It's enough to make one wonder how European monarchy functioned so well for so long. I guess the royal family must have been impossibly stabilized as far as regression to the mean is concerned. After all, one can easily see the familial resemblance between, say, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and Queen Elizabeth II. P.S. That's a man, baby.

[…] The Fall of Singapore’s Monarchy […]

The pozz is spreading...

"And more importantly, she could stop being a bitch and writing articles all over the state controlled media in Singapore saying that she’s hot stuff. She’s “eccentric“, is glad of “looking like a boy“, how she “chose” to be single, writes books about “being a woman” while doing everything she can to avoid looking like a woman." Ha! Just like "All's Well End's Well" (sic) 2009, which I once saw on a plane.

Might have called herself zorg. Laughed aloud at this.

Off topic, but do you have any reading recommendations (blogs, books) ?

[…] Source: Bloody Shovel […]

吾本西方一纳子 为何流落帝王家 Could you translate the poem? Also, how would one go about learning Chinese?

"This shows again my personal theory that language ability and IQ aren’t at all correlated." What do you mean by this? I'm pretty sure most IQ tests have a part that focuses on language, and the whole point of IQ is that the scores on the various parts are correlated. Do you mean that the kind of linguistic intelligence that is measured on IQ tests, is completely uncorrelated with one's ability to actually speak a language fluently?

Wickedly funny post Spandrell. What's your position on monarchy anyway? Do you support hereditary monarchy? Would you prefer a model along more corporate lines with a board that selects a successor?

1. There were whispers about how the old man might have ruled the island with an iron fist but it was his wife who ruled his household and family with an iron fist. 2. The old man's son became a General in the army at the ripe old age of 30. 3. The old man's son had a first wife who was a Malaysian and died at the age of 31. The whispers had it that she was forced to commit suicide. 4. The whispers too mentioned about the old man's daughter wanting to marry an Indian but was disapproved of by the old man.

I agree--very New York. I would apologize, but I was thoroughly entertained and enlightened in the strangest way, and intend to reread it. (Don't want to end with this, since I don't believe in necessity of overly-polished blog posts, but is 'progidy' definitely the same as 'the hoi polloi'--or just 'hoi polloi'. There might be some confusion with the number of sigmas, unless that is something totally insider.) Loved the Scheming Witch, totally working the Diana Vreeland/Met Costume Institute Circuit--flat chest and all, but about 30 years too late for her not to look lesbian herself were it not for the juxtaposition to Lovely Princess (great job of overdoing that part, loved it.) The reptilian DV type is probably in all metropolitan high circles, John O'Hara had a 'Bobbie Brummell' lesbian like that who is the fictional prototype. I definitely have noticed that the very richest countries have by far the most short-haired women--the prettiest in Switzerland almost all do.

I have to wonder if there's some deeper power-play here. SIngapore has been keeping its distance from China's new strategic projects, and I've read Chinese op-eds saying fine, we don't need Singapore as a partner. This issue of Lee Kuan Yew's house may just be a pretext for a pro-Chinese faction to grab power.

Should have had more kids. More kids, better chances one of them will actually be up to spec.

Lee Kuan Yew was a deracinated comprador traitor and he made a fatal mistake in trying to make a "multicultural" (read multiracial) Singapore work by deracinating the rest of the Straits Chinese along with him. His policies set in motion the series of events that culminated in Singapore's present descent into the Abyss. His son shares a portion of the blame, having picked up the Baizuo mentality from his time at Harvard apparently and merely sped up it up along it's pre-ordained path. Here is a little something I wrote to others about Singapore's fate... It was not well received by most of the Anglophone Singaporean Chinese upper middle class, an endangered species that they are. Chinese racial nationalism is essential to the survival of our people both as a distinctive racial and culture unit. Everyone here who poo poos the Ah Tiongs forgets this at their own peril. When the chips are down, do you think the Indians, Malays, or Ang Mohs will help you? They will help their own and to hell with you. Do you even remember why Singapore was even born? It wasn't to promote "liberal international values" (aka US imperialist values) but to ensure the survival of the straits Chinese in the face of an overwhelmingly hostile Malayan Muslim population. Singapore's present prosperity, such as it still is, was built on the backs of the Chinese. This foundation is rapidly disappearing as Singapore succumbs to the Scylla and Charybdis of Liberal virtue signaling and nihilistic female hypergamy unleashed by feminism. The TFR of native Chinese Singaporean women is around 1 child per lifetime. Combine this with the near 20% ethnic miscegenation rate as of 2015 (compared to barely 5% in 1990) will result in the genetic and cultural annihilation of the Chinese community before the century is done. There is simply no escaping this without revolutionary change. Singapore's history of so-called "race-riots" disguise the truth of what they actually were. Anti-Chinese pogroms perpetrated by Muslim Malays envious of Chinese prosperity and fearful that political power could fall in their hands. Look at the fate of the remaining Chinese in Malaysia, a broken persecuted people who are forced to pay Jizya to the Muslims otherwise they will be murdered. A population that is rapidly dying out as everyone who can, leaves and the only ones left behind are the elderly and those too poor and incapable to get the fuck out. That is going to be the inevitable fate of Singapore as it proceeds along it's current course. Dysgenic fertility is already baked into the cake as the Chinese middle class is no longer reproducing. A significant portion of it's proletariat class is busy miscegenating with mail order Filipino, Thai, and Vietnamese brides, creating a next generation of perpetual helot labor. Chinese females are busy cavorting with the AMDK or APNN elites or raising cats. The demographic profile of Singapore will change from one that was solidly majority Chinese with fixed racial boundaries and roles for the remaining Malays and Tamils to a dysfunctional stew of mystery meat races. Singapore will not be able to maintain is current prosperity when the Chinese are gone and all that are left are half breed proles, and self-serving APNN shylocks, and a horde of Malayan Muslims and other southeast Asian riff raff that will inevitably fill up a rapidly depopulating city. Singapore has no future without Chinese racial nationalism. That you stupid ingrates can't see and are busy pooh poohing Ah Tiongs to show how "developed", "cultured" and, "cosmopolitan" you are compared to them in front of the AMDK is only going to end up with your people extinct, your womenfolk taken by racial aliens, and your country overrun and lost. Just like what is happening to the AMDK homelands. Like Europe's failed experiments with settler colonies (sans the places where they killed the majority of the natives) all of the overseas Chinese communities are dying. If Singapore was once envisioned as a redoubt for them, then I'm afraid it's mission has utterly failed, having invited the barbarian hordes within and even worse suffering from the terminal inability to even offer token resistance. Even worse, everywhere I see the signs of entropy and racial decay. Taiwan last year elected a lesbian cat lady to the president whose only legislative claim to fame so far is to legalize homosexual marriage. Hong Kong is equally cucked. The Chinese Malaysians and Indonesians I suspect are going to be massacred by Muslims mobs within two decades as they follow their Islamic spiral to imitate Saudi Arabia. Only in the mainland are there glimmers of hope simply because actual communist rule seems to have vaccinated them somewhat against runaway leftism just as it has in Eastern Europe. Even then, there are dark storm clouds ahead and it is only thanks to the rightful paranoia of the Communist Party apparat that things are kept in check. Everywhere I see is darkness and despair. The modern world sucks.

well, HK is a republic and doesn't have this sort of crap, does it?

Cannot find evidence that Lee Hsien Loong wuld have an IQ 2sd above Spandrell .that would put his IQ in the 170 level, which seems inconceivably high .

Have to be a father if you expect your family to be like a family. Don't have time to be a father, because while you're doing that, the jackals it pleases you to call your government will be stealing your lunch. Not to mention the Cathedral is always everywhere it hasn't been specifically expunged from. They're normally incompetent, it's always impossible to find good help. But it only takes one, and there's always more where that came from.

LKY said he married his wife for her intelligence and not her looks. Big mistake. They produced a litter of trolls.

Do we have a good example of LKY sounding like "Sulla on horseback"? In the videos I've seen, he sounded like any old mild-mannered Asian man. I can't seem to find a good one of young LKY.

WTH is that? Such a smug, egregiously anti-natural androgen SJWwould be guaranteed a job o@ BBC's FRUMPENIN.. I mean diversity policy. If you want a vusion of the future, imagine beingvtrapped in a duversity lectire, with the snarky sarcastic ratfavce of SP WHINING AT YOU forever.

[…] baked in, and a pretty weird (and what sounds to me a pretty big Indian influence) pronunciation. As you may remember, even Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, by every account a 150 IQ genius, speaks […]

There is another child that the family has who is high-functioning autistic. He's the one who is never in the public eye.