Campaigns

June 05, 2006

Singapore is a very interesting place. Over the past year, I’ve noticed several times the latest ‘campaign’ going on throughout the city. We’ve had campaigns to get pregnant, because the population is declining, to become a nurse, to join the navy (because it will make your life a lot less ‘boring’), to donate blood, to be polite (you mean you’re supposed to let people get OFF the train before you shove your way on? Go figure?). At any rate, this is a photo I took a while back of a poster in a washroom. The “Clean Public Toilets” campaign. By “toilet” they really mean “washroom” – if you ask someone here “where is the washroom?” – they’ll often look at you funny, and then you rephrase “where is the toilet?” – and they know what you mean.

At any rate – in all it’s glory:

I got a good laugh out of this one for quite some time. In case you can’t read it because of the flash, the second guys comment is: “That’s because no one hits on target”.