"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained." - John Stuart Mill

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It is all well and fine to make assumptions, as long as they are reasonable ones, and as long as one bears in mind the limitations of said assumptions.

However, assuming that one can make no assumptions is an assumption in and of itself, and can be even more misleading and damaging than the assumptions one fears making in the first place; Only the most irrational would argue that stereotypes always apply, and only the most irrational would argue that you either operate solely according to stereotypes or never at all.

In any case, no one manages to live life without making assumptions. Not without going insane, at any rate.

We always need epistemological frameworks to operate in, and to interface with the real world.

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Me: guys have 4 categories they rate women in

1) would have sex with and would admit to
2) would have sex with and would admit to when drunk
3) would have sex with and would not admit to when drunk
4) wouldn't have sex with

Someone: hahahahahahhaahhhaa!!!!
i lk tat!!!

Me: :P
how do girls rate guys

Someone: 1) bf/ hubby (has sex with)
2) crush (secretly wanna hv sex with)
3) eye candy (declares to fren she will hv sex with him - need not always b the case)
4) intellectual CONFIDANTE (won't have sex with - dunno if drunkenness changes things)
5) sugar daddy (can be dad/ hubby/ guy who has crush on her but she doesnt feel the same for him)


Someone else: i had a teacher, ***, who was insane
the french exchange students in my year were so shocked by his behaviour that they tore up his worksheets

although i probably also detest *** and *** after spending too much time listening to *** rant about them

[she said] that they suck and were like basically boys with a mental age of 13 running around the school annoying other maths teachers

oh and that they were crazy. not exactly untrue

Me: as I said, it's the philosophy of singapore education
and the weird culture ** had
the sort-of public school thing

I wonder if I could stand the oppressiveness of secondary school now


Someone (2): payar lebar methodish
they have to wear slips under their pinafore

Me: slips?!
do people, err, check?

PLMGS got hair rules meh
I see some with long hair

Someone (2): yes got hair rules
the hair must cover ear one
YES they have slip check

Me: wah
enforcing long hair?
hahahahahahaha

Someone (2): there were these girls whose hair was too short... revealing ears or something
they got in trobule u know
i think they had to wear wigs

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Someone: I was looking at the list of out MPs last night. Was quite shocked to see that about 70% of them are Christians.

Me: where did you get their reigions from

Someone: http://www.parliament.gov.sg/AboutUs/Org-MP-Cons.htm
Click on their names and then click on their CV.

Me: you very bored huh
they have tamil names!

Someone: A bit free lah. But I was curious why MCDS funded a Christian group [Ed: The "Liberty League"] to counsel gays.

I seriously did not noticed their names were translated into Tamil. We are more Politically Correct than the Europeans!