Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 146th Edition
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My weight is secret... It may cause un-intended stress, anxiety, anger, jealousy or even depression in serious cases...
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
My weight is secret... It may cause un-intended stress, anxiety, anger, jealousy or even depression in serious cases...
you said you were 50 plus kilos the last time eh ?
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I think AV's bone density might be less than Fudge's
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Originally posted by Fatum:
you said you were 50 plus kilos the last time eh ?
it's like a sin curve right now... sometime it's below, sometime it's above... -
Acid as a friend, I think you really should stop putting off the health check
Seriously
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
it's like a sin curve right now... sometime it's below, sometime it's above...
that's why we always have proviso of +/- 3% variance for our work
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uhhh... i'm overweight... i'm 6' or 1.82m tall, and i'm still more than 10kg lighter than fatum!
p.s. i need to lose about 10kg
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Originally posted by elindra:
I think AV's bone density might be less than Fudge's
nooooooo...how can my skeleton be less dense than the little runt's? must consume more diary and lift more weights. -
And Subway passes McDonald's
Subway Passes McDonald's
by Julie Jargon
Monday, March 7, 2011
It's official: the Subway sandwich chain has surpassed McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD - News) as the world's largest restaurant chain, in terms of units.
At the end of last year, Subway had 33,749 restaurants worldwide, compared to McDonald's 32,737. The burger giant disclosed its year-end store count in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late last month.
The race for global dominance is an important one for an industry that's mostly saturated in the U.S. High unemployment and economic uncertainty have battered the restaurant industry in the U.S., and chains are increasingly looking overseas for growth, particularly in Asia.
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Starbucks Corp. Honda (Nasdaq: SBUX - News) recently said it plans to triple its number of outlets in China, for example. Dunkin' Brands Inc., parent of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, plans to open thousands of new outlets in China in coming years as well as its first stores in Vietnam in the next 18 months. Subway just opened its 1,000th location in Asia, including its first in Vietnam.
Subway, which opened its first international restaurant in 1984, in Bahrain, expects its number of international restaurants to exceed its domestic ones by 2020, says Don Fertman, Subway's Chief Development Officer. The chain currently has just over 24,000 restaurants in the U.S., where it generated $10.5 billion of its $15.2 billion in revenue last year.
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The closely held company, owned by Doctor's Associates Inc., does not disclose its profits.
McDonald's is still the leader when it comes to sales. The burger chain reported $24 billion in revenue last year. "We remain focused on listening to and serving our customers, and are committed to being better, not just bigger," a McDonald's spokeswoman says.
Subway, which surpassed the number of McDonald's in the U.S. about nine years ago, expects China to eventually become one of its largest markets. The sandwich shop only has 199 restaurants in China now, but expects to have more than 500 by 2015.
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Subway has achieved its rapid growth, in part, by opening outlets in non-traditional locations such as an automobile showroom in California, an appliance store in Brazil, a ferry terminal in Seattle, a riverboat in Germany, a zoo in Taiwan, a Goodwill store in South Carolina, a high school in Detroit and a church in Buffalo, New York.
"We're continually looking at just about any opportunity for someone to buy a sandwich, wherever that might be. The closer we can get to the customer, the better," Mr. Fertman says, explaining that it now has almost 8,000 Subways in unusual locations. "The non-traditional is becoming traditional."
The company has some concerns about the economies of certain international markets, such as Germany and the United Kingdom. The company is trying to develop more affordable offerings in those countries, similar to the $5 foot-long sandwiches that have been successful in the U.S.
"Finding that kind of value proposition in those countries is essential," Mr. Fertman says.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112284/subway-passes-mcdonalds
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at least some of it is healthier than McCrapper's
anyway, check these things out! from the land of cardboard pau and melamine milk!
Robert Cop
I didn't know his name was Robert?
Star Knight
Vader on a scooter!
Titanic-Bot
a transformer who could not beat an iceberg
Thomas the Transformer Train
Super-Bat
holy radiotransmitterhood Super Bat! you're gnarly on the skateboard!!
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Originally posted by elindra:
And Subway passes McDonald's
Not surprising. They can be found in almost every suburban strip mall in the US.
The quality of their sandwiches still sucks, though.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
at least some of it is healthier than McCrapper's
anyway, check these things out! from the land of cardboard pau and melamine milk!
Does anything original ever come out of Cheena nowadays???
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Does anything original ever come out of Cheena nowadays???
i'm still amazed at the Titanic-bot and the Thomas the Transformer Train
and i've seen the Transformer Train for sale in one of the neighbourhood provision shops!
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The titanic bot is so cool!
And Robert Cop.
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I've been reading Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine...... interesting stuff.
As it turns out, the Great Leap Forward was more than just about backyard steel furnaces and a great famine that killed millions.... it was also about increasing production output across the economy regardless of quality.
As factories were pressured to increase output, factory managers were under strain to cut corners with little regard to quality control or workplace health and safety. On top of that, strict communist policies meant that the government and not the market set the prices, and these official prices were often far too low to even allow companies to break even. So while output went up, quality control went down.
The decrease in output quality did not go unnoticed... if anything, it was de facto official policy to sacrifice quality in favour of output.
Mao himself said that there was no such thing as a defective good... in his own words, 'One man's defective good is another man's grain'.
Reading all that, I'm starting to think that all these quality control scandals have their roots in the Great Leap Forward. Official policies may change, but old habits die hard.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
i'm still amazed at the Titanic-bot and the Thomas the Transformer Train
and i've seen the Transformer Train for sale in one of the neighbourhood provision shops!
The only thing missing from the "Star Knight" toy is a "Pizza Hut" sign on the back of the scooter.
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They had other crazy policies also....
Such as exterminating sparrows, since they often ka-chiaowed the farms and steal grains.
What happened next was a massive locust infestation that lead to worse harm and of course contributed to the famine.
Of course old habits die hard, they are still constantly talking about seeding the clouds.
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OMG! Robert Cop has his own Facebook page!
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in other words, the communists were what Mon-Satan want to be if they had ultimate political power
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
OMG! Robert Cop has his own Facebook page!
okay.. before my brain explodes, i'm going to go play Zuma Blitz
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The whole idea is communism is hardly even egalitarian in nature if that's how it was run.
Having a central authority deciding things for you simply ensures power is concentrated at the apex.
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
They had other crazy policies also....
Such as exterminating sparrows, since they often ka-chiaowed the farms and steal grains.
What happened next was a massive locust infestation that lead to worse harm and of course contributed to the famine.
Of course old habits die hard, they are still constantly talking about seeding the clouds.
Yeah... the Great Sparrow Campaign. Supposedly the sparrows ate the grain, which was tantamount to 'stealing from the people', but they conveniently forgot that sparrows ate even more locusts.
More stupid policies were in place, like Lysenko's pseudoscientific agricultural protocols of crowding grain seeds together and plowing deep.
I find that one both tragic and ironic..... Mao normally distrusted intellectuals and placed peasants in high regard, but in this case, he was far more willing to listen to a stupid intellectual instead of grain-growing peasants who knew better.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Yeah... the Great Sparrow Campaign. Supposedly the sparrows ate the grain, which was tantamount to 'stealing from the people', but they conveniently forgot that sparrows ate even more locusts.
More stupid policies were in place, like Lysenko's pseudoscientific agricultural protocols of crowding grain seeds together and plowing deep.
I find that one both tragic and ironic..... Mao normally distrusted intellectuals and placed peasants in high regard, but in this case, he was far more willing to listen to a stupid intellectual instead of grain-growing peasants who knew better.
Wouldn't it be Deng who encouraged consumerism?Anyway, my History major friend pointed out that we all started out like that as well, and China might just follow the same path and outgrow all of this.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
at least some of it is healthier than McCrapper's
anyway, check these things out! from the land of cardboard pau and melamine milk!
Robert Cop
I didn't know his name was Robert?
Star Knight
Vader on a scooter!
Titanic-Bot
a transformer who could not beat an iceberg
Thomas the Transformer Train
Super-Bat
holy radiotransmitterhood Super Bat! you're gnarly on the skateboard!!
this is uber funny~~~
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Wouldn't it be Deng who encouraged consumerism?Anyway, my History major friend pointed out that we all started out like that as well, and China might just follow the same path and outgrow all of this.
Mao said there is no god, and destroyed everything which taught morality, ethics and religion...
then Deng came in and told them to get rich and it is glorious to get rich..
so there's a whole goddamned country there with no morals, scruples and ethics going out into the world to get rich any way they can...