Why do some guys keep talking about ns a lot? I’m a Singaporean myself and have been through my ns, but is that all guys talk about?
like I met up with some friends recently and what we talked about for 2 hours was ns and nothing about work or anything. I’m sort of annoyed about the fact that all we talk about is ns even if it’s when the same group of people and some of them has blended army lingo into their daily lives
To be fair, I don’t mind them mixing army lingo into civilian life but them just talking about ns and not mentioning anything about work or family, it’s all about ns and the army, it’s sort of annoying I just see it as something that all guys in sg need to go through like a rite of passage I don’t see why some guys have to keep talking about it after going through it
Edit:
So let me clarify a few things first
This happened about a few weeks ago and It just randomly surfaced in my mind when cooking. I think Ns is a great convo starter but I don’t see why 3 guys have to talk about it for 2 hours straight, it just gets stale
I tried to change topic midway through like “You have recently gotten a girlfriend right? How is she?” and what he said “she okay ah but she a bit ugly ah but can” and went back to talking about ns.
None of us actually have so-called boring careers and I’ve said that their careers are more interesting than ns itself, 1 works in healthcare the other 2 works in finance I think I’m the one with a boring job in our friendgroup. I understand that some of them may have ndas but it’s just that we don’t have to keep talking about a single topic for 2 hours straight like they could talk about the craziest thing that happened at work without revealing much info, talking about salary has always been a taboo topic in our friend group so we usually don’t talk about it
Yet they refuse to nudge off the topic of ns and the only thing where they talk about something else is when they complain about not being able to get a girlfriend and not understanding why girls don’t like the topic of ns and ask me how I get mine
Netizens’ comments
- im gonna be honest. talking about work is annoying as well. only thing that could save it is the fact that people talk about NS too much, talking about work feels fresher.
i wish people would talk more about the things they do in their free time, their relationships, work only if it’s not about toxic stuff and basically anything that isn’t naturally negative. it’s draining to talk about things we are affected by when we are already affected by those very things.
talking to others about our problems helps, but talking about it as leisure is worsening my mental health. So Please Stop - – Ice breaker topic – Since most guys experience NS and almost always have something to tell about it, it makes a good and common ice breaker topic.
Just ask someone what is their vocation and they shittiest thing they have done and boom, you just killed at easily 30 mins of time and you can get the ball rolling for other topics.
– Rose tinted glasses – We tend look at past events with more favourably. Beside, if you think about it, NS was like a pause in life and mini version of your childhood for some people, because you don’t need to study, chat with your friends and no responsibilities. Who doesn’t want that?
– I rather not talk about career/family – Is cool if you want to talk about your career and family, but sometimes nobody wants to talk their career and family during their free and easy time. Is not like I’m not proud of them or anything, but I already spent majority of life thinking and talking about them. Is like how my eyes roll back once I catch up with my friends and the only thing they talk about is how bad is their career and family life is.