-done mass-produced steak from a cheap shitty cut, so it's a waste of both money and meat and the farmer's and chef's effort. Why do you think Italian chefs go mental if someone puts ketchup on a pizza, haha? The same about Porsche, hundred years of effort by numerous generations have been put into it to create a high-quality end product. It is supposed to be driven, letting it rot is just so disrespectful to the masterpiece and its creators. Craftsmen usually care more about their product than just getting monetary reward for it... As I said before, it's your prerogative to do so, but it's also my right to find it completely pointless and silly.

It is a waste of potential. Just like buying a Porsche and letting it rot in the garage for decades.

It is a waste if you consider the amount of work and resources that went into producing it to ensure the highest quality and uniqueness of the product. Getting a cut of prime meat well-done or mixing single malt Scotch with cola means dumping all the flavour and unique character as at that point there's no difference between it and cheaper/lower quality product, of course it's a waste. Also Johnnie Walker Blue is an over-priced blended Scotch that isn't worth the price at all.

Alonso and Honda, haha... Sato wins the race. Horrible crash involving Dixon and Howard earlier!

That's really not the point. Certain meats reach maximum tenderness, juiciness and flavour when prepared in a certain way due to the fat distribution and texture. For most cuts of steaks (rib-eye, t-bone, tenderloin, etc), it happens to be medium rare, while top sirloin is best served rare, while the likes of flank, skirt, short ribs or hanger steak reach the optimal tenderness and juiciness when cooked to medium (since those are tougher cuts and thus the connective tissues need time to render). Of course it's your prerogative to eat it the way you like it, but you are not getting the best out of your high quality cut if you order it well-done. It's a bit like mixing your single malt with coke, in the end it's just a waste of good Scotch.

WTF. Argentine beef and their steakhouses are among the best in the world...

Beef and chicken, then sometimes pork (lean cuts are ok, the rest too fat), duck, veal. Rarely eat lamb or turkey, never had rabbit. Wild boar meat is great, but not something you come across every day... I actually like frog meat too haha. Also love fish and seafood in general.

The best duck I ever had was roasted duck breast in red wine-raspberry sauce and blue cabbage and orange salad, it was incredible... Nice meat. ribeye steak can be bone-in or boneless, he probably had the latter

Hehe, whole cuts of meat such a steak can only be contaminated with bacteria on the outside, it gets destroyed by cooking so rare beef is safe even if the middle of the meat is red. I get it though, I love carpaccio and Mett (spiced raw ground pork), but have to stay away from it in this part of the world because I'm unsure of the hygiene in the kitchen and the freshness of meat, so it can get nasty...

Well-done steak is just a ruined steak, it should be a crime... I prefer rare or medium rare myself.

I once had an egg on a pizza... It was fucking weird, but hungover me kind of enjoyed it.

That's a good price, delivery costs would be exorbitant though Yes, tried it a few times when I was in Wuppertal. That was over 10 years ago though, so I don't know which one it was...

Looks fantastic! Send me a keg

I have similar feelings about sugar-daddy clubs, not anywhere near to the same degree though. I don't personally like or support the concept (I'm old school and for me, football's too commercialised as it is already), but I don't really care either because those are not German clubs, and most importantly, because all other clubs in their league have equal playing ground - as in any club can sell themselves if they want to and manage to find someone willing to take over. Which is not the case in Germany due to the 50+1 rule as you probably know, so basically some clubs are just using loopholes and the fact that ultimately, DFL doesn't give a fuck, and thus they (i.e Hoffenheim, Leipzig) are gaining an unfair advantage over the rest who are at least trying to play according to the rules. As for the way RB Leipzig are run, they might not rely on big name transfers, but their transfer balance in the last 5 years is -110 million €, that's more than any other club including Bayern, and they were playing as low as the 4th tier during that time, always spending more (without selling!) than all other clubs added together (in their respective league at the time).

What a turbulent season... Started horribly, then we slowly turned it around, had a great Rückrunde with some amazing performances and wins, then two poor matches against Köln and Hoffenheim, and a 7-goal thriller against BVB tonight to finish it off. 8th in the league in the end, good achievement, and I hope we'll build on it to strengthen the team during the summer and challenge for European spots next season!