02/03/24 - When you make people who are 45kg buy XL size, whose fault do you think that is?
Several weeks ago, there was an instagram post of a woman writing, “I don’t know what to do next. You’ve ruined all my beautiful fantasies about marriage. You’ve made me into everyone’s joke. You’re making me wonder where you are all these past 20 days every moment of the day.” Apparently, she was sitting the month when her husband disappeared on her for 20 days. The internet went into detective mode and finally, today, managed to track down her husband’s social media accounts, where it turns out he was at a ski resort, wearing a couples’ outfit with some other woman, having fun with her.
Subsequently, the man’s come out with a clarification, saying that the woman he’s with is his friend’s girlfriend, and fell while they were skiing together and he reflexively helped her up. He didn’t think it would create this much of a misunderstanding and even get found out by his wife and friends. He loves his family and wants people to stop posting negative comments and stop digging.
A blogger has compiled this whole incident, and the comments say, “Man, you heterosexuals are crazy.”
“Lol, if my husband went out while I was sitting the month, whether he was with a woman or not, I’d be reconsidering if I still want him as a husband.”
“Lol, my husband told me before I delivered that he would never eat at home while I was sitting the month, because month-sitting food is too bland and he can’t take it. When my month-sitting nurse had a day off, I asked him to sleep with me for a night to help me with the bay and he refused. I remember all that to this day.”
“Everything is a tragedy when you’re poor. This is a story about my mom’s neighbours. They’ve been fighting with each other for the past couple of days.
To the west of her is the family I talked about before, that owned a big business and went bankrupt, and they’d just sold their house and moved. To the east of her is another pretty legendary family.
The unit to the east of her has 3 bedrooms, about 130 square metres, with two grandparents, their older son, his wife, and two children, and their younger son, his wife, and one kid, a total of 9 people.
Why do they have so many people at their place? It’s along story.
They’re from out of state, living in Hangzhou. This house was on clearance when the developer was selling it, and only cost about 600K. The old couple put up 200K for the down payment, their older son put up 100K, and they’re still paying back another 300K mortgage on it. The deed is under the grandpa and the older son’s name. At the time, the grandparents and the older son’s family all lived in it.
Then, the older DIL had another son, and their younger son got married too but couldn’t afford a house. So the younger DIL said that either the grandparents need to pay up another 200K so they can buy or rent a house, or else they were going to live with the grandparents too.
But the grandparents already went broke buying a house for their older son. They really couldn’t afford to help out their younger son too. So everyone had to live together. And lately, their DIL had a son too. So now, they’ve got two sons, two DILs, and three grandkids under their roof, and their house is a catastrophe every day. The public corridor is filled with their random junk too. Both grandparents are in their 70s and still working oddjobs here and there, trying to pay for a house for their younger son too.
So, their neighbours recently moved, right? And a new set of neighbours moved in and started renovating the unit, and that’s making noise all day long. The younger DIL is annoyed about the renovation team making too much noise for her kid (during legal renovation hours and everything), so she’s constantly picking fights with them and constantly reporting them to apartment management. The two families hate each other now.
And the grandma in this family is super sexist and really prefers sons. She used to tell my mom all the time about how proud she is that she had two sons, and put down my mom saying that there would never be anyone in her village who just had one daughter. Now, whenever she runs into my mom, she’s always complaining about how there’s no room in her house, and her younger DIL is throwing tantrums all the time, and saying that she used to think sons were a good thing, and now she sees they just bring suffering. People with daughters are much luckier.
And my mom is like, “You better shut up now, or your DIL is gonna get mad at you again.””
Comments say, “She’s got two sons and three grandsons, how amazing. I bet she’s the Queen of her whole village. [doge]”
“I bet she spends all day fantasising about how much everyone is jealous of her two sons and three grandsons.”
“If you have too many sons, no one will take care of you in old age. It’s super common.”
A blogger posts two comments from Taobao store owners, who say, “Been running an online store for 5-6 years and discovered something scary. I make women’s clothing, and I had a ton of returns. Then I realised that women will lie about their height and weight when buying clothes. I don’t understand to this day why anyone would lie to themselves like that.”
“I’ve ran an online store for 4 years, also selling women’s fashion. At first, we just had a couple of people in my company, and I ran the operations, customer service, and design work, and we had about 48-52% returns. Then, we started making our clothes looser fitting, and now the return rate’s dropped down to 42%.”
Comments say, “So you never considered whether your return rate is high because of your own fault? Because it looks different in real life than in your pictures? Sometimes even the colour is different, not to mention sizing issues.”
“When you make people who are 45kg buy XL size, whose fault do you think that is?”
“It’s fine, men lie about their height even more.”
“When I go to department stores, I wear size M, maybe L at most. When I buy from online stores, I don’t fit in XL sometimes. And they’ll insist they’re not lying in their photos and blame it all on their customers.”
A western influencer in China posts, “I was reminded by a lot of friends today that I can’t say this or I can’t say that. I’m tired. Sure, sure, sure, all you internet commenters are right. I’m going to return to my own peaceful world.
I’ll still keep posting on tiktok, mostly my outfits of the day. I won’t have to worry about people critiquing my appearance. I’m just a really chill person.
Weibo is a place where the mainstream voice has been controlled by a lot of retarded people with ulterior motives. Every sentence I speak, I have to think about how to protect myself and my family. I’m often shocked, “You can get bullied for saying such a simple thing?”
I won’t post anything on weibo that has to do with politics or societal problems again.
I might have spent too much time with the most well-mannered demographic in this country, and it’s made me overestimate everything else.
From now on, all of you guys are right. I don’t get anything. I am totally arrogant and rude. Whatever makes you happy, man.
I can’t think of any other way to protect myself.
Every time I participate in any social event, there are people reporting me to my coworkers or partners for “offending China”. All of these malicious complaints has made even official government institutions run into trouble verifying things. And it has cost me a lot of opportunities for cooperation and development.
These people aren’t just bullying me on the internet. They’re systematically trying to ruin my life and my career, and make me a failure in China. I have a lot of examples in real life.
Starting from 2022, China’s been smeared really badly by western media. All the information about Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and covid have been filled with lies and slander. To this day, I have made 2244 tweets, almost one every day since coming to China. Of those, 2219 were positive descriptions of China. The people who’ve argued with me, some have ended up in jail, some have become von der Leyen’s consultants on China, and some have passed away due to covid.
In this online world, a lot of people aren’t just here for attention and traffic. I’m a normal woman who dreams of peace and harmony. I don’t fear fighting with people, but I want my fights to be meaningful, to go towards advancing my career. I don’t see the point of fighting on weibo. I don’t get why so many people are so fixated on me, so I’ve chosen to leave.
I just finished making a post on twitter supporting China, and came back to weibo to see a lot of people yelling at me for disrespecting China. I’m filled once again with confusion and complicated feelings. I often want to leave.
But this time, I’m at my limit. I’ve never taken a cent from the Chinese government. I’ve done everything out of my own will. Maybe that’s what the people yelling at me will never understand.
I just want my children to live in a world without lies or hatred, and I want to do what I can for bringing that world about. I really never wanted to arrogantly look down on China. Not even once.”
Comments say, “She’s really not suitable for being an influencer in China. She’s not good at putting on a show. She likes to focus on the professional side of things more. So I don’t feel like this choice is a shame at all. Rest assured, though, her career is going pretty well, and a lot of businessmen and politicians in China really like her, and she’s found work where she can use her professional talents, contributing to Chinese-western communications. Thanks for everything you’ve done.”
“A maid who entered the palace willingly gets scolded by all the eunuchs for not having quite the right postures when she kneels.”
“A German woman who always argued on behalf of China, a western bride to a Chinese Shandong man, has been chased away forever. I support her choice. Don’t waste your time trying to talk to these people.”
“Lol, westerners really are dumb.”
A blogger reposts two different weibo posts:
“Just remembered a news story I saw a long time ago, that a girl was abandoned by her parents and put in an orphanage by whoever found her. And the second her, she was adopted by a Spanish couple. I looked it up today and found that the girl was abandoned right near where I’m from, and she’s only 2-3 years older than me…why couldn’t I have gotten that lucky.”
“The Chinese girl adopted by a Spanish couple has been found murdered 13 years later, and paedophilic pictures were found in her adoptive father’s computer.
An upper-class Spanish couple adopted a Chinese Guizhou girl, and 13 years later, they cruelly murdered her. The girl’s body was covered in signs of torture, with blood from her privates. The police found large amounts of sedatives in her body. And what’s more shocking, subsequent investigation revealed large amounts of sexual photos of the girl in her adoptive father’s computer.”
Comments say, “Yeah, Epstein’s island was filled with adopted girls from all around the world.”
“I remember western countries love to go around adopting kids. Wow, they’re so kind. But they do mostly adopt girls…”
“A lot of them get adopted and matched for organ samples right away too. I remember seeing that on the news a couple of years back too.”
“My first day learning how to draw lilies. Why are my lines so thick? I want to draw them thinner. Help, how do I do this??”
Comments say, “I mean, it’s not bad to start with aloe.”
“Thank you for letting me know that my 6-year-old daughter really does have some talent.”
“Do you also have trouble putting in the right amount of salt when you cook too?”
“I still remember the night before my C-section, I couldn’t sleep all night long. My husband had just told me that my cat passed away at the vet’s. From 2AM in the morning, I’ve been crying with gritted teeth so I wouldn’t make any noise, because there are other expecting mothers in my hospital room. I knew even with his back to me, that my husband was crying too. We had none of the joy of welcoming our child. After my C-section, I had to stay in the hospital for another five days. I knew that I would never see it again, not even a body.
Time has passed in the blink of an eye, and my daughter is about to turn one now.
Just as I was playing with my phone today, I heard someone scratching at a net. I turned, and my daughter was pawing at the railing to her crib like a kitten.
I smiled and asked her, “Is that you, Qiu Qiu?” [a kitten name]
She turned to look at me, raised her head, smiled, and went, “Yeah!””
OP writes, “This is known as Fuyin, one has to go before another one can come.”
Comments say, “Same here. I went to see a fortune teller, and he said that I’ve got Fuyin in my fate, that my parents must be remarried. That was true. He said I definitely have siblings too, which is also true. But he never told me what Fuyin meant.”
“My cousin’s wife had a pet rabbit for years and years, and it passed away the morning she went into labour. She was so sad that her emotions kicked her into a premature delivery.”
“I’ve met a little kid who’s Fuyin too, and their parents were divorced. So basically, one mom left and another mom came, right?”
“It’s pretty scary. Over 50% of middle schoolers in Guangzhou have high uric acid.
A couple of days ago, I was vacationing in Shenyang, and local doctors said they were envious of Guangzhou people for eating mild and healthy foods.
And I was like, “Oh, stop it. Dongbei’s got a lot less kidney problems than Guangdong. One out of 9 people in Guangdong have some kind of kidney problem.
How come? It’s all of those supposedly “healthy” habits, like making soup, like drinking tea. Both strong tea and thick soup have very high purine. If you drink it all the time, you’ll get high uric acid followed by kidney problems.
And their liangcha [literally, cold tea, some kind of herbal tea in reality] has some kind of herbal medicine inside, or even actual chemical diuretics, to help you get rid of water bloat, which is also super bad for your kidneys.
A lot of my young friends have high uric acid, but they don’t care because they don’t have a lot of symptoms. But actually, their muffin top has to do with high uric acid too. And if their uric acid got any higher, it would start affecting their kidney function and blood sugar.
But if you’re not chubby and you don’t eat weird, but you still have high uric acid and fatty liver at a young age, you need to pay attention to your metabolism. You might end up with high cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar when you get older.
As far as diet goes, not only do you have to quit alcohol, you should cut down on seafood and fruits too. Although fruits are low in purine, fructose will form purine.”
Comments say, “Oh my god, you can’t drink tea either? But I love tea!”
“I’m thin and anaemic, but I’ve got high cholesterol, does it have to do with how I eat takeout all the time?”
“I’ve always wanted to say that Guangzhou people’s idea of “mild food” is just stuff that looks paler in colour, but it’s still just as high in fats and salt.”