05/14/25 - You shouldn’t require the actual person to show up for a withdrawal. Family should be able to do it too.
“In a real uni, there’s no hot chicks or guys or flirting. There’s only full schedules and stinky classrooms and couples kissing under your dorm and unfleshed toilets and stolen takeout and professors that never give you a day off and disgusting roommates.”
“What you think a confession wall is for: confessing your love to some guy or gal. What a confession wall is actually for: who the hell stole my takeout?”
“College dorm mates are the most disgusting beings in this world.”
“This is the real college life.” [a meme picture where one doge asks, “What do you want to eat?” And another one responds, “I’ll eat whatever you eat.”]
“Late takeout is already pretty lucky. What truly brings despair is a disappeared takeout.”
“This appears on my school’s confession wall on a regular basis.” [a lot of people confessing to smoking.]
“Although I smoke, I think it’s rude to smoke in a crowded space, because most people don’t smoke and they don’t like smelling it either. If I’m in the dorm, I’ll go to the balcony and open the window to smoke. I don’t smoke on the street unless it’s empty.”
“You can smell Chinese photinia everywhere.” [a flower infamous for smelling exactly like sperm]
“Classrooms on the 5th floor is so real.” [government policy is that you have to have an elevator if your building is 6 stories or taller, so a classroom on the 5th floor is the furtherest possible you have to climb.]
“Is there some kind of NDA on videos about college life? How come I never came across any of this stuff while I was in high school?”
“Cool fact: if you’re not in college, you’ll never come across this post.”
“The biggest lie I’ve ever been told is, “It’ll get better once you’re in college.””
“Ideal colleges only exist in high school imaginations.”
“I don’t listen to lectures, but I’m too cowardly to skip out on them either. Pathetic college students are the worst.”
“It wasn’t until college that I realised the last time I spoke to a girl was in high school.”
“Whether or not you can find a date in college depends entirely on your looks and like.”
“Remember, don’t screw around during Freshman year. It is the easiest to pick up high points in Freshman year.”
“Every time a new semester starts, the best restaurant from last semester will close down.”
“Actual college confession walls: “How many times have I said that you can’t put underwear in the laundry machines, you [censored swearword]!!” “Are you literally starving to death? Why would you steal someone else’s takeout? Just you wait until I check the security cameras!” “Ahhhhh who took away my shared bike? I didn’t lock it!! I didn’t lock it!!” “[insert name], you dropped your student ID/national ID, I’ve left it with the dorm manager.””
“You said college life would be colourful. I didn’t think you meant my schedule.”
“My cousin works at the Tobacco Bureau and man, her life is comfy.
She gets 4300RMB a month as her baseline wages, and she gets commission every quarter, about 5000RMB. This is all money you can count on. And there’s all kinds of benefits every month like car subsidies, housing subsidies, adding up to maybe 2000RMB. She basically makes 8K a month in total, and she’s only an entry-level worker. And the best part, she gets a 40,000RMB annual bonus every year.
Her work is super chill. She goes to work at 9AM and gets off at 5PM and spends her whole day playing around. She says she doesn’t get paid much, but plenty of people don’t make as much money as her, and it’s so stable. In my eyes, she’s already pretty well-paid.
Even all throughout Covid lockdowns, she never had a pay cut, she never lost a cent on her quarterly commissions or year end bonuses. This income has maintained her household expenses. Work is hard to find these days, and it’s even harder to find work as stable as this. Stable income, not affected by anything else, and easy work. All you have to do is maintain a friendly relationship with your coworkers and boss.
If you want to take the civil servant exam, this is a great industry. But too many people try to get in every year, like an army trying to cross a wooden bridge. Friends, what industry do you work in? How are you doing?”
Comments say, “Are positions in the Tobacco Bureau still passed down hereditarily nowadays?”
“All the job openings in the Tobacco Bureau are spoken for.”
#Agriculture Bank responds to terminally ill customer unfortunately passing away while trying to withdraw money. “On the 14th of May, a netizen posted that their aunt was wheeled to the China Agriculture Bank’s Hunan, Zhuzhou, Tianxin branch to withdraw money in a wheelchair by her family. It was supposed to pay for her medical bills. Her aunt unfortunately passed away in the course of the withdrawal attempt.
On the 15th of May, China Agriculture Bank, Zhuzhou branch responded to Jimu News’ reporters, claiming that they are prioritising this incident and have established a dedicated committee first thing to fully cooperate with police investigation. The bank expresses their deepest sympathies to the deceased and have assisted family in resolving subsequent matters. They ask the public to rely on official sources of information and avoid spreading unconfirmed news.”
[For additional context, the family said in the video attached that they have been waiting for over 2 hours at the bank and the withdrawal is still not complete. To also be fair to the bank, they offered multiple times to let the terminally ill patient wait outside while the family took care of things inside and the family declined.]
Comments say, “You shouldn’t require the actual person to show up for a withdrawal. Family should be able to do it too. Did she lose her card or forget her password? If it’s an unusual circumstance, it does take longer to withdraw. I don’t think things are this simple. I don’t believe one-sided stories. Let’s wait for the results of the investigation.”
“There’s news like this every year, and it’s only after someone dies that they say the bank can perform services at home.”
“There’s a ridiculous story behind every ridiculous rule, so you can’t blame it all on the bank.”
“Why did India and Pakistan suddenly agree to a ceasefire?
I guess it’s because:
America told India that they’re not allowed to use the F-16 jets, because if they lost, the world would make fun of America.
Russia told India that they weren’t allowed to use the Su-30 jets, because they’ve already lost.
France told India that if they keep using the Rafale, France is going to refuse to do maintenance on the remaining jets and to finally pay for the jets already!
Indian congress talked it out and decided, let’s just go for a ceasefire. What if China supported Pakistan with some J-16s? It’d get even worse…”
Comments say, “Bro, India doesn’t have any F-16s. Pakistan has those. America won’t let Pakistan use it to fight India.”
“You’re missing a point. They don’t dare to actually deploy the HAL Tejas to the front lines.”
“Are you getting off while you write these?”
Another compilation of disappointing children:
“It’s fine. My parents got 650 in their Gaokao, and I got 430, not to mention how much harder it was to study back in their day. My mom is a history teacher, and I failed history.”
“I am a medical PhD graduate. My husband has a PhD in law. We had a pair of twins who are in first grade. One of them got 12 in maths, 27 in Chinese, and 6 in English. If he’d so much as picked all Cs for his multiple choices, he wouldn’t have just gotten 6 points! This is first grade!! The other one got 13 in maths, 26 in Chinese, and 7 in English. We’re about to go crazy!”
“My husband and I are both a little bit smart but kinda lazy, especially me. I never really studied, just crammed last minute and completed a lot of workbooks. Once I got married and became a full-time mom, I figured I was done with studying for this lifetime. Then my daughter was born, and she has loved writing and drawing from birth. I ask her what toys she wants and she says she wants more workbooks because she’s completed all of hers. I bought her an iPad to watch cartoons on and she asks me to help her study…what a waste of a good child. Why did she pick me?”
“My boyfriend’s dad is a doctorate, his mom is a doctor, and he needed to pull connections to get into votech.”
“When I worked at a kindergarten, there was a little girl who looked like a cuter version of Olivia Li [adorable daughter of a world champion gymnast]—long legs, big eyes, round little face, danced and ice-skated, super healthy and beautiful. She’s from a wealthy family, both her parents are highly educated. We’re a very prestigious international daycare, and we’re pretty involuted in studies. Other kids can do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within 100 by the time they get to the end of kindergarten [Chinese kindergartens run for 3 years from 3 to 6]. This little baby can only do addition and subtraction within 5, because she can only count the fingers on one hand. She has to use her other hand to count her fingers, so she can’t use that too. A single number over 5 and she doesn’t know how to deal with it. Her mom ordered nearly 10 sets of educational materials, just to have something to rip up while trying to help her with her homework. She gave up when she reached the final set. Told the head teacher to just leave it be, because she needed a set for class. The head teacher asked me to teach her one-on-one, because she was worried she wouldn’t be able to hold back her temper and not slap the shit out of the kid. I tried to teach her for two lessons and got so mad, I snapped three pencils.”
“My coworker and her husband both went to Qinghua and completed postgrad degrees there too. Their daughter is in second grade and needs to take off her socks to answer maths questions.”
“My grandpa and my dad were both airforce pilots who all have medals of honour, but the only thing I can drive is a bicycle. And I have no sense of direction and can’t read a map…”
“Sigh…a mom who specialises in Chinese history with a son who has 58 in Chinese and 28 in history.”
“My parents both graduated from 985 universities, and I have meh grades…”
“It’s okay. My father-in-law was a doctorate at the Chinese Institute of Technology. He could’ve went to Xiamen University for his undergrad, but he wanted to make money so he went to Petrol University, did a Master’s Degree in England, and got sent by his workplace to do his PhD in America. He has great English, passed IELTS and TOEFL with high marks, and regularly lives overseas. And my husband went to the shittiest of second rate colleges, passed his level 4 English, and lives off of his parents at home. My father-in-law blamed his mediocrity on my mother-in-law’s bad genetics and wanted to use a future daughter-in-law to improve the family genetics. But I ended up being college classmates with my husband and I’ve never passed an English exam. At first, when my FIL learned I was bad at English, his eyes lit up and he insisted on tutoring me. Gave up after two days. Now, not only does he not want me to improve the family genetics, he doesn’t want us to have kids at all.”