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Luciano

The worst ice cream is the wasabi ice cream that the Japanese seem to think is acceptable as a dessert. Wasabi anything is shite. Most over-rated spice around. /Food nerd mode on Probably you never had real wasabi in your life. Neither have I. What we normally receive is some kind of radish with gr...

Luciano

LandOTurk wrote:
What are those seeds/pips on the lettuce leaves?

Looks like quinoa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa

Luciano

Thanks to our predominant Italian ancestry, Argentina has incredible ice cream. We have some particular tastes, and of course many of them involve some kind of 'Dulce de Leche' (milky caramel). And don't even mention that damned salted caramel crap. :D Also, we have turned zabaglione ('sambayón') i...

Luciano

Zabaglione gelato from Cones, an Argentinian Gelateria on Bleeker Street in NYC is the best gelato/ice cream I've had anywhere. Throw in a scoop of their strawberry and another of dark chocolate, you'll be very, very content. I cycled down to it yesterday and it's as good as it has ever been. Oh ye...

Luciano

Boobs not Moobs wrote:My dinner - summer food

Yesterday I had something very similar, but with no coleslaw. Halloumi is an incredible invention!!

Luciano

Thanks to our predominant Italian ancestry, Argentina has incredible ice cream. We have some particular tastes, and of course many of them involve some kind of 'Dulce de Leche' (milky caramel). And don't even mention that damned salted caramel crap. :D Also, we have turned zabaglione ('sambayón') in...

Luciano

I have a great voice but I fookin' HATE being the front person, you have to be some sort of self-indulgent twat to be any good at that. I tried singing lead in an originals band - we were very well reviewed - but I hated singing lead, HATED it. I try not to do too much of it in the party bands, but...

Luciano

What an unnecessary change players were perfectly capable of dealing with the pad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twkyc5LIz_w

Luciano

Can anyone give me one good reason that a person could need a semi auto gun ? There is none. :o Only the military/police should be able to use them, and receive enough opportunities to improve their skills. And even some of their equipment unfortunately ends up in the black market. Limited exceptio...

Luciano

Haven't watched it but the last 30 minutes of Bone Tomahawk is supposed to be off the scale horrific. One or two minutes in reality. But they are shocking :shock: Normally horror movies make me laugh for their stupidity, but the last 5 minutes of "Rec" (Spain) almost caused me to have a nervous bre...

Luciano

Whoa ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBvmv8kt4U I'll see that and raise you :thumbup: in the looks dept (but doesn't need to get overly made up for each vid, does she?) ... guitar wailing, however, I'd need to see some electric work. As you command Sir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9VyggeSbA

Luciano

happyhooker wrote:
Nolanator wrote:Let's not forget calculators for simple arithmetic.
i'm always stunned by the number of people who can't do basic maths in their head

Luciano

The grandmother rule isn't ideal but there are valid reasons for it, especially in the home nations where there is massive movement of people and generations of people living in England can still validly see themselves as Scottish/Irish/Welsh. Never mind the fact Ireland covers two countries and Ir...

Luciano

10. Buckethead: Insanely creative and can step up the tempo or just switch the game into sleeping mode.

Luciano

iarmhiman wrote:Achtung Baby is their greatest album.

Yes! And Ultraviolet is my favorite song of the album, and maybe of U2.

Luciano

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/25/sport/agustin-pichot-world-rugby-elections-bill-beaumont-spt-intl/index.html "We need to build the regions like football has -- regional tournaments that can feed into the qualifiers for our World Cup," says Pichot. "Pichot eschews the idea that he is rugby's "Robi...

Luciano

Stephen Donald at the 2011 RWC final. In other context, his performance would have been purely solid, but keeping his cool in that insane cauldron he was thrown in was epic.

Luciano

UncleFB wrote: Some players standards are so high it's hard to pick out a greatest. Jerome Kaino was like this, especially in the 2009-2011 period.

I thought about him, and it was really hard to say which is his best. Probably one of the 2011 RWC matches, were he showed a lot of nerve and was everywhere.

Luciano

Martín Landajo for the Jaguares/Pumas. When he was benched, among other things, the Jaguares started winning.

edit: I checked and he had 84 tests!!! 84!!!!!

http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/98426.html

Luciano

It is a distant memory, but Jeff Wilson and Tana Umaga were underwhelming in that 1999 RWC SF.

Luciano

so what? Some players were good enough; most were not. Players moved around all the time. I think International matches should have a real meaning. I like players to have an actual connection with the country and nation they are representing, if not it becomes a complete farce. Actually, rugby shou...

Luciano

so what? Some players were good enough; most were not. Players moved around all the time. I think International matches should have a real meaning. I like players to have an actual connection with the country and nation they are representing, if not it becomes a complete farce. Actually, rugby shou...

Luciano

Felipe Contepomi AR

Cory Jane NZ

Luciano

You could have never told by Mario Ledesma's looks that he was one of the best hookers in the world.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Caucau

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Luciano

DragsterDriver wrote:Schalk Brits.

I only entered to type his name.

Oh well, I will throw Radike Samo: Number Eight, Flanker, Lock, Wing.

And almost 120 kg.

Luciano

9 has to be Byron Kelleher at international level. He butchered the NZ backline for years, and kept being picked over and over again.

Good player for club level though, where he could actually exploit his selfish instincts with the ball at hand.

15 to Ugo Monye.

Luciano

He did nothing wrong, but let's be honest, he had a lot of luck in the draw of 2007.

Luciano

-Keira Knightley is insipid in all the movies I saw starring her. Maybe I am just biased because she is so flat. :? -The girl from those corny vampire movies. She is just terrible. -Adam Sandler never made me laugh. Bah, maybe a little in the ridiculous golf movie, but I think it was due to the scri...

Luciano

Apart from the health of the sportsmen: Why would you want to watch a pro match with no spectators present? It is very demotivating. Yes, I have played matches with the two coaches and a couple of parents looking from the sideline, and I didn't care at all, but for high-level sports it is just weird.

Luciano

Guys, you can watch all the full matches of the brand new league here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyLLc1 ... eXD6drfTaA

Its the official channel in YouTube.

Luciano

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Luciano

Kahu wrote: and a combined Pacific nations team hopefully

I don't think that concept is coming back. Even less for international tournaments.

Luciano

I am surprised to hear that Anna Kournikova was a nobody. She won a ton of doubles tournaments, including grand slams. It may not be as flashy for marketing purposes as singles, but that it is no small feat. Well the hype around her was way bigger than her on court achievements and was more based o...

Luciano

I am surprised to hear that Anna Kournikova was a nobody. She won a ton of doubles tournaments, including grand slams. It may not be as flashy for marketing purposes as singles, but that it is no small feat.

Luciano

mrbrownstone wrote:Ben Smith played an entire EOYT at centre.

And he did it quite well.

What an amazing player. I think I also saw him at 12 too for the NZ Barbarians, or some other improvised team.

To add to the thread: I think Lomu played at 8 both before and after being THE wing. <3

Luciano

I played mostly in my teenage years, and in a long time before professionalism. I would say that the sport in general has good values that are being passed by the technical staff and the parents that collaborate. However, specially in some of the newer teams, the situation may be different, despite ...

Luciano

Monk Zombie wrote:argentina at WC 07 was a very good side

Indeed it was. But it had few international tests under the belt against the then tri-nations teams, and it showed. Havana just had to wait for some minutes and started collecting interceptions. Argentina had no clue about how to counter a rush defense.

Luciano

When I saw them live in Buenos Aires, circa 2008, they sounded just like in their records. One of the best concerts I witnessed, and Frusciante was incredible.

Luciano

If they are going to change the branding, they should fully do it by replacing the name of the franchise. Now it just looks weird, with a jumble of cultures and meanings. :? Māori logo, religious western name, Māori motto :blush: PS: the Blues still win the competition for most terrible name among N...

Luciano

Tool You want more? Or more frequent? Or they're still producing real quality music? The last album was goddamn awful I didn't think it was 'awful', it was just more of a rework of what had come over 13 years previous. More than any other album it showed little progression. I haven't gone back to i...

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