A post seeking advice says, “My parents prepared my marital house and I don’t know how to salvage this. They remodelled the whole house, and turned my beloved marital house into this mess. I don’t even know what to say about their tastes except that it’s so not what young people are into. How do I go about saving this?”
Comments say, “I kind of like this style.”
“Elegant! So elegant! Use some antique furniture, put in a radio, put in some red lights and green liquor bottles and oil paintings…”Young Master, the butler has fallen sick due to the stresses of travel.””
“This is beautiful! It’s totally turn-of-the-century Shanghai tycoon feel!”
A compilation of people talking about parallel dimensions. “On the topic of parallel dimensions, look at this. I came home on the 5th and put my keys on the counter by the door. I didn’t leave the house again until the 9th, when I discovered my keys were gone. At first, I thought it was in my bag. But I searched everywhere and couldn’t find it. So I watched my security camera, and clearly saw where I left the keys when I came home, and by the 7th, the keys suddenly vanished from that position. O.O”
“I read a ridiculous story once, about a girl who lived in a rental apartment in Beijing. One day, she invited her friend to come over and stay for a few days. A couple of days later, her friend left. A couple of months later, the same friend came over to her place again, and he asked as soon as he came in why she’d rearranged all her furniture. The girl was totally lost, because she’d never rearranged her furniture. But her friend said that the last time he was over, everything was mirror opposite to now. The girl got freaked out, because she’s always remembered her apartment the way it was now. They remembered that they took some selfies last time they hung out, so they found those same selfies on their phone, and in the background, all the furniture was indeed in mirror opposite positions. She moved soon after that.”
“When I was in highschool, I was alone at home one day, pooping in the bathroom. Because nobody was at home, I didn’t bother locking the door or even closing it all the way. Suddenly, the door swung open about 4-5cm, like someone was peeking in. The door wasn’t swaying at all, it was totally stable, like someone was holding onto it. There was no wind. I never thought too hard about it, I was full of middle school courage, and just yelled, “The fuck you looking at! Fuck off and shut the door!” And as soon as the words left my mouth, the door swung shut again. I froze and my hair stood on end. Even now as I’m typing this, I’m getting goosebumps.”
“My boyfriend had a female friend. When she was in uni, everyone in her dorm decided to go to the bathhouse together. They’d gathered all their stuff, and the dorm across the hall invited them to come eat some stuff. They put their bath supplies down on the ground and went over. When they returned, the friend couldn’t find her shower basket. She suspected someone was stealing, so she ended up reporting the incident to the dorm manager. The dorm manager pulled security camera footage for their hall, and she watched the footage where she returned to her room shortly after visiting the other dorm, grab her shower basket, and go off to bath by herself. She got so scared she burst into tears and never looked for the shower basket again.”
“When I was in high school, I snuck out during a free period to go play. I was walking down the street with my best friend, telling her I wanted some ice cream. I grabbed some coins and was going to go buy some. You know how coins are, you can’t help playing with them as you’re walking along. And you’re going to lose it at some point. I thought I was too focused on the conversation and accidentally dropped it. We searched forever, every pocket, all over the ground, never found it. We didn’t think too much about it and just went home. After I got home, I wanted to eat some apples, and as I was walking to the kitchen, I passed a mirror. And I saw something bright out of the corner of my eye. And then, a coin dropped down to the ground. Nobody believes this story except my best friend.”
“I’ve been in a big lecture hall in college, with little storage cubby holes beneath the tables. When I came in, the last lecture had just let out, and when I saw down, I found a phone in my cubby hole. It was a super old smart phone, didn’t have a lock. I took a brief look and there was a lot of names in the contact list. I thought someone from the last lecture had left it behind and was going to turn it in, and in the 10 seconds that I put the phone down to call the teacher over, it completely vanished. Like the whole thing was a hallucination. But I wasn’t the only one who saw the phone.”
The standup comedian who made the joke about dogs catching squirrels is being invested by police. A current affairs blogger writes, “If the police is bothering to open an investigation, then he’s 99.99% sure going to get sentenced. Beijing Department of Culture’s putting super serious charges on this, “demeaning the military”. You can look at Labi Xiaoqiu and Luo Changping for an idea of similar sentences. The former got 8 months, the latter got 7 months. Based on just current evidence, the comedian will probably get a similar sentence. The guy who wrote his jokes, and the agency who hired him will probably get criminal sentences too.”
Comments say, “At first, I didn’t think it was necessary to punish too much, but when I saw how scared they got and how much they were freaking out, I’m suddenly super satisfied with this result.”
“He did stand up in America, banned filming and recording for the whole thing. He knows he’s guilty. Tried the same thing in China, and got screwed over in Beijing. Does he think Chinese audiences are as political unaware as Americans?”
“It’s all escalating. I was noticing since last year, that as soon as economic development slows, everything else starts escalating. Sort of like how companies that are losing money cares the most about dress code and clocking in policy.”
An HR manager posts a tiktok compilation of children, saying, “Listen to what 8-year-olds are thinking, how tired they are on the inside. Parents, please think about what’s actually going to bring your children health and happiness.”
The first kid says, “Why? Because your attitude is affecting my heart. My heart is broken! You tell me to listen to you. On every single little thing, you yell at me and yell at me and yell at me. I don’t even know what you’re doing! Why didn’t I cry? Because I was holding it in and holding it in and holding it in, so that when I grow up, I can make you feel what I feel now. I don’t want to put up with your anger, your beast-like bellowing. I am not trash. I’m not trash like an ant. I have a brain. I have feelings.”
Yellow-shirt kid’s dad asks, “So you mean I shouldn’t tell you what to do from now on?”
Yellow-shirt kid says, “I’m not saying to not tell me what to do. You can certainly tell me what to do. But you shouldn’t try to control everything about me. Children need their independent space too. You adults come back home from work and just want to relax. You don’t even want to talk, not to mention hurrying to get your work the next day done too. When us little kids get home from school, we need to relax too. We need to be understood too.”
Dad: “If you relax now, you’ll grow up to be useless though.”
Yellow Shirt Kid: “Don’t use your mindset to define my future. Can’t you imagine me to be a little better? I think your parenting style is wrong.”
Dad: “How am I wrong?”
Yellow Shirt Kid: “Every time I make a mistake, you yell at me and put me down. Do you know how emotionally damaging that is to an 8-year-old child?”
Dad: “Grandma and grandpa raised me the exact same way though.”
Yellow Shirt Kid: “But that style of parenting is totally out of date for our generation. You need to talk to kids gently now and discuss things.”
Dad: “I’ve talked to you nicely before, but you don’t change. Look at your classmates, like Ran Haoyi or Li Ailu, how great they are.”
Yellow Shirt Kid: “Why do you keep comparing me to other kids? Don’t you think I have anything good about me? Can you not see anything good about me? Everyone has weaknesses. Why do you always compare my weakness against other people’s strengths? How can I possibly win? I need to apologise to you first, dad. I want to respect you, I don’t want to talk to you like this, but my emotions have been building up for too long. I can’t hold it in anymore. I’m very bored and exhausted after classes too. I’m tired too. I want to relax just like you do. Of course I rush through my homework.”
Dad: “Fine. I’ll try to have more patience with you. Alright, stop crying now.”
Little Girl: “Mom, what I want isn’t toys and fruit. You buy a ton of toys and fruits and what you think I want, but none of that is what I’m after. I want you to play with me. I want you to be there as I grow up. You always just buy a lot of toys and then ignore me. There’s a lot of stuff I want to do with you that you don’t even know about.”
Other Girl: “My dad says he just wants me to be happy and healthy. My mom says she just wants me to be happy and healthy. I say to them, I want to be happy too. I want to be healthy too. But I’m just eight years old. I’m only in third grade. Every day I go to school with a bag that’s 12 pounds. When school lets out at dusk, I still have three online classes to take at home, and an hour of homework to write. Finally, the weekend gets here, and I need to practice folk dance, public speaking, and guitar. Mom and dad, if I’m not happy, how can I be healthy?”
Comments say, “I really want to hug the kid in the yellow shirt.”
“Kid in the yellow shirt is so smart!”
“All of these kids are super smart. I hope the parents who are filming this can treat them better from now on.”
A compilation of people describing how much vaginal delivery hurts. “It was super bad, but honestly, just a couple of days afterwards, I can’t even remember how much it hurt. It’s like I revived with full HP as soon as I was done.”
“It hurts so much that you don’t even notice the pain of them cutting you open with scissors.”
“I had no epidural. When I was 8 cm open, I thought I saw hell.”
“Same, 7cm open, and I could feel my soul leaving my body, like I was electrocuted to the point of unconsciousness.”
“The first time in my life I’ve passed out from sheer pain is during childbirth.”
“I started seeing hallucinations, I was in so much pain. I thought I was surrounded by a horde of people, but it was only ever just the doctor and the nurse.”
“It’s like being cut in half every five minutes.”
“Have you ever had severe diarrhoea and really needed to poop, but you can’t?”
“Every contraction was like being shocked with electricity, made my body tense up all over. I’ve never been shocked before. I wanted to die, but couldn’t. It was pure torture.”
“I knelt on the ground, my face to the floor, whining, not a shred of dignity left, like a lamb to the slaughter. You’re at your ugliest when giving birth.”
“It’s like the worst period cramps in human history. When I had to push, it felt like I was going to explode below.”
“I wanted to do a vaginal delivery, and ended up having to get an emergency c-section. It was so emergency, I didn’t get any kind of anaesthetic for the c-section. No one can understand what I’ve been through.”
Under the topic of #100K bride price is selling your daughter, someone responds, “bride prices are supposed to be a safety net for girls. How can you be accused of selling your daughter for just 100K? I don’t understand this kind of thinking from a man. Your daughter is finally grown up and can start making money and contributing to the family, and now she’s marrying off? Shouldn’t the man’s family make up for that somehow?
Comments ask, “So after the bride price is paid, the woman can’t give any more support to her family, right?”
“Safety net? For what? The man doesn’t even know if the kid’s 100% his, but it’s definitely 100% the woman’s. Surely, it’s the man who needs the safety net.”
“It takes 500K to get a surrogate. 100K is basically stealing a baby.”
I hope someone pointed out to the girl who moved houses because the selfie showed her furniture being mirrored that selfies mirror everything.
Could you explain the dogs chasing a squirrel thing and why it's such a big deal? I saw the prior posts about the original scene being from a movie clip, but is this comedian doing a parody that's seen as anti-military or was the movie anti-military to begin with?