Like - is this a Farking Bid Deal?
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... they'd do better to ban the Internet if raunchiness is what they worry about ....
MDA probes printer's raunchy calendars
THE Media Development Authority (MDA) is now in the midst of investigating how a raunchy calendar, featuring women in the nude and in suggestive poses, could have landed in the hands of some people here.
Earlier this month, calendars featuring naked or scantily-clad women were found in a taxi and now, another version of these calendars have also been given out to customers of a printing company.
Some of the recipients are angry and feel embarrassed that they have been given the items.
When contacted, senior assistant director of the MDA Mr A. R. Madeei said that publications, including calendars, are largely self-regulated by the industry.
He said: "While no prior approval is needed, publishers should ensure that the calendars do not offend good taste and decency as they are intended for public display".
A spokesman for the printing company told my paper that it had given out the calendars because its clients requested specifically for such raunchy images.
The company is usually engaged by engineering firms.
The spokesman, who declined to be named, said he obtained the calendars from an agent and merely added his company stamp to it.
Ms Tan Lay Ching, who received one such calendar from the company, was outraged, and she sent a picture of it to online news portal, Stomp.
She asked: "Why would the company want to do that? It's disgusting and uncomfortable".
The woman in the calendar's picture is topless, except for a string barely covering her nipples.
In another case involving a similarly raunchy calendar, two people found it in the back seat of the taxi they were in.
The company's spokesman said: "I thought there would be no problem in giving them if the manufacturer could sell such stuff openly".
He added that the company had given out fewer than 10 such calendars.
The calendar agent, from whom the printing company said it had obtained the calendars, denied having sold such calendars.
In 2005, modelling agency Jeffrey Chung Models raised a public outcry when it published a calendar with nearly nude photos of its models.
Under the Undesirable Publications Act, it is an offence to make, sell or distribute objectionable publications, including calendars.
Offenders can be fined up to $5,000, jailed up to one year, or both. -
A calender is just a calender.
I dun understand why a simple calender can pissed some people enough to complain to the media.
The worse is that media actually decided to feature it.
The taxi uncle have to work their heart to get customer.
Some of them dun even know how to use the internet and dun have the leisure time to surf net or porn, just like one of the poodles that NEVER surf a porn site, maybe he surf ladyboy site, so it is NOT porn.
The calender is one of the uncle way of taking their eyes off the customer and geylang.
So, just cut them some slack.
The calender will not lead any one astray, make people lose money or kill any one.
Lighten up, pathetic and pitiful peasants of "1st world" sin city. -
bid wat?
where to bid for the calenders?
me want to give out to premier members -
where is the source of this article?
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Now, now.
We don't want these old ah peks and uncles spending all their CPF monies on these calenders do we?
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Originally posted by HyperFocal:
loving this.
... they'd do better to ban the Internet if raunchiness is what they worry about ....
[b]MDA probes printer's raunchy calendars
THE Media Development Authority (MDA) is now in the midst of investigating how a raunchy calendar, featuring women in the nude and in suggestive poses, could have landed in the hands of some people here.
Earlier this month, calendars featuring naked or scantily-clad women were found in a taxi and now, another version of these calendars have also been given out to customers of a printing company.
Some of the recipients are angry and feel embarrassed that they have been given the items.
When contacted, senior assistant director of the MDA Mr A. R. Madeei said that publications, including calendars, are largely self-regulated by the industry.
He said: "While no prior approval is needed, publishers should ensure that the calendars do not offend good taste and decency as they are intended for public display".
A spokesman for the printing company told my paper that it had given out the calendars because its clients requested specifically for such raunchy images.
The company is usually engaged by engineering firms.
The spokesman, who declined to be named, said he obtained the calendars from an agent and merely added his company stamp to it.
Ms Tan Lay Ching, who received one such calendar from the company, was outraged, and she sent a picture of it to online news portal, Stomp.
She asked: "Why would the company want to do that? It's disgusting and uncomfortable".
The woman in the calendar's picture is topless, except for a string barely covering her nipples.
In another case involving a similarly raunchy calendar, two people found it in the back seat of the taxi they were in.
The company's spokesman said: "I thought there would be no problem in giving them if the manufacturer could sell such stuff openly".
He added that the company had given out fewer than 10 such calendars.
The calendar agent, from whom the printing company said it had obtained the calendars, denied having sold such calendars.
In 2005, modelling agency Jeffrey Chung Models raised a public outcry when it published a calendar with nearly nude photos of its models.
Under the Undesirable Publications Act, it is an offence to make, sell or distribute objectionable publications, including calendars.
Offenders can be fined up to $5,000, jailed up to one year, or both.
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Pornography against the law.
Someone complains.
Investigation is called for.
And you're complaining?
Wait till you're robbed, and the police start telling you to mind your own business and not disturb them. -
I feel the sudden urge to join p member.Originally posted by FireIce:bid wat?
where to bid for the calenders?
me want to give out to premier members -
can predict FI will post the "Be a P. Member" link..Originally posted by maurizio13:I feel the sudden urge to join p member. -
I think Australia handles this by having back rooms in bookshops where objectional materials may be displayed while respecting more conservative shoppers.
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... and this is likely why, Australia is Australia while Singapore gets cheekily referred locally as Sinkapore...Originally posted by phil30k:I think Australia handles this by having back rooms in bookshops where objectional materials may be displayed while respecting more conservative shoppers.
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When can the P member get it.....Originally posted by FireIce:bid wat?
where to bid for the calenders?
me want to give out to premier members
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Because we're weighed down by dead weights like you who claim patriotism but badmouth the motherland every single day?Originally posted by HyperFocal:... and this is likely why, Australia is Australia while Singapore gets cheekily referred locally as Sinkapore...
... why do we all have this sinking feeling of late?
Just a guess. -
... no, the heaviest dead weights are actually lording over this land...Originally posted by deathbait:Because we're weighed down by dead weights like you who claim patriotism but badmouth the motherland every single day?
Just a guess.
.. they heaviest dead weight champion of this mother-of-all lands... -
I don't get it, why are mags like FHM, Maxim and even Menshealth still allowed then? And japanese comic strips-- things like Naruto, aired freely to kids.Originally posted by HyperFocal:Under the Undesirable Publications Act, it is an offence to make, sell or distribute objectionable publications, including calendars.
Offenders can be fined up to $5,000, jailed up to one year, or both.
Guess the calendars was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Case of conservative, rigid people who make a mountain out of a molehill. -
Those people nothing better to do is it? Almost naked picture only what. Or probably they never use the internet before.
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1. Encourages the objectification women as sex objects.
2. Elevating importance of apperance.
3. Lowering women's collective self esteem.
I think if women started displaying calendars with naked Ang Moh men with big danglers in their workspace, we'd object too. -
im wondering whats the big deal seriously...
just dispose of the calendars if they feel uncomfortable. its not like its them who is the object of desire in the calendar.
further more, small engineering firms have been ordering such calendars for a damn long time.
such a big fuss now wtf. -
And yet the govt continues to wonder why there are not enough babies.........
They got nothing better to do ma........
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Whoa, I oso want leh.......
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Women used to wonder why men were such pigs.
Then they started working side by side with men.
They saw for the first time the men's working environment.
They put 2 and 2 together.
Now they're gunning for us.
Run for the hills!! -
Just because there is a "blackmarket" alternative does not mean they shouldn't clamp down on law breakers whenever they have a chance.Originally posted by Lim Wei Ming:Those people nothing better to do is it? Almost naked picture only what. Or probably they never use the internet before.