Ridiculous bans and fines in Singapore
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dat time i eat gum in mrt kana caught leh.Originally posted by mancha:Ai yah why still got people like this.
You can eat chewing gum in Singapore. Only cannot buy. Because uncle, auntie, Cheers, 7 11, Buzz or any other shop not allowed to sell. But can go JB and Batam and buy and eat here.
And also buy there and sell here cannot, but kena caught won't get hang, fine only.
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i wonder in other countries got such problem or ijit juz sg?Originally posted by CM06:You are still young. Know only to ask WHY and want to break the rules.
Bet you never knew about pressing your lift buttons that are all stuck full of gum before they were banned.
Every single lift button. The old plastic round round type. All get gummed. Lift lobby washed already still have gum. Walk here walk there also have gum.
You can say you are "responsible" . What about those arent going to be?
No thanks. I enjoyed my life here without such sticky situations. Am not going to face those again. -
We shouldn't keep comparing SG with other countries in this issue. If the other countries wanna step on gums and have their fingers stucked to the buttons, so be it. I don't wanna be part of it.
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I've seen bits of dried gum on the streets elsewhere, but not on the elevator buttons or seats.Originally posted by VagueHart:We shouldn't keep comparing SG with other countries in this issue. If the other countries wanna step on gums and have their fingers stucked to the buttons, so be it. I don't wanna be part of it. -
yes. hk.Originally posted by crabx:i wonder in other countries got such problem or ijit juz sg?
k * * even the 4 star hotel i stayed, bedpost got gum.
specially took a picture of one of their pavements beside the main road, full of dried black round round gum. -
I believe it was because some dude started sticking up our MRT that the government moved in on gum chewing.Originally posted by CM06:You are still young. Know only to ask WHY and want to break the rules.
Bet you never knew about pressing your lift buttons that are all stuck full of gum before they were banned.
Every single lift button. The old plastic round round type. All get gummed. Lift lobby washed already still have gum. Walk here walk there also have gum.
You can say you are "responsible" . What about those arent going to be?
No thanks. I enjoyed my life here without such sticky situations. Am not going to face those again.
Logical solution? Prehaps, but it speaks a lot into the mentality of our system and how we refuse to take personal responsibility and instead hand these responsibilities over to the system to do whatever it wants to solve it.
The reason why we can now buy gum in pharmacies is because the Yanks made a big deal about it and civil liberities while we were trying to make the FTA with them, the selling of gum in pharmacies was an attempt to applease the Yanks by following the idea of allowing gum in letter, but not in law.
But if you look at the whole issue, I think giving up even such a little right to have gum sold and chewed here is disturbing, the way it could simply be implemented and the way the populace simply took it lying down. Sure it's just gum now, but does it set the standard for how to deal with more important things in the future?
Or prehaps when the next time we complain that Singapore is too boring or controlled, maybe we have to realize that the attitude of "hey i don't like this/ we got a problem let's choose the simplest way out of it by letting the system take care of it" is a large part of it.
And of course, it was a ham-fisted way of dealing with the gum issue. I for one find it ridiculus- yes our streets are cleaner but at what cost? The mentality of the people who do such inconsiderate acts have not changed, just the means of doing so have. -
ya.Originally posted by siaokau:anal and bj allowed already right?
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Nope. We are not even a country that don't allow the eating of chewing gum.Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:are we the onli country in the world which cannot eat chewing gum?
There is no law saying we cannot eat chewing gum.
But there is the law saying that importing of chewing gum is illegal.
Which means, you can set up a factory making chewing gum since the import is illegal. -
some f**king idiots dunno how to throw the gums properly.
knn, i still rmb i stepped on 1 last year. made my shoe sticky with those f**king gum.
waste my time cleaning and damaged my shoes.
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Actually...the easy way to do things is simply to ban it. World class eh? educating the masses on the responsibility would be more appropriate...rather then every small thing fine, jail, rotan.