Bartop dancing has come & gone in SGP. What've we learnt?
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3-&-a-half years after the govt had approved it, there are no longer any places in Singapore where bartop dancers are paid to perform so as to attract more customers (as reported in todayÂ’s Straits Times Life-section).
While bartop dancing may seem frivolous enough, it was a hotly debated issue when it was first raised about 4years ago (see http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/07/16/singa_ed1_.php). Not only was the govt actively involved in the debate over what I feel is an insignificant non-issue, many social groups - religious, feminists, morally-uprighteous, party-animals - were fervently arguing for and against the simple act of allowing someone to jump onto a bartop in a bar and starting convulsing to music. I remember certain groups saying that by allowing such as act, SÂ’pore would be heading for moral decay. Huh?!??
I would say that in the whole episode in the lead-up to the approval, the govt’s active involvement in the debate made the govt look like it was a small-minded, prudish technocratic fool that was trying to socially-engineer the idea of ‘fun’ in S’pore. Bureaucratic over-meddling over the smallest of non-issues.
A mere 3.5 years later, bartop dancing has come and gone. S’pore is still standing, and with most of its morals intact, despite the purportedly ‘evils’ of bartop dancing. What the debate has shown is that while well-meaning people may be concerned about the well-being of Singapore, such overwhelmingly misguided concern for the small stuff in S’pore is not only unnecessary, but also makes us look like the noveau-riche bumpkin who is trying to grapple with what it really means to be ’sophisticated’. -
kan chim
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We learnt that....Singapore Morale doesnt decay ?
BRING ON THE CASINOES !
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moral or rather, moral valuesOriginally posted by Ferret:We learnt that....Singapore Morale doesnt decay ?
BRING ON THE CASINOES ! 
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oh yah i added extra E.Originally posted by laurence82:moral or rather, moral values
Thanks for that bananaboi.
I still havent forgiven you for going home early today.
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we are.Originally posted by blueheeler:such overwhelmingly misguided concern for the small stuff in SÂ’pore is not only unnecessary, but also makes us look like the noveau-riche bumpkin who is trying to grapple with what it really means to be Â’sophisticatedÂ’. -
bartop cannot dance
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wait a minute... BTD disappear because, as we can see from Bangkok, it has to be "sexy" or "nude" BTD and not just BTD... if they allow "sexy" or "nude" BTD; it will not go away... and also have to change the dancers with new ones all the time...Originally posted by Ferret:We learnt that....Singapore Morale doesnt decay ?
BRING ON THE CASINOES !
also, another lesson from bangkok, it has to be cheap... Singapore too ex lah... the money you spend a couple of night outs, might as well fly to bangkok for the weekend now with budget airlines... -
Just allow people to set up gambling tables on the streets will decay within 1 monthOriginally posted by Ferret:We learnt that....Singapore Morale doesnt decay ?
BRING ON THE CASINOES ! 
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Casino is not about Morality... it is about losing your pants... you think you want to challenge Tiger Woods to a game of golf for money and hope you get lucky? hahahaha...
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Its much more fun when bartop dancing was not allowed.
But we danced anyway.