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  9. Ingredients:

    Bacon, cut into 1/2" peices
    Beef stock
    Bouquet garni
    Carrots, sliced
    Coarse salt
    Dark brown sugar
    Flour
    Guiness beer
    Lean stewing beef cubed 1-1/2
    Onion chopped
    Pepper
    Red wine vinegar
    Vegetable oil
    White onions, peeled

    Directions:
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    Dry the cubes of beef with paper towels.
    Return the beef, along with its juices to the casserole.
    Cover.
    Bake 1-1/2-2 hours, stirring occasionally.
    Stir in the flour, cook for 2-3 min.- do not let the flour burn.
    Heat oil in a heavy casserole which will fit into the oven and go on top of the stove, add the bacon.
    Fry until browned, drain the bacon on paper towels.
    Bring to a boil.
    Add the chopped onions, brown lightly.
    Brown in the bacon drippings, remove the beef.
    Add the bacon, carrots, white onions, stock, guiness, sugar, vinegar, bouquet, salt & pepper.
    Serve warm.

    There you go. A variation on a theme. :D


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    My wife does Triathlons, so a couple of years ago I bought her a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver With Heart Rate Monitor. It's the bee's knees.



    Snap!!!
    How weird is that B|

    amstalder
    As a rule the GPS equiped monitors are very accurate but tend to be bulky and have no real battery life. They are a pure training tool.
    The footpod equiped watches/monitors like most Polars double as a time piece but are not as accurate in measuring distance. The heat rate component of both generic types works well if you stick to a respected brand.


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    1) Why is it when I googls strip clubs + china I get nothing?



    The closest you are going to get is a KTV club. You can sing Karaoke with the pretty purchase of your choice.

    If you intend to enjoy the fleshy pursuits of China book into a Chinese hotel not a Western one.
    KTV club is usually on the 3rd floor and a knockshop on the top or 11th floor. Stick to girls in the hotel and avoid those on the street. A massage in the massage room is a massage. A massage in your room is more than a massage. Do not tip they find it demeaning. Pay for the service and receive the service.

    Advice given to me by one 'Tiger' Wong on my first trip to China.

    Oh and don't worry if they serve you dog...it's quite nice :ph34r:


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    You mind your business. Do what you think is important. Go on and think, "Americans don't care what's going on in the world" in one breath and bitch that America sticks it's nose everywhere in the other. We're used to it. We get off on it.



    And there lies a truth. It's the primary reason why for the bulk of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century the USA has been sucked into little wars all over the globe and keeps on getting it's ass kicked.
    Ignorance is not a crime and I'm glad you get off on it but a national ego so large that it prevents you from learning from your mistakes is quite sad.

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    (Uncle Sam trained me to kill you, after all)


    Somebody has been reading way too much Stephen Ambrose :P


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    Meeting a black, gay muslim from Mexico must be their worst nightmare.



    Nah, it's the knowledge that the above makes them hard that they find nightmarish but so long as you don't ask they won't tell :ph34r:


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    For the past 3000 years the whole Muslim world have been raping little girls and selling them to men , with the blessing of Allah, (and the girls fathers)....Ohhhhh you forgot that part?Crazy



    Mohammad was born in Mecca. Year 570 AD

    2010-570=1440

    You do not even remotely know what you hate so much.
    Yet you speak with such conviction. :S


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    i just think that if it was a bar fight between the irish rugby team and say the patriots starting offense or defence team id be glad i was on the irish teams side



    I played rugby back in the eighties and early nineties. Back when the ball was leather and tackling the player in the air, spear tackles etc were all still legal. I played for CBC in my school days. The Brothers were Irish. So to fix your comment

    i just think that if it was a bar fight between an irish junior school girls rugby team and say the patriots starting offense or defence team id be glad i was on the irish teams side

    Oh and as for Ireland taking the world Cup from South Africa next year......I think you drink too much Paddy :P:P