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like i have been here a few days and it seems happy and integrated and safe and there is even a big emphasis on sustainability and the environment. public transportation is amazing, food is amazing and diverse. well-maintained parks everywhere. different ethnicities and religions live in relative harmony. their gini coefficient is high among other first-world countries, but the government is actively taking steps to improve it by raising wages and benefits on the bottom while rising taxes at the top. it's the 7th least-corrupt country according to amnesty international. crime almost doesn't exist for some reason icons and avatars and smilies don't show up on SA so that's weird but other than that this place seems pretty great so is there a hidden underclass of migrant workers like in dubai, or wtf. i'm sure all their stuff about sustainability and helping save the planet and everything is at least somewhat exaggerated but at least it isn't some doomed shithole rising out of the desert and wasting water in a place where water is rare, or some glitzy bullshit where shiny buildings try to distract you from sprawling slums. tell me why this place isn't as cool and good as it seems
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 10:52 |
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 08:02 |
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Spit on the ground out in public and report back.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 10:56 |
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univbee posted:Spit on the ground out in public and report back. i am glad that it is illegal to spit on the ground. and eat or drink on the metro. or park your bike in the wrong place
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 10:59 |
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It sucks because they'll cane me like they do the locals and that is not acceptable. That said at least it's well loving run.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 10:59 |
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full of gooks (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:00 |
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i don't think they even sell gum
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:01 |
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if you like to partake occasionally of the mary-jew-wanna they will straight up kill your rear end also if you chew gum they will literally beat you publicly, like thats the actual judicial sentence the best part? you can get a medical waiver... for the gum
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:03 |
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its like if 3 olives hoa had the power of corporal punishment
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:05 |
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Drug possession is punishable by death. Your country can cry for you and you'll be executed anyway like Indonesia. Hell ya.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:05 |
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it's not america and im proud to be an american where at least i know im free etc etc singapore more like fuckawhore
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:05 |
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lol at these people that think a serf underclass isn't cool
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:05 |
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whip posted:Drug possession is punishable by death. Your country can cry for you and you'll be executed anyway like Indonesia. Hell ya. drug trafficking is death penalty, but possession isn't. still very harsh laws tho it is definitely not a cool place to go to if you enjoy illegal drugs, but i'm not worried about it
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:06 |
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baw posted:drug trafficking is, possession is still dealt with harshly. bitch rear end bitch
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:07 |
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if you think feudalism isn't cool it's because you know you'd be a serf instead of a knight
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:07 |
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The scripts of all plays to be performed in Singapore must be vetted in advance by the Media Development Authority (MDA), which has the right to ban any it views as "contrary to the public interest". lol laws straight out of Japan at the height of its militarization. Also journalists have less freedom there than they do in Russia. https://index.rsf.org/#!/
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:19 |
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baw posted:so is there a hidden underclass of migrant workers like in dubai, or wtf. https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/12/07/singapore-domestic-workers-suffer-grave-abuses
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:19 |
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univbee posted:The scripts of all plays to be performed in Singapore must be vetted in advance by the Media Development Authority (MDA), which has the right to ban any it views as "contrary to the public interest". that's not cool, nor good that article is ten years old so maybe things are different now
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:21 |
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baw posted:that article is ten years old so maybe things are different now
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:26 |
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i wasn't blowing smoke up your rear end about the medical gum chewing certificate btw that's a real thing lol
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:29 |
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trunkh posted:Yeah its heaps different as they get a day off now: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24216611 i cant see the smiley you used, please describe it to me in precise detail
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:30 |
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Alcohol is incredibly expensive, and some places will make you order something as soon as you come in. Besides that night life is actually not bad. There are some lovely parts of town with poors but nothing you wouldn't see in any other major city.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:32 |
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They do treat Malaysians about the same way the U.S. treats Mexicans. They get bussed in and work for next to nothing and then bussed back. No Dubai levels of indentured servitude, but it's there. It's also near impossible to own a car or a condo. Booze is expensive. It's always 85F and 90% humidity. It's really far from the western world (Australia excluded). Most of the local woman look for a guy with the 5 Cs: car, career, condo, cash, and country club. It's a pretty great place to be when you're making bank. For the average person, it's an average place to live. For the poor, it sucks. Just like America but with more chingy chongy stuff.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:32 |
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baw posted:i cant see the smiley you used.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:34 |
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No. 6 posted:5 Cs: car, career, condo, cash, and country club uh that's six Cs shithead
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:35 |
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its also fuckin boring and they all have a sense of humor next to torture
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:36 |
baw posted:so is there a hidden underclass of migrant workers like in dubai, or wtf.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:38 |
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Hm what could possibly be wrong with a fascist state that throws journalists in jail
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:49 |
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Singapore is as good as it seems and we would all do well to follow its example.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 11:53 |
I watched a youtube of one of their military parades once and it was very elaborate, especially considering they have a population of like 5 million. Like it seems like the real life equivalent of the kind of vaguely sinister future society you'd see in a first person shooter.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:00 |
ghetto wormhole posted:I watched a youtube of one of their military parades once and it was very elaborate, especially considering they have a population of like 5 million. Like it seems like the real life equivalent of the kind of vaguely sinister future society you'd see in a first person shooter.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:08 |
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take a taxi ride to the airport aka a mobile 45 minute right wing diatribe about malaysians
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:13 |
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OMGVBFLOL posted:
Good.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:40 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhhexjFpGQ Zizek on gum beating Singapore
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:46 |
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XMNN posted:its like if 3 olives hoa had the power of corporal punishment
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:51 |
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its pretty much a city of 3o
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:54 |
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facism works heil Tony Tan This post has been approved by the Media Development Authority (MDA)
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:55 |
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quote:The Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company enlisted the help of a Washington, D.C lobbyist and of Illinois Congressman Phil Crane, then-chairman of the United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, to get chewing gum on the agenda of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.[5] This caused a dilemma for the Singapore Government. It recognised the health benefits of certain gums, such as a brand of sugar-free gum that contains calcium lactate to strengthen tooth enamel. Sale of this newly categorised medicinal gum was allowed, provided it was sold by a dentist or pharmacist, who must take down the names of buyers. goatse.cx haver posted:facism works heil Tony Tan let the record show that the trains in singapore do in fact run on time incidentally, vandalism to trains was apparently the impetus for the gum ban
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:57 |
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Singapore is very good as long as you are one of the good sorts of asians, or white.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 12:59 |
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So pretty loving good, then.
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# ? Jul 1, 2015 13:04 |
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trunkh posted:It's just the shrug. Hope that helps. it does, thanks. i will leave you a positive review on yelp
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