“I was following the festival parade and picked these up. No idea what it is. Anyone tell me?”
A compilation of comments underneath:
“God: I feel someone very confusedly but strongly asking for many, many children…”
“God: Nobody wants to have kids anymore these days…OH! She wants kids!! Give ‘em to her! Give ‘em all to her!!”
“Ohhh, hold on, a flash of inspiration is coming to me! Naive female protag picks up a bunch of pretty pouches while at a festival, and the Prince’s Manor is now prepared to receive octuplets. The Prince has announced, “Give her the best of everything!””
“You’ve picked up a whole village’s worth of kids.”
“Meanwhile, the people watching you: some people want kids so much they’ve went crazy.”
“All the aunties around you be like: just how many kids does she want!?”
“Many years later, your 18th child: Mommy, why do I have so many brothers and sisters? You: Well, this all started with this parade I went to…”
A tiktok video of some kind of Chaoshan custom, where a team of people carry a statue over a series of bonfires:
“Another friend of mine with a short torso said that she had to get an X-ray done for unrelated reasons today, and found that she’s actually missing one section of her spine. So she thought she’d remind me, so I can look into if this is why my torso is short.
So, I’ve dug out the full-body X-ray I took a couple of years back, zoomed in on it, and counted my spine section by section.
C1 to C7, T 1 to T12, L1 to L5, they were all there. They’re just…short :(
I only have less than 35 cm between my shoulder to my bellybutton, like maybe 33cm.
If I bend over at all, my ribs will touch my pelvic bone T_T
Maybe if I grow a bit taller, I’ll gain a couple of centimetres T_T”
Comments say, “But if you have a longer torso, you’d need a much stronger core to compensate for it, right?”
“But if you have a short torso, doesn’t that mean you have long legs?’
“I’ve got a long torso and short legs, so that even though I’m average height, I look super short XD”
A tiktok video of someone extremely efficiently removing the line from shrimp:
Comments say, “I can make everybody here shrimp and blood soup.”
“I can’t even cut paper with a box cutter.”
“You can put on that thingie on your finger for when you’re sewing, and you won’t accidentally cut your own hand.”
“Just saw a woman who said that in order to protect her premarital property, she’s going to put her house under her parents’ name.
I can’t say I agree with that. If you put a house under your name before you get married, it’s 100% premarital property. Has nothing to do with your husband. But if your parents pass away in some kind of accident and didn’t leave a will behind specifying they’re only leaving their property to you and not your spouse, then your husband can still fight for half of it.
And although inheritance fees aren’t too high, if you don’t hold onto that house for 5 years or end up with other property, you have to pay 20% tax on it, and that’s really expensive…”
Comments say, “Does she still have a mortgage on it or something? She might be worried that the portion that she’s paying mortgage on might count as marital property.”
“This is why my mom and I both have our wills set up, that if anything happens to one of us, the other will inherit all of our property. If we both die at the same time, then everything we own is donated to the government. None of our relatives are gonna get a cent. They’re locked out, because we’ve got a lot of bad history.”
“What if she herself dies in an accident? If it’s under her name, then both her husband and her parents have a right to inherit. If it’s under her parents’ name, then her husband won’t be able to inherit shit.”
A compilation of how ginger can pass itself off as literally any food flawlessly:
Including potato:
The oyster in seafood porridge:
The chicken in kung pao chicken:
Roasted fish, including the tiny little fish bones:
More cosplaying as fish:
And beef in hotpot:
Comments say, “It has better acting skills than 90% of our celebrities.”
“If ginger took second place in a cosplay competition, nobody would dare to claim first.”
“See, the older ginger gets, the spicier it gets <3”
“Is buying a car in full illegal or something? Went to a lot of car dealerships today, and they would start off super friendly and enthusiastic. But as soon as I mention that I want to pay for it in full, they instantly change. Won’t even bother haggling or talking to their supervisor. Won’t give me a couple grand discount on a high six-figure car. They won’t even call me back. I just don’t want the hassle of applying for a loan, is all. I just want my own car. Why is it so hard?”
Comments say, “It’s because they don’t make any money from selling cars. Most of their profit comes from car loans and insurance. That’s why most car dealerships would rather you get a loan.”
“Go get a Tesla then. They don’t care if you’re paying in full or getting a payment plan. You don’t even have to buy their in-house insurance.”
“If it wasn’t for the fact that I just got myself a car, I might have believed this.”
“I’ve got a doctor friend, and she said that when I make a heart with my hands, it’s not a real heart. And then she showed me how to make a real heart:”
Comments say, “I gotta say though. It really is exactly accurate.”
“Just learned a new way to make a heart today! :D”
“That’s a true friend you’ve got there.”
Lately, in Chengdu, panda Huahua was accidentally left outside on Chinese New Year’s Eve, and only got taken back inside after she was discovered by a kind passer by. According to new reports, her caretaker on shift that day has been fired. Currently, there doesn’t seen to be anything wrong with Huahua’s health.”
Comments say, “You can forget an entire panda?”
“On the Spring Festival Gala, a stuffed animal version of Huahua was centre stage while the real Huahua was freezing outside.”
“I think they went out to dinner and forgot to put the panda back inside when they locked up. Yeah, it’s a total screw up. How ridiculous.”
Another post about the aftermath of suddenly skyrocketing planet ticket prices out of Hainan, “Finally got back from Hainan. We had about 20 people, and we all pitched in on a yacht. It was 30K from Sanya to Zhanjiang. Worked out to 1500 RMB per person, even cheaper than economy class seats, not to mention five-figure business class seats. So long as you’ve got the brains, there’s nothing you can’t overcome. Once you’re in Zhanjiang, it’s easy. Get an Uber into Guangzhou for 200 RMB, and you’re good to go. Basically, it’s like getting from Sanya to Guangzhou for 1700 RMB total. Everyone still stuck in Hainan, you can try this method!”
Comments say, “200 RMB to Guangzhou probably means per person, with four people to a car, I’m guessing.”
“Nah, don’t get Uber. Get Lalamove [like uber, but a truck], and have them deliver a case of coke plus two people.”
“This is fake. You can get a car from Sanya to Haikou [another city in Hainan], and then get a ferry ticket to Xuwen for just 41.5 RMB per person. But getting an Uber from Xuwen to Zhanjiang is already 200 RMB per person, much less all the way out to Guangzhou.”
“If I ask you what’s the leading cause of death for most young women int he world, I think most people would answer car accidents? Cancer? Heart disease?
At least, that’s what I thought of when I saw this question first.
But when I saw the WHO data, I was shocked.
The leading cause of death for women 15-29 years old globally is child birth.
Even for women from 15-49, child birth is the second leading cause of death behind HIV and AIDS.”
Comments say, “”You need a child to complete your life.” “Please watch the following VCR.””
“It’s usually the third world with very bad healthcare standards that leads to a lot of death by childbirth. Stop fearmongering. The main reason average human lifespan before the 19th century was so low was purely because of infant mortality pulling down the average.”
“It’s easy to have a kid when you’re 35 as a woman. If you want a kid, you should wait until you’re 35 and go find a young sperm donor. Having kids too early is just betting your life. If you’re unlucky and die, you’ll have died without getting to experience much of life at all. Either way, whoever wants kids can have them. I’m not gonna.”
I'm curious what word you're translating as "God" in the comments of the first post about the festival parade.