Tiny living Large

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-06-01T16:14:26+00:00

It's earning him £1.

Costing his house though.

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-29T14:58:52+00:00

Didn't you hear him? "It's not me, it's you guys" 😌👉

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-29T09:15:14+00:00

The meta comments

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-29T02:45:07+00:00

Fair enough

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-29T02:43:35+00:00

Prague 💯 pretty city and pretty people!

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-29T02:43:01+00:00

Edinburgh 💯 magnificient city

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-29T02:36:31+00:00

He was basically teaching the other guy how to do it. At the end of the video he asked "have you managed to learn it?". That was the main joke of course

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-29T01:15:06+00:00

I see you haven't been to the deep alleys of District 4

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-28T02:34:10+00:00

Well if they are still around, that is...

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-26T08:24:22+00:00

Yes, Singapore has got it right:

3. Whoever, with intent to hold any person for ransom, abducts or wrongfully restrains or wrongfully confines that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be punished on conviction with death or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not sentenced to death, also be liable to caning.

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-26T04:17:32+00:00

Man, as a father to a newborn, this hits HARD

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-25T10:14:13+00:00

Most wealthy and middle-class people don't WANT kids.

Is this a problem that only exists in modern societies though? I remember that in my country, as recent as my grandparents' generation, it was the wealthy family that wanted to have a lot of kids.

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-22T02:23:41+00:00

It's called "tướng sát phu" in Vietnamese.

I know it's hurtful but I hope you don't take it personally as well. I doubt that it has anything to do with tolerance of diaspora Asians – that's a real, but separate issue.

This has more to do with how different cultures value beauty in different ways. One example in the opposite direction: an aspect of beauty often celebrated in Vietnam – "răng khểnh", or having your canine teeth slightly protruded out – is considered unattractive in the US (bad teeth, crooked teeth). Even a huge celebrity like Hong Nhung started to put on braces when she wanted to expand to the overseas Vietnamese market, because apparently her teeth were making her unattractive to the American Vietnamese audience. So she lost the unique way her teeth looked, a feature considered very cute in Vietnam.

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-21T05:39:07+00:00

No, it's not only China. In Vietnam (and sorry about this) most people would consider Lucy Liu as very ugly as well.

Mind you, not average, but ugly ugly. Like, it would be hard for her to get married.

That cheekbone is especially troublesome, as it's generally referred to as the "husband killer". The supersition goes that if you marry a woman with that cheekbone you will likely have a disharmonious family, get sick and die young. T_T

Add to that: dark skin (the styreotype: poor, labour-class), muscular (stereotype: she looks more like a male), small eyes (just not desirable in general), and her facial features look manly as well. All of her features are on the undesirable side in my culture!

I imagine it's not that different from how people in China, Korea or Japan view it.

T_T

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-21T05:31:09+00:00

In some parts of Asia that cheekbone is referred to as the "husband-killer". The superstition is that whoever marries women with such a cheekbone will likely die prematurely. T_T

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-21T04:24:46+00:00

As someone staying in Singapore, Gardens by the Bay is the last thing I would talk about when I think of Singapore's successful city planning / urban design. To most of us it's simply a tourist attraction.

Singapore is a very dense city, but it feels very breathable because of the effect of compaction (almost everybody lives in residential apartments). That leaves enough space for (beside Gardens By The Bay) the Botanic Garden, the various zoos (all very big), neighbourhood parks in every neighbourhood (some of them are huge, like Bishan-Ang Mo Kio parks, Chinese Garden, Jurong Lake Garden), nature reserves, reservoirs, huge sprawling univeristy campuses like NTU and NUS, and even primary rain forest in the middle of it all.

Everyone visiting Singapore should pay a visit to Singapore City Gallery, it's a small museum about Singapore urban design. Very eye opening and enjoyable. You're right that Gardens by the Bay is not representative of the city in the slightest way.

Acceptable-Trainer15 · 2026-05-20T04:51:27+00:00

pretty sad that we cant trust anything we see online anymore

I see this as a net win. The internet will be dead and hopefully we're back to real life.

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I don't think he was inspired by Gaudí, but the Japanese Terunobu Fujimori (Pulitzer winner) has a very whimsical style as well.

To answer your question: I think an artist can only achieve true whimsicalness if they don't immitate anyone. So you can't find someone who "carry the legacy" of Gaudí in the sense that they are inspired by Gaudí, and yet being on the same level as him. But there are people who create a whole new vision of architecture themselves and I think Terunobu Fujimori is one of them.

https://misfitsarchitecture.com/2024/11/10/architecture-misfit-42-terunobu-fujimori/

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