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Singapore Maximum Security Cell and Feeding

KLthinker91 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:50:49 +0800

Grim

worth watching to see the careful arrangements, and the thought process underlying them

e.g. short toothbrushes and transparent toothpaste

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Sinead O'Connor, 56, RIP

KLthinker91 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:18:27 +0800

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-ne...bituary-200764/

TL;DR scroll down to last paragraph

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Sinead O’Connor Dead at 56
Fiery Irish singer and songwriter was an unlikely Nineties pop superstar with "Nothing Compares 2 U," but career plagued by mental health issues

Sinéad O’Connor, the fiery Irish singer and songwriter whose striking voice briefly made her an unlikely pop superstar in the early Nineties, while her bold public stances on child abuse, war, and organized religion kept her in the news, has died at the age of 56.

O’Connor’s family confirmed the singer’s death in a statement to Irish news network RTE, “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.” No cause of death was provided.

Already a rising star in the late ‘80s, O’Connor shot to fame in 1990 when her version of the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U” became a Number One hit. Her Celtic-tinged vocal style, marked by breathy swoops that were by turns soothing and abrasive, would echo throughout the Nineties, influencing singers such as Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette, who said O’Connor’s music was “really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote Jagged Little Pill.”

Though her singing was passionate and sensual, O’Connor avoided the cliché images that often straight-jacketed female rock stars. She was neither a girlish sexpot nor a hippie free-spirit nor a posturing tough chick, and her fiercely idiosyncratic personal style – shaved head, emotionally ambiguous facial expressions, loose outfits – helped younger female artists discover new ways to reinvent themselves.

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor was born on December 8, 1966, in Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland. Her parents separated when she was eight, and Sinéad, along with her two of her four siblings, went to live with her mother. O’Connor would later claim that her mother, who died in a 1985 car accident, physically abused her. She sang about the effects of this abuse on her 1994 song “Fire on Babylon” and consistently advocated for abused children throughout her life. “The cause of all the world’s problems, as far as I’m concerned, is child abuse,” she said in 1991.

Fellow musicians recognized O’Connor’s gifts early on. When she was 15, she co-wrote “Take My Hand,” the first single for the soon-to-be successful Irish rock band In Tua Nua. In 1984 she and Colm Farrelly formed Ton Ton Macoute, and the group made a name for itself on the Dublin rock scene. But O’Connor outshone her bandmates and was soon signed to Ensign Records. She moved to London and co-wrote “Heroine” with The Edge for the film Captive. U2 were early supporters of O’Connor’s music, but she alienated them by dismissing the band as “bombastic” and defending the violent tactics of the Irish Republican Army. She also shaved her head. “[The heads of Ensign] wanted me to wear high-heel boots and tight jeans and grow my hair,” O’Connor told Rolling Stone in 1991. “And I decided that they were so pathetic that I shaved my head so there couldn’t be any further discussion.”

The recording sessions for O’Connor’s debut album got off to a rocky start. She clashed with her initial producer, industry veteran Mick Glossip, firing him, scrapping the initial recordings, and badmouthing him to the press. O’Connor convinced her label to let her produce the album herself, with recording assistance from drummer John Reynolds – who was also the father of O’Connor’s first son, Jake, born during this time. When The Lion and the Cobra came out in 1987, it went gold, was critically lauded, and earned O’Connor her first Grammy nomination. “Mandinka” became a modern rock hit. O’Connor, who was among the first rock musicians to embrace hip-hop, also crossed over to urban audiences with a remix of “I Want Your (Hands on Me)” that featured MC Lyte.

But it was O’Connor’s 1990 follow-up album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, anchored by her haunting rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” (a song he originally wrote for his side project, the Family) that would make the singer an international star. The album was heavily inspired by O’Connor’s mother.“The songs on this record were really about her,” she said in 2009. “Even the fucking title I got from having a dream about her, and in this dream she said to me, “I do not want what I haven’t got.” In my mind, even ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ was me thinking about her.” A critical success that also went double platinum, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got seemed like the start of a long, unpredictably great career. But O’Connor’s music would never again be this popular, or this celebrated.

In 1990, O’Connor became nearly as well-known for her unyielding public actions as for her music. She refused to appear as a musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by misogynist comic Andrew Dice Clay. That summer, she would not allow a New Jersey concert venue to play the U.S. national anthem before a performance; in response, some radio stations stopped playing music and Frank Sinatra threatened to “kick her in the ass.” Along with Public Enemy, she boycotted the 1991 Grammy Awards to protest the first Gulf War. But her most controversial act was yet to come.

In 1992, O’Connor released her third album, Am I Not Your Girl?, a collection of lushly orchestrated cover songs, mostly jazz and pre-rock pop standards, that puzzled critics and fans alike. That October, shortly after the album’s release, she was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. She sang an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s “War,” the lyrics modified slightly to protest sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and as she sang the word “evil,” she showed a photo of Pope John Paul II, which she then ripped apart. Saying “Fight the real enemy,” O’Connor then flung the scraps at the camera. The audience responded with silence.

The public response was explosive, ranging from fierce outrage to dismissive mockery. Joe Pesci, SNL‘s host the following week, threatened O’Connor, saying “I would have gave her such a smack.” Even Madonna (perhaps a little envious that an equally skilled pop provocateur might upstage her) called O’Connor’s actions inappropriate, and parodied the act on SNL in 1993. Just two weeks after her SNL performance, O’Connor took the stage at Madison Square Garden to perform “I Believe in You” at a Bob Dylan tribute concert, where she could barely be heard over the roars of the audience, which was split between supporters and detractors. Defiantly, she again sang “War.”

With her new album foundering on the charts and the public outcry becoming a distraction, O’Connor took some time off – according to some reports she’d retired. In 1994 she released Universal Mother, which included an astounding version of Nirvana’s “All Apologies,” but the album struggled commercially and her career never stabilized. The only other music O’Connor would release in the ‘90s was the Gospel Oak EP in 1997. Meanwhile, her personal life stayed in the news. She and Irish journalist John Waters engaged in a nasty public dispute over custody of their daughter, Roisin (O’Connor’s second child). Then, in 1999, O’Connor was ordained as a priest in a splinter Catholic sect, the Latin Tridentine Church, as Mother Bernadette Mary.

In 2000, O’Connor signed with Atlantic Records. Her debut for the label, Faith and Courage, sounded like an attempt to regain commercial relevance, but with its too-broad range of producers – from Wyclef Jean and Kevin “She’kspere” Briggs to Dave Stewart and Brian Eno – it came off as unfocused. O’Connor regrouped musically with the 2002 collection of Irish folk, Sean-Nós Nua, and an even more successful collection of reggae classics, Throw Down Your Arms, with Jamaican superproducers Sly and Robbie, in 2005.

O’Connor continued to record, releasing the albums Theology (2007), How About I Be Me (and You Be You)? (2012), and I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss (2014). But the world paid more attention to her public statements than her art. In 2013, O’Connor wrote a much-discussed “open letter” to Miley Cyrus, “to send healthier messages to your peers… they and you are worth more than what is currently going on in your career.” After Prince’s death in 2016, she called the late superstar (with whom she had apparently never gotten along) “a long time hard drug user” and referred to Arsenio Hall his “dealer.”

O’Connor was believed to have suffered from mental health issues for years. On The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007, O’Connor said she’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and that she’d attempted suicide in 1999 on her 33rd birthday. However, she reappeared on the program seven years later to say that she’d gotten several second opinions and believed she’d been misdiagnosed. O’Connor posted what appeared to be a suicide note on her Facebook page in November 2015, lashing out at her family members. When she disappeared during a biking trip in suburban Chicago in May 2016, there were widespread fears for her life. A yearlong stay in a trauma and addiction treatment program followed in 2020.

O’Connor’s legacy enjoyed a resurgence in recent years with a memoir and an acclaimed documentary, but just as quickly as tragedy struck as the singer revealed that her 17-year-old son Shane died by suicide in Jan. 2022, just days after he went missing from an Irish hospital’s suicide watch. O’Connor’s own death came 18 months after that of her son.

RIP

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British Army Jungle Training

KLthinker91 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:33:32 +0800

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Japanese Kitchen Cooks Thousands Of School Lunches

KLthinker91 — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:20:55 +0800

How A Japanese Mega-Kitchen Prepares Thousands Of School Lunches Everyday

I have always been fascinated by the logistics of cooking large amounts of nutritious food

This is a great video, only 10 minutes, very compact, most enjoyable

What impresses me about this operation is the attention to cleanliness, nutritional detail, and the educational thinking that goes into it, plus the self-awareness that they are setting a good example for the schoolchildren

Look how clean it is! and nutritious! this is better than Malaysian restaurant food OMG - and it's "just" school canteen food for Japanese children

Of course, this operation is obviously quite expensive to setup and operate, the cost comes in at Rm11.50 per meal per student, plus who knows what grants or donations they may receive in addition

However it's still quite impressive. I wonder if it is replicable in Malaysia.

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70s Music: Oldfags come in

KLthinker91 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 08:35:40 +0800

Oldfags come in, rec me your favourite 70s music

I don't know much about this era

If you're embedding Youtube links, please put in spoiler tags so the thread page loads faster. Then can bukak spoiler individually, instead of loading all at once

example:

The Police - Message in a Bottle

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SU-57 PAK-FA has entered the chat!

KLthinker91 — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:07:42 +0800

hoo boy we in trouble now

Russia's most advanced fighter is here!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/55%C2%B03...8'45.7%22E/

edit: seems like you guys not getting the hint look around

Beyond Meat COO arrested for

KLthinker91 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 05:10:15 +0800

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...e-football-game

Beyond Meat COO Suspended for Biting Man’s Nose After College Football Game

Beyond Meat Inc.’s chief operating officer was suspended after he was arrested on allegations that he bit a man’s nose during an altercation after a college football game in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Doug Ramsey has been suspended, effective immediately, the plant-based meats company said in a statement Tuesday. He was arrested on charges of terroristic threatening and third-degree battery, court records show. Ramsey was allegedly at a parking garage when a Subaru inched in front of his Bronco, coming into contact with the front tire on the passenger’s side, according to a report by local station KNWA/KFTA.

Ramsey got out of his car and “punched through the back windshield of the Subaru,” according to the report. The Beyond Meat executive allegedly then started punching the owner of the car, who had left the vehicle, and also “bit the owner’s nose, ripping the flesh on the tip.” He also “threatened to kill” the other man, according to the report.

The executive was released Sunday on an $11,085 bond, according to court records.

Ramsey, 53, became Beyond Meat’s operating chief in December after a three-decade career with Tyson Foods Inc. His arrest is the latest blow to the plant-based protein company, which last month slashed its revenue outlook for the year and said it would cut 4% of its workforce.

Ramsey and Beyond Meat didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment. The company’s shares rose 1.4% in postclose trading Monday but are down 74% so far this year.

Sad breakfast thread

KLthinker91 — Tue, 24 May 2022 07:32:50 +0800

McD still no coffee refill, what's the fucking point?

Post your breakfast boys and girls

Suggest an Anti-Mosquito device that works?

KLthinker91 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 20:30:11 +0800

Let me tell you a cool story

I hate mosquitoes because I have developed a particular sensitivity to mozzie bites, which can itch badly for hours

Last night I was working in my bedroom. It's a smallish room entirely closed and with mosquito netting on windows and doors, but the occasional mozzie still gets in once in a long while. As backup I have an electronic mosquito repellant liquid burner. Which usually seems to work, or at least I hadn't been bitten before... EXCEPT TODAY.

The electronic burner (Shieldtox) is plugged into the same outlet that feeds my laptop.

I got bitten a few times and the last time I looked down and the mosquito is sitting on my foot - RIGHT NEXT TO THE FUCKING BURNER!!

So. What do you guys use?

Breakfast thread, all welcome to share

KLthinker91 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:39:02 +0800

It's been a very long time since I had wantan mee

Guess how much this is? Eaten in ordinary KL kopitiam

Come share your breakfasts too

World's Largest Community Kitchen Feeds 100,000

KLthinker91 — Tue, 11 May 2021 15:42:35 +0800

The logistics of this operation, and the devotees' piety and co-operation, is impressive and inspiring

this is pre-covid19 yeah, so that is not relevant...

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Best place to study IGCSE in KL/PJ?

KLthinker91 — Mon, 03 May 2021 19:12:50 +0800

Hi there, my young friend is thinking of taking IGCSE, what's the best centre to study IGCSE? Any particular tutor to follow?

Also info in general about studying IGCSE in Malaysia would be much appreciated, thanks. Basically don't know jack about this at all.

Ktards suggest me rice crispies and where to buy

KLthinker91 — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 02:13:08 +0800

Recently I've had a hankering for rice crispy snacks. Don't want to eat potato or corn chips any more. But other than the popular basic salty cracker posted below which I'm sure we all remember, what other rice crispy chips/snacks/biscuits can /k recommend?

Also where to buy?

Think I'd like to have a nice wide selection of salty, spicy, and sweet varieties to choose from

Not too expensive please, I'm not made of money and I like to snack

Thanks and advance upah in spoiler

upah:

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Supper / breakfast and good movie sharing

KLthinker91 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 04:10:37 +0800

/k let me show you the consequences of watching kitchencore / foodporn movies late at night

Movie first

Burnt is a movie starring Bradley Cooper and a bunch of cameos about a chef who went bad and now is trying to find redemption in life by earning his 3rd Michelin star. While the plot was fairly predictable it was a feelgood rom-drama and all the characters are nice. That's good, because a movie with obvious nasty villains is cheating. Reality is usually about good people who make bad decisions, and that's the stuff of good drama.

I only regret not watching with the girlfriend before dinner

7 / 10 (michelin) stars, would watch again sometime

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Now for the consequences

(Not pictured: glass of milk)

Okay so it's cheap ass food not a Michelin star degustation menu but yeah that's the curse. Not that I can find high keras food at 4am during MCO. Carbs are the fastest and most filling way to satisfy cravings, and ayam poorfag anyhow.

Moral of the story: don't watch foodporn at night

Also fuck raspberry, why the fuck am I out of fuckin marmalade...!!

Gnight

Late Night Supper and What it Means to b Malaysian

KLthinker91 — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:32:04 +0800

Being Malaysian is eating a fresh burger Ramly at this time of night

IYKWIM

Sekian

(UPDATED) MAKUDONARUDO INFLATION RAGE!

KLthinker91 — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 18:23:22 +0800

UPDATED

NOW 1.25!!

MY FAVOURITE AIS KRIM SNEK

EASY TO BUY JUST PAY ONE BLUE NOTE

BECOME

ONE TWENTY

NOW NEED TO FORK OUT ADDITIONAL COIN

ONE TWENTY!!

20% INFLASI!!!!!

Possibly the best Malaysian speech I've ever heard

KLthinker91 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:22:29 +0800

16 minutes but absolutely worth the watch! Spoken with only a few references to notes, it is an amazing feat of oration

2:54 - first objection

5:48 - second hit

7:30 - third OOF

10:34 - BIG SLAM against racism!

12:27 - key message

13:46 - important party stance

14:18 - basis in Islamic principle

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Unhealthy dinrar today

KLthinker91 — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:23:59 +0800

Today I decided to eat an unhealthy dinner

Burger = daging double, no cheese, damage Rm5.70

Drink = Malta, Rm2.90

Total: Rm8.60

Don't really feel full compared to e.g. Mcd or BK, I should have ordered 2 burgers

Went to my usual neighbourhood Ramly, 2 fellas sitting there with no customers when usually at this time of night he has 5 or 6 lined up

Stall owner seemed quite sad and desperate for business, layan me best gila, lots of "yes boss" "tenkiu boss" and almost bowing like a Japanese

I felt quite sorry for him and wished him "selamat niaga"

He remarked: "During masa MCO, we are supposed to close at 10pm, but we do try and 'tarik' sikit, so if you are hungry at 10.30pm, call me, probably we are still around..."

Moral of the story: ktards who have steady job, bersyukurlah

Sekian

Rate my dinrar

KLthinker91 — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 22:11:12 +0800

Poorfag Aussie ribeye with cabbage, pak choy, steamed sweet potato sticks

Forgive the potato cam

Bohong bodoh mengharumkan nama negara

KLthinker91 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:46:05 +0800

Previous minister of defence admitted we are effectively helpless, which we are; previous deputy minister of defence laid out a plan of action to at least build something for the future, be it ever so humble

But because Malaysians prefer a racist, thieving, lying Govt to lead us and represent us to the world,

Hence we tell stupid lies and smile and cheer and say "what a great nation we are!" and parade our awesome national might every August 31

While the whole world laughs at the emperor's new clothes

Congratulations

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