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Author Topic: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)  (Read 4730 times)

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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #70 on: March 03, 2015, 03:12:06 AM »
I recall an interview with Lee Kuan Yew on chewing gum many years ago. He was like "do you know how annoying it is when people put chewing gum in keyholes?" LOL.

It does make you wonder what kind of society needs laws like that. (Obviously they must have had a problem with hoodlums putting chewing gum in keyholes or sticking chewing gum under restaurant tables.) I do know that Singaporean-Hokkien swear-words are more plentiful and colorful than Taiwanese-Hokkien swear words.
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #71 on: March 03, 2015, 04:24:41 AM »
Love this thread now ! Anax hits the mark on India.... India is really a motley collection of erstwhile princely states or kingdoms united loosely by the English language and that too in the urban areas. Other unity points are arts and music.
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #72 on: March 03, 2015, 04:48:29 AM »
Quote from: Eric_C on March 03, 2015, 02:55:00 AM
Loitering? I thought we were talking about toilet-ing.

Also, I thought the ban on chewing gum (lit. the act of chewing the gum) is perfectly legal since 2004? When were those friends fined?

It was in 2010. Fined $350 SGD each for chewing gum in the street as they were crossing the street. The police that gave them the infraction claimed somebody has said they threw a chewed gum on the ground (even though they were still chewing it in their mouth).
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #73 on: March 03, 2015, 05:16:05 AM »
Marv,

What then do you think about the Singapore Straits newspaper (grabs helmet...)
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #74 on: March 03, 2015, 06:00:46 AM »
Kapanak: sounds like the cop may've relied too much on someone else's testimony. I still think personal consumption of gum is ok here though.
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #75 on: March 03, 2015, 06:31:51 AM »
Quote from: Eric_C on March 02, 2015, 11:46:03 PM
Anax: i never heard of anyone who actually got fined for not flushing here.

Yup, but it's the law and I didn't notice many unflushed toilets. I did see a plastic bag floating around once or twice. Tsk tsk.
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #76 on: March 03, 2015, 06:55:01 AM »
Quote from: kothganesh on March 03, 2015, 05:16:05 AM
Marv,

What then do you think about the Singapore Straits newspaper (grabs helmet...)

It's hilarious. They plaster evil-doers or villains of the week on the front page. They can't resist publishing articles commenting on mainland Chinese shitting all over toilets and not flushing:

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/thai-temple-build-separate-toilets-non-chinese-visitors-after-compla
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #77 on: March 03, 2015, 07:56:55 AM »
Quote from: Anaxilus on March 03, 2015, 06:31:51 AM
Yup, but it's the law and I didn't notice many unflushed toilets. I did see a plastic bag floating around once or twice. Tsk tsk.
Lucky you! Most metro and mall toilets are really gross in the morning, at rush hour. Nothing worse than needing the loo on the way to work to find no cubicle is usable.
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #78 on: March 03, 2015, 09:16:26 AM »
Quote from: marvey on March 03, 2015, 06:55:01 AM
It's hilarious. They plaster evil-doers or villains of the week on the front page. They can't resist publishing articles commenting on mainland Chinese shitting all over toilets and not flushing:

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/thai-temple-build-separate-toilets-non-chinese-visitors-after-compla


Sometimes it is necessary. Basic manners and hygiene are essential for a society to have some "living" standards.

On a slightly higher level of basic manners is learning the language of one's new country when a long-term stay is the objective. In the Netherlands the government and education system have been somewhat lax with language standards.

It might be  thing of my time yet when I say "I am going to live in country X for at least six months and learn the language." If you cannot greet, say "thank you", "I am sorry" and say goodbye you might as well live as a hermit.
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Re: OMFG. Apple is fucking ghey. (and the nature of Political Correctness)
« Reply #79 on: March 03, 2015, 03:33:08 PM »
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On a slightly higher level of basic manners is learning the language of one's new country when a long-term stay is the objective.

Oh, Deep Funk, you have me "banged to rights" there. Caught in the act. Shamed and named (except you didn't know it was me!). I have lived here for ten years, and I still do not speak the local language. 

That is not something that happened by intention at all, quite the opposite. It is a combination of the fact that it is so easy to get by here in English, and a mental block that I could not demolish aged ten, let alone fifty years later. It's easy to get by, but life would be so much better if I were not linguistically challenged.
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