Singapore Chewing Ban Eased

**Peadar** · 25/05/2004, 11:57 AM

Ultra-tidy Singapore has lifted its notorious ban on chewing gum after 12 years � but only for registered users. Gum dealers face jail if they break the rules.

Before Singaporeans think about unwrapping a pack of the Wrigley�s Orbit gum that has just gone on sale � and only in chemists � they have to submit their names and ID card numbers.

If they don�t, chemists who sell them gum could be jailed up to two years and fined �2,400.

Full story here...
Wouldn't mind seeing tighter rules on gum here.
The streets are covered with the stuff.
Added to the fag butts, the country looks like a tip!
How many people here have got gum on their clothes from a bus/train seat?

**Jim Smith** · 25/05/2004, 3:48 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

Wouldn't mind seeing tighter rules on gum here.
The streets are covered with the stuff.

It won't be long before the beautiful paving stones on Patrick Street are destroyed with the stuff.

Now if someone could invent a machine to remove chewing gum that doen't alter the colouration of the underlying stonework they would be made for life.

**adamcarr** · 25/05/2004, 3:52 PM

Gum Dealers

**eoinh** · 25/05/2004, 3:53 PM

The taliban in Afghanistan outlawed kite flying for some reason

**max power** · 25/05/2004, 4:04 PM

could we outlaw pat dolan opening his mouth ?????

**Peadar** · 25/05/2004, 4:17 PM

Originally Posted by max power

could we outlaw pat dolan opening his mouth ?????

I'm so looking forward to the day when PD goes to take over LT.
You'll looking for sympathy from the rest of us.
�20 says you'll believe him when he says LT are the biggest club in Ireland with the best fans.

**brendy_�ire** · 25/05/2004, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by eoinh

The taliban in Afghanistan outlawed kite flying for some reason

Religious extremists are always harsh on any form of fun. Sure don't some Christians not allow sport because it's a waste of the time that God gave ye?

Singapore is not too far wrong with those controls on chewing gun, mind.

**max power** · 26/05/2004, 7:32 AM

Originally Posted by Peadar

I'm so looking forward to the day when PD goes to take over LT.
You'll looking for sympathy from the rest of us.
�20 says you'll believe him when he says LT are the biggest club in Ireland with the best fans.

thank god i have never believed his bull and never will, if he actually stoped talking and started managing a trophy or two could make their way to cork

**Peadar** · 26/05/2004, 8:19 AM

Originally Posted by max power

if he actually stoped talking and started managing a trophy or two could make their way to cork

If he stops talking the smokescreen will fade and it will be glaringly obvious that he can't manage.

**dortie** · 26/05/2004, 8:54 AM

Originally Posted by brendy_�ire

Sure don't some Christians not allow sport because it's a waste of the time that God gave ye?

Brendy..........what christians are they ? Its only the self-made 'christian' sect in the North who introduced the 'no sport' on sunday balls

Im telling yee boy, Seamus Costello would be proud of yee, your more communist than Stalins love child

**�anna** · 26/05/2004, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

Full story here...
Wouldn't mind seeing tighter rules on gum here.
The streets are covered with the stuff.
Added to the fag butts, the country looks like a tip!
How many people here have got gum on their clothes from a bus/train seat?

agree with ya there. its disgusting. a good start would be to have more bins- compared to other countries there are very few bins on the street in Ireland.

Originally Posted by Peadar

If he stops talking the smokescreen will fade and it will be glaringly obvious that he can't manage.

and there i was agreeing with you

**Peadar** · 26/05/2004, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by �anna

and there i was agreeing with you

There's only so much of you agreeing with me that I'd be able to handle in one day �anna

**brendy_�ire** · 26/05/2004, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by dortie

Brendy..........what christians are they ? Its only the self-made 'christian' sect in the North who introduced the 'no sport' on sunday balls

Im telling yee boy, Seamus Costello would be proud of yee, your more communist than Stalins love child

Ye never lay off us, do ye Housty?

I'm on about those nutcase Christians, I think most of them are Americans. They believe that everything ye do must be to serve God. Sport doesn't serve God. Apparently.

And don't get us started on Stalin again. I'm not a fan of his.

**Macy** · 27/05/2004, 8:00 AM

Originally Posted by dortie

Brendy..........what christians are they ? Its only the self-made 'christian' sect in the North who introduced the 'no sport' on sunday balls

Not at all Dortie, Remember Jonathan Edwards wouldn't compete on a Sunday due to his religious beliefs and he's Anglican/Church of England. And I remember getting into trouble at primary school when I wouldn't turn up for the main mass choir duty because of sport.

**dortie** · 27/05/2004, 8:48 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

Not at all Dortie, Remember Jonathan Edwards wouldn't compete on a Sunday due to his religious beliefs and he's Anglican/Church of England. .

EXACTLY my point.....'Self-made christian sect'

**Macy** · 27/05/2004, 9:02 AM

Originally Posted by dortie

EXACTLY my point.....'Self-made christian sect'

One theological point away from Roman Catholic....

**dortie** · 27/05/2004, 9:12 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

One theological point away from Roman Catholic....

How ? Explain ?

**Peadar** · 27/05/2004, 9:25 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

One theological point away from Roman Catholic....

About a million relevancy points away from chewing gum in Singapore!

**Macy** · 27/05/2004, 9:29 AM

Originally Posted by dortie

How ? Explain ?

Pretty much the only difference between Anglican and Roman Catholic is the Eucharist. Anglican's believe the bread and wine symbolises the body and blood of Christ, RC believe it is the body and blood of Christ. Pretty much everything else, including the actual mass is the same.