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I agree that some of things are really stupid.
Here is a very incomplete list of other examples of “Singaporean retardation” that I’ve observed frequently all over town:
Toilet training signs for adults all over the city
They actually employ people in the metro stations whose job is to tell people to move away from the escalator when they get to the bottom
I frequently encounter middle aged people (35-50 years old) that cannot use a computer even for the simplest tasks
Banking (see below)
Extremely poor language skills – I find much higher levels of English in countries where English is not claimed to be a native or official language
Unreliable and poorly functioning technology of all types (see below)
Taxi drivers that don’t know where they’re going even on this tiny island
Inability to manage the supply of taxis – they are either under-priced, under-supplied or both
The emotionless, robot like behavior of the people and they way they chase meaningless, superficial, shiny trinkets (designer crap, overpriced status symbol cars, super overpriced bottles of booze, etc.)
Government subsidized HDB housing parking lots frequently full of $100,000+ cars (Why are these idiots subsidizing the housing of people that can afford to waste $100K+ for a car they don’t need!?!)
Ridiculous overuse of snail mail
A complete inability to do almost anything quickly, efficiently and accurately (see below)
The very very few things they get semi right are typically way over done (online banking security is a good example)
Anti-Chinese sentiment (see below)
“Singlish” is not a language, it’s very, very broken English that is totally incomprehensible
Horrendous service – From five star hotels to cheap restaurants some of the worst service I’ve ever experienced, incredible given the price of drinks
Outrage of modesty – they try to make this “crime” sound like an equivalent of rape or sexual molestation but you can be charged with it for simply verbally offending a Singaporean woman or brushing up against her the “wrong way” in a club (there are scam artists that try to entrap you too)
http://www.singledudetravel.com/201...ose-of-singapore-and-singaporean-retardation/