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lol at these people that think a serf underclass isn't cool
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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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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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Miltank posted:Its really good if you don't care about bourgeois human rights or democracy. that's me
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Jul 1, 2015 15:17
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Frostwerks posted:you know what would be really even cooler? a surf underclass as long as they tend their crops they can do whatever they want in their free time
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Jul 2, 2015 14:27
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singapore has privatised law enforcement also when I was in afghanistan there were exactly two guys from the singaporean military there, according to them they represented the entirety of singapore's contribution to the mission, idk if that's correct or not though I just took their word for it singaporean people have a tendency to end sentences with the word "la" for no reason which can be annoying but sometimes it's cute depending on the person that's the end of what I know about singapore
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Jul 4, 2015 04:39
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:The "lah" thing isn't for no reason. Those stupid words they end the sentences with ("lah", "leh", "meh", "wat") mostly come from Mandarin or various Chinese dialects. The language everyone here speaks is some mishmash of English, Chinese and some Malay so it sounds all hosed up, kinda like Hawaii locals with their Pidgin. I'm not totally fluent in mandarin but having some background in it doesn't give me any insight into the la thing could it be like a cantonese version of "ma"
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Jul 4, 2015 04:45
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:[*]Now I'm not racist but... it's full of indians and chinese people. The older generation is especially terrible I am, and Indians are, well, from India, but what's wrong with Chinamen
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Jul 4, 2015 05:17
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Nutsngum posted:Because theyre a bunch of facists op and if I try to remember right we built the loving atomic bomb to deal with those fucks. facism is natural, some people just have bad faces and should be excluded from society
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Jul 4, 2015 05:27
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Agag posted:Goons supporting a fascist enclave with excellent food options is pretty obvious. fascism is good, hth
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Jul 4, 2015 06:01
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:Seriously though this place is not bad as a city but pretty mediocre as a country. My favorite descriptions include: "mediocre as a country" is pretty good for a 21st century city-state I mean throw a dart at a spinning globe, provided it doesn't land in an ocean you'll probably hit a shithole
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Jul 4, 2015 06:03
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honestly you could go anywhere in the world with enough money and be okay if you had a decent amount of money, like a million or so, you could set up a decent fiefdom on the outskirts of kandahar.
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Jul 4, 2015 06:26
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lmbo yes, that's what would happen, but that's why you don't actually go there with a suitcase full of money, you go there with private security and a legal executor and remote access to a bank account
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Jul 4, 2015 06:36
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Agag posted:You rent a truckload of gunboys before you do business in a place like the Congo. correct if you're in the market, I'm available on the cheap nothing long-term though I have plans
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Jul 4, 2015 06:40
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RennZero posted:Gonna have to disagree with you there. I could never live comfortably with the knowledge of that one person being tortured for my benefit. I am sure many others would feel the same. I would rather just catch malaria and die or whatever. I guess you're going to sell all of your modern possessions then and go break rocks by hand in the Congo or work 16 hours a day on an assembly line in a sweatshop in Thailand. People there are being subjected to unsafe, unfair working conditions for hundredths of what you probably get paid an hour so that your luxury consumer goods can be sold at an affordable enough price for there to be an actual market for them. Your computer was paid for with food stolen off of their tables. But it's worth it because, even if the vast majority of the people who get to live the middle class+ life of ease in the developed world waste it by poopsocking world of warcraft or whatever, the fact that a few of us get the chance to engage in pursuits like art, astrophysics, advanced number theory, etc., is what makes our species different from every other one on earth and thus gives meaning to our collective existence.
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Jul 4, 2015 12:44
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one day some brilliant mathematician will formulate a proof for the goldbach conjecture if you were somehow able to work out the collective suffering his fellow human beings went through in order to afford him the opportunities necessary to do that and then express it in, I don't know, a number of africans that had to live short brutal lives in abject squalor on the equivalent of a single dollar a day or whatever, how many do you think it'd be? idk, a hundred thousand? a million? a billion? I can't think of a number where I can definitely say "nope, not worth it"
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Jul 4, 2015 12:48
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Beef Turret posted:It'd definitely be worth it if all the victims shared the highest coefficient of relationship with you I would say this would be a perfect way for goons to gain value from our lives but obviously no one here is capable of an honest day's labour under any conditions
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