07/26/24 - It’s considered a really big accomplishment if anyone can stop China from getting all 8 gold medals.
“I got famous in my development because of my parking spot.
My kid’s not even two, and we’ve already got too many cars for her to put int he house. Her stroller, her electric car, her hover board, her walker, her skate board, they could fill up a whole corridor.
I couldn’t pile them up outside my door and annoy my neighbours, and the apartment managers would get all up in my ass too. So I just bought 5 RMB of tape and put up six little parking spots. That way, it’s easier to pick out which one she wants to ride today too.
I’m sure she’s gonna get even more scooters and camping cars and oh my god. Maybe I need to buy a second parking spot, or else I’m gonna run out of space.”
Comments say, “If you’re in a wealthy neighbourhood, nobody will steal them, but in a normal development, who knows?”
“I thought your kid was holding a party or something and all her friends rode their cars over.”
“If your house isn’t big enough, don’t buy such useless shit.”
#Paris Olympics Opening. “The Chinese team is coming next!” I finally feel it now! The Chinese red is so awesome!”
[There’s a video of the Chinese team entering on a boat, which youtube won’t let me post because of copyright reasons.]
Comments say, “Stop talking about whether or not the clothes are ugly. Red really stand out!”
“They gave us so few shots…”
#Korean child injures hand and father demands passerby pay for it. “Lately, an accident happened in Korea where a young boy holding onto a glass door had his hand pinched. We learned that the boy’s parents demanded the last customer to leave pay for the damages because she did not hold the door open for their kid, and this has become quite controversial.
On the 22nd, a post was made on a certain forum in Korea titled “Child’s hand is pinched in door, parents demand the last woman to leave pay for it.”, with videos of the incident attached.
From the videos, we can see that a boy wearing a blue short-sleeved T-shirt wants to go to the outside of the restaurant. A man who’s probably the boy’s father pulled open the door and let him out. Once the kid went outside, the man let go of the door.
Just before the door closed, a woman grabbed it by the handle, opened it again, and left herself. Then, as the door was closing, the boy wanted to come back into the restaurant, and as he reached out, his hand was pinched in the doorway.
The boy pulled out his hand immediately and looked to be in a lot of pain. At this point, the man finally notices something is wrong and walks towards the boy, and the video eds.
Netizens who saw the video were very angry upon hearing that the father wants to sue the short-haired lady for damages. They said, “Why would you go after her?” “She did nothing wrong.” “If his parents were around, then they were the ones being negligent.” “This is why we have no kids zones.” “Are they just trying to make money with their kid?”
In actuality, Korea has had cases before where a customer of a restaurant let go of a door and pinched a kid’s hand, causing injuries.
In 2019, in a certain fried chicken store in Seoul, a kid’s father opened the door and left, and a different man, Mr. A, immediately grabbed the door and headed into the store, and then let go. Just as he stepped into the store, the child left through the open door, but because the 4-year-old boy managed to get all the way through, the door shut, causing injuries to his middle and ring finger. Because of severe injuries to the nerves and joints of his fingers, it might cause developmental problems.
The prosecutor brought charges against Mr. A for “negligence”, but A said, “I couldn’t tell whether or not he could hurt. I did everything that falls under the necessary duty of care.” And demanded a formal judgement.
In the end, the judge ruled that Mr. A had to pay 2.5 million won. At the time, the judge explained, “The victim is quite severely injured, and this might affect his ability to grow up healthily.” “No evidence showed that the victim has recovered, and it’s impossible to get the victim’s forgiveness.” The judge also said, “Although the victim’s injury happened due to a possibility of his parents being negligent, that alone is not reason to make the defendant entirely free of responsibility.””
Comments say, “But if they rule this way, then some Koreans will just hate kids even more. They didn’t want kids to begin with, and now even being around a kid is dangerous.”
“The whole world doesn’t revolve around your son.”
A video of a man finally figuring out how to use his phone stand after owning it for 6 months. He had thought the entire time, that he was doing it right putting the phone on the flat end.
Comments say, “Project Manager: I knew it. Nobody is gonna read the instruction manual.”
“With my brains, when you opened the two things on the bottom up, for a moment, I thought it could be propped up like a keyboard XD”
“I also had no idea that’s how they worked XD”
#American court rules that boneless chicken wings is allowed to contain bones. “According to a report by the Associated Press on the 26th, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on the 25th that food labelled as “boneless chicken wings” is allowed to contain bone fragments.
We learned that this ruling was made in response to an incident that happened at a local restaurant. Previously, a man named Michael Berkheimer ordered a serving of “boneless wings” at the restaurant, and felt something was off when he swallowed, but didn’t realise that he might have swallowed a piece of bone. Three days later, said man began displaying symptoms of fever and loss of appetite. A check up revealed that a narrow piece of bone had tore his oesophagus, causing an infection.
This man believed that the restaurant labelled their product as “boneless chicken wings”, so he was paying attention to whether or not there was chicken bones while he was eating. He sued the restaurant for damages. But the local Supreme Court ruled that “boneless chicken wings” is just a name for a particular dish and a particular way of cooking, and the fact that chicken meat may contain bones is common sense. The jury voted four against and three for to decide that, “Boneless chicken wings may, in fact, contain bones.”
The judge in this case claimed, “We have a dish called “chicken fingers” too, but you can’t assume that you’re actually eating a chicken’s fingers with common sense.” But a lot of people are against this judge’s decision, because “boneless” is a word with a specific meaning. “If parents are feeding their babies boneless chicken, they sure wouldn’t want there to be any bones.”
Comments say, “But “boneless” has such a strong implication. It’s not at all the same as “wife cakes” or “husband and wife lung slices.””
“In America, even men might not be men, and women might not be women!”
“But if boneless chicken wings has bones, why not just call them chicken wings??”
#A plane full of passengers wait 3.5 hours for foreigners to get on. “On the 27th of July, in Hainan, Haikou, a man claimed that Shanghai Airlines made a whole plane full of people wait 3.5 hour for 15 foreigners to board. The video shows the stewards claiming, “I’ve asked the ground crew whether we have to wait for the last 15 people, and they said we have to. I’ve talked to the pilot too. I told him we have to be mindful of the 141 passengers who’ve already boarded. That’s what I told him.”
Comments say, “I remember one year, I was only a little over 10 minutes late. The plane hadn’t left the gate or anything. But they told me they already shut the doors and I can’t get in anymore. So I just quietly bought tickets for the next flight out. Now we have to wait on foreigners for 3.5 hours?? What kind of nobility are they??”
“They gotta give you some kind of explanation if you waited that long!”
“Do we have to be such simps??”
“France really showed themselves off to the whole world this time. If the Olympics is a story, then in order to tell a good story, what’s important isn’t how big your budget is, how fancy your stage is, or how well rehearsed you are. In contrast, the Paris Olympics is the very first Olympics to have no closed arena. The whole city is a big open-air arena. Lots of residents watched the opening from their balconies. Everyone got to be involved. There’s no barriers, no defenses. All the teams just sailed in on the Seine.
All of this can be summarised as “France used to be wealthy.” They have a lot of cultural symbols they can pull out that doesn’t need any explaining—Chansons, The Little Prince, Les Miserables, the opera Carmen, new wave of movies, and most beautifully, it’s actually France’s reimagining of the motto of their revolutionary era two hundred years ago—“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” These are not only not dated, but they’re very worth re-emphasising in our current age. They should’ve been the most basic parts of our lives, but in a lot of places, they’re far from commonplace.
This is shown in a lot of loveable details. For example, “Fraternity” is a highly masculine word in France, a love between brothers. So this Opening Ceremony added “Sorority” behind “Fraternity”, the love between sisters. That’s how we got the moving segment where ten gilded female statues slowly rose up in time to music, to pay homage to the ten notable women in France’s history—politicians who got women in the workplace, lawyers who defended women’s rights, authors who fought for feminism, the first woman around the world…These pioneers deserved to be seen. We had progress because of their existence, because there were people who believed in the values they represented. And as a synonym for all the honourable parts of human philosophy, the Olympics should make sure that people remember them and believe in them.
I think tonight, a lot of people, including myself, were super touched. Probably because these past couple of years, after experiencing the pandemic, economic regression, and a global turn to the right, people don’t really believe in these values anymore. In an age where most people tend to feel tired and low, as the birthplace of such mottos, Paris reminded us of their value, and that really picks people up.”
Comments say, “In this ever more conservative age, we need more free and romantic expression like this opening.”
“Sigh, it’s a rare moment where the stars of humanity shine bright.”
“The big picture doesn’t necessarily mean things have to be grand. Tonight, Paris is a city-wide moving parade. All the fragmented shows pulled together classics and diversity. Can you say it doesn’t have the heaviness of history? And yet, it expressed it in such a light and unrestrained way, recreating a chaotic sort of beauty. This chaos precisely illustrated human culture’s height. It’s so clear and precise.”
#British diving athlete Daley enters the Olympics for his son. “According to Peng Pai News reports, famous British diving athlete Daley is entering the Olympics for the fifth time. He said in a press release on the 25th that China’s diving team is unquestionably the best in the world, but he’s still prepared to do his best to prevent Chinese athletes from rounding up all the gold medals.
Daley said, “On paper, unquestionably, everyone thinks that the Chinese team is going to win every competition. There’s a lot of expectations on them in the Olympics. I know that every Chinese athlete is under a ton of pressure, because they know they can’t lose.”
“But if you enter with a different mindset, you’d know that other athletes have a chance at victory too. I think all the other teams in the world are following right behind the Chinese team, ready to challenge them. They’re not undefeatable in some programs.
Daley believes that the Chinese women’s performance is unbelievable. For other athletes, they might have to target the men’s program.
“I can’t imagine the female Chinese athletes are going to lose any gold medals, but in the men’s diving competition, we could still make sure they don’t take all the golds. It’s considered a really big accomplishment if anyone can stop China from getting all 8 gold medals.”
The Chinese diving “Dream Team” has maintained absolute sovereignty on the world stage, but they’ve never rounded up all the golds in the Olympics. In London, in 2012, the Chinese team lost the men’s 10m jump and the men’s 3m jump. In Rio, in 2016, Britain took the men’s doubles 3m jump. In Tokyo in 2021, Daley and his partner Marty Li took the men’s doubles 10m championship.
“It’s possible to take a gold medal from the Chinese team, even though it’s hard. But the diving competition is decided in a day. The double’s program goes into competition right away. It’s very stressful. You know within 45 minutes who did the best in the 6 test jumps.” Daley said.
The Paris Olympics diving competition is going to start on the 27th. The women’s doubles 3m jump is going to be decided that day. Daley and his partner, Noah Williams, are going to show themselves on the 29th in the men’s doubles 10m championships.
Aside from that, on the Opening Ceremony, Daley is going to be the flat holder for the British team along with rowing athlete Glover. When Daley attended the press conference that day, he said that he still remembers being at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, walking behind the British flag holder at the time, swimmer Mark Foster.
“Time is went by in the blink of an eye. Now I’m holding the flag. It’s a huge honour. I’m very excited.” Daley said.
30-year-old Daley has been called Britain’s “diving genius” before. He appeared out of nowhere in Rome at 15-years-old and won the men’s 10m jump champion. 8 years later, he recreated that moment in Budapest’s World Championship.
Three years ago, Daley and his teammate won a gold metal on the men’s doubles 10m jump, getting his first Olympic gold. After that, Daley has chosen to bid farewell to the diving platform. “I felt like I should retire after Tokyo, so I’ve been getting away from this sport in the last two years.”
But just last year, while touring the Olympics Museum in America, Daley’s heart was moved again.
“We watched a video there, about what it means to be an Olympic Athlete. It really touched me, made me get very emotional.” Daley said. More importantly, Daley’s son said he wanted to see his dad jump on the Olympics, so he went back to training without much hesitation.
Daley says that for him, the Paris Olympics is like an extra reward. He just wants to enjoy every moment, show off his best self, and “becoming the flag holder is like the icing on the cake.” It is like flowers on silk. The biggest accomplishment he wants to achieve this time is to dive into the water in front of his family.”
Comments say, “Isn’t this Daley of the Seven Jumps? Gay people can have sons now? Did he get a surrogate?”
“Dude, how long have people in this comment section been without internet? He’s had a family for a long time, okay?”
“If he the guy that knits? It’s been such a long time.”
“Bought a house after coming on Denmark for a year and a half.
For privacy reasons, I’m not gonna post a picture, but I’m so happy!!!! It’s been four years since I graduated, and I finally have my own home!!!!
I love my new house because:
Open living room and kitchen, and it’s a national park right outside my window, so I’m in the perfect position to enjoy scenery and sunsets. But there’s a large shopping centre just 10 minutes walk away, and I don’t lack for anything.
The mortgage is about the same as what I was paying in rent anyways, but the house is so much better quality!
I’m only a train ride away from the city centre (6 minutes).
It’s a super new building so it has an energy rating of A15. It’s super efficient.
I’m so happy!!!
As for how I got my hands on a down payment, I just saved up and worked hard. When I first graduated, my pay was shit, and I could only rent an 8 square metre studio. It leaked and the walls would get moldy, and there’s no sound insulation at all. I only had a tiny window and never got any light, and I had to go somewhere else to do laundry, cause I had nowhere to hang up all my clothes. Now that I think back, I gotta say, I have no idea how I even made it through that.”
Comments say, “Holy shit. I’ve graduated for ages now and I don’t have a down payment yet.”
“Congratulations on your own home!!”
“I’m so envious. I wanna be someone like this.”
“I might have bonded with my car like it’s a human…
I’m single, and I’ve been struggling in the big city with my car for three years. I feel like I have a bond with it now.
I’m not exaggerating, don’t laugh at me, guys.
I first noticed these feelings because I gave my car a name. And it’s like it suddenly started being alive.
When I work overtime, and I see it waiting in the car park for me, I actually get kind of touched. Like there’s someone always waiting for me to come home.
When I drive to and from work in the rain, I feel like there’s someone sheltering me. When there’s a sunset, I have someone to enjoy it with. He’s like my buddy for getting through life.
One day, the AC in my office got super cold, so I went to the car park to fetch a jacket. It was super empty, and it was just waiting there for me, quietly. After I got my clothes out, I accidentally blurted out, “Another four hours before I get off of work, wait for me here, k?”
And if I don’t drive it for a while, I’ll explain to it that I went on a work trip, I haven’t found another car or anything.
I feel a bit crazy, but surely, I’m not the only one who does this, right?”
Comments say, “Not only did I give her a name, I even celebrate her birthday. I just ordered a birthday cake for her second birthday today. Although I’m the only one who eats it, I feel like the ritual is still important.”
“I would never.”
“Waiting for you in the carpark? It’s not like it can move on its own? All it can do is wait.”
“Did you forget to write down the brand? You’re not very good at writing ads, are you?”