12/14/2014

How many people can be squeezed inside a Mini Cooper?




This was a favourite challenge in the early 1970s. For those who can remember what a Mini Cooper was like, other than its legendary fast pick up and road hugging ability, the Mini Cooper was a little fun car. And it was shaped like a small lunch box fit for a driver and a front passenger. The little space behind could squeeze a couple of adults in a very compromising manner but definitely not for two fat guys.

The challenge then was to squeeze as many bodies, living beans, into the Mini. And if I am not mistaken, the record was 17 or 18 bodies. How could they do it? The bodies were crumbled like contorted sausages, not the nicely sardine pack. And the poor guys or gals at the bottom must be gasping for air and feeling the weight. But never mind, they would not die of suffocation or compression. They would remain in that uncomfortable position for a minute or two before being dragged out to live another day.

The moral of the story is that you could force people into very uncomfortable little corners for fun, for a moment. But when you want them to stay that way for anything longer they would not be able to bear the discomfort. No way.

You want to squeeze in 10 million or 20 million people into this island? For goodness sake, get your head examined. Or you are going to rent out your properties for triple the value to live on your rent while you migrate to Australia or some bigger country to live a life of spatial luxury? The temperature is rising here. The people are angry and the foreigners took are losing their cool and bashing up the natives. And we only have 5.4m people today. You want to double that and double everything and think it is fun?

If it is to prove how clever you are to squeeze more people into a foxhole, just try to put more people into a 3rm flat for a try. I think I can easily stuff in 300 people with room to spare, like stuffing bodies into a Mini Cooper, to prove a point. But that kind of things are not for real, not a condition for people to live their lives.

Again, why would you want to squeeze 18 people into a Mini Cooper? Why do you madly want to put 10m or more people into this island to over populate it? The world leaders are trying to save the world by cutting consumption and reducing populations. What kind of fools are insisting on increasing population and consumption but turn around to exhort people to be green to save Gaia?

Kopi Level - Yellow

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

RB, why don't you ask Liu Thai Ker these questions. That creative architect will have the answers.

Anonymous said...

Who is this Liu Fuk Ker?

Anonymous said...

10 million people?
we need to build more hospital and old age homes when they grow old.
Ask the P.A. Fuking P.
Where is the money going to come from?

Anonymous said...

Aljunied GRC - Repent or it will be 10 million population for the rest of Singapore.

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Crew in Korean Air nut rage says he was insulted.

"People who haven't experienced will not understand that feeling of being insulted and shamed," senior flight attendant Park Chang-jin told South Korea's KBS television network on Friday.

After being confronted about the nuts, he said he and his colleague kneeled down before Cho.

He said Cho poked the back of his hand with a corner of the flight manual book several times.

According to Park, Cho yelled at the crew to "call right now and stop the plane. I will stop this plane from leaving." Park said that in such a situation, he could not dare to refuse the "owner's daughter."

South Korean media called the 40-year-old a princess and some Koreans said she was an international embarrassment to her country.
Still, many South Koreans were not surprised by Cho's display of entitlement, pointing to a culture that held in high esteem the families who founded the industrial conglomerates credited with leading the country to modernization and wealth.

Nowadays, however, there is growing criticism of ostentatious wealth and unfettered power, particularly directed at the newest generation, which is inheriting the business empires founded by their fathers and grandfathers.
All three children of Cho Yang-ho rose quickly to the top ranks of the airline, holding executive roles in it and affiliate companies.
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Does the story sound familiar?

Are Asians naturally subservient?
Do we deserve to be bullied & beaten up by rich Asians and foreigners in our own country?

Anonymous said...

Does Liu Thai Ker's 10 million population divert attention from PM Lee's 6.9 million?
Do you now dislike Liu Thai Ker and completely forget about PM Lee's original bright idea?

Anonymous said...

"You want to squeeze in 10 million or 20 million people into this island?"

Why not, if the Sinkie opposition is not ready to be govt?

If in doubt, just remember what kaki lang Teochew Ah Hia already said, and it is worth repeating, majority (aka 60%) Sinkies are very scared they accidentally vote PAP out in a GE because WP is not ready to be govt.

Anonymous said...

10M NO PROBLEM! GO FOR 12M!

So you want 10M people?

Why stop at 10M?

Why not be more radical and go
for 12M** people to generate
domestic consumptions?

**12M people target is after
securing 956 years lease or FH
status of Iskandar zone and batam
island.

This can be part of the on-going investments between sin, mal and ind.

So 12M people, no problem!

Cheers.

Anonymous said...

"Sinkies are very scared they accidentally vote PAP out in a GE because WP is not ready to be govt."
December 14, 2014 11:17 am

Right now I am very scared Sinkies accidentally vote PAP to be government again for another 5 years.
Because Lee Hsien Loong does not look capable to be prime minister.
And PAP does not look competent to be government for another 5 years.

Anonymous said...

His 10m is used as a diversion, yes, to make 6.9m looking like peanuts. So 6.9m becomes acceptable.

Anonymous said...

If PAP becomes government again after GE 2016.
Are Singaporeans prepared to continue supporting these types of investment losses by GIC and Temasek?

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PAP should reveal no. of bad investments in GIC & Temasek

http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/12/14/pap-should-reveal-no-of-bad-investments-in-gic-cpf-losses/

Anonymous said...

When a deathly contagious epidemic in due time hit Sinkie Land the folly of greed & growth through mass import of population will be obvious.

Ⓜatilah $ingapura⚠️ said...

Kani nah, the bobblehead redbean can't make distinctions on the basic physical attributes of things ah?

Did this fucker attend school or not? I'm beginning to wonder.

With a Mini, you have fixed space...i.e. fixed volume.

With a motherfucking cuntree, you also have fixed space. But you can BUILD DIFFERENTLY-- you can build up, you can build down, below the ground. You can also reclaim land--from the sea.

Even if Singapore had 10 million people, it still would not be the most densely populated place on the planet. Life would go on, and it would be AWESOME.

Get with the program lah. 10 million, bring it on!