How Compliant Singaporeans Have Become!

last SG · 2005-06-01T12:41:12+00:00

Wah lao..how will singles be able to get a seat if everyone boh hiu his tissue paper? You're not nice at all! The other guy is too much though... but then i...

foxwalk SG

They're lucky they didn';t get me. I once made hell at a bank because they refused to take in my old and torn dollar notes that became like this after a fire. I rained abuse on the teller for her poor service and made her manager come out. He claimed there had been a change of practice, and I said "Cn I see this announcement then?" He shut up and said ok he'd do it for me.

At a HDB branch, same thing happened. I talked in the most deprecating tone I could and told the guy " Can you read? Do you know it's written lega tender on my notes?"

He protested a bit, and I repeated "can you read? do you understand english?", then he just shut his trap.

One thing I've learned early in life, never, ever let anyone walk all over you.
Walk over them instead. Especially when you've got every right. May it be constitutional, contractual or human.

foxwalk SG

In contractual law, "subject to terms and conditions" is actually unfair contracting. You can make the most unfair contract with someone, make almost all the terms favorable to you and totally unfair to the other person. In a court of law, that'll come under illegality and unfair contracting if I'm not wrong.

Not in Singapore of course. If you are rich or have power, you'll win anything.

foxwalk SG

The government has been successful in making sure as many Singaporean are care-less and don't know how to think for themselves. Sooner or later, the only people left in Singapore in future will be the dumb ones. The smart ones have either left or were put in jail.

There is no future for Singapore.

foxwalk SG

That's why our pledge says "to build a democratic society". Since a pledge is highly unlikely to ever change, you can count on that that Singapore will always be building a democratic society and it will never succeed!

I used to make fun of the pledge all the time in school. One of the reasons I quit teaching was I do not want to say the goddam pledge everyday or hear it, because it is one of the phoniest things in the world!

laurence82 SG

i dont think they have the contitutional rights to do so

against our privacy

pkchukiss SG

You are wrong: they have the right. There are currently no privacy laws in effect in Singapore, with the exception of the Women's Charter, and applicable financial laws preventing banks and other companies from leaking your personally identifiable information, so they can search you.

You can only hit them by not patronising them. That is the same reason why I decline to sit inside Eng Hwa and Cathay chains: irresponsible detention of my belongings and monopolistic rules.

There was once I bought ice-cream and had it in plastic bags. I intended to eat while watching. The staff tried to take the ice-cream away from me, saying that they will return it to me after the show. Sure. They put it inside their cupboard (no refrigeration whatsoever), and I am sure that they had a nice time cleaning it out afterwards. Location: Cathay Cineleisure.

LazerLordz SG

Keep it in your bag.Regardless of private or public property, no one is allowed to search your bags unless it's explicitly stated.And their terms and conditions, they had better be ready for a full listing and a reading session because if they catch me on a bad day, I will make the manager read through the muthafarking terms and conditions and find me a column that says they are permitted to open the personal property of patrons.

LazerLordz SG

It's up to each and everyone to stop this mental rot.Take ownership of yourself.

A cowed and apathetic populace serves their short term interests but ruins the long term future of Singapore.

lwflee SG

Nope it isn't. At least i am pretty sure it isn't. I doubt UCTA or SGA 79 provides that a ticket sold "subject to terms and conditions" is an unfair clause. I also remember a case whereby a woman was bound by the terms a ticket was supposed to be subject to. Those terms were not on the ticket, and were merely referred to by a board at the ticketing counter. More importantly, those terms were not even readily available at the ticketing counter!

Also, i do not see how you can argue that the term is unreasonable such that it would not be allowed under UCTA. Like i said, that is private property. It is similar to restaurants that do not allow you to eat outside food, or clubs that enforce a strict no slippers policy.

lwflee SG

Err no la! Molest is a crime and obviously a term that purports to allow a crime to be committed will surely be void!

M©+square SG

There are always, always loopholes to 'laws' and 'rules'.

How you're going to defend yourself and switch the said 'laws' to your advantage. It all depends on you.

laurence82 SG

since when did the Constitution says they have the rights to search our bag?

thats what i meant... Laughing

and, unless the sign 'No outside food and drinks are allowed' is prominently displayed at the ticket counter, you have the right again to challenge them based on the contract law...

lwflee SG

Nope. Dun think so.

SMAPLionHeart SG

Singaporeans so humji..surely cannot get anything done.
In war , i also feel scared .

Scarly because of scared of Geneva war convention and charged under war crimes , all singapore troops don't want to pull trigger.

Rolling Eyes

oxford mushroom SG

They do not have a right to search your bags. They can take away your food if you are caught with it but they cannot look into your bags. I would ask them to call the police and hold on to my bag. All they can do is stand beside you all through the show until you take the food out, or catch you on surveillance camera.

If they try to force a search (they won't be so stupid), I will scream assault and call the police and the media. The adverse publicity will kill them..

M©+square SG

You should go NS first before you comment on this.

M©+square SG

But seriously, can you imagine the person sitting behind you eating durian or salted fish, chow toufu?
How would you react?

deathscythe99 SG

But think about it the other way, if you raise your voice on being told to open your bag to be searched and refused, what would the rest of the patrons think of you...? Rolling Eyes

I'm talking on the point that most Singaporeans would gossip about a person who doesn't follow orders

M©+square SG

Originally posted by deathscythe99:
But think about it the other way, if you raise your voice on being told to open your bag to be searched and refused, what would [b]the rest of the patrons think of you...? Rolling Eyes

I'm talking on the point that most Singaporeans would gossip about a person who doesn't follow orders[/b]

I care not? Cos it's ultimately my personal stuff. It's just overboard already.

Maybe inside got illegal vcds/dvds, that's why i need to protect my bag otherwise worse, kanna caught for possessing obscence materials - while watching movie.

The rest of the patrons will spit and laff at me. Kumlan right?

LazerLordz SG

Hehe, if it were me, I wouldn't give a damn. Laughing

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