Thursday, December 12, 2013

Don't Drink To That

A minister's conjecture that it is "plausible that alcohol consumption was a contributory factor" to a bloody Sunday is no excuse for a dry Christmas. Try that discriminatory weekend ban on alcohol at Clarke Quay, and be prepared for another close encounter of an angry kind.

Alcohol don't cause riots, people cause riots. Specifically, unhappy people who take it out on the establishment, especially those representatives in uniform with a history of selective bullying and abuse. And guys who blog about it aren't always unhappy, they are just waiting to uncork the champagne bottle when the day of reckoning dawns.

What did the Bard say in Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3?
"Drink sir, is a great provoker of three things... nose painting, sleep and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire but takes away the performance."
Just ask the ladies, women and alcohol don't mix. Our top cops from the SCDF and CNB probably were stone cold sober when they rose to the occasion to receive female gratification in parked vehicles. No wonder there was no alibi offered for being "under the influence".

Excess consumption of alcohol does have its effects. One time we were guests of the brewery at Tuas, where they have free beer on tap. As in a direct line to the manufacturing process. After 4 (or was it 5) glasses of their finest product, the face turned greenish. The helpful host suggested a good lager should reverse the chemical reaction. The result was a mad dash to "drive the porcelain bus". People can be cruel.

Not all drinking buddies are out to do you in. Mates in Australia recommend a good chunder as essential preparation for the next beer challenge. Bonds are built that way.

It's not the same with those characters drunk with power. People who talk about repression and making love in the same paragraph,
"... it is easier the second time. The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked in this course, with  constant repetition, you get more and brazen in the attack and in the scope of the attack."
If the guy in charge can treat the act of procreation as a violent initiative, it figures why there is a chronic shortage of babies. What he really needed was a stiff drink, check with Willy Shakespeare.

And then there's the mini-George Patton waging all out war on the "lunatic fringe". When he goes berserk with his blood and guts mimic of a Bavarian corporal, you can bet he's referring to our blood and not his guts.  Don't look at North Korea for a psychopathic type leader who "prances around stadiums seeking adulation", they have anointed one right here.

25 comments:

  1. Ha ha ha, you are great. This is your finest piece yet. Don't let anyone or anything stop you from writing (apart from writer's cramps) Has the paper general tanked?

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  2. Note that none of those arrested were drunk.

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    1. The only drunkard according to state narrative is the dead victim, who can't speak for himself. Just like the case of Dinesh the prison inmate.

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  3. Correlation doesn't mean causation. Some rioters might have a drink too many, but looking back in history, you probably won't find a riot that was started due to alcohol. As usual, it is the style of the incumbent government to find a red herring to distract gullible Singaporeans from the inconvenient truth. To be wise, people need to go to the internet.

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    1. Actually, to be wise, the unhappy people should stay on the internet. And the happy people (with the govt or their employers) should go to the street and riot, burn cars and ambulance after downing some kingfisher lah.

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  4. Hahaha... I Kee Chiu to that!

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    1. Me too.
      Many drank and are sober.
      Some do not drink are muddled headed.

      Too much scheming in their heads, but not able to read sentiments.

      patriot

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  5. I thought kee chiu suppose to be next in line prime minister or some crap like that...

    I remember reading somewhere he offended a number of indonesia politicos over some silly speech like "we are surrounded by enemies" and infering indonesia as one of these enemies....

    With a clown like this in charge of singapore...who needs friends...since we will be making a lot of enemies thank you very much to kee chiu frothing in the mouth and making crazy references "they are out to get us"...actually more to get at him and he use US as his shield when he makes his getaway...and the clown was the cause of it...

    It is easy to start a war and very hard to stop one...it is also hard to win and keep the peace...DO YOU UNDERSTAND KEE CHIU.

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    1. The odds will favour "kee chiu " as next PM if he is pall bearer for oldfart's sendoff and delivering the eulogy himself instead of Heng SK.
      Of course I will be damn impressed if "kee chiu" designed oldfart's casket as well.

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    2. The Soldiers only know about fighting.
      Not only they imagine that enemies are everywhere at the borders, they think that many living in the same land as them are also their(military commanders turned rulers) enemies.

      patriot

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  6. If the 400 who participated in the riots had all been drunk, how come only a bunch of them was arrested on the night itself? They mean to say those enforcement can't even catch those rioting drunkards?

    Something had to be very wrong to make them riot. If alcohol indeed can contribute to riots, then why is our PAP govt being so irresponsible not to ban alcohol totally in the country? Doesn't make sense either, right?

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  7. Millionaire Minister Lui said the rioters were drunk. He said that he walked round those arrested by the police and said they reeked of alcohol.
    Another Millionaire Minister said that there was no evidence to suggest that the rioters were unhappy with the Govt or their employers.
    So what or who sparked off the riot? The victim was Indian, The bus driver and the time keeper were not.

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    1. Either you have to conclude that the rioters were unhappy with the driver/timekeeper which will make this a race riots.

      Or you have to conclude that only the happy but drunk people will burn police cars and ambulance. In that case, we can also add those friday and weekend revellers in boat & clarkquay also have a high potential to burn police cars and ambulance. Ipso facto, we should ban all bars who have happy and drunk people altogether.

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  8. Either the 400 were drunk and the 300 home team oppicers and their gurkha doubles were living up to their masters' jiak liao bee reputation; or they were not drunk, in which case the feckless politicians are proving they are not only jiak liao bee but clearly dishonest. Why is it that the other paper general insist on us not "spreading rumours" before the investigation was completed, yet his buddies have the right to jump to conclusion that the 400 were not angry with garmen policies and another concluded that it was alcohol and proceeded to ban alcohol in Little India for the next 2 days (is he thinking maybe the Indian workers would all get 2 days off to mourn their lost friend?) Did he speak to all of them to check whether they loved his manpower policies, this even before they were all identified?

    And so we wayang on, from one COI to another dog-and-pony show, each no doubt will conclude yet again that it was another "once every 50 years" history-changing event for the red dot. Truly amazing how this garmen creates it owns problems and then claim credit for "solving" the same problems they created.

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    1. They have become very adept and
      professional in acting.
      There is no sign of awkwardness
      and discomfort and discomposure
      in some of the more woody ministers,
      usually the taller(physically) ones.
      All the shorties were, are damn good
      in and at their acts.

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  9. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-sleeper/singapore-migrants-riot-w_b_4422393.html

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  10. Want to see what drunks look like? Just head to any expatriate (no colours mentioned here) watering hole. Just make sure you are not a taxi driver desperate for a fare.

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  11. "We must not concede the space - physical or cyber" - Keechiu. Wa lau, you want to sue or jail all critics, and muzzle cyberspace? So the law in licensing online news websites, banning under the guise of registration (Breakfast Network casualty), hauling up prominent bloggers for scandalising the judiciary..... are your opening moves?

    So the whole lot of you say it's alcohol? How convenient.
    At least the real George S Patton had the good sense to say: "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking"

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  12. "We must not concede the space - physical or cyber"
    Wah! So profound.!
    I like.
    PAP Minister stating the obvious to PAPigs
    Funny hor.
    Why didn't George Yeo think of this idea before.
    "We must not concede the space - physical or cyber"
    Then George Yeo would not have lost Aljunied GRC.

    Never mind.
    We just repeat this to the whole world.
    And we will be safe from physical and cyber attacks.
    And the whole world will tremble at the words of General Kee Chiu.

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  13. Alcohol the cause for riot meh!
    Then why no riot at Boat Quay?
    And no riot at ZoukOut?

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  14. "Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that last Sunday's riot in the city state was spontaneous and there is no reason to believe that it was due to unhappiness among foreign workers." Like that we have a more serious problem, because spontaneous means it can happen anytime, without cause or reason. So we have a powderkeg of 500K foreign workers who can spontaneously erupt into mayhem, even if they are happy.

    Shanmugam met with some foreign workers, the good ones who did not riot, and concluded "No evidence that foreign workers are unhappy with job conditions." Of course, that's what he wanted to hear, and what they wanted to say. Anyway, according to his boss, unhappiness is not a reason for the riot, so these same happy workers can still riot! Wouldn't it have been more productive to meet those who rioted, to find out the causes?

    Ok, now I get it. It must be the workers are too happy, that's why they rioted. So take away their happy hours, ban alcohol, make them unhappy, so they can go and spend their time trawling and trolling the internet, instead of happily revelling and drunkenly creating havoc. Well, looking at the statements coming out from the G, we can conclude what the report from the COI will be. We still need these foreign workers, and more; so onward with the 6.9 million or 8.0 million. No reason to stop.

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    1. Why are they all singing the same tune, beating the same drums, that the foreign workers are all happy with their lot here? Because anything else would mean another serious failure on their part, in bringing so many in unprepared. In fact they are already tacitly agreeing this is the case, when the PM himself said they need to manage them better. After Black Sunday, A Day Of Infamy, December 8 2013, he proclaims the need to build more dormitories. Isn't this his lack of 20/20 foresight playing up again? Infrastructures, lack of housing, train breakdowns anyone?

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    2. Dormitories that resemble the largest bungalow at Changi?

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    3. Yah, now we have this situation where they have spun so much web that they are contradicting themselves and each other! Seriously, we need to rid of the spider.

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    4. Set the webs aflame.

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