7th of June is the first day of college entrance exams, and new media shows a Yunnan highschool, as teachers get up at 6am to count their students, sing them a song of good luck, and send them off in busloads to the exam location.
A blogger reposts a question someone asked, “I’ve always wondered…I’ve got a lot of parents around me, who take their kids to the Growth and Development Department in the hospital, and all the doctors say not to give them chicken, especially not chicken wings. But for me, at least, chicken is a great source of protein that’s low in fat. I eat chicken a lot. Why can’t kids eat chicken?”
The blogger asks themselves, “Any doctors around? Do you suggest children don’t eat chicken? If so, does that come from your medical education, some sort of hospital policy, or just your personal opinion?”
Comments, “It usually happens like this: “So is there anything he should avoid eating, Doctor?” “Nah, not really.” “But Doctor, everyone says not to given them chicken, because chickens are fed a lot of hormones. Is that right?” “Well, you can’t eliminate that possibility. If it bothers you, you can avoid chicken.” Then people go home convinced the doctor said not to eat chicken.”
“When I got colds as a kid, our local country doctor said not to eat any meat, so every time I got sick, I had to get by on just rice porridge. When I grew up, I didn’t care at all. When I came down with covid, I wanted to throw up anything I ate. The only thing I could stomach was cold drinks and spicy food.”
“It’s not just chicken. They’re saying not to eat shrimp either, because of hormones.”
Xin Rong Ji (the only Michelin 3 star restaurant in China) has banned children under 12 from eating at their restaurant, which caused controversy. When a reporter inquired about this, an employee claimed that they have an open dining area design which is not suited for young children. The restaurant made this decision at the end of April, because of “customer complaints”, but the precise reason is not known. Other (lower-end) restaurants by the same company will still allow kids. If you absolutely have to bring kids, you can go to the relatively safer private rooms, where the minimum spending is 2000 RMB per person. Some commenters support the restaurant, believing that they made this decision because kids are too rowdy. Some commenters think people are less and less tolerant of kids. The new article finishes up by asking people what they think.
Comments say, “I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking, but I went out to eat on the 1st of June, and practically got tinnitus from all the screaming kids around me. If kids can sit down quietly and eat a proper meal, then fine. But parents never do anything when their kids are disturbing others.”
“I completely support it. If I’m spending 2K per person to eat, why do I have to put up with screaming kids? How is that any different from eating at a normal night market for 100 RMB?”
“If people can refuse to hire anyone over 35, why can’t they refuse to serve anyone under 12?”
A blogger posts someone’s remodelling plans, where they explain, “For a family of four, this is a very tiny house. We’ve got the husband and wife, a daughter in her last year of high school, and a son in primary school. The problem we needed to solve when it came to design was:
The kids are of different gender, so they each need their own room. But because the daughter is going to leave home to live in a dorm soon, in the long term, she’s going to spend less time at home. So we’ve converted the balcony into the daughter’s bedroom.
The original bedroom is very large, so we’ve split it into two rooms as the Master’s Bedroom, and the boy’s bedroom. They both have a 3-metre long wardrobe and under-the-bed storage space.
They attach photos of the daughter’s bedroom:
And the son’s bedroom, which has a sliding door separating him from his parent’s bedroom. Although it’s small, but he has his own territory and everything he needs in it.
Comments say, “Well, you can’t accuse them of favouritism. They’ve put one kid on the balcony and the other kid in their closet.”
“This has nothing to do with the son. They’ve got a one-bedroom house. This wasn’t supposed to ever accommodate kids. It’s not like the son’s bedroom is super nice either. You can tell how tiny the bedroom is. This was designed for single people, and yet they insist on having two kids in it, and then remodel it like this. What, do they think they did a good job?”
“Wow, there’s literally no privacy for the daughter with that glass door. The son’s bedroom isn’t much better either—look how tiny the bed is. Do you think he’s not gonna get any taller? You’d have been better off just making bunk beds for them. These storage spaces look like a pain too.”
“Instagram recommended to me a 74kg girl. This is super rare—someone who says that they’re “chubby” who’s actually just a little bit on the chubby side. I’m mentioning this because honestly, her amount of chub is really super pretty. I’m telling you, this amount of fat is really beautiful, and she knows how to make herself up and make herself look sexy as shit. She looks so much better than skeletons.
I took some random screenshots of her page, and take a look yourself. Is she not gorgeous?
God, I’m begging you. Would 45kg girls stop calling themselves “chubby”? 45kg is super thin. You’ve got nothing to do with chub. She’s actually a cute, chubby person. Even if you’re only 1.5m, at 45kg, you’ve got nothing to do with chub.
Look, look, look how pretty chubby people are!”
Comments say, “She doesn’t look that chubby to me. She’s just on the higher end of normal?”
“If you like fat people, that’s okay, but don’t go around calling thin people skeletons please.”
“We call this obedient fat. If she has that hip-to-waist ratio and that sharp chin naturally by herself without photoshop or plastic surgery, then she’s got deep genetic talent.”
“Korean girls have their first baby at 32 years old on average.
Japanese girls have their first baby at 31 years old on average.
German girls have their first baby at 29.6 years old on average.
French girls have their first baby at 28.6 years old on average.
American girls have their first baby at 26.5 years old on average.
Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world right now. Korea has 51.3 million in population, and had 249,000 babies last year.
We have 27.5 times Korea’s population. If we had Korea’s birth rate, then we’d only have 6.84 million babies per year. Last year, we had 9.56 million babies. That’s still far higher than Korea’s birth rate. But we’ve still got the third lowest birth rates in the world. This year, we might overcome Japan and become the second lowest birthrate.
Japan had 770,000 babies in 2022. Right now, Japan has 125 million in population. We’ve got 11.3 times Japan’s population. If we had Japan’s birth rate, then we’d have 8.70 million babies per year. But we had 9.56 million babies last year. Although our birth rate was higher than Japan in 2022, looking at the statistics in the first five months this year, we’ll probably only have 8 million babies this year. We’ll have lower birth rates than Japan for the first time ever, at the current rate.
Around 2027, our birthrate might drop lower than Korea and get the achievement of lowest birth rate in the world.”
Comments say, “Is this something we should worry about right now? This is like scientists making an announcement that the Earth is going to be destroyed in a million years.”
“If you don’t have good genes, why bother passing them down? Don’t got money either. I’ll just pay into social security and hope the billionaires have more kids.”
“Everyone says they’re not marrying or having kids on the internet, but in the real world, everyone’s dating and having kids.”
An anime blogger posts a tiktok of taking her daughter to get vaccines, saying, “Just took Eleven to get her vaccines. This time, the doctor didn’t let us film him actually administering the shot, and this is the worst she cried over getting a shot.
At first, I just thought that she was old enough to understand pain now, and that’s why she cried for such a long time, and I was even laughing at her. When I got home, I found out it was because the doctor did a bad job. She was all swollen around her injection site, and I felt really bad for her.
Thankfully, it got all better by the second day. I feel like getting a bad shot myself doesn’t even hurt as much as seeing it on my daughter.”
Under the trending topic #most men’s lifestyle does not change before and after marriage, a blogger posts someone else’s post, “If you’re a man, then the best part is that you don’t even need to spend money on a maid to live this life. You just have to marry a woman, and you can naturally demand that she take on the role of housework and childrearing in your marriage, and you don’t need to do much to have a baby either. You don’t have to pay her for her work. You just need to give her a little bit of living expenses, so she can buy groceries, get daily necessities, and take care of your child. So your living standards won’t drop because of marriage, and your condition won’t change because of it.”
This blogger says, “Not really. For the vast majority of men, their living standards will rocket up after marriage. I’ve never seen anyone actually give their wife living expenses. In every household I’ve seen, the wife has a full-time job and pays for living expenses and children out of her own wages. The husband’s wages are used for his own entertainment purposes. For young men, this is usually spent on phone games, electronics, and sports equipment. Middle-aged men spend it on cigarettes, alcohol, and prostitutes. Old men use it on gambling and falling for health supplement scams.”
Comments say, “My dad just keeps a couple hundred bucks every month for his own living expenses, and gives all the rest to my mom. How do I know? Because my mom didn’t use to have an account at the bank my dad used. To save on fees, my dad would send the money to me, and then I’d transfer it over to my mom over my phone app. I used to help him do his taxes, so I knew exactly how much he made. He’s a super frugal person. Even when his socks get holes in them, he’d patch them up himself rather than buying new ones.”
“People making a couple thousand a month can live like people who make five-figures a month with a wife.”
“This is my sister. Her husband only pays for school fees. Dude, how much does public school cost? My sister pays for all of the kid’s food and clothing and daily needs. Even their house is paid for with my dad’s money. I don’t know why so many women puts up with this.”
“I used to work as customer service for a phone game—it was some wuxia game aimed at men. Everyone I talked to was married, and when they spend money on games, they spend millions at a time.”
“Not only did my ex-husband not give me any money, he took my money in the divorce, and to avoid paying child support, he took one of my children too, so that my girls can never see each other.”
A blogger makes fun of Yeshu, “The boss of Yeshu wants to write absolutely everything on absolutely everything. (but at least he comes through with his promises) Look at the sign on their building. Any graphic designer would cry. The more trashy you get, the more it spins around to be fashionable again.”
To be honest, I have no idea where to begin translating this thing, except to say that they’re recruiting students for their school for training managers. They don’t limit your major, only that you know how to write essays. As soon as you’re admitted, they give out cars, houses, salaries, and futures. They guarantee you a job with Yeshu after graduation, and if you make it to a deputy Department Head position, you’ll make 1.08 million a year. If you make significant contributions, you might get rewarded with a 6 million RMB ocean-view house, or a 10 million RMB mansion, or Yeshu stock.
It’s a free school, and the first year you’re admitted, PhD graduates are paid 336K a year, Master’s Degree graduates are paid 252K a year, and Bachelor’s Degree graduates are paid 168K a year. Every year, you get a 20% raise, so that when you’re done with your 9 years of training, you’ll be making 1.08 million as a PhD grad, 815K as a Master’s Degree grad, and 543K as a Bachelor’s Degree grad. If you graduated from an Ivy League equivalent school, you get paid 20% more than what’s promised above.
They give out specific criteria for how you get promoted from deputy Department Head to full Department Head, and how to get promoted from there to being CEO.
Comments say, “Their headquarters really looks like it’s on the verge of closing, like those stores you see covered in CLEARANCE signs.”
“God, it’s so trashy. But they’ve got super hot people on their livestream. Like, a healthy sort of hot, and they’re all super unique looking.”
“I think to this day, Yeshu’s boss has no idea that Yeshu sells so well because it tastes good, and not because of his genius marketing plan.”
“No matter how much text he squeezes in, he’ll always leave a space for Xu Dongdong hahahahahaha.”
A makeup blogger writes, “I suggest those people who keep writing on the internet about how beautiful they are to learn from this chick. She just posted her actual photos. She posted her goddamn government ID photos. This is a way to show off without getting people annoyed at you.”
“Growing up, everyone thought I was really rich. I remember in kindergarten and primary school, all my classmates thought I live in a mansion with my own chauffeur. I had no idea what was up. When I grew up, I found out my family is only middle class, but everybody else thinks I must be rich. Why do I come off as wealthy?”
“Even pretty people worry about their appearance. My nose isn’t delicate enough, my eyelids don’t fold right, my bottom lip sticks out, I get pimples sometimes, I’m allergic to all kinds of stuff, and my face isn’t symmetrical.”
“I’ve broken through the barrier between “pretty” and “beautiful”. A lot of people praise me for looking high-end and unique, but when I was in high school, I was super average-looking.”
“A way to get prettier: how small can the faces of people with perfect facial folding get? Strangers marvel at how small my face is all the time. I think if you want to look good in photos, it’s not just about your facial folding, but about the wideness of your cheekbones. Even people with excellent folding can’t do anything about pancake faces. Here’s a couple of tips for making your ace look small: get braces, get botox, get fat removed from your jawline, diet. Split your hair down the middle, and have wisps of bangs to the side. Dont’ leave your forehead totally empty, and don’t get tilted bangs. Dark contouring needs to be applied on your neck right below your jawline. This last bit is super important! So many people have no idea how to contour at all!”
Comments say, “I feel like she looks even prettier in person.”
“Whenever someone is clearly gorgeous but writes about how much they worry over their appearance, they just want the comment section to kiss up to them. I get annoyed about this.”
“I’m so jealous of people with a small face, and large facial features. They’re all so pretty. Not like me, with a pancake face, and pea-sized features.”
A blogger posts someone’s comment’s on tiktok. “What tiktok recommends to me: mature, sexy, alluring. What tiktok recommends to my SO: toeing the line, trashy, fair young and thin.”
The blogger writes, “Who the fuck cares about your boyfriend.”
Comments concur, “On the one hand, you’re yelling about how women shouldn’t be labelled. On the other hand, you’re separating women into classes.”
“I can smell the sexism from here.”
“My SO, my SO, my SO. I am about to throw up.”
A blogger suggests, “Maybe the Little Mermaid having low sales has nothing to do with people thinking Ariel is ugly. It’s got to do with how every single mermaid in that movie is ugly.”
Comments say, “I mean, I guess not all fish are pretty. If they became human, they wouldn’t necessarily all be pretty. But in the cartoon, the mermaids were all pretty. I just care about appearance, so I can’t watch this movie.”
“They’re probably fish from the Japanese sea.”
“If sirens really looked like this, no matter how great the songs sounded, people would be scared awake as soon as they saw the sirens, no?”
“Mermaids in Pirates of the Caribbean will never match up to this.”
“The only explanation is: deep sea fish be like what’s it matter what I look like lol.”
“Last night, I reached my foot out, and accidentally kicked my baby right in his warm, soft belly. He licked my foot gently and turned around to keep sleeping. He didn’t mind at all that I disturbed his sleep. Watching his back, tears started to flow out of my eyes. He’s four-years-old this year. If I had given birth to him, then this would only be the beginning of his life. But he’s a full adult by now. He’s got a stone on his teeth that I’ve been fighting with for half a year with a toothbrush, and I haven’t made any headway. He had a little problem with his digestive track at the beginning of this year. I’m stupid and don’t know how to drive a car, and he didn’t complain at all as I looked for a taxi by the side of the road. He just quietly laid in his box. At the hospital, he growled at the doctors and nurses, but would immediately turn around and quietly lay his head on my shoulder to snore. I wish I had given birth to him, so I could have given him a longer life and shown him so many more beautiful things. For the first time, I feel like having a kid isn’t such a bad thing.”
Comments say, “Fur babies are the best. Actual babies…not so much.”
“This is a kitty, guys. Don’t mistake it for a doggo.”
“I mean, I think if you’re good to a kid, and treat them with patience and love and stable emotions, then your kids will turn out to be good too. People are real losers when they fuck up all the time themselves, but blame the kids for being bad.”
A tiktok video showing off a clock which is a QR code, that you have to scan with your phone, which pulls up a website that tells you what time it is.
Comments ask, “So while you’re scanning the QR code, what if you accidentally saw the time on your phone? What do you do? Do you believe your phone time, or the website’s time?”
“This reminds me of the solar-powered flashlight.”
Great idea to have the teenage daughter live in a glass aquarium for all neighborhood to see. How is she supposed to deal with all the sunlight, heat and cold?