September 08, 2005

Worst. ST Forum Letter. Ever.

Agagooga said:

This must take the cake for Worst. Straits Times Forum letter. I have ever read Ever. Even its being awarded a prize, a medallion, a badge, a plaque, a ribbon, a trophy as well as a certificate would be insufficient to recognise the enormity of the situation.

Letters thanking taxi drivers, insignificant queries to government agencies, odes to Kim Jong Il MM Lee, letters from irate Malaysians angry that certain dubious honours (linguistic or culinary) have been erroneously (in their book) awarded to Singapore, notes from expatriates or tourists singing Singapore's praises and paens harkening to the days (10 years ago or so) when the writer wrote his last Forum letter all cannot compare.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on September 08//11:18pm and published by cowboycaleb, popagandhi :: 132728 reads | trackback (3)
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Agagooga, thanks for drawing attn to tt letter.
When I saw the letter last week, I felt like writing a response... but sigh. too lazy.

I'm glad that most people see the problems in Cheong's reasoning.
(Is he really a kid writing for school work? if so, then can't blame him lah, just some retarded ST forum editor.)

"too dangerous for singaporeans"? why? because singaporeans are handicapped pussies?
Gahmen should ban any activity that is dangerous? Because sg-peasants are too stupid to take care of themselves? Skydiving is only for ang-moh? because ang-moh better are such things ya?

In terms of fatalities per participant, skydiving is safer than lots of other sports. SCUBA for example, which is so mainstream these days.

Webpages with stats:
http://www.afn.org/skydive/sta/stats.html
http://www.uspa.org/about/page2/relative_safety.htm
http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/

I love skydiving and gahmen should not be interfering with how people choose to have fun.

(i tried posting on agagooga's but kept seeing "Error: your template does not contain space for all fields. Please redo your template, closely following the instructions")

Posted by gluino* on 10 September, 2005 - 2:17am

Oops. I think the server was having problems. Maybe because too many people were spamming my comments box ;)