A blogger posts a picture, commenting, “Just how many people come to Shanghai for golden week? I took this with my camera myself.”
Comments say, “Thank god I couldn’t get a ticket!”
A video of someone whose brother and sister in law are coming to visit, so he hired a cleaning company to fix his gross-ass house. A blogger reposted this video, saying, “My OCD is done being soothed. It's your turn now. I’m guessing that this all probably cost at least 10K. Feels so good when everything is done though.”
Comments say, “I am certain this is some kind of ad for cleaning products.”
A childcare blogger covers a submission she got: “My kid’s become scared of pooping. What should I do? He’s three years and three months old. He just started going to kindergarten in March. We used to live as a nuclear family with no grandparents around, but after March, grandma comes over every day to pick him up from school and take him home. We eat dinner together and then grandma goes home.
As soon as grandma came over, she started telling him that he can’t poop in his diaper, he has to go by himself in the toilet. She nags about this every day, and he’s starting to get resentful about it. At its worst, he held his poops in for five days, and got constipation so bad we had to get him baby laxatives. We put him back on his diaper after that and told grandma to stop bringing it up, but he’s still upset about it. Now, after every meal, he’ll go sit on the toilet for a bit, but he won’t do anything. Even if we give him rewards, he’s super resistant. And as soon as we say anything about it, he starts to cry. He’ll cry until his eyes are swollen and still refuse to poop. He just keeps holding it in. Now I have no idea what to do.
Lately, he’s consistently holding it in for 2-3 days at a time. His farts will start smelling horrible and he’ll lose appetite. We try to make him go poop and he won’t do it, so we have to resort to laxatives. It’s been two or three weeks now. I have no idea what to do.”
The blogger replies, “This is actually quite common that a family member will rush a kid too much to get rid of their diaper, and the kid is giving his response right back—he’s not ready. He doesn’t want to give up his diaper yet.
This isn’t that big a deal. He’s going to get used to pooping eventually. It’s just a matter of time. But if you’re stressed out about the situation, try to solve the problem at the source. Ask grandma to stop coming over for a month or two while you work on this obstacle with your child yourself.
Basically, stop treating pooping like a big deal. Stop requiring that he go sit on the toilet after every meal. It’s up to him whether he wants to poop or not. We don’t need to get too involved as adults. If he wants to poop, he can poop. If he wants to hold it in, he can hold it in. Stop helicoptering him.
Imagine if your mom felt like you were eating too little and getting too thin, so for your own good, she watches you like a hawk every meal. If you slow down even a little, she starts going on and on about how you need to eat more, you’re surely hungry. She comments on every bite of food you take, how big of a bite of rice you ate, whether you can eat more, etc, etc. Slowly, you’re going to hate eating too. You wouldn’t even feel hungry, because you’re full with her ceaseless attention.
Children are the same thing. Don’t make his poops your business—that’s his business. You can try talking to him, that you don’t know how to help him, but he seems uncomfortable, so you’re going to let him deal with this pooping business on his own. If he needs you, you’re happy to help, but promise him that as a family, you’re going to let this issue go.
At the same time, prepare some lactulose. It’ll help his poops get softer, usually makes him poop by the next day. Whether he wants to do it in his diaper or in the toilet, support his decision, don’t put pressure on him.
If you absolutely must rely on grandma to pick him up, then keep reminding her that this is not a big deal, it’s just a matter of time, and to pay it a whole lot less attention.”
Comments say, “My kid’s about to start kindergarten too and won’t use the toilet either. I’m also worried about it. Mostly, I’m worried about it being a bother to the teacher. It’s fine whatever he wants to use at home, but it’s not the same thing at school.”
Someone replies underneath, “Don’t worry, the teacher won’t let him poop at school. They all require kids poop at home. Mine’s almost four. He always poops in the mornings at home, but at kindergarten, he knows to hold it until he gets home.”
An author reposts someone’s post, “Turns out, the person buying my shitty webnovels was my best friend. I’ve been writing novels on Chinese Askreddit. I know it’s shit. I can’t get a contract. I usually only get a dozen likes. But I got a PM saying that she really like my work and asked whether she could pay me money to update every day. She added me on WeChat and have been sending me 20-25 RMB every day. I just found out this is a throwaway account of my best friend.”
The author writes, “Over a decade ago, I wrote webnovels too. Nobody read it, but one person begged for more updates every day. Just because of him, I finished the entire novel. Until the last chapter, I never put a paywall on it. That means that I couldn’t get a contract with the website either. Then, out of sheet determination, I edited this novel a bit and posted it to a forum, and somehow, it went viral. A lot of publishing companies got in touch with me over this book—that’s my most famous work, A Coroner’s Report. Because of this book, I became a published author, and that reader became one of my best friends. Whenever I put out a new book, I always mail him a copy. Even thinking back on it now, I’m super touched.”
Jay Chou post on his instagram, “Some artists chase something new their whole lives, some artists do the same thing until they die. If you’re already number one, how do you change?” This post seemed to have pissed people off, and underneath, are a lot of people feeling disappointed in him.
“People who are already number one either stop trying and just enjoy their peak, or spend all their time preparing for the next opportunity. But are you really happy like this? Maybe going into a quiet closed loop of happiness and satisfaction with yourself is great for your personal life, but this is going to kill any chance of artistic accomplishment. I guess all I can do is wish you the best and sigh.”
“There’s no such thing as number one in a field like art, only the first person to pull off something. If you’re satisfied just because you sell more albums than anyone, then that arrogance will kill your artistic development.”
“People who are number one never think they’re number one, they’re always pursuing a higher peak until they die.”
“God, Jay Chou, can you have a little humility? You became number one because people are paying for their nostalgia, because you used to be great, not because you’re great now. Most people think you’ve become too arrogant and don’t make anything good anymore.”
“Take a look at Japan, Korean, Asia in general. Take a look at the world. There are plenty of people way better than you that you’re choosing not to see. You’re just congratulating yourself by only comparing yourself to the worst candidates. You don’t face your faults, you don’t acknowledge or try to learn from other people’s strength, you’ll never improve. You can only live in the past. There’s no end to art, there is no number one to art. Don’t make up excuses for why you don’t try anymore. I’m embarrassed for you.”
“Are you ignorant? You’re blowing your own horn all day. Only you would be shameless enough to put out an album as shitty and effortless as My Greatest Works. Look at other singers. Until the day he died, Michael Jackson never claimed he was the king of music. Taylor Swift is the highest earning singer in the world, and never made hundreds of posts about one award she won. Learn some fucking humility and stop living in your narcissistic world. You’re done now. You don’t know how to write lyrics, you only know a handful of melodies. The only people you can compete against is the rot of the Chinese entertainment industry.”
A tiktok video showing a lady running a red light through an intersection on a scooter and getting struck by a car. She’s at the police station, demanding, “How could you say that I’m fully responsible?”
The cop replies, “Because of traffic laws? You ignored traffic signals.”
The lady protests, “But cars are supposed to yield to people!”
The cop explains, “That’s assuming both parties are obeying traffic laws.”
“Yeah, maybe I ran the red light, but she saw me and didn’t yield to me!”
“Could she see you? It’s not like she stepped on the gas. She came to a stop after hitting you. She had the right of way.”
“Why shouldn’t she yield to me?”
The driver of the car asks, “Why would I yield to you? I had the green light! How can you not get that when you’re a grown ass adult? I even offered to take you to the hospital, and you’re the one who insisted you wanted to come to the police station first. Now we’re here.”
The cop asks, “So you don’t want to negotiate about this at all? You’re still insisting you had the right of way? She’s the one at fault for not yielding? What responsibility does she have when you ran the red light?”
Commenters say, “This is the natural consequences when judges and cops always are in favour of whoever looks like the weaker party.”
An entertainment blogger writes, “A round head is so expensive. This shitty little helmet is 28,000 RMB. A lot of poorer parents are gonna feel like, “Jesus, it’s just the back of the head. We can do without it. There are lots of kids with a flat back of the head. It doesn’t matter.”
You can save money if you know how to rotate their head while they’re sleeping yourself. But with money, you can get to where you want directly. Basically, in summary, it’s nice to be rich.”
Comments ask, “Am I the only one who thinks that it looks uncomfortable as fuck on the baby?”
Someone replies, “Everyone knows it’s uncomfortable as fuck. No mother wants to put their baby through that unless it’s absolutely necessary. We feel bad for our babies too. But we have to grit our teeth for their future.”
The webnovel story is one of the cutest things I've heard.
I can't imagine tourism would be any fun when the crowds are that big. That's amazing, and also crazy, but mostly just crazy.
Not sure I understood the line about “This is the natural consequences when judges and cops always are in favour of whoever looks like the weaker party.” in the cop story, though. Isn't the cop supporting the correct party (i.e. the driver that has the right of way)? What's the problem?