06/07/23 - I hope he’s not carrying AIDS.
An upper-level manager of a Chinese state-funded businessman was photographed shopping with his mistress. He’s been suspended and is under investigation, but internet sleuths have figured out that his mistress is a Master’s Degree student at China University of Petroleum, and her professor happens to have the same last name as her. China University of Petroleum has posted an official clarification that she does not have any familial relationship to her professor.
Comments are continuing to gossip, “Why does she need to be a mistress when she’s a Master’s Degree student?”
“I feel like everyone making rumours that she’s from a wealthy family is just making an excuse for corruption. This is just a pure case of loose morals.”
“I mean, maybe I’m just sheltered, but of all the professors I know, their kids would never go out on the streets dressed like this, or show off on social media so often.”
A tiktok video of a Chinese kiddo encountering a black kid for the first time and being scared.
Comments say, “Who wouldn’t be scared seeing a gorilla like that?”
“Dude, what is wrong with the comment section. Why so much hate towards a little kid?”
“I hope he’s not carrying AIDS.”
Under the askreddit question, “Do people really have past lives?” The top reply is, “My son is almost 5 years old. Today, we were shopping at the store and I was holding him. And he suddenly said to me, “Mama, I didn’t used to be your kid.”
Then he carried on, “Mom, when I wasn’t your kid, I wanted to find someone who could love me. So my other mommy took me to your place, and I asked you, “Can I be your baby?” And you agreed, and that’s how I became your kid. My house used to be super, super far away from here, in a waste processing facility. I used to have a super hard life. My other mommy and dad got murdered by someone, and I became your kid.“
I asked my son if that was true, and he insisted it was totally true. I asked him when he remembered this, and he said it was just now.”
Someone else comments, “I’ve had this feeling too. Like, I remember being a little kid in a place like a park, taking a photo hand in hand with my mom. But my mom doesn’t look like that, and I don’t have that photo.”
Other’s wonder, “I mean, could it be possible you were actually abducted?”
“He might have seen it in some TV show and falsely applied it to himself.”
“All kids are like this, I think. Mine said he was a soldier and got killed by someone, and felt like I was a good person so he chose to be my kid. They said they lined up to pick mommies, and he picked me.”
A blogger asks, “India is poor, but why don’t they get discriminated against in the west? A lot of upper management in big international companies are Indian. There’s never any news of hate crimes against Indians in America. Why? Is it because they speak English so they fit in? Or because they’re more obedient? All other Asians face a lot of discrimination.”
Comments say, “Because Indian people are super collectivised. Anyone who’s studied overseas in America knows that Indians really help each other out. As soon as one Indian gets hired at a company, a whole group of Indians will get hired there.”
“Cause Indians aren’t yellow-skinned. They’re considered white. Especially the higher-caste Indians. They’ve got more pure bloodlines than Germans.”
“If you never touch microchips, phones, computers, aviation, ship-building, cars, and high-end machinery and are satisfied working menial labour, nobody will ever dislike you.”
“Cause Indians have been the servants of white people for 200-300 years. Especially the higher castes—they’ve been white people’s dogs forever. They’ve got a bond of trust with white people for centuries.”
A compilation of hilarious replies on the internet:
“Would people who have red/green colourblindness accidentally buy iced green tea instead of iced red tea?”
“What, they’re illiterate too?”
“When a man says he’s willing to do anything for you, he’s referring to fighting slimes and slaying dragons, not washing dishes and mopping floors.”
“Got a fever and went to the hospital. Doctor asked me, “How high?” (the same word is used in China for high and tall), and I was all like, “185.” And the doctor told me, “Just go home and wait to die.””
“I get insecure about my teeth all the time.”
“It’s okay to be insecure in your case.”
“I’m a student. Can I have some for free?”
“Which school?”
“Luoyang Institute of Science.”
“@Luoyang Institute of Science, take care of your fucking students. They dare to ask for it today, they’ll dare to steal it tomorrow.”
From Luoyang Institute of Science, “That’s just individual behaviour.”
“Today, I got stopped by the police. He asked me if I saw the red light. I told him I saw the red light, I just didn’t see him.”
“I feel like rather than blind masseuses, we need mute hairdressers more.”
“Looking for 12 year old shar pei, 10K reward.” (IP address from well-known wealthy suburb of Chengdu)
“Master, I’m here. I’ve awakened magical abilities to talk.”
OP: “Fuck off.”
“Taiwanese person, ask me anything. I’m just a primary school student, though, so I can only answer to the best of my ability.”
“Where are your military bases?”
“You wanna go on holiday to Beijing, mom? I’ll take you. We can go see the flag-raising ceremony.”
“I’m not like you, studied for 20 years and you can’t get to any school outside of Tianjin. I was already going to uni in Beijing at 20 years old. Back then, your dad would drive over and take me out every weekend. If you wanna go, go by yourself. We’ve been tons of times.”
“Wow, that’s so awesome. But however awesome you are, you still birthed absolute trash like me lol.”
A tiktok video that someone comments on, “You can tell Guangdong people don’t follow celebrity culture at all. They’re all saying hi to Leung Ka-fai, but don’t recognise any of the younger actors behind him hahahahaha.”
Another news covering the story of the State-funded company manager and his mistress shopping together. Although the manager in question has been suspended pending investigation, Chinese National Petroleum has yet to respond to rumours that his mistress is his employee. The original video that went viral has been taken down due to the people involved sending the photographer private messages. But the original photographer claims that when he asked to film them, they didn’t refuse. Lots of people were photographing them, directly in their face, and they never refused. “If they’d said no, we wouldn’t have kept photographing or posting it.” The news story points out that behind the salacious sexual nature of the stories lies the much bigger problem of whether there is corruption at work here. “This isn’t just a regular sex scandal. It has to do with whether state-funded company management has consistent problems with nepotism and corruption. It’s serious business.”
Comments say, “State-funded company management is the true celebrity of our day.”
“Walking hand in hand on our Republic’s roads, full of freedom and confidence. Truly, they are the pinnacle of the Chinese state.”
“Eh, all higher ups are like this.”
A relationship blogger writes, “A guy’s discussed the problem of bride prices with me before. His opinions is that girls can’t ask for bride prices. Even if it’s just a couple grand, bride prices is just selling your daughter. He would never pay a bride price, and would never consider dating a girl who wanted a bride price.
I told him that of the girls who are getting married around me, 80% asked for a bride price, usually 66K or 88K, depending on what both families agree on. The man is usually happy to accept this, because the girl would bring a dowry along too. Around me, the standard dowry is about 100K. The girl is bringing all of that to her new family, along with her savings of usually 80K to 200K. A lot of girls spend their savings on a new car for the family, or just daily expenses, with the condition that the man turns in his wages. They don’t care too much in that case.
He immediately seized onto the key point, “The girls around you bring a dowry of 100K? Is it just adding whatever is necessary to the 66K or 88K bride price until it reached 100K before bringing it into the new family, or is it bringing 100K dowry plus the 66K or 88K bride price into the new family?”
I asked, “Is there a difference?”
And he said, “Of course there is. If it’s the latter case, then I’d accept it. But the money has to be spent on our new family.”
I didn’t respond after that.
To be honest, I know plenty of girls who don’t ask for a bride price. That means they’re super independent, can make decisions on their parents’ behalf, and so can decide on their own. But they really care about a person’s character, abilities, and degree of education. They get the best of husbands, and are usually super chill. But no matter what, they share one trait on common: they would never marry someone who calculates too much in his marriage.
Nobody is stupid. The more you scheme about bride price, the most you’ll be rejected by girls who don’t really care about stuff like that. In a lot of cases, it’s not that complicated. You’re just exchanging trust for trust. You give her a sense of security, and she’ll respond with sincerity, and you can work together to manage your new family, instead of working against each other.”
Comments say, “If men had to give birth to kids, and their kid took on the woman’s last name, and women gave groom prices, men would want groom price to get higher and higher and higher.”
“Men are smart. My ex was like that. He said if I marry into his family, they’d give 30K in bride price, and we have to bring a dowry of 60K. Sure, he’s willing to marry into my family too, but we’ve got to give his parents 200K in groom price, because they had to go through a lot to raise him.”
“So why isn’t there anyone calling for an end to dowries?”
A parent asks for advice. “My son just had a complete meltdown over his math exam, where he got 93/100. On the way home from school, I went over the exam and analysed where he’d lost points. Usually, it was not writing the unit after the answer, or he only wrote the final result and not the equation he used, and there was one question where he just couldn’t figure out the solution. He’s done questions like it before, though. When I signed the exam at the end, I wrote down, “He’s not familiar enough with the material. He doesn’t have enough practice.”
He started throwing a fit. “I practice all day at school. How can you say I don’t have enough practice? Cross that part out!”
I told him, “Sure, you’ve done questions like this before. But the reason you got it wrong is because you didn’t do enough questions like it, you’re not familiar with this style of questions.”
He wouldn’t let go, and I couldn’t explain to him.
He started bursting into tears, “Our teacher already said this was a hard exam. You were pretty good if you could get above a 90!”
I said, “I didn’t say you weren’t good, I just feel like you have too little homework. I’ve never seen you do maths homework after school, and even on the weekends, you only have basic arithmetic practice and nothing else.”
He screamed back, “You’re the one who told me to finish my homework while I’m at school!”
I didn’t know what to say, but I knew the conflict couldn’t escalate any more, so I shut up.
He sat next to me and cried for a while, then went back to his room to do homework.
Sigh. He’s older now, and getting more sensitive. To be honest, I’m not happy with this grade. Even though I didn’t really show it, he can feel the lie, so he started blowing up with his emotions. There’s five school days in a week plus the weekend, and aside from basic arithmetic practice, I’ve never seen him do math homework. How is that not too little homework? Just thinking about his summer break homework is stressing me out.
#second grade maths”
Comments say, “Wow, you are ridiculous. No carrot at all, huh?”
OP: “When he gets good grades, I don’t reward him, yeah. But when he gets bad grades, I don’t say anything about it either. My point today was just that he has too little homework.”
Comments, “Sure, but you’re still blaming him. He already knew where the problem was, but you’re still heaping blame on him like throwing gas on the fire.”
“You just had to sign your name and discuss how he did with him. Why do you need to write his problems down on the exam? Are you trying to show off? Or are you just trying to put him down? Don’t feel like you have power over him just because you’re the parent. When he’s older, he’ll torture you right back.”
“Kids’ nervous systems are still developing. No matter how much he practices, he’s going to make some mistakes. This isn’t something he can control. Since he can’t control it, of course he’s upset that he’s getting blamed for it. If he understands the material and just makes minor mistakes, then everything’s fine. When he’s older and his nervous system is more developed, it’ll get better. Tell him that it’s alright, and to keep up the good work more.”
“Why don’t you praise him? He’s already feeling bad. If you don’t praise him, he’ll feel like you’ll never be happy with him, or that you don’t love him. If he really did screw up, you can point it out, but you should still praise him for where he did well. I pity your son so much.”
“I really want to ask parents like this, are you a genius? Did you graduate from the top 2 universities?”
On the high speed rails, a pregnant lady is travelling with her 2-year-old kid, who’s having a fever and rather whiny. Most passengers are pretty understanding, but one woman can’t seem to stand it and got up to pick a fight with the pregnant lady, threatening to call the police. A blogger asks how people feel about this.
Comments say, “Was she never a baby?”
“This is too much, yeah. This isn’t a brat deliberately being loud. The kid’s not even quite 2-years-old yet, and having a fever. He’s only whining because he doesn’t feel well, and his mother is trying her best. As a grown person, you’ve got to be somewhat understanding.”
“Have I not rode the train for too long? Aren’t the loudest people men who are perpetually on the phone talking about some Super Big Business Deal? Why is everyone mad at little kids lately?”
“Why is it always young women doing this? How come little girls, middle aged women, and men can all tolerate this situation?”