"She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities." - Henry James

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HWMNBN: mauling someone who wore a ugly dress or some pitiful social faux pas or some love triagnle adultery thing is one thing - it won't do much damage beyond annoyance

mauling someone who "incited religious hatred" is another
to be honest, *** gave any crazy fundie the opening to tio him with that post

Me: that's like accusing a malay who eats pork of inciting racial riots

HWMNBN: look at what hapened to char

and it does happen
why do you think LKY nearly started a war by wanting to write about tengku abdul rahman eating a pork chop
and had to be forcefully restrained by his editors

Me: that's not the same as any random malay eating pork

well it's LKY
people will defend him

HWMNBN: look i know it's ridiculous and unfair
but the fact of the matter is, under the social [and legal] system that currently exists
posting that kind of shit makes you open
to any random barrage if someone can be bothered to take it to the next level

most people normally don't
but once in a while - as acidflask, char, and *** found out - someone does
is it fair? no
but it is what it is.

Me: yes and no
let's put it this way. I knew singapore was ridiculous, but not this ridiculous

HWMNBN: *shrugs* it is difficult to speak truth to power
when there are so many people for whom power is truth
the tarkin doctrine
"rule through fear of force than the use of force itself"

Me: *** thinks it's a very disturbing precedent
and everyone I've spoken to thinks it's ridiculous

HWMNBN: we all know it's ridiculous
but it is what it is
look at what happened to me
this sort of shit happens in life

Me: yeah well
so many reasons to leave

HWMNBN: one just has to roll with it

not really. it's ridiculous but not unbearable
particualarly once i have neough money
:)

besides in america you could get sued for bumping into a feminist
:)

Me: ...

HWMNBN: anyway i don't think [anything will happen] lah

it's just that once someone complains
they have to wayang
pro forma
part of the tarkin doctrine

if a sullustan emails the local sector grand moff that a rebel base is on his ulu planet
the grand moff has to send a few TIE fighters anyway
doesn't mean he'll deploy the death star

you know it's all bureaucratic
it took me two months to settle an open and shut issue also
if starhub can't even give proper service, you think the gahmen can?


Me: shit man
if you're a black, female, lesbian, post-op transsexual... gao tim liao

you can do no wrong
everyone is oppressing you
you can do whatever you like and whoever challenges you is evil

MFTTW: HAHAHAHHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHA

why can't militant lesbians be militant about something important
like...i dunno, adoption law reform or something

rather that sit ard discussing whether they should be insulted if a guy says "i wish that hot chick was straight"

i meanm
people are starving in africa
sheesh

how come pre-op transsexual don't qualify?

Me: because then you'll still have a PENIS
the instrument of oppression


Someone on "The dog is actually my family pet. I felt terrible watching it vomit from the heat of the studio lights. I vowed never to shoot another film using a dog": local film maker rite ?
sounds damn familiar

[Then, on the source of the quote] i don't think the dog was vomitting from the lights lor, in that case


Someone else on an elite/elitist US college dorm: thought u wld get a kick out of this

a grp of random jap girls just walked by

MOANING
loudly
like they were having orgasms

it was interesting.

at least it sounded like orgasm moaning but i think she was actually making sounds of distress
they just got louder and louder

Me: was she being raped

Someone else: no.


Someone: there seems to be this inexplicable attraction to you from irrational women

Me: yeah
what did I do in my previous life?

Someone: lol
penance for generations

...

Me: birthday: you're one year closer to dying

Someone: everyday you're one day closer to dying
i think after 25 you stop counting


Someone else: omg i dunno why are u so attracted to feminists

why can't u speak or look for decent ppl


MFTTW: hurr hurr... do you think pregnant women will get more discrimination now that maternity leave is 16 weeks... no one will want to hire them liao. or work with them.

Me: it's stupid lah

MFTTW: hello i think if you are willing commit to 20+ years of taking care of a kid, an extra 8 weeks leave is not going to be that big of an incentive lor

anyway if i have to work with a pregnos auntie who is goign to dsiappear for 4 months i wil get pretty tu lan

Me: you say you shouldn't discriminate against them
but they are clearly bad news

the right way is not to privilege them and then enforce legislation against discrimination

if you think promotion of baby-having is an important enough public policy priority, what you should do is to incentivise companies that hire pregnant women
eg tax breaks

MFTTW: hurr hurr
you expect gahmen to have such vision

if you have incentives for companies you need the incentives to trickle down to the workers

otherwise it doesn't solve the problem of disgruntled employees

Me: trickle down incentives?
what, so people dont mind working with pregnant women?

ok that will be hard

anyway they always say "Equal pay for equal work"
but when you get pregnant you don't do work

MFTTW: ah but equal pay!

they should just allow no pay leave with guarantee you can have a job later

paid maternity leave for 4 months discriminates against men
even new fathers don't get 4 month paid paternity leave

Me: it also discriminates against women who don't have children

MFTTW: aha but since women are by default baby making machines, our wonderful patriarchial society will say... well women who don't have children should get cracking!

Me: at this point, the feminists' heads explode

MFTTW: hurr hurr see that's the feminist dilemma

on one hand they will say... see, less discrimination against pregnant women. but it's also MORE discrimination against unpregnant women!

Me: oh but pregnant women suffer uterus prolapses
so it's okay

MFTTW: uh.

wah lau
3rd child is worth 20k

shit
adopted can?

when they say 20k tax rebate does that mean tax deduction or you get 20k back on your tax

Me: notice how sneaky tax reductions are
it's graduate mothers scheme... in stealth

unless you're the char kway teow hawker lah
in which case you should have more children so good char kway teow is passed on to future generations

MFTTW: it says "Parenthood Tax Rebate" $20,000 per child for all subsequent children

shit.
so it's a deduction?
that's worthless!

low income in sg dun pay tax!

Me: hurr hurr
see the genius of thep lan

MFTTW: bloody hell
so sneaky

Me: At the Rally, the Prime Minister had told the story of a man who asked his dating agency for an independent, yet submissive, wife.

I love this

MFTTW: hurr hurr

biblical yet modern!

man
the more i read this
the more insidious it is

it really doesn't promise anything

Me: "there's no such thing as a perfect partner - and even i'm not so deluded that i think that the intelligent, chio, nymphomaniac, successful, woman who will pander to my every whim and moodswing exists" - nw.t

MFTTW: your friend ah

smack his face lah
sucessful women don't pander
at least not to men

unless the guy is a millionaire and/or the CEO of the company
hurr hurr

Me: rich women look for even richer men


Cock on "nice normal girls": it's like talking to rabbits,
rabbits are very cute but you cannot really holda conversation with them.

Me: hahahaha
nice normal girls are like rabbits
very good

well better rabbits than rabid bitches lah

Cock: i must have said this at least twice over the past 2 weeks to other women.

Me: did they slap you

Cock: no.

Me: hurr hurr
was it because they weren't nice normal girls

Cock: they were nice'
they were not normal