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An imported American sales event that lures budget-conscious Singaporeans to move beyond window shopping into buying crap they don’t need at discounted prices, which could serve as some kind of stress therapy for overworked or unhappy workers.
From Halloween to Valentine’s Day to Singapore Black Friday, local businesses never fail to leverage on the attractions of foreign festivals, holidays, or events to profiteer from gullible citizens.
by MathPlus April 20, 2018
Get the Singapore Black Fridaymug. To be sensitive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit so that you may know God’s Will for you, instead of thinking that you need to be in a large gathering of fellow believers to feel God’s Presence and hear from Him.
God’s Presence or Power isn’t activated only when there’re more believers around, because He’s in their midst even when two or three of them come together—we need to follow the cloud, not the crowd.
by MathPlus January 25, 2018
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Diehard Trumpists or alt-right white supremacists would show unwavering loyalty to their Insurrectionist-in-Chief, and christening their newborn “Covid Trump” is one such faithful act of allegiance to the “anointed” one.
by MathPlus June 17, 2021
Get the Covid Trumpmug. Also known as “Boris Math.” When hardcore math educators, most of whom are white supremacists or racists, object to using wallet-friendly, better-quality foreign math textbooks under the guise of protecting local authors and publishers, or are opposed to recruiting foreign math teachers and lecturers to teach in local schools and universities, because their presence unprovenly threatens the livelihoods of locals, who would find it hard to compete with cheaper foreign talents.
PM Johnson and his diehard supporters would fight hard to maintain Brexit math for nationalistic reasons, because any compromise to let in alien mathematical talent would be perceived as going against their Brexiteer principles—math and math education must be local, and not adulterated by foreign elements.
by MathPlus October 2, 2021
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Unlike the negative image associated with creative accounting, other creative activities like creative writing and creative thinking are looked upon positively.
by MathPlus January 9, 2019
Get the Creative Accountingmug. A dyslexia sufferer who has difficulty in algebra as they are prone to confusing variables like b and d, or p and q, thus reducing their chances of evaluating an expression, or solving an equation, involving these letters correctly.
Guesstimate how many byslexics worldwide fail their algebra test every year through no fault on their own.
by MathPlus October 1, 2021
Get the byslexicmug. When you start wondering what would happen if you lost what you have, instead of uncritically thinking about all the things you want to achieve in life.
If only more people would practice negative visualization every now and then to take stock of what might go wrong in spite of their positive attitudes in taking risks in life, few would get hurt or burnt of their hard-earned money.
by MathPlus April 21, 2018
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