Will Ali Karimi be in Bayern's starting Eleven?

Your wife has a good taste... I can recommend Tuscany for a romantic holiday. Which doesn't mix with watching the WC of course. Ah well.

I went to the States for a school exchange, but studied in Germany, Switzerland and Scotland.

 

Gute Nacht! Und gute Besserung fuer Deine Frau!

 

Isn't Dutch related to German linguistically? Take it easy Dutchmen on BigSoccer...I know you don't want to be associated AT ALL with the large country to the East...lol.

 

Yes, Dutch is very similar to Lower German. The split was around 1400, after which German evolved to the more advanced language that it is now. Luckily, Dutch football had some input from Sumatra (?) so they almost managed to keep up with the German level at least in this respect, keeping the rivalry at a luke warm level over the years.

 

so how many languages do you know Arthur?

 

Why? I like learning them, but I forget them very fast as well. I have tried to get a grip with English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Greek and Swedish over the past few years but with very varying success...

 

O nothing I was just wondering since apparantly you are German living in England and know Dutch but anyway very impressive all those languages

 

Actually I sat on the teacher's lap all the time. Nah not really. I hated laguages when I was at school, especially English, but then I started liking them when I went to California for a school exchange so it's become sort of a hobby. I am crap at it though, it's just for fun. Bah. I shouldn't have answered his question.

Good result for Bayern today. Pity Roy couldn't find his form just a little bit earlier.

 

Dutch is in between English and German IMO.

 

Yep. But it's much closer to German than to English. It's a German dialect really.

 

I hope Uli digs up a great new defender somewhere, that is what really cost Bayern against Chelsea anyway.

How is your weekend going? Hope your wife is getting better! I haven't managed to throw my gf's brother into the river yet, but I'll do that tomorrow. Today I actually cooked dinner for them, aren't I nice.

 

Ice creams always helps.

I made grilled king prawns in bacon with sour cream, spring onion and lime dip, and some chicken/mushroom/pepper fajitas with guacamole and tomato salsa... Europeanised Mexican food... went down well though, just as he will tomorrow.

How do you make the bread, do you have a bread machine? We just bought one, great stuff! Finally some good bread rather than the usual English nonsense.

Thanks for reminding me of mother's day. Oops.

 

interesting

the only way ive made prawns is as traditional indian coconut and lime inspired curry, or sauteed in a butter garlic sauce...

have to make do with shrimp out here, btw... no word of prawns over in iowa

 

Sounds good! You should visit Germany, if you like bread and beer and football you'll have a good time.

What I really miss is sourdough bread. We are working on it... it's a bit of a struggle to get the sourdough starter right though, you have to leave flour and water to rot for about a week and hope that the funghi grow more slowly than the bacteria (depends on the temperature which is difficult to control in our house). It has worked last time though...

 

Must sound strange if you're from India, but is actually very tasty. Bacon with king prawns is a great combination.

I also like curry with king prawns, coconut and green chilis... strange that you can't get any prawns in Iowa! There must be some places that sell them surely!

 

Yes, that's the suspense...

 

Yes I was a bit surprised.....

anyway have to go to bed now, otherwise it'll be me who falls into the river tomorrow.