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11/11 is ww1 armistice day but somehow OP feels that we need to commemorate that in singapore? 11/11 is more like cyber monday in singapore. i guess the op is trying to feel superior by making the post.
OP 
11.11 is a day of remembrance for people who fought and died for the place. It started as the armistice day of WW1 but it has expanded to the wars of the latter years. In singapore, perhaps the most important conflict is WW2. Lim bo seng, adnan saidi, liz choy and many more who sacrificed for their land, regardless of which flag is on these lands.
https://www.visitsingapore.com/see-do-singapore/history/memorials/kranji-war-memorial
“lest we forget” is usually associated with remembrance day.
**We do actually commemorate 11.11 at Kranji War Memorial as a matter of fact every year on the closest Sunday. There is low awareness of it which brings my point, its not JUST some European thing. Click on the link above to read more.....
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of course some /r/sg redditors won't miss this opportunity to dunk on the average redditor
OP is trying to make a serious point, but the comments are like....
: It's what happens when the average citizen doesn't bother about history after finishing school. This enables the government to demolish historical buildings left and right since it'll be met with relative apathy, which makes local history even staler, thus reducing the amount of shits given. Voila, we've got ourselves a vicious cycle
: nah, humans, as a species, is doomed to be stuck in a loop... we cannot break free from our own "programming".
we survive, we build, we innovate, then we will destroy, and loop repeats.
: Cuz the average Singaporean redditor is uneducated about history
: OP is making a stupid point by tying the Armistice Day which is the end of World War 1 with World War 2. World War 1 has nothing to do with us and he/she knows it so he tries to make the tenuous connection about "expanded to WW2". Purlease. There is infinite amounts of ways to say we should commemorate XXX day in history because it has something something to do with something today. […]
Majulah Singapura! 
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Facebook post from the boother below:
Good afternoon everyone, due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, I would like to clarify that I have nothing to do with the Japanese S*x Toy Giant, Tenga. I draw butts only, I don't sell Tenga.
The The Straits Times have refused to do a public/written apology and a clarification for using my totally unrelated booth photo to cover the news of Tenga boothing at AFASG, so I will do it myself instead.
I am actually very angry at the way all my years of hard work and image is treated by The Straits Times, but I have a reputation to salvage, so this is a heavily edited PR post masking all my lovely intent to send them a crate of Scott's Emulsion, which is said to really stimulate brain cell development.
Please do not attack the journ*list and editor, that would be too much and unwarranted for.
Here, I rest my case. I apologize for interrupting everyone's lunch break with such an unpalatable exposure to this incident. Thank you for reading this far.
Censored in photo is my booth helper, not me ya, who also does NOT sell Tenga
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Anarcho-Syndicalist-Trotskyist-Stalinist Cuban Revolutionary 
TIL Anthony Bourdain's essay on Singapore food was named "Die Die Must Try" 
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makes a bomb threat on the plane he's on for fun, forces flight to return to 
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I went to Singapore recently.
I had a ton of fun visiting friends and seeing places.
Sadly couldn't get into the floating apple store as it was too crowded.
One thing I noticed. Whenever I ask the Singaporeans about how they feel about the differences in beliefs of their cousins in China, they seem to shut down and avoid the question.
Why is that?
Most Singaporeans are obviously descended from Chinese ( Just look at their eyes ). Yet if you mention and push, they get angry and defensive .
They keep saying they are not Chinese, but they are obviously descended from Chinese people.
I am proud to be part European and like to talk about how my great-great grandfather was German, and how that makes me culturally German, but Singaporeans want nothing to do with their own ancestors.
Why are Singaporeans so ashamed of being Chinese?
Is there some historical context that I am missing or need to be more aware of?
Thank you for taking the time to educate me.
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I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you're doing now la?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen packs of chewing gum in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first la.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence la,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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Hypermuscular Hindu Beast 
so much 
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Still no Indian leader can get on stage and glorify ‘Profits’ Lee Kuan Yew, the guy who built Singapore. pic.twitter.com/UGBtZhJ5IW
— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) September 16, 2023
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Edited Article:
https://mothership.sg/2023/09/china-tourist-singapore-too-chinese
Editor's note: A previous version of this article stated that the newsmaker is a tourist and that is inaccurate. The content creator has been living in Singapore for eight years. We sincerely apologise for our error. The article has been amended accordingly, and we have included further clarification from her. We have also reached out to the content creator to apologise.
Orginal article:
The original Mothership article seems to have also been re-posted (or re-reported) via Stomp and The New Paper e.g. here:
Quote changed:
A woman from Dalian, China, who came to Singapore for holiday, remarked on social media platform Xiaohongshu that she felt like she was still in her home country, despite flying several thousand kilometres.
One interesting part tho:
https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/16oy4me/comment/k1v8r3u?context=8&sort=controversial
Having come acorss Mothership articles over the years, I have to point out that Belmont isn't just some intern who made a mistake. He's the chief editor and one of the three stakeholders in Mothership, which means he is the one dictating the editorial guidelines for his team. This is key because though this post he's showing his whole team that:
1. It's ok to fabricate news without proper research.
2. It's ok to stir xenophobic sentiments if it results in getting more views. (probably ground for defamation / inciting hate towards a group)
3. It's ok to hide the mistake which is what he did at first. Until the backlash came then he had no choice but to apologise. (Basically not sorry for the mistake but sorry he got caught)
He has had this same behavioural pattern over the years and he's always been escaping with no apology or consequences. TODAY called him out for plagiarising, he was POFMAed and he made out an neurodivergent boy to be spoilt in order to get more views.
https://mothership.sg/2020/05/boy-eat-mcdonalds-cry
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