06/06/24 - Getting a red flower is such a traditional Chinese medal of honour.
“The last row of business class seats [on the train] are real second-class citizen seats.”
“I’ve sat here too. At first, I thought I got a free upgrade, and I was all happy with myself, and then I saw these. As soon as I sat down, I realised these were never designed for human beings. It’s too slippery to sit on, but you can’t lie down either. It’s awful. So I went to one of the latter cabins and asked the stewardess to find me an empty seat.”
“This seat hurts my heart. It’s like a servant’s seat in the business class cabin, and you can’t adjust the chair at all. You basically spend the entire time slipping down your seat.”
A video of how primary schoolers wear their red scarves now [supposedly symbolic of the blood our ancestors shed fighting invaders, a part of every primary school’s uniform] versus how they used to do it in the past.
“Did they really change how you’re supposed to tie your red scarf? It’s so ugly now! Are there any voices out there calling for changes to how we tie red scarves? How would you change it all of a sudden? Rather than wasting time on shit like this, couldn’t they do something that actually benefits Chinese people??”
Comments say, “@Communist Youth Did you eat too much or something? The old way was both solemn and lively. Why the hell did you change it like this?”
“If you really have nothing to do with yourself, you can go sweep the streets clean.”
“Now it’s a red throw, not a red scarf.”
“I don’t dare to accept any money before my college entrance exams.”
OP shows screenshots of a text, which reads, “Focus on your test. Afterwards, we can go vacation in Qinghai. [transfers 666 RMB]
Comments say, “My friend’s parents are sending her all kinds of 666, 985, 211 red pockets, and she’s too scared to accept them too.”
“Expectations are a subtle kind of violence. I don’t want to accept anything either.”
“Just take it. Last year, I was taking the exams, and I took everything my dad gave me.”
In 2017, 10-year-old uni student Zhang Yiwen got accepted into a technical college in Henan with a score of 352 points, gaining a lot of societal attention. After graduating from college and working for two years, Zhang Yiwen returned to high school. The “Genius Girl” has climbed down from her pedestal, and her father, Zhang Mintao’s parenting style has been called into question. Lately, Red Star News interviewed Zhang Mintao. Faced with his daughter’s choice to return to school, Zhang Mintao believes that she’s making this decision out of peer pressure and a desire for independence as a result of puberty. Zhang Mintao speaks of Zhang Yiwen’s life choices, saying, “Everything she’s doing now is taking her down the wrong path.”
Comments say, “Uh…I’m on his daughter’s side.”
“Technical college…”
“I’ve seen this news before. I hear that her dad used her fame to open a tutoring agency. A lot of people said he should’ve sent his kid to normal middle school and high school, so she could get into a better college, but he wouldn’t let her.”
A man gets tripped by his four dogs while trying to go to the bathroom at night. To prevent this from happening again, he installed nightlights around his bed. And yet, look at the result…Netizens say, when he turned off the lights, I freaked the fuck out.
Comments say, “Literal hellhounds…”
“Are they trying to send you to the afterlife?”
“Now you don’t have to get up to pee, because you have every reason to pee your bed.”
“I see all kinds of people cheering high schoolers and middle schoolers on in their exams. Why is no one cheering for us uni students? Isn’t it a lot more amazing for someone with only a high school diploma, to spend a week or so studying multiple uni courses, and taking exams for them?”
Comments say, “Even though uni end terms are the scariest exams of all.”
“I don’t even have a week. I just have a few all-nighters.”
“I would agree with this if it weren’t for the fact that I have to take my college entrance exams tomorrow.”
“My dad installed a faucet in his bedroom. He just finished remodelling his house, so I went over to check it out before work. As soon as I entered his room, I saw a…goddamn faucet.
I was like ???
And my mom said, “Your dad said he wants to boil water and make tea in the bedroom, and this means he never has to go out for water.”
Can’t argue with that. Can’t argue with that at all.”
Comments say, “My dad wanted to install those public bathroom doors on our bathroom at home. The kind that has a gap on top and below. He really likes those doors.”
“I’ve got a friend whose dad secretly went back to his hometown without telling his mom, apparently to build himself a house. He only told his mom after everything was done, and when his mom went to see it, it had no kitchen at all.”
“Faucet: This is what charisma looks like.”
Another blogger covering the red scarf, with a picture comparing it to the Japanese sailor uniform tie, how it’s supposed to look like, as well as a compilation of other people’s comments:
“Our red scarves have to be folded three times! The first fold is for our country, the second fold is for our soldiers, the third fold is for our future! Leave a corner remaining, because the red scarf is also a corner of our red flag! I don’t care what anyone says! It all has to be proper! It has to be tied in front of your chest, and not just hanging there like a piece of shit! This is so disrespectful to our country and our heroes!”
“Every time I see videos like this, I just don’t want to keep watching anymore. Nothing I do or say matters. I’m helpless. The more I watch, the more my head hurts, and more I get anxious. I need to go eat a piece of candy.”
“Exactly. It’s like the eunuch worrying when the Emperor is chill.”
“This is a red scarf, not a throw. You need to fold it before tying it.”
“The person who proposed this was a Japanese spy who was caught in 2023, Dong Yuyu, and yet we’re still executing his Japanese sailor uniform scarf idea.”
“A case that’s very good for both your blood pressure and your mammary glands:
So in some village in Hunan, a grandma was going to the market with her granddaughter. Her granddaughter was walking in front, and she was following behind. But she lost focus for only a moment or two, and her granddaughter disappeared. She looked everywhere, and eventually found her granddaughter’s shoes next to some tall grass which had a swath flattened in it. The grandma immediately realised that something must’ve happened to her granddaughter.
She didn’t panic. She immediately ran to the nearest gas station for help, and explained that someone might have dragged her granddaughter away. The gas station employee heard and immediately went to help. Following the drag marks, he went into the forest. The grandma didn’t just wait around either. While calling her family, she started flagging down passing cars for help.
Thankfully, the gas station employee was fast enough, the bastard hadn’t yet managed to do something to the little girl. The gas station employee pounced on him and started fighting the bastard. The bastard threw down the little girl and ran, and after making sure the little girl was safe, the gas station employee figured he couldn’t let the guy just get away with it. If he got away, he’d just do it to another little girl. So the gas station employee started chasing the guy.
This is when the little girl’s grandpa hurried over too. The grandma managed to flag down villager A’s car, and as soon as villager A heard someone was out here screwing with little girls, he immediately hopped out of his car to join the chase.
The bastard got scared and hid in the forest and wouldn’t come out. The gas station employee, the grandpa, and villager A were all closing in on him, and he was scurrying here and there. Villager B was working near the riverbanks and heard there was someone screwing around with little girls, and he joined the siege too. And since villager B was a hunter, he took his dog with him on the chase.
Very quickly, the dog was able to track down the bastard by scent, but none of the others had arrived yet, so villager B stayed in hiding. The bastard sensed something was up, so he started running in a blind panic towards the river again. That’s when the rest of the party showed up. There were interceptors in front, pursuers in the back, and the river was getting surrounded by other villagers who’d heard the news.
Everyone piled on and held the bastard down. If it wasn’t for the fact that we live in an age of laws, he would’ve been beaten to death right then and there!
The police got there soon enough and took him away. Only afterwards, everyone found out that this wasn’t just any bastard. He was a B-level wanted criminal with a ton of cases on him! He had 4 murders and 10 rapes to his name, and most of his victims were underage minors. And 42 cases of thievery. He’s been on the run for 6 years!
If it wasn’t for all of these people being heroes and stopping him, not only would the little girl become a victim, who knows how many more people he would’ve victimised!
In the end, 11 peasants who joined in the pursuit and acted heroically got a big red flower and split the 200K in bounty, and got all kinds of praises.
I gotta say though, the grandma’s calmness, everyone’s heroics, their smarts and their bravery made this a textbook rescue.”
Comments say, “The dog deserves a little red flower too.”
“Getting a red flower is such a traditional Chinese medal of honour. Everyone is happy to get one.”
In 2008, Xu Mengnan attended the college entrance exam, and deliberately wrote on the back of his answer sheet, “My name is Xu Mengnan. My ID number is XXXXXXX.” And wrote down his philosophy on education and expressed that he wanted to get a score of 0 in order to draw societal attention. This year, in June, he’ll be returning to the exams. This time, he wants to get into an education major to complete his dream. On the 6th, Xu Mengnan posted a video explaining that he has been forced to marry and have kids due to life. As the oldest son in his family, if he did not get married early, it would affect his two younger brothers.
Comments say, “Why would I care if he got 0 or not? What’s the point to this news?”
“The hell? He was forced to get married? He was forced to sleep in the same bed as somebody and have kids? What the fuck does he have to complain about?”
“So he got married, got work, had kids, got divorced, and now he wants likes and subscribes? Is he gonna start livestreaming and selling merch when he’s done with his exams?”
The red scarf wore by elementary school kids is a communist symbol originating from the Soviet Union before China became communist and it was wore by Young Pioneers in most communist countries so it's not a chinese tradition.
The original soviet Young Pioneer attire was in turn based on the original Scout uniforms from where they adopted the big scarf. Lenin's wife was big on the pioneer thing.
What is the significance of 666, 985, 211?