#Indian man finds human finger in ice cream. In Mumbai, India, a man ordered some ice cream cones online, and discovered a human finger in one of them. The man explained that, “At first, I thought it was a piece of cartilage or chicken. As a doctor, I recognised that it was a finger.” He immediately reported the case to Mallard police, and the police immediately began to investigate the ice cream company. The finger has been given to a coroner for examination.
Comments say, “Finger lickin’ good??”
“It looks like a toe, actually.”
“It looks like a worker accidentally got their finger caught up in some machinery or something, and it ended up in ice cream.”
“TSA were the first people to know I was pregnant. I’ve been trying for half a year without any results, and have been sick since I got married. So my husband proposed we take a holiday in Sanya, that maybe we’ll succeed once we get some rest and relaxation in. The last period I had was the 30th of April. We married on the 2nd of May, and we booked flights for 8PM on the 16th of May. It was cold, so I wore denim overalls, a t-shirt, and skate shoes. When I was passing through security, I went in the scanner and a TSA agent came up to me and said, “Just go get your stuff.” I was really surprised, and she repeated I could just go get my stuff. They hadn’t scanned me or anything. And after I came back from Sanya, I found out I was pregnant. Did they already know back then? It’s so magical.”
Comments say, “Who the hell starts trying a whole 6 months before even getting married? Shit.”
“But how would they know?”
“You’re probably just fat and dressed like a pregnant lady.”
“Wanna talk a bit about Wang Sicong’s [son of a former billionaire, formerly incredibly active on social media] “supposed bastard”.
When it comes to bastards, China and the west [mostly Christian countries] have completely different views.
Chinese people really care about lineage. Not having a son is a legitimate reason to get concubines. There’s adoption, sharing sons [basically adoption, but he doesn’t cut off his original family, so he’s considered the legitimate heir to two families], human trafficking—all considered legitimate options that nobody considers unusual. But lineage doesn’t refer to a specific person, or even necessarily a son.
China is a country that has been killing female infants for thousands of years. Girls are worthless, drowned on a whim, countless times. Supposedly, Zeng Guofan [government official during late Qing dynasty]’s family have “eliminated girls for 9 generations”. And sons are actuallyt he same. Su Shi [Song Dynasty poet] once recorded during his appointment as a local official that he’s witnessed locals unhesitatingly kill the third son in their family, because they couldn’t afford to raise him.
So China is a country that only cares about “lineage and not bloodline” when it comes to extramarital children. If you don’t have a son with your wife, but your mistress has a boy, then you can bring him home, since it’s your lineage.
As for girls?
Huo Xiaoyu in the Tang Dynasty—her father was Prince Huo. Her mother was just a maid. After her father passed away, his legitimate children wouldn’t acknowledge here. There was no such thing as “keeping the child and getting rid of the mother”. They just gave her some money and sent both her and her mother away. And Huo Xiaoyu ended up a prostitute.
Or more famously, Liu Zongyuan [Tang Dynasty politician] was exiled after failing to push the Yongzhen Reform, and died where he was exiled. His wife passed away early, and he never got legally remarried again, but he clearly had women he was sleeping with, because when he died, he left behind at least 4 daughters and 2 sons, maybe more.
But all of these children don’t have a mother—because from a legal and traditional point of view, they all belong to his legitimate wife. And when he doesn’t have a legitimate wife anymore, his children are considered to be orphans.
He’s from the Hedong Liu family, old money bourgeoisie, you’d think they’d take care of his orphans, right? He at least needs sons to pass on his lineage.
Nah, forget it.
He’s a criminal. Why does he need lineage?
Han Yu and Liu Yuxi each adopted one of his sons, and that was considered shockingly virtuous. That’s the only clues we have. There’s no record of his daughters.
The west follow a different kind of logic. (I’m only talking about the Christian nations.)
Christians care about children, so even if extramarital children have no rights to inheritance, you can’t let them wander around in the wild. Assuming the man is a gentleman, of course.
Anyone who’s read Jane Eyre knows that Rochester doesn’t acknowledge Adele is his daughter at all. He thinks that Adele’s mother, his lover at the time, was cheating on at the time. So why would he adopt Adele?
Because he slept with her mother. So long as they slept together, there was a chance this child was his. If he didn’t adopt her, was he going to let his own flesh and blood wander the streets and become a prostitute?
Everyone is a believer. So long as his lover went to a church and raised her right hand and swore, “I’ve slept with Mr. Rochester. I swear this child is his.” Then he would be judged by the whole community. He had to take care of her. If not, then he’d be nothing better than an animal in this community.
Unless he insisted he never slept with her, but that’s also barbaric, lying in front of God. So not only does he have to raise the child, he has to give money to her mother too. He has no choice.
There are a lot of bastards in western history, and the father always has to pay money to them. Dumas Senior never married Dumas Junior’s mom. He’s a jerk. But he took care of his kid—gave him money and let him live in the same house. Turgenev was unmarried his whole life, but he had an extramarital daughter with a maid, and he raised that daughter with all the care in the world and arranged for her a great marriage. When his daughter was unhappy in her marriage, he took her back in.
Tolstoy was much worse about this. He wasn’t very good to his bastard at all. But that’s because his legal wife had 13 kids with him. He didn’t need any extra kids. But he still paid up.
Are there any people who didn’t care about their bastards and never paid up? Of course, among the peasantry. Like Jack London’s father got his girlfriend pregnant, and he thought the kid wasn’t his, so he never got involved. His girlfriend was forced to marry someone else with her kid, and London is Jack’s stepdad’s surname. Maupassant’s written about a lot of women abandoned by their lovers and forced to raise their kids on their own.
These different views about children made their way to Hong Kong and Taiwan, the east and west mixed, and it’s turned into something very ineffable.
Like in Yishu’s novels, a lot of men adopted their extramarital children—that’s a very western tradition. I suppose for a while, this western take on children was considered to be more civilised in Hong Kong, especially among the upper class. They needed to be prim and proper out in society, give themselves English names, live a dignified life. It’s not shameful to have bastards, but it’s shameful to not care about them.
But Jackie Chan won’t acknowledge his daughter, who took her mother’s name and grew up with her mother. Hou Peicen [actress]’s parents never married. Although she took her father’s surname, she was raised by her mother. Zhuanjie, who killed herself after a failed lesbian relationship, was an extramarital child whose parents were both celebrities. She took her mother’s surname and was raised by her, and after she died, her father refused to even visit her grave.
These are all very “Chinese”. When you don’t carry a lineage, then you’re nothing.
Having bastards is a proud thing—it means the man is very virile.
But why would they take responsibility? You asked for it.”
Comments say, “I’ve seen a lot of stories where officials were scared their wife and daughter would be forced into prostitution and helped the women in failing noble families, but it’s all set in the Song Dynasty.”
“Isn’t it against the law? Civil code, marriage law, underage minor protection law? Forget about morality for now.”
“Is “lineage” just another word for “inheritance rights”?”
“I often share music on my social media accounts. Later, I met a friend online, and we chatted for a long time before ever meeting up in real life. As soon as I got in his car, I heard a song I shared a long time ago in my friend’s circle. I thought it was just a coincidence, so I didn’t think anything of it. But he kept driving, and the songs kept playing, and every single one of them was one I liked. I excited said, “This is all my favourite music!” And he said, “Yeah, I got them all from your friend circle. I made a playlist out of them, so I could think of you while I drive.” I really felt what love was that day. There’s nothing vague about it. It’s just doing something really dumb, but I remember it to this day.”
Comments say, “In my opinion, this is the highest form of love.”
“This is the highest form of manwhoring. I’ve seen a lot of guides to picking up women teach this strategy—collect music a girl likes and play it for her.”
“As a paranoid person, the thought of someone paying that much attention to me terrifies me.”
That lineage post seemed a little confused. It listed a lot of examples, but I’m not sure it pointed out any differences! And I’m going to cry foul on using fictional examples lol
There's a Chinese version of "Finger lickin good" ???