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What do you think about the Spanish national basketball team posing for a picture while using their fingers to make their eyes look slanted “like Chinese people”?  While I don’t think they had bad intentions, it’s still an incredibly ignorant thing to do.  Calderon even referred to China as the “Far East”, I guess that’s how they still think of us.  I guess we still sport Fu Manchu moustaches, queues down our backs and smoke opium all day.
What do you think about the Spanish national basketball team posing for a picture while using their fingers to make their eyes look slanted “like Chinese people”?  While I don’t think they had bad intentions, it’s still an incredibly ignorant thing to do.  Calderon even referred to China as the “Far East”, I guess that’s how they still think of us.  I guess we still sport Fu Manchu moustaches, queues down our backs and smoke opium all day.
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What is Del Monte?

Now that I’ve been working for a week and a half, I feel like I can (and should) clear up some misconceptions about Del Monte.  If you’re somewhat hazy about the company and the brand, don’t feel bad, in some ways, it really is THAT complicated.  For starters:

Del Monte IS located in San Francisco.
Our building at One Market (across from the Ferry Building) is a historical building.  We been in SF since the late 1800s.

Del Monte IS NOT located on a pineapple plantation in the Philippines!

Del Monte IS canned tomato products, canned vegetable (all kinds!) and canned fruits.
We also have some neat shelf-stable products like Fruit Chillers sorbet and College Inn broths.

Del Monte IS NOT imported bananas or pineapples!
We don’t have any fresh produce.  That’s another company that we licensed our brand out to.

Del Monte IS Contadina and S&W tomato products.  Del Monte IS pet products like Snausages, Milk-Bone, Meox Mix, Pupperoni and Kibble ‘n’ Bits.  Del Monte WAS Starkist.
We just sold the Starkist brand to a Korean company.  We’ve had the pet product brands since the start of the century and they’re doing really well for us.  We have an interesting mix of brands that I’m interested in learning more about.

Del Monte IS NOT Dole!
Gawddyammit!

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OMG. Lickable.  “Luscious, smooth, sweet and fun”??  Are these words that we want associated with pictures of 5-year old girls bending over?  I mean, I know sex sells, but this is ridiculous.  Breyers, you should be ashamed. THIS IS WRONG. SO SO WRONG. peroty: onemoretimewithfeeling: via i34.tinypic.com Creamsicle, you may want to rethink your choice of ad agency. I’ve seen this before. I bet this was made by a committee.

OMG. Lickable.  “Luscious, smooth, sweet and fun”??  Are these words that we want associated with pictures of 5-year old girls bending over?  I mean, I know sex sells, but this is ridiculous.  Breyers, you should be ashamed.

THIS IS WRONG. SO SO WRONG.

peroty:

onemoretimewithfeeling:

via i34.tinypic.com

Creamsicle, you may want to rethink your choice of ad agency.

I’ve seen this before. I bet this was made by a committee.

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Wow, how impressive is this cake?  Em says it’s made from frosting, so you really only get one chance to nail it. robot-heart: puzzler:scout:unicornology:lomo: impressionist cake (via megpi)

Wow, how impressive is this cake?  Em says it’s made from frosting, so you really only get one chance to nail it.


robot-heart:

puzzler:scout:unicornology:lomo: impressionist cake (via megpi)
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While watching the extravagence of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies on Friday, I joked that the money spent on fireworks alone was probably more than the GDP of several participating countries.  There were 29,000 fireworks shells used at the opening ceremonies…I wonder how much each shell costs?While costs for the opening ceremonies have been kept a secret, estimates place the final cost as high as $300MM US.  By comparison, here are the 2007 GDPs of some of the participating countries: Guinea-Bissau $295MSolomon Islands $286MDominica $279MTonga $244MMicronesia $232MCook Islands $183MPalau $145MMarshall Islands $144MTuvalu $14M China also used 15,000 performers at the opening ceremonies (9,000 of which were on loan from the army).  By comparison: Total number of athletes at the Olympics: 16,000Population of the British Virgin Islands: 23,000Population of Palau: 20,000Population of Tuvalu: 11,000 Does anyone else think that all the extravagence is a little ridiculous and over-the-top?  The Chinese government has given about $1.5 billion in domestic aid to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake since May.  The money spent on the opening ceremonies represented about 1/5 of that.

While watching the extravagence of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies on Friday, I joked that the money spent on fireworks alone was probably more than the GDP of several participating countries.  There were 29,000 fireworks shells used at the opening ceremonies…I wonder how much each shell costs?

While costs for the opening ceremonies have been kept a secret, estimates place the final cost as high as $300MM US.  By comparison, here are the 2007 GDPs of some of the participating countries:

Guinea-Bissau $295M
Solomon Islands $286M
Dominica $279M
Tonga $244M
Micronesia $232M
Cook Islands $183M
Palau $145M
Marshall Islands $144M
Tuvalu $14M

China also used 15,000 performers at the opening ceremonies (9,000 of which were on loan from the army).  By comparison:

Total number of athletes at the Olympics: 16,000
Population of the British Virgin Islands: 23,000
Population of Palau: 20,000
Population of Tuvalu: 11,000

Does anyone else think that all the extravagence is a little ridiculous and over-the-top?  The Chinese government has given about $1.5 billion in domestic aid to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake since May.  The money spent on the opening ceremonies represented about 1/5 of that.

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I just had to post this email exchange with my old boss (names changed), it totally cracked me up:

My email to my old boss on 8/6/08:

Hi Dan,

It’s nice to hear from you. How are Adina and Ryan doing?

It’d be nice to get lunch at some point…I’ll keep in touch.

Dai

From: [hidden] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:28 PM
To: Dai
Subject: Re: Hello!

Dear Dai;

Ryan and Adina are both fine but I am afraid not as motivated as you are.

Ryan moved to a business/political science major and had a 3.3 GPA last quarter. Adina looks pretty.

See you soon.

Dan

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Hahahhahhahah! Basically, Ryan has his head on straight and is a relatively good student, while Adina just sits there and looks pretty. I’m sure he didn’t mean it exactly in that way, but it sure sounds pretty bad!

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Beans is fed up with cruel humans making him do senseless tricks to earn one measly doggie treat!!!  This is his protest!  Last week, Em and Debs were making Beans go SIT, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN to get his trick when all of a sudden, he didn’t go down, but stopped halfway… …we all thought “that’s strange, why is he stuck in that pose?” We got our answer when the pee started flowing!!  You can see it on the floor and squirting out of his “ju” if you look closely.  He went on for a almost a minute, then got sent to the corner by Debs for his troubles.  Poor dog.

Beans is fed up with cruel humans making him do senseless tricks to earn one measly doggie treat!!!  This is his protest!  Last week, Em and Debs were making Beans go SIT, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN to get his trick when all of a sudden, he didn’t go down, but stopped halfway…

…we all thought “that’s strange, why is he stuck in that pose?”

We got our answer when the pee started flowing!!  You can see it on the floor and squirting out of his “ju” if you look closely.  He went on for a almost a minute, then got sent to the corner by Debs for his troubles.  Poor dog.

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This is my girlfriend at age 2. The permed hair is HILARIOUS. I always tell her that she bore an uncanny resemblance to Monchichi, which always pisses her off HAHA.  For those who don’t know who Monchichi is, it’s a Japanese character that looks like: Note: Em was (most likely) not looking for poonanie at this age. lazysheep: This is me… age 2. No, I’m not wearing Benetton. The whole get-up is another masterpiece of me mum and she managed to make me into a 50 cent + Elton John tod. AMAZING~~ comment all you want… Mum also took me to this mom & pop shop/hair salon for that wonderful perm! Watch out Erykah Badu!

This is my girlfriend at age 2. The permed hair is HILARIOUS. I always tell her that she bore an uncanny resemblance to Monchichi, which always pisses her off HAHA.  For those who don’t know who Monchichi is, it’s a Japanese character that looks like:

Monchichi

Note: Em was (most likely) not looking for poonanie at this age.

lazysheep:

This is me… age 2. No, I’m not wearing Benetton. The whole get-up is another masterpiece of me mum and she managed to make me into a 50 cent + Elton John tod. AMAZING~~ comment all you want… Mum also took me to this mom & pop shop/hair salon for that wonderful perm! Watch out Erykah Badu!
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