09/12/24 - Please show this banana to whoever it reminds you of.
[I accidentally oopsied when copy-pasting the links today and ended up only saving the links to the bloggers’ main page instead of the specific post I translated. I’m very sorry about this.]
“Are we this explicit these days?? Does this happen on legitimate hiring websites? I was shocked when I saw this piece of news on the internet. I thought you’d only talk about stuff like this in private?”
This blogger attaches screenshots of text exchanges between someone and HR:
HR: Hi.
OP: Where is this company?
HR: Tianhe Cheng.
OP: How much do you pay?
HR: 6K.
OP: 6K for front desk??
HR: Yeah.
OP: Do you pay room and board?
HR: We have living arrangements.
OP: Ok.
HR: There’s not much to do usually, but once in a while, you’ll have to go out and network. It’s very involuted in the remodelling industry.
OP: It’s involuting in this area too? XD
HR: Yeah. Are you willing to have sex with people other than your boyfriend?
OP: ???
Comments say, “I interviewed for an assistant position before with a couple of other girls. I was from a technical school while everyone else had a proper Bachelor’s Degree, so I figured I had no chance. But as soon as I walked out of that company’s door, HR called me and told me to come over tomorrow for an individual interview, said their boss was very interested in me.”
“If you’re really willing to sell yourself, why would you need to work for them??”
“Why are there so many fucked up jobs?”
“Now I get why people are mad about Yang Liping’s [professional dancer] peacock dance.
This is the old peacock dance.
This is the modern peacock dance.
They’re named the same thing, but they look completely different.”
Comments say, “But Ms. Yang looks exactly like a peacock. Her body control is amazing.”
“Left is a peacock fairy, right is a peacock monster.”
“I still feel like I like Yang Liping’s version better.”
“Is movie censorship this strict these days?”
Comments say, “Yes. Strict censorship is to create a better cinematic environment. We have to be a little more understanding~”
“They won’t even allow a middle finger???”
“But just that little change has completely altered the whole scene.”
A compilation of people talking about the damage giving birth has on your body, starting with OP posting a screenshot of the results of her ultrasound: “Slight bulging in the bladder, slight prolapse in the uterus, tearing in the pelvic floor muscle, increase in bladder movement, increase in angle of urethra, strange echo in uterus membrane (suggest further checkups after a period), fluid collecting in pelvic cavity.” She says, “Walked into the hospital all happy for my post-labour checkup and came out crying. I can’t accept any of this.”
“I suggest girls who are short and small-boned never date any guys who are tall and big-boned. I’m the rawest example. I was pretty qualified to attempt a vaginal delivery. I’m 168cm, 64kg before pregnancy, the baby was only 2.65kg, and I still had trouble because his head was too hard and I couldn’t push him out. And the placenta detached early and the baby’s heart rate began dropping, so we had to do an episiotomy and use the pincers. One person pressed on my stomach while another person dragged the baby out by brute force. One doctor panicked so much that he slipped and fell on the amniotic fluid on the floor. The episiotomy went right down to my butt, took 40+ stitches after they were done, and since the cut was so deep, they had to sew three layers, a dozen stitches on each layer, with no anaesthesia for any of this. It took half an hour for them to be done stitching me up, and I screamed that whole time. I couldn’t talk by the time they wheeled me out. My husband and MIL heard everything outside and he was so worried his hands were covered in sweat. Since the baby couldn’t breath, he got a really low score and got jaundice, so he had to stay in an incubator for 4 days. My uterus took a long time to recover, my white blood cells kept being high and it hurt to press down, so I had to stay in the hospital for 6 days. The people who came in after me to get a C-section got to leave before I did. Vaginal deliveries are just a gamble. There’s no upsides except that you don’t get a scar on your stomach. There are still people trying to talk me into a second baby, and I just can’t even.”
“168cm is short??”
“One picture to show the difference between a maiden and a mother.”
“I gotta tell my mom that I’m just a coward.”
“I’m telling you guys, when we learn how to do a C-section, we slice you open and then rip you open the rest of the way with our bare hands. We have to rip apart flesh with brute strength.”
“I don’t know about anything else, but I know about uterine prolapse. My grandma is getting surgery for it soon. Her uterus and bladder will just fall out when she’s walking around.”
“I’m not trying to fearmonger. I’m just making sure all the girls can know what having a kid means so they don’t make that choice lightly. When you really have the ability and you’re sure that you want a kid, you can go ahead and have one. You have all the agency here.”
“I’m a medical student, and everything she’s saying is true, problems like this comes up. Whether you have a vaginal delivery or a C-section, you’re gonna have to get cut up. It’s just a matter of where. For vaginal deliveries, we cut your privates. And after labour, you have problems like uterine prolapse. In severe cases, we can’t stuff it back in. Your uterus will grow 1000 times after pregnancy. That’s what it says on our textbooks, clear as day. And the baby will push your innards aside, causing different degrees of damage to the mother.”
“Nobody told me that someone was going to rip the placenta out of me with their bare hands T_T I was so fucking terrified. The doctor didn’t say shit. He just suddenly put his whole arm into me and pulled it out…”
“It’s true, labour makes you age 5-10 years. I’m talking about all the organs and functions of your body. If you’re taking care of the baby yourself, you age even faster. If you take care of the baby and go to work at the same time, you age even faster. This past year, I’ve had all kinds of problems with mammary nodules and thyroid problems.”
“For a normal person, it takes 6 months to a year to recover from any kind of surgery where they open you up. But if you have a C-section, you’re considered all better once you’re done sitting the month.”
“Please show this banana to whoever it reminds you of.”
Comments say, “Can someone please make this into a gif?”
“I can’t believe it still has filling even though it’s so tiny!”
“Are we sure this is not garlic?”
[As well as lots and lots of people @-ing their friends.]
“Taiwanese tourists are complaining online about being “legally robbed” by Japanese people in Okinawa, and Taiwanese commenters suggested they go get help from the Chinese embassy.
So what happened was that when this Taiwanese tourist drove to his hotel in Okinawa, the hotel employees directed him to park on an empty parking spot. But it turned out to be someone’s private parking spot, and the Japanese guy who owned the spot pointed to a sign saying it was a fine of 10K yen to park here.
They knew they were in the wrong so they went into the hotel to get money, but when they returned to the parking spot, the Japanese guy had changed the amount to 100K yen (roughly 5000 RMB). They wouldn’t agree to it, so the Japanese guy took their phones.
The Taiwanese tourist called the cops, and after the cops got there, they said the sign did actually say 100K yen. Since the Taiwanese people had two cars, they needed to pay 200K yen (roughly 10K RMB). But the Taiwanese tourists remembered clear as day that that sign used to say 10K RMB.
Taking a closer look, they noticed that the “One” on the sign had had a vertical stroke added to it at some pointing, turning it into a “Ten” (see picture).
When the Taiwanese tourist told the police about how their phones got taken, the Japanese police responded that, “This happened at a private parking lot, and taking items on your own land is not illegal.” The Taiwanese tourists were dumbfounded, so they had to pay another 10K yen to get their phone back.
The tourist said that after they told this to other Japanese people, everyone reacted like, “That’s horrifying!” So they realised that even Japanese people think this is unreasonable. The tourist felt really bad about it and wondered whether he’s getting bullied like this because he’s a foreigner.
They adds that he never imagined that after calling the cops in a foreign land after being robbed of his phone, the cops would laugh and joke with the robber, while warning them, the victims, not to take any videos.
In the end, he signed that he used to really love Japan, but now it’s become a scar in his heart. Injustice and darkness exists even in seemingly peaceful and civilised countries.
The comment section told him to go find a Taiwanese consulate or Chinese embassy, but more people were suggesting the Chinese embassy because “it works better”.
This incident has been reported by Taiwanese media, and a lot of commenters are saying, “Ridiculous! That vertical stroke was obviously added later!” “100K is way too much!” “I honestly think you just met a Japanese villain who’s deliberately extorting foreign tourists.” “Did he take your phone because of some miscommunication?” “There are bad people in any country. Take off your rose-coloured glasses.”
But a lot of commenters weren’t on the side of the tourists at all, asking why they invaded private property, why they didn’t see the sign beforehand. “If this was America, you would’ve been shot.” And even questioning that we’re only hearing one side of the story.
(I have looked everywhere and cannot find any law that says Japanese people can take other people’s belongings on their own land.)”
Comments say, “I looked it up out of curiosity, and the law says that people don’t have the right to make up their own fines, and the normal resolution is to pay what nearby paid parking charges + another 1K yen or so.”
“The exact same thing happened to me in America, actually, but after the cops came, they were totally on my side, lol. I drove my car away without paying a cent. I’m just upset I missed my hotel breakfast.”
“But Okinawa doesn’t even belong to Japan.”