"Eh, how many Yusof Ishak you want ah?"
By sheer coincidence, I met up with not just eew but also tomahawk_82 for dinner yesterday. I stopped by Raffles Place on the way home to change money to pay for my Swedish books, and I just texted Fifi to see if she was free for coffee. As luck would have had it, she had arranged to meet Vicious for dinner so she invited me to join them.
It was nice to meet them again, especially Vicious, since we haven't met for more than 5 years I think! After dinner the 2 lawyers had to go back to their respective offices so I walked Fifi back and caught up along the way. We should really do a proper dinner soon! (Over beer, if possible, hahaha!)
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_420797.html
Aug 24, 2009
Cash machines have slang option
LONDON - WOULD you Adam and Eve it? Cash machines in east London are offering customers the option of using the local Cockney rhyming slang to get their hands on their sausage, so to speak.
Five automated teller machines (ATMs) in the East End are going Cockney for three months from Monday.
While cash machines with several language options are commonplace in some countries, the chance to use rhyming slang could leave those unfamiliar with the east London lingo in a right load of Barney Rubble.
Anyone opting for Cockney rhyming slang will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn (PIN) before chosing how much sausage and mash (cash) they want.
Those wanting to withdraw 10 pounds will have to ask for a speckled hen, while the machine may inform users that it is contacting their rattle and tank, rather than bank.
'We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines,' said Ron Delnevo, managing director of operators Bank Machine.
'Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a butcher's (hook, look), most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised the Cockney language in such a manner.' The ATMs displaying prompts in Cockney are all free to use, though most of the group's cash machines charge a fee.
Better-known Cockney rhyming slang includes dog and bone (phone), apples and pears (stairs), whistle and flute (suit), Adam and Eve (believe), Barnet Fair (hair), trouble and strife (wife), loaf of bread (head) and boat race (face). -- AFP
Hahahaha, I was very tickled by this article, but unfortunately we will never see something like this in Singapore. If there's one thing we're famous for which we should really be ashamed of but strangely too many Singaporeans don't know or give a damn, it's the fact that, as a collective people, we have a very dour sense of humour (or lack thereof). We take things way too seriously and don't appreciate humour even if it's harmless.
Imagine how amusing it would be if your UOB ATM gave you the following language options: ►English ►Chinese ►Malay ►Tamil ►SINGLISH!(Why? Cannot meh?)
And clicking the last option will display this:
Eh, so today hor,
how many Yusof Ishak you want ah?
►gor tsap
sa pa◄
►puay tsap
gor pa◄
►tsi pa
tsi pa ban!!!◄
►neng pa
I wan udder ermoun◄
But alas, I think I will never see this in my lifetime....
Speaking of a sense of humour, even though Singapore has no collective sense of it whatsoever, it would also not be desirable to go to the other end of the spectrum. It's really amazing what some idiots actually think is funny:http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_420674.html
Aug 24, 2009
Aussie man glued to toilet
SYDNEY - AUSTRALIAN police and civic leaders on Monday appealed for help catching pranksters who glued a man to a public toilet seat, forcing an embarrassing rescue by ambulance officers.
A 58-year-old was taken to hospital with the toilet seat still attached to his behind after he used a booby-trapped convenience in a shopping centre in the northeastern resort city of Cairns on Saturday.
Police investigating the incident made a public appeal for help finding the joker, while furious city officials described the stunt as a 'sick joke.' [...]
Why am I not surprised? If when you hear about senseless gun crimes and school shootings you think of America, when you hear about really bo liao and stupid but yet public acts of terror like this, you think of... Australia.
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It was nice to meet them again, especially Vicious, since we haven't met for more than 5 years I think! After dinner the 2 lawyers had to go back to their respective offices so I walked Fifi back and caught up along the way. We should really do a proper dinner soon! (Over beer, if possible, hahaha!)
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_420797.html
Aug 24, 2009
Cash machines have slang option
LONDON - WOULD you Adam and Eve it? Cash machines in east London are offering customers the option of using the local Cockney rhyming slang to get their hands on their sausage, so to speak.
Five automated teller machines (ATMs) in the East End are going Cockney for three months from Monday.
While cash machines with several language options are commonplace in some countries, the chance to use rhyming slang could leave those unfamiliar with the east London lingo in a right load of Barney Rubble.
Anyone opting for Cockney rhyming slang will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn (PIN) before chosing how much sausage and mash (cash) they want.
Those wanting to withdraw 10 pounds will have to ask for a speckled hen, while the machine may inform users that it is contacting their rattle and tank, rather than bank.
'We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines,' said Ron Delnevo, managing director of operators Bank Machine.
'Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a butcher's (hook, look), most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised the Cockney language in such a manner.' The ATMs displaying prompts in Cockney are all free to use, though most of the group's cash machines charge a fee.
Better-known Cockney rhyming slang includes dog and bone (phone), apples and pears (stairs), whistle and flute (suit), Adam and Eve (believe), Barnet Fair (hair), trouble and strife (wife), loaf of bread (head) and boat race (face). -- AFP
Hahahaha, I was very tickled by this article, but unfortunately we will never see something like this in Singapore. If there's one thing we're famous for which we should really be ashamed of but strangely too many Singaporeans don't know or give a damn, it's the fact that, as a collective people, we have a very dour sense of humour (or lack thereof). We take things way too seriously and don't appreciate humour even if it's harmless.
Imagine how amusing it would be if your UOB ATM gave you the following language options: ►English ►Chinese ►Malay ►Tamil ►SINGLISH!(Why? Cannot meh?)
And clicking the last option will display this:
Eh, so today hor,
how many Yusof Ishak you want ah?
►gor tsap
sa pa◄
►puay tsap
gor pa◄
►tsi pa
tsi pa ban!!!◄
►neng pa
I wan udder ermoun◄
But alas, I think I will never see this in my lifetime....
Speaking of a sense of humour, even though Singapore has no collective sense of it whatsoever, it would also not be desirable to go to the other end of the spectrum. It's really amazing what some idiots actually think is funny:http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_420674.html
Aug 24, 2009
Aussie man glued to toilet
SYDNEY - AUSTRALIAN police and civic leaders on Monday appealed for help catching pranksters who glued a man to a public toilet seat, forcing an embarrassing rescue by ambulance officers.
A 58-year-old was taken to hospital with the toilet seat still attached to his behind after he used a booby-trapped convenience in a shopping centre in the northeastern resort city of Cairns on Saturday.
Police investigating the incident made a public appeal for help finding the joker, while furious city officials described the stunt as a 'sick joke.' [...]
Why am I not surprised? If when you hear about senseless gun crimes and school shootings you think of America, when you hear about really bo liao and stupid but yet public acts of terror like this, you think of... Australia.
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