Hokkien Expletives
Sometimes it takes an In-camp training to realise how stupid people can be. Let me give you an excerpt:
1) NSman: F***, cannot ramp the HE[ High explosive] round.( swings the ramp with all it's might). KNNCJB [Hokkien expletives]
Everyone else: Hahaha
2) NSman: F***, cannot find the director [ a device for artillery firing] !!. KNNCJB
Everyone else: Hahaha
3) Sergeant Major: No nights off tonight.
Everyone else: KNNCJB.
and then
Everyone else: Hahaha
Basically, end everything with a Hokkien expletives and everyone will laugh. Initially it was quite funny but after a while, I found it rather juvenile. What is so funny about cussing. Curse and then laugh, curse and then laugh.
This is repeated throughout the day and it always gets the same effect. And they basically did that for two whole years of National Service days!! I looked back and am amazed how I manage to get by those days. Maybe I was ignorant then and join along with laughter. But now I look at it and realise it could be a case of nervous laughter. When you think about it, put together a bunch of people with no clue what is happening and do not know what is the next step, you will get a bunch of people resigned to their fate. The laughter is like a healthy outlet for them to ventilate their frustration while allowing them to carry on doing what is being told. Put it simply, they don't have a choice so therefore they laugh to vent and allow them to work. So they laugh at everything literally. And it so happens that Hokkien cuss words is the legitimate space for them to laugh it off.
Sigh, it all sounds so grim.
Or it could be that they are just plain stupid...
1) NSman: F***, cannot ramp the HE[ High explosive] round.( swings the ramp with all it's might). KNNCJB [Hokkien expletives]
Everyone else: Hahaha
2) NSman: F***, cannot find the director [ a device for artillery firing] !!. KNNCJB
Everyone else: Hahaha
3) Sergeant Major: No nights off tonight.
Everyone else: KNNCJB.
and then
Everyone else: Hahaha
Basically, end everything with a Hokkien expletives and everyone will laugh. Initially it was quite funny but after a while, I found it rather juvenile. What is so funny about cussing. Curse and then laugh, curse and then laugh.
This is repeated throughout the day and it always gets the same effect. And they basically did that for two whole years of National Service days!! I looked back and am amazed how I manage to get by those days. Maybe I was ignorant then and join along with laughter. But now I look at it and realise it could be a case of nervous laughter. When you think about it, put together a bunch of people with no clue what is happening and do not know what is the next step, you will get a bunch of people resigned to their fate. The laughter is like a healthy outlet for them to ventilate their frustration while allowing them to carry on doing what is being told. Put it simply, they don't have a choice so therefore they laugh to vent and allow them to work. So they laugh at everything literally. And it so happens that Hokkien cuss words is the legitimate space for them to laugh it off.
Sigh, it all sounds so grim.
Or it could be that they are just plain stupid...