Singapore just keeps making up new reasons for me to love it.
Well, except for the chewing gum by prescription only bit.
This should be everywhere, too many people these days are refusing to use headphones, JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!! i don’t want to hear your music, your videos or your goddamn conversations, headphones are available everywhere and you can find a suitable pair for your needs.
Listen, I am certain that have the best taste in music AND TikToks, so what I’m doing here is actually a public service, and you’re all welcome.
/s
You can just tell them to shut the fuck up. It’s free.
You’ll be surprised how many people will take offence or retort with ‘not illegal what’. Singaporeans are used to being babied by the nanny state so they’d only take action if they have ‘official’ reason to back it up; we frown upon vigilantism/lack backbone. That’s just our style of societal engineering - disbursements for desirable behaviour like recycling bottles and cans (even for reading books!) and fines for vices like smoking
Finally a bit of sanity in the news.
I have a close Singaporean friend and his sister explained to me once that the world gets it wrong about the hand chopping and other extreme punishments people think they heard about. No, Singapore is kept in line through FEES! Chew gum? Fee. Litter? Fee. And boy do they enforce it, haha.
Still one of only four developed countries that still executes people.
I’ve been told that Singapore is a rather fine city.
People always told me to never go to Singapore. “Did you know that you get a fee from spitting?” “You can go to jail for spitting out your gum”
Wow now that you put it like that, i really wanna go, that place sounds amazing.
They do have caning.
But yea it’s surveillance and fees mostly.
You can only chop off so many hands before your economy collapses. Fines, though? That shit increases your budget.
The one thing I dislike is the chewing gum part.
Sure, if you litter with it, get punishment. But just for chewing gum, or using a vape (not like in a crowded area but separate from people where you don’t annoy others)?
On the other hand, enforcing social norms this way does make the city more liveable. In the western world, social norms have collapsed these past few years to the point where everyone selfishly can do whatever they want, as acceptable behaviours haven’t been codified.
It isn’t illegal to possess and consume chewing gum. However littering, sales and distribution of chewing gum is against the law.
It’s also illegal to import IIRC - friends who went there had their gum confiscated on arrival at the airport.
That’s more or less correct yeah. It’s mostly very difficult to enforce at a personal level, similar to anything that happens behind closed doors (that isn’t digital, anyway).
good
I’ve never seen people in my country listening music in any public transport without headphones, i only rarely see a people who watch tiktok or other social without it but usually it’s not on high volume.
I’m all for this.
Now do elevators and beaches.
