Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 155th Edition

• the Bear

  9 Sep 13, 15:24

  well, greed will destroy singapore...

  the prawning place just got hammered with a 250% increase in rent so the guy said fuck this shit and closed shop

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  9 Sep 13, 15:47

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  well, greed will destroy singapore...

  the prawning place just got hammered with a 250% increase in rent so the guy said fuck this shit and closed shop

  
  I like to hang out there sometimes at night... Best thing is cooking the prawns there in the morning after spending the night prawning...

   

  but really, the price increase was omgwtfbbq...

• BadzMaro

  9 Sep 13, 16:32

  I dont get it.. u pay to prawn.. n cook your own prawns.. mmmm seems like a lot of hard work.

   

• fudgester

  9 Sep 13, 16:49

  Apparently, Haagen-Dazs has apologized....

  ..... in one tiny comment in one of their existing posts on their Facebook wall.

  Gosh, their PR department needs a serious wake-up call. 

   

  And seriously, what's this I'm reading about banning guide dogs from public premises 'out of respect to our Muslim friends'? Drag us Muslims into this for what?

  I have no issue with letting guide dogs in as long as reasonable precautions are taken. Say if the dog poo-poos or slobbers all over the place, then out he goes. Otherwise, let the blind fella have his guide dog, I say.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  9 Sep 13, 17:38

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Apparently, Haagen-Dazs has apologized....

  ..... in one tiny comment in one of their existing posts on their Facebook wall.

  Gosh, their PR department needs a serious wake-up call. 

   

  And seriously, what's this I'm reading about banning guide dogs from public premises 'out of respect to our Muslim friends'? Drag us Muslims into this for what?

  I have no issue with letting guide dogs in as long as reasonable precautions are taken. Say if the dog poo-poos or slobbers all over the place, then out he goes. Otherwise, let the blind fella have his guide dog, I say.

  
  That is where general knowledge comes in... Not many ppl know that MUIS allows guide dog into halal premises...

  I also just found out after this incident...

  But one thing I do agree is that the ministry does need to promote the knowledge on guide dogs...

• cassie

  9 Sep 13, 19:15

  time to finish up for the day

• sbst275

  10 Sep 13, 19:39

  yeah the prawn place... sad..
• fudgester

  11 Sep 13, 07:56

  The lowest-cost version of the 'stripped-down' iPhone 5C will cost.....

  

   

  ..... S$848.

  Okay, Apple, I really don't see how this is supposed to fight Samsung.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  11 Sep 13, 09:00

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  The lowest-cost version of the 'stripped-down' iPhone 5C will cost.....

  

   

  ..... S$848.

  Okay, Apple, I really don't see how this is supposed to fight Samsung.

  
  They are living in a denial state where they still think their fanboys could sustain them...

   

• cassie

  11 Sep 13, 11:56

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  The lowest-cost version of the 'stripped-down' iPhone 5C will cost.....

  

   

  ..... S$848.

  Okay, Apple, I really don't see how this is supposed to fight Samsung.

  and there was even a comment to say that "it's affordable"

  

• FireIce

  11 Sep 13, 12:28

  there will still be suckers

• fudgester

  11 Sep 13, 12:29

  My mid-range Sony Xperia V cost me just $525 off the shelf.... and it works extremely well without looking like crap.

  And I have a solid 40GB of space after I stuck a 32GB microSD card ($24 at Sim Lim) in there. And I can just drag and drop files in there using any computer without using iTunes, and I can watch any video format I like without having to convert them first.

  Oh, and it has shock and water resistance..... perfect for using Runkeeper on my runs.

  Can the Apple fanboys please tell me why I should downgrade to the iPhone 5c?

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  11 Sep 13, 13:14

  Welcome to the Sony family

   

  My Xperia S is due for an upgrade in few months time... Looking at the Xperia Z (not the ultra version)...

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  11 Sep 13, 13:28

  Funny news of the Day  

   

  Colorado man reined in for drunken horseback riding

  Guy attempted a ride 600 mile to attend his brother's wedding... and oh, he had a small pug in his backpack too...

• fudgester

  11 Sep 13, 13:30

  I had the first Xperia Arc when it was still Sony Ericsson.

  Then when it was time to get rid of it, I didn't hesitate to go for Sony again.

  FS urged me to go for Xperia Z or Galaxy Note II..... but like I told her, I only want a relatively small, lightweight and rugged phone that I can bring along to go running.

  To me phablets are just weird. Too big and heavy to go running with, and too small to use effectively as an organizer and mobile video screen.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  11 Sep 13, 13:43

  Yes, I agree the large size is abit turnoff actually...

  Which is why I considered Xperia Z and not the Xperia Ultra Z...

   

  Before my Xperia S, it was Sony Ericsson Vivaz... Extremely good camera and video capabilities during the time when it came out... The only problem it had was the symbian OS instead of android, which cause it to have lack of apps...

• cassie

  11 Sep 13, 18:43

  i hardly use the apps on my BB since i've the PC at work and home; just not the type that needs to be "online" 24/7"

  ok, perhaps time to wrap things up and head to the park for a walk

• Kuali Baba

  11 Sep 13, 22:24

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  The lowest-cost version of the 'stripped-down' iPhone 5C will cost.....

  

   

  ..... S$848.

  Okay, Apple, I really don't see how this is supposed to fight Samsung.

  

• Kuali Baba

  11 Sep 13, 22:27

  Furthermore, the $30 covers that it comes with look like the phone equivalent of Crocs.

• fudgester

  12 Sep 13, 08:03

  Sigh..... Nokia. I remember when I bought my very first phone, the 3310, with hard-earned money from working at 7 Eleven.

  And I remember you were the Big Man on Campus if you had the 8250.

  Now Nokia doesn't even own its own company. How the mighty have fallen.

• cassie

  12 Sep 13, 09:41

  let's see what they come up with in the next year

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  12 Sep 13, 09:44

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Sigh..... Nokia. I remember when I bought my very first phone, the 3310, with hard-earned money from working at 7 Eleven.

  And I remember you were the Big Man on Campus if you had the 8250.

  Now Nokia doesn't even own its own company. How the mighty have fallen.

  
  Ah.... my 8210 was sweet back then... specially so when I personally modded my own phone like changing buzzer, adding LEDs of different color and sticking a neoprint behind the screen...

  Heck, I even got parts and repaired the phone when it was faulty~

• fudgester

  12 Sep 13, 10:05

  Windows 8 for phones is pretty much a dead end. Surface tablets aren't flying off the shelves either.

  Whoever isn't using iOS is using Android. Simple as that. Had Nokia used Android from the start of the smartphone revolution they would be ahead of Samsung right now, considering the huge amount of goodwill they built up with their dumbphones.

  Microsoft should really just give up trying to break into the smartphone and tablet market. They should just learn from the wreck that is Windows 8 and focus on making Windows 9 for PCs.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  12 Sep 13, 10:20

  problem is for Microsoft, the higher ups believed that hardware companies (IE: phone makers) are not churning out good sets and thus Window mobile not getting much recognition... Furthermore with Surface, they believed that they need a team of experienced staff with good background, thus bought over nokia phone production...

   

  And looking by international trends, with the declining sales of PC and the increase in mobile device, they want a piece of the pie too... Pretty acceptable thinking...

  However, instead of taking things into their own hands like buying over nokia, they could jolly well spend the huge ammount of money for R&D and better colaboration with the hardware makers...

• SevenEleven

  12 Sep 13, 10:22

  Another please don't help plead! http://therealsingapore.com/content/pm-lee-i-don%E2%80%99t-want-your-medical-subsidy