01/09/24 - But government officials can’t win against reporters.
A blogger screenshots the follow exchange:
OP asks, “Three and a half years old, and he’s only 98cm tall. Daddy’s 168cm, mom’s 155cm. Has my kiddo lost before the race’s ever started?”
Someone replies, “It’s just height, it doesn’t matter too much. He just won’t have many girlfriends once he grows up. (185cm passes by)”
And OP replies, “I don’t know how many girlfriends my son’s really going to miss out on. (3 houses in Beijing).”
Comments say, “Is height really important? (failed 6 out of 9 courses).”
“Is height really important? (167cm, had 8 houses eminent domained in my family)”
“Yeah, it’s not important at all. (doesn’t lick off the lid when I eat yogurt)”
A tiktok video from Brazil, of a girl cleaning a house:
[This video’s been removed from youtube because of copyright violations. I don’t know enough about video editing to try to make it stay, but it’s basically a girl going through and mopping what looks like exposed concrete floors. The video is sped up a lot, so that she finishes mopping her whole house in 1 minute of video time.]
Comments say, “Women love to post videos like this to show off, like they’re so proud of themselves. Then it serves you right to keep being enslaved, right?”
“This is what it’s like in lands that lack culture. It’s hard to watch.”
“Is she living in a half-basement? We can only mop like this in the basement in my house. We’ve got wooden floors upstairs and they’ll get moldy if they get this wet.”
“Hoisted by your own petard describes you guys perfectly.
In Chinese history, there was no concept of “bride price” for men, only a deposit for the wedding paid during engagement. Bride price only got popular in the last 20 years, after reporters got developers’ money and started brainwashing everyone that bride prices are necessary.
And it’s logical that men have to pay sky-high prices. According to the reporters, there’s 30 million more men than women. If you want a wife, you’ve got to show your sincerity, and you do so by paying a high bride price, by buying a car and a house.
These reporters were very successful, to the point that they’ve changed everyone’s mindset. If you don’t have a bride price or a car or a house, you’d be ashamed to even bring marriage up. People have associated the success of a marriage with bride prices and houses and cars.
Once this mindset is in place, the people who profit the most are the parents of girls. Having a girl is like establishing a bank. The other people who profit are developers. The success of the real-estate market relies on mother-in-laws [on the wife’s side] all around the country.
Once this mindset is in place, the saddest people are the parents of boys. We all talk about having children to prevent old age. Now that their son is grown up, instead of getting to enjoy life, they’ve found themselves weighed down by heavy burdens. They have to drag their aging bodies to work to get high bride prices, to buy a house for their son.
And another victim is small towns, because they tend to have worse economies, and there are a lot of single men there who can’t find wives. The local government officials are very stressed out, and constantly put on singles night events, and constantly call for people to reject bride prices. But government officials can’t win against reporters. They’re doomed to fail.
Seemingly, the reporters won. They got their articles out, they brainwashed everyone, and they made a lot of money. But the only true winners are just the top couple of big reporters, who got all the fame. Normal reporters are still the victims.
It used to be that women liked talented men. Although reporters didn’t make a lot of money, they could still charm girls with their extraordinary talent. Even without money, they can find themselves beautiful wives.
And now? With the continued brainwashing, all girls care about is materialism and not talent, and reporters lack materials. So tons of single 30-year-old, extremely talented reporters end up on the market.
Not only are they single, the whole image of reporters as an industry is slipping. Everyone values materialism now. As a state newspaper reporter who makes 3K a month, who cares about you?
Hosted by their own petard, it describes them so well, these reporters that talk up bride prices.”
Comments say, “If you’re really poor, you could always marry into a girl’s family. If you’re hard-working and have a sweet mouth and can keep your wife happy, your in-laws will be very nice to you.”
“My parents got married in 1976. My mom married over with nothing more than a sack of potatoes.”
“Media is a textbook industry where the ones who came before cut down trees, and the ones who come after sit in the heat. Young media people are having it harder and harder these days.” [Spin in a popular saying, “Those who come before plant trees, those who come after sit in the shade.“]
A tiktok video showing what it’s like to toss down 1, 10, 2000 and 10,000 bang snaps:
Comments say, “It would be louder if you just tossed a soup pot lid down there.”
“I mean, can you really call them explosives if they can’t even break a plastic bag?”
“Literally, my coworker’s farts are louder.”
A tiktok video where a dad returns after a 5-day business trip and prepares a surprise for his daughters:
Comments say, “You’d have been better off putting a dog back there.”
“Wow, I assumed it would be a trunk stuffed full of teddy bears and snacks or something. Shows me.”
“If he so much had a lollipop in his hand, it wouldn’t have turned out like this.”
A tiktok video of a Dongbei stuffed bun:
Comments say, “If you’re just gonna show off anyways, why not stuff a whole person in there?”
“I’m wondering if he’s somehow getting rid of the meat along the way with sleight of hand or something.”
“That much stuffing, wouldn’t it get too greasy?”
“Just had an argument with my boyfriend, and these are the texts he sent me. I’m just confused. Is this the responsibility of a girlfriend?”
The texts from the boyfriend reads, “K, I’ll be honest. You’re a great girlfriend, but I’m not sure you’d make a good wife. We’ve been together for a year now, and you’ve never cared about me. Like, if you see my clothes are dirty, or my shoes are scuffed, even if you don’t do anything about it, you could at least tell me, right? And you really should help me wash or polish them, right? You’ve never even mentioned when my hair was getting dirty. Not even once.”
Comments say, “The comment section here is so gross. He just wants someone who cares about him in everyday life. He never demanded his girlfriend do anything. Isn’t a marriage about taking care of each other anyways?”
“To be honest, if he can’t do all of these himself, then there’s nothing much I can say about that.”
“As a grown ass man, do you really need someone else to tell you when your clothes, shoes, and hair are dirty and need washed?”
A tiktok video of a man drawing Chinese word art in the snow. I don’t know if this is impressive to people who can’t read Chinese, but my mine is officially blown:
Comments say, “His joints and muscles are different from us normal human beings.”
“Is he secretly a laser printing machine?”
“At first, I thought he was drawing a shoreline XD”
“I’ve got a friend who’s living overseas, where he works in local government policy.
Just now, he complained to me about American corruption. To be more specific, it’s assigning nurses to disabled people in the area. They can get subsidies by the hour.
But the disabled people fill in how many hours the nurses worked themselves, so there’s a big loop hole here, where disabled people and nurses will work together to write in that like 12-13 hours of work was done every day, and they can get 7000 USD a week, 300-400K a year.
I got immediately excited, like, what’s your local criteria for what counts as disabled? Could you qualify by being really short?
And he said that it actually has to be pretty serious—like in the case he was talking about, the guy was paralysed from the neck down.
But just think about it, every single nurse that works with paralysed people in that community makes 1-2 million RMB a year in subsidies. It’s unbelievable. How incredibly corrupt!”
Comments say, “My friend says that the fastest way to immigrate to Australia is to work in nursing, since locals don’t wanna do that kind of work.”
“This kindergarten teacher wants to become a nurse instead.”
“If he can’t move anything from the neck down, did he fill out the form with his tongue?”
I'm no chef, but that stuffed bun is quite odd to me. I don't think I've ever seen a similar method before.