Last week we were teaching our students that even something as private as suicide is and can be a social issue/problem. Durkheim surmised that these people often committed suicide (egoistic/fatalistic/altruistic/anomic) basically because of the different types of social solidarity (low/high; organic/mechanical) and its effects on them (low/high regulation/integration).
But WHATEVER. KNN! If you wanna die go stick your head in an oven for Pete's sake! Don't jump on the MRT track and inconvenience EVERYBODY else. THANKS for making it even MORE a social fucking problem than it already is. Because of you I was LATE LATE LATE to work even though i got up FUCKING EARLY can. NBCB. LKY will be VERY upset with you for halting the economy. I on the other hand am upset for something more important: I woke up early for nothing!!!
(Some) Singaporeans constantly write to the forum asking for glass doors to be built around open train platforms so people won't jump. Puh-lease. There's a reason why it's called OPEN PLATFORM you dickheads* ! We should build freakin glass doors around these jumping idiots, not the platform! Now all we need is a programme to identify potential jumpers, dress them up as mimes or clowns, box them up in glass boxes, then let them slowly die in front of waiting commuters...
*See previous post for possible definitions
PS. Evidently noone jumped and it was just a broken down train. I hope tomorrows' headline is "SMRT shares plummet due to absolute incompetence despite 99% efficiency" or "1% breakdown was one straw too many for the SMRT camel" or "Shane pisses on SMRT control station. Fined $500". OK maybe not the last one.
Save this post for when someone jumps and I am pissed off again.
