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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby servodude » July 23rd, 2021, 9:40 am

bungeejumper wrote:
Snorvey wrote:[i]If convicted of failing to wear a mask, Glynn can be jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$10,000, or both. For the offence of public nuisance, he could be jailed for up to three months, fined up to S$2,000, or both.

It could have been worse. Apparently you can get a twelve month sentence for trying to smuggle chewing gum into the country. (Beyond the two packs allowed for foreign travellers.) Just don't drop it on the steps on your way into court, or they'll stretch the stretch. :?

BJ


It's also illegal (on penalty of jail time) to engage in oral sex..... unless as foreplay to full intercourse
- always thought the idea of "Singapore on the Thames" was quite a weird one ;)

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby scotia » July 23rd, 2021, 11:08 am

I remember a Singapore student (in Glasgow) showing a bit of defiance to the rules in Singapore - he wore a T-shirt which said on its front - Singapore is a Fine Place. And on its back there was a list of many of the offences you could be fined for. I wonder if he wore it in Singapore.

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Postby servodude » July 23rd, 2021, 11:48 am

scotia wrote:I remember a Singapore student (in Glasgow) showing a bit of defiance to the rules in Singapore - he wore a T-shirt which said on its front - Singapore is a Fine Place. And on its back there was a list of many of the offences you could be fined for. I wonder if he wore it in Singapore.


Easier to do that in Glasgow than at home; though you'd run the risk of a canning from fellow Singaporean students.

When I got to 3rd year as an EE student there, the half of the class that had dropped out were replaced by folk who had done the first two years in Singapore. They were an initially quiet but great bunch of folk; couldn't drink for toffee though it didn't stop then trying.
Briefly there was a bit of "national pride" that translated in to corporal punishment in the halls of residence when grades were floundering. Swiftly dealt with by the uni court

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby DiamondEcho » July 28th, 2021, 10:10 pm

Snorvey wrote:SINGAPORE: A man who was seen without a mask on a train and later removed his mask outside the State Courts when he was there to be charged is set to go to trial.

For not wearing a mask?


Are you surprised they enforce the law strictly there? Perhaps from a UK perspective I can see it IS surprising they have the will and means to enforce it. Would you be surprised that possessing chewing gum is illegal there too? And you cannot bring in tobacco, not one cigarette, oh and vapes are illegal too - they have a last minute vapes 'drop-box' at ports of entry to get rid of such before customs.

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby DiamondEcho » July 28th, 2021, 10:18 pm

servodude wrote:[It's also illegal (on penalty of jail time) to engage in oral sex..... unless as foreplay to full intercourse
- always thought the idea of "Singapore on the Thames" was quite a weird one ;)
-sd


Then they have the whole section of statute on 'Acts against the Order Of Nature' - but I better leave you all to do your own visuals. Nice place to transit for a couple of days, blissfully unaware of all of this, living there and some of their unexpected and eccentric laws can bring surprises...

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Postby DiamondEcho » July 28th, 2021, 10:26 pm

scotia wrote:I remember a Singapore student (in Glasgow) showing a bit of defiance to the rules in Singapore - he wore a T-shirt which said on its front - Singapore is a Fine Place. And on its back there was a list of many of the offences you could be fined for. I wonder if he wore it in Singapore.


It's a long popular T-shirt bought by tourists: http://josephine-beeleng.blogspot.com/2 ... -city.html
Locals don't often wear it, not over there anyway, the thrust of it carries less humour I suppose.

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Postby nimnarb » July 29th, 2021, 2:37 am

Have we gone backwards? Keep watching the next few as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsRJrlbyMI

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Postby bungeejumper » July 29th, 2021, 8:41 am

nimnarb wrote:Have we gone backwards? Keep watching the next few as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsRJrlbyMI

A rear parking wheel is a great idea, until you really stop to think about it. It's all right for you to slide your car sideways into a narrow parking gap, but how are the cars around you supposed to get out, now that you're three inches from their bumpers in either direction?

I had that done to me once by a Smart car, which parked at 90 degrees to the kerb just to be a clever so-and-so. Couldn't move my car at all until the owner returned to the vehicle. Bet he wouldn't have tried it if I'd been driving a Defender. ;)

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Postby swill453 » August 2nd, 2021, 11:45 am

Mainland Greece could break the all-time European temperature record of 48 C today. It was already 35 C in Athens at 7.30 am today apparently!

Scott.

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Postby DiamondEcho » August 2nd, 2021, 9:16 pm

Snorvey wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58054891


The article goes on to say: 'Team GB's Emily [I'm a lady don't you know'] Campbell won silver, with gold going to China's Li Wenwen.'

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby servodude » August 3rd, 2021, 2:14 pm

Snorvey wrote:Man who hid cocaine worth £1,500 up his bottom avoids stretch in jail

Sounds like it's been stretched enough at home.

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/new ... l-stretch/


Crikey!
Given your last post here and now this one....
I'm expecting your next to be about a javelin thrower arrested because they found 2kg of crack in her outfit

-sd

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby sg31 » August 4th, 2021, 9:53 am

servodude wrote:Crikey!
Given your last post here and now this one....
I'm expecting your next to be about a javelin thrower arrested because they found 2kg of crack in her outfit

-sd

Or a weightlifter who didn't have any crack at all.

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Postby UncleEbenezer » August 4th, 2021, 12:23 pm

Snorvey wrote:Man who hid cocaine worth £1,500 up his bottom avoids stretch in jail



Is that why they call it crap cocaine?

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby swill453 » August 11th, 2021, 6:30 pm

swill453 wrote:Mainland Greece could break the all-time European temperature record of 48 C today. It was already 35 C in Athens at 7.30 am today apparently!

So Greece failed to break the record then, but looks like Sicily did it today.

Scott.

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Postby pje16 » August 11th, 2021, 7:48 pm

Snorvey wrote:(update - apparently the hackers have given half back but are requesting 'donations' in return for the rest. :D

can that be traced? I suspect not but just thought

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Postby bungeejumper » August 12th, 2021, 9:52 am

pje16 wrote:
Snorvey wrote:(update - apparently the hackers have given half back but are requesting 'donations' in return for the rest. :D

can that be traced? I suspect not but just thought

Reading between the lines (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58180692), it sounds as though the network that's been refunded has agreed not to look too hard. ;)

I was mildly amused to see that $85 million of the stolen money was in something called Polygon. It seems it is no more. It has ceased to be. It has run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. It has passed to a better place. Yeah, too right it has....

BJ

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Postby pje16 » August 12th, 2021, 10:25 am

bungeejumper wrote:Reading between the lines (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58180692), it sounds as though the network that's been refunded has agreed not to look too hard. ;)

Hold on, towards the end the BBC article says
"There's some suggestion that the net may have been closing in, as one cyber-security company says it was close to working out the identity of a suspect."
I am aware the BBC articles can change/be edited up to a few hours after first being publised

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Re: Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby genou » September 20th, 2021, 11:06 pm

I attempted to get at an old NSI holder number this evening ( it's probably a fiver, if that ) .

Ended up in a data from Experian check.

Is this right? Bank account opened in 2013
Is this right? Bank account opened in 2015.

But the piece de la resistance, confirm your last address. Fair enough, but we left there over 30 years ago. We did eventually find it, but the process had timed out.

What makes me go ooh is the utter fecking incompetence of the people who programmed this dreck. 8 years / 6 years / 30+ years ago. What normal person can possibly answer these questions.

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Postby dealtn » September 21st, 2021, 10:24 am

genou wrote:I attempted to get at an old NSI holder number this evening ( it's probably a fiver, if that ) .

Ended up in a data from Experian check.

Is this right? Bank account opened in 2013
Is this right? Bank account opened in 2015.

But the piece de la resistance, confirm your last address. Fair enough, but we left there over 30 years ago. We did eventually find it, but the process had timed out.

What makes me go ooh is the utter fecking incompetence of the people who programmed this dreck. 8 years / 6 years / 30+ years ago. What normal person can possibly answer these questions.


What normal person can't remember their last address?

If anything such questions are too easy, and possible to find out by scammers. Their use as "security" is woeful.


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