"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best

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The largest constituencies of long-haired males in Singapore are hawkers and foreign workers (not foreign talent).

One stupid thing with ICQ was that if 2 users were always invisible and kept selected contacts on their visible lists, they would never be able to see each other online and begin a potentially fruitful relationship. With hidden profiles on Facebook, it's even worse. If 2 people who know each other hide their profiles (as opposed to making them Friends-only), they will never know the other is on Facebook or be able to find him. Duh.

I'm told at the CCO of one camp, people brought their girlfriends in to have sex with, and one person had sex on the CO's chair and left a stain (there was a stain on one chair, and someone commented the position was just right to be a leak during foreplay, though after drying up it would look different). I am also told that people used to bring whores into the camps near Geylang. No wonder they moved out.

Like taxis, Civil Defense ambulances have touchscreens where the vehicle's status (Met Accident, On Way To Hospital etc) can be updated with HQ. Funky.

They cut the entire nude dance scene from Lost in Translation in Singapore. Yet another reason to boycott cinemas here.

SUG sprained her ankle once in church. She went to World [Catholic] Youth Day in Sydney (where Papa was) and sprained it again. It must be a sign from the gods; once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and three times...

I am convinced that one reason for the low fertility rate in Singapore is that women don't want to get fat. Given that Hong Kong also has a very low birth rate, I find this theory even more plausible.

For some reason, school students' legs tend to be scarred/pitted/marked (at least as far as one can tell, when their legs are visible). However, the legs of working adults aren't. It is suggested that this is because school students bang into things, but the rate of banging would have to be inconceivably high. Besides which, it's not like adults don't bang into things.

The ground floor of KK Hospital is like a shopping centre - and there's a McDonalds. Some shops is one thing, but this is really extreme. And the irony of fast food in a hospital (one for children, no less) is delicious.

There's a "KK Breast Centre". Wth.

"In grad school, any subject is more interesting than the one you profess."

"Sleeping with a skinny woman is like sleeping with a bag of antlers"

A common refrain when a man does something objectionable is that he has a small dick. Oddly enough, a similar reductionistic insult does not exist for women. But then again, given that they defeated even Freud, it is clear that reductionism would be even more egregiously absurd here.

"Once the condemnation of the majority of the human race to eternal torture is recognized as being an unjust exercise of arbitrary power, it begins to be possible to see the God of traditional Christianity as being... an infinitely terrifying oriental despot ever concerned to manifest and exercise His power by insisting on total obedience and constant worship from His creatures." - Anthony Flew, against the idea of a god needing the affirmation of yes men


I was looking for allegedly misogynistic songs, and I found it telling that people came up with examples like Burt Bacharach's "Wives And Lovers", The Rolling Stones' "Stupid Girl" and Ginny Arnell's "Dumb Head". In other words, critiques or self-critiques of individual women (or even, in the first case, an exhortation to be well-groomed) were taken to be blanket condemnations of the entire gender.

While I do not believe in the concept of conjugal rights (that just because you're married to a woman, you have the right to have sex with her), it is curious how most others who share this belief nonetheless believe that in a divorce, assets must be divided equally (or at least favouring the woman). The usual claim is that the woman contributed to the marriage also, but then that is a contribution to the marriage, and not to the man's estate. If the woman managed his stock portfolio, that is another matter altogether, and of course she should get the assets she brought into the marriage back.

Glass Castle claims that women drinking alcohol doesn't lead to rape. Good going - anyone who lacks common sense and follows this lousy advice (a "rape myth" myth) "deserves" it, the same way those who leave valuables in plain sight in their car "deserve" to have their cars broken into and those who binge drink "deserve" to get knocked down by cars when they stumble drunkenly onto busy roads (I would leave a comment, except that past experience has convinced me that it is pointless).