04/28/24 - An L-sized dress has a waist measurement of 54cm??
Under the hashtag #Shanghai virology lab emergency shut down, scientists forced to sleep in corridors overnight, the scientists involved have posted an announcement, “First of all, thank you everyone for your concern! We’ve responded to the Health Department’s notice as soon as we could. We are begging the public once again to get the media and relevant departments involved in the investigation. We know we are innocent. We believe in the government. We believe society will treat us justly.
As for the announcement made by the Shanghai Public Health Department, we respond as follows:
The Health Department called an emergency meeting last Thursday and decided within a minute that the P3 lab needs to be fully upgraded, and ordered us to move out within 2 days. None of our team members were informed exactly where we’re supposed to move to. That day, the team expressed our concerns and worries to the leadership, but our emails were read and never responded to.
On Friday, the team lead Professor Chen went to the Health Department to demand an answer from the Director of Research, and that’s when we were finally told we were getting moved to a different professor’s lab in another building. But they never considered whether this new lab can actually satisfy the requirement for our research. We have a ton of unknown virus samples, and based on safety requirements, we have to conduct our experiments in a P2 lab. Based on what we know of this professor’s research, he doesn’t have a P2 lab.
After the lab was shut down today, Professor Chen tried to bring up our demands to the leadership and request negotiation, but they didn’t give us any solution to how we’re supposed to move.
When they talk about how “the matter has been satisfactorily settled”, do they mean how they haven’t let us into the lab all day today to continue our unfinished experiments or even to collect our personal items?
It’s been raining all of last night, and the Health Department won’t even let us into the lab’s office to shelter from the rain. I’ve been laying in front of the doorway all night.
This is the Health Department for you—completely without any humanity. Even if a complete stranger needed shelter from the rain, we’d help him out normally. You can tell just how inhumane the Health Department’s leadership is.
Thank you, netizens, and thank you everyone who’s been paying attention to this!”
Comments say, “Yeah, the health department sucks. We interviewed there a few years back, and got told that both my husband and I passed the interview, but I never got an official notice of when to come in to work. And the whole thing never went anywhere.”
“Even if you were just moving houses, you’d need a week, right? Never mind a virology lab. If there was another leak, wouldn’t we have to go through that “crowd immunity” bullshit all over again?”
“I can’t believe these bastard civil servants still think they’re above the law in current year. It’s 2024 AD. If you want to be famous, we’ll make you fucking famous.”
A video of, “A wife making a lunch for her husband. I guess this counts as white people food. I’ve posted this before, but since it’s on the trending hashtags again, let’s get more opinions.”
Comments say, “Fish, and cheese, [vomit emoji] and ketchup [splitting apart emoji], and chilli powder [vomit emoji]. Is it even cooked? The egg isn’t cooked. How is the fish cooked?”
“Did she even clean the innards?”
“This seems like the sort of meal my wife would like. She’s dieting, and she won’t be able to eat more than two bites of this before throwing it back up.”
“Just got to America the day before yesterday. It’s my first time going to America after covid. From the moment I started waiting for my flight in the Hong Kong airport, I felt how much the Chinese American Disentanglement’s been affecting my personal travel. My Android phone can’t download the google play store, so I couldn’t download a whole bunch of American apps. I couldn’t get Uber on my phone, or google maps. I spent hours and still could only figure out the website version. I did eventually manage to download the apps I needed, but boy was it a lot of effort. Most people would’ve just given up. Back in 2019, none of this was a problem. At most, I couldn’t download it while I was in China, and had to wait until my transfer in Hong Kong. Now, I can’t download anything in America using a Chinese Android phone. It’s super annoying. China and America’s worsening relationship has a pretty big impact on my personal life—that’s the lesson I learned coming to America this time.”
Comments say, “You’re going to America anyways, why not get an iPhone? Even if you can’t afford one, can’t you borrow one or rent one? What pointless complaining.”
“I use an Android too, and I didn’t have a problem. Once I’m outside, I can download anything I want.”
“Just use a local SIM card. It’s cheap and it solves all your problems.”
“The difference between American and Chinese real estate.
American mortgage rates are at 7.09% right now, and China’s is only 3.95%. What does this mean?
If you buy a house for a million in both places, with 300K in down payment, 700K in mortgage for 30 years, you have to pay back 3320 RMB in China, and 4680 USD in America. Don’t forget America has 1-3% property tax rate per year. Even if we take the low estimate, that’s still 10K a year, 840 USD a month. Plus another 100 USD in insurance, and you get 4680+840+100 = 5620.
If you get a house for a million on mortgage, you have to pay 3320 RMB in China, and 5620 USD in America.
If you make 5K a month in China, you can afford your mortgage. In America, you need 7000 a month. Now, is it easier to find work for 7K a month in America, or for 5K a month in China?”
“How many people have been brainwashed by the line, “If you only have one house, then you don’t care whether housing prices rise or fall.”
I’ve got a friend who sold her only house for an emergency. She’s spent 4.75 million on it in the 4 years she’s owned it, sold it for 3.8 million, paid back her remaining mortgage of 1.7 million, and had 2.1 million left. The funniest part is, the down payment she made on the house was 2.3 million.
When you’ve only got one major asset and it’s worth less and less money, are you gonna tell me that’s not important?
This line makes no sense at all. I don’t know why so many people believe in it so much. Maybe it’s just for comfort. Anyone telling you housing prices has nothing to do with you is a liar. You’re just lying to yourself.”
Comments say, “But people who only have one house really don’t care about housing prices.”
“I sold my only house last year at a 5 million loss and started renting again, and threw my money into the stock market. Made back 30 million, and bought my house back at the same price.”
“If you don’t need cash on hand, then yeah, housing prices rising and falling has no affect on you.”
“I wanted to buy this dress. And then I saw the sizing chart.”
[The three numbers are dress length, chest measurement, and waist measurement, all in centimetres.]
Comments say, “Female clothing nowadays are either engineering body anxiety or look nothing like what the model wears.”
“56cm long dress? That’s not even as long as my t-shirts??”
“An L-sized dress has a waist measurement of 54cm?? What the fuck, designer? Normally, my S-sized dresses have 60 cm.”
“Normal grown ass adults’ heads are bigger than 54cm around.”
A compilation of why you shouldn’t eat takeout:
“Don’t eat fried chicken! Don’t eat fried chicken! I work at a place like this, and the fried chicken stinks so bad! We don’t even touch it with our hands, because that smell never washes off!!! DON’T EAT FRIED CHICKEN PEOPLE.”
“I worked at a diet food store as a uni student. They never wear any gloves. And the chicken breast meat doesn’t help you lose weight at all. They just have us pack the bentos with our bare hands because it’s faster. It’s super unhygienic. All their eel or steaks are all prepackaged. Fast food isn’t healthy at all. It’s all precooked food. All packaged stuff. They don’t use any decent steak at all. And they sell it for so much! And they put a bunch of syrup in all their drinks! You won’t lose any weight! And the onigiri are all made with our bare hands too! I’m for real.”
“These are good examples. I’ve seen the pickles for pickle fish being stored in the bathroom. Every time someone goes to pee, a little bit splashes in.”
“Don’t drink porridge either. We test the temperature with our hands. And we make all the buns with our bare hands and never wear gloves. We don’t even bother to wash the rice we cook our porridge with.”
“I don’t know if these people have nail infections or not. Whenever I’m buying something I’m gonna put in my mouth, I’ve gotta see if the person making it has nail infections. I don’t know whether health department checks for nail infections or not, but I can’t handle the thought that my food might’ve been touched by someone with a nail infection.”
“I’ve worked at a drink shop before, and all I can say is 1. It’s all up to luck. We use good fruit and rotten fruit all in one batch. If you’re unlucky, you’ll get the rotten fruit. 2. Don’t assume your food is clean just because employees are wearing gloves. When we don’t have enough gloves to go around, we’ll wear the same gloves all day long—while loading food, wiping down counters, cutting fruit. It’s all the same pair of gloves. 3. The prep people are in a hurry to leave every night, and the knife meant to cut fruit might be used for other things, like opening boxes or cutting tape. 4. Don’t get any juice made with fruits that go bad easily, like blackberries. They’re only good the very day they’re delivered, and start going sour the next day. In order to not lose too much money, they make us keep using it anyways. And durian—it already stinks, so if you put it in juice with a bit of sugar, you can’t tell at all if it’s gone bad. That’s about all. Next time I come upon a thread like this, I’ll think of more.”
“Even if a super clean restaurant, if you’ve been in a kitchen, you’ll know that they don’t bother to wash their veggies. They’ll feed you rotten garlic or green onions. And they repeatedly reuse their oil even when it’s turned black. It’s all high fat, high sugar, high salt, and super spicy anyways. You can’t taste if the food’s gone off or not.”
“Hotpot soup bases are super dirty too. I’ve worked part time as a waiter as a uni student, and when they make hotpot soup bases, they just leave it next to the garbage can with no lid. The green onions they use in their soup is all rotten and covered in mud. The first time dishes get washed, it’s with dirty water that they cleaned tables or wash rags in (and might contain people’s snot). They never wash the tongs used to grill meat or scissors either, they just wipe it down with rags.”
“Don’t eat any diet food or salad or anything like that. I’ve worked at a store like that. Everything is super cheap, and super unhygienic. When something falls on the floor, the owner told me to wash it and put it back in.”
“I’ve worked in fried chicken and fried kebabs before. If you can make it yourself, make it yourself. Like fried chicken, you can buy chicken breasts yourself and get breading on the internet. If you can avoid eating it, please do!!”
“I’ve worked a summer at a milk tea place, and we have someone cutting watermelons in the back. No gloves for the whole process, even while picking out the watermelon seeds. That’s how I was taught to do it. When I was done, I didn’t want to eat the watermelon myself. And the little box we keep lemon slices in has water, and sometimes bugs drown in it.”
“A lot of poor people say, “If I really can’t find a wife, I’ll buy one from Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos/etc.” They know what they’re doing is “buying”. What they want is sex and reproductive abilities from a woman from a poor, underdeveloped country.
A lot of men are celebrating, saying it’s great that foreign brides are entering the scene. They don’t want to marry Chinese feminazis. Chinese women want bride price, and they want half your stuff in a divorce. But all they’re doing is celebrating online. Most of them would never marry a Vietnamese bride, because even in villages, people look down on each other, and marrying out is the worst option you can make.
Why? Because you can get more by marrying a Chinese woman.
In a normal Chinese marriage, your wife is capable of communicating with other people. She can go out and work. She has a family. You’re not just getting sex and kids out of her, she can make money too. Her social standing will affect your family’s social status. Her parents can help watch the kids and provide some resources. A lot of places have traditions where maternal grandmas or uncles have to buy this or that for a new baby.
But if your bride comes from overseas, you can’t count on any of that. Your only expectation of her is, “doesn’t run away” and “has kids”. You can’t even depend on her for housework (because she can’t understand anything you say either). In fact, your mom has to take care of her.
I feel bad for them. They’re in an unfamiliar environment, don’t know the language, a lot of people got conned into coming. They were painted a great picture, like China is some blessed place to be, and things don’t live up to their expectations. I’ve heard some gossip, that a foreign wife in the village was about to deliver. They sent her to the county hospital, but her husband was on a work trip and couldn’t hurry back, and he’s the only one who can understand whatever language she speaks. Her MIL couldn’t communicate with her at all. She couldn’t understand anything the nurses were trying to tell her, and ended up dying in labour.”
Comments say, “We should at least open up and see. Let’s see if it’s how we imagine.”
“South East Asia might be poor, but they’re not starving. Tropical places have tons of fruit. It’s not like in China, where if you don’t work the land, you starve to death. South East Asian brides have never lived such harsh lives like in China.”
“Stop spreading these rumours. I don’t know about other places, but all that bullshit about Vietnamese brides is purely made up. At most, some people with no ID at all living on the Chinese/Vietnamese border might get trafficked. Any proper family in Vietnam looks down on Chinese poor people too.”
“Forget about emotional value or family support, just one point. Vietnamese bride you buy will run away. They’ll run away even after they’ve had kids. They don’t even have to make it back to Vietnam. You’ll completely lose track of them as soon as they run away to Guangdong. (Don’t ask why I know they all go to Guangdong.)”
A compilation of people whose dads don’t know them.
“Are your dads strangers to you? Dads are silent. Dads are confused. Dads are traditional. In every family, dads are like a central heating unit spreading dadness in the air, silent, but undeniably existent. When you’re fighting with your mom, dad is watching TV. When you’re chatting with your mom, dad is studying his chess game. When you’re putting something away in the closet, you find a set of fishing gear silently taking up space.”
“My dad is a traditional dad. He likes to come into my room at 7PM at night and say, “Hey, baby, let’s chat.” And then spend 3 hours rambling about his glory days without caring at all what I’m doing. And then just as he’s about to leave, he’ll go, “Hey, how come you’re not an honour student?” And I’ll be like, “Because our university doesn’t rank those.””
“My dad asked me when I was graduating. I said I graduated a year ago. He was shocked. I was like, “I’ve been at home all this time and you didn’t have any questions?” And my dad was like, “I thought you’d withdrawn from school.””
“My dad asked me again what work I do. I was like, “I write for a living.”
My dad: That’s not bad. At least it’s what you went to college for. You’re a Chinese major, right?
Me: I majored in Energy and Power Engineering.
My dad: Oh yeah, that’s right. We thought renewable energy was the way of the future at the time.
Me: It has nothing to do with renewable energy. We mostly learned how to use furnaces and fix ACs.”
t hat -> that
the download -> to download
you dads -> your dads
>I feel bad for them. They’re in an unfamiliar environment, don’t know the language, a lot of people got conned into coming. They were painted a great picture, like China is some blessed place to be, and things don’t live up to their expectations.
Problems with foreign brides! It used to be the other way round.