Happy birthday to Singapore! In the special episode of the Longkangkitties, the 3 tomcats of the show share their thoughts and feelings regarding our nation.

We also touch on the recent rise of Bicentennial haters, historical revisionist extraordinaire who go around bursting everyone's bubbles. For good or bad, it seems they're here to stay.

Photograph was taken by Terence Ong

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Feels like the Shreystorm again, Epay and Nets done fuck it up with their Brownface advertisement, unleashing internet keyboard warriors to duel with each other over what is racist or not. And then like cherries on top of a shitcake, Preetipls and Subhas release their magnum opus, K Muthusamy, only to have it taken down by the government.

In this episode we feature 2 returning guests, Saiful and Lydia, to cut through the noise and talk about the nature of how adverts are done, why Brownface is not ok and what can we do to avoid such incidents in the future.

An episode we recorded a while back, a little late to the party as Alabama's new abortion laws came in months ago, but better late than terminated.

The kitties weigh in on the real-world implication of such a law and discuss Singapore's own abortion law as a comparison. And how Janet Porter's interference with our politics is a woeful case of double standards when it comes to foreigners meddling in our affairs.

While we keep the pro-choice/life rhetoric to a minimum, there are still some sprinkled in here and there, this episode is not for the pearl clutchers.

What does it mean to be an ally? In the wake of Tosh Zhang's unceremonious departure from being a Pink Dot Ambassador, the LGBT community took swings at the less than intrepid Ah Boy. While the finer points of allyship are being discussed, the Kitties took a wider view of the situation.

No guys this isn't 50 shades of Kitty! This week, professional Dungeon/Game master Shao tells us about how he runs RPG campaigns for people and gets paid for it!

A good friend of the show, Shao goes around SG, creating narratives and worlds for his clients to immerse in. From old school gamers to corporate team-building pow-wows, Shao has seen it all and shares it with us!

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ALL THE SPOILERS!!! This week, we review award-winning local indie film A Land Imagined, a film-noir-social-realism-detective-mystery-thriller-wedontknowanymore feature about a missing construction worker directed by Yeo Siew Hua - who should probably avoid listening to this podcast episode if he wants to keep his ego intact. If you thought JonCat was triggered in our Crazy Rich Asian review, boy, wait till you hear him rip on this movie!

Rage warning level 5000

If the whole sordid affair at NUS proves only one thing, it's that we need to scorch the building and salt the earth since nobody seems to know anything. From the mishandling of the voyeurism case of Monica Baey to the lack of any comprehensive framework on how to deal with victims and perpetrators alike, to now the digging up of the entire disgusting history of prior cases. NUS should neck itself. Or just give itself a one semester suspension.

Look, up on the internet! Its journalism, no! its an Onion article, no! ITS FAKE NEWS!!!! But fear not good citizens, Government Man is here to save the day!

This week we tackle a confluence of topics, mostly centered around freedom of speech and the government's attempt to protect us from all the bad things in the world. The banning of Watain is protecting us from bad anti-christian rhetoric, Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation (what a mouthful) is protecting us all from the dirty 4chan trolls, and Article 13 in the EU is to protect all the precious copyrights of big media conglomerates.

All in all, a dark day for those who want freedom of speech and expression. Btw none of these are facts, its all just opinion yall!

While some people view security guards as low class people not fit to socialise with, we at the LongKang hold no such illusions! This week we invite Loh Teck Yong, author of "Guards gone wild!" as a guest. The ex-security guard/wordsmith spills the beans on what it is REALLY like working in the security industry in Singapore, from getting threatened with a knife to being almost literally thrown under a truck, this old guard had plenty of stories to tell!

We also covered the new law that will penalises guards who fall asleep on the job. How will this affect the industry and more importantly, the already cash-strapped guards whose livelihoods are wholly dependant on their security licenses?

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It is because we're kitties?! If Jovina Choi has taught us anything, is that not apologising and threatening lawsuits will always win the day! Just kidding, flee to Perth instead where the Aussies will be happy to accept Singaporean social pariah refugees!

This week we look back at the various lolcows (look it up urban dictionary!) of the past and present whose bad behaviour was not only documented and put on proud display on various social medias, but also the online troll brigand also made it a point to show them literal hell on earth by ordering cash on delivery pizza to their dox-ed addresses.

Is the naming and shaming convention of the online mob the antidote to antisocial behaviours? Or did we, once again, step over the bounds of common decency and destroy everything in our path to enact vengeance?