A news article of how, “A father’s love is always silent but warm. Perhaps he’s not good with words, but he’s always quietly protecting you. He might not have ever said that he loved you, but he gave you everything. Dad, you raised me to adulthood, I’ll accompany you in old age.” It calls for people to blog about their father on Father’s Day.”
Comments say, “Either way, he’s my dad. Loving him and telling him off are not mutually exclusive.”
“There are some irresponsible bastards who don’t deserves to be fathers though.”
“I hope everything is alright in Heaven, dad. I miss you!”
A compilation of people complaining about their parents and their weird views on money.
“They’d rather fuck up their back than spend 200 RMB hiring someone to clean the windows. But they’ll spend 1500 RMB on eight dinner plates.”
“My mom will only buy fruit on clearance at the supermarket, because “it’s all vitamins either way”. But then she gets fooled by some health supplement scam and drops several grand into it, and still thinks it was worth it.”
“My mom will lose four-figures in mahjong and not say a word, but boy, she’s going to ask exactly how many cents per pound some veggies are.”
“My dad thinks the thermal underwear I got for 100 RMB is way too expensive, but he buys three pounds of buffalo beef for 180 RMB per pound.”
“Won’t spend a couple hundred bucks on a taxi ride, but will spend over six figures on a car. And then only drives it two or three times a year.”
“They’ll haggle over a quarter at the supermarket, and then turn around and lose 100K-200K on the stock market.”
“My dad’s the same. He buys only the cheapest vegetables (potatoes, carrots, and bokchoy), says it’s healthy for you. (Thank god my mom usually grocery shops and buys whatever the family likes to eat). He’ll yell at me for not switching off the light right away. We flush the toilet with left over shower water (we have to shower in a bucket). Never buys clothes for himself. Will wear a pair of shoes completely through and not buy a new pair, just get it repaired at the cobblers. We went vacationing last year, and he wouldn’t let me buy any food there because it was too expensive. But he’s not worried at all when he lost a million RMB on the stock market. Told me to calm down when I lost 100K too. He used to not throw away rotten food too, and I finally persuaded him pointing out that medical bills are a lot more expensive than some left over food.”
“Cries to me all the time about how poor she is and how skin care is a scam. Forced me to throw out all my skin products and just use 10 RMB soap. Meanwhile, she’s dropping six, seven thousand in “investment classes”, and spending 2K RMB on LV knock offs. And for some reason, she keeps thinking I have tons of money, always making me pay things promising to “pay me back later”, and she never does. This year, for summer break, I want to get some work and save up some money. I have no idea how they’re living like this when they make over 400K a year.”
“My mom gives me 1500 RMB living expenses every month, but she’ll spend 2K a month on bullshit healthcare supplements. This year, my goal is to con my mom out of money before someone else does.”
“My in-laws are super frugal, except for going to the bar twice a week like clockwork.”
“This has nothing to do with money, but my parents will say they have high blood pressure and cut down on sugar, and cook food that’s bland as fuck. And then eat their food with pickles.”
“They bought an AC, but are too stingy to ever turn it on. They won’t buy new clothes. But they will buy dog meat and snake meat and lamb leg and all kinds of fish and meat, and then throw it away when they can’t finish it.”
“They’d rather wear down their joints cleaning the house on their own than hire a maid, but will turn around and buy a winter jacket for 5000 RMB.”
“I’ve got a relative who spent 30K-40K on a cabinet full of Pontmeirion plates, but thinks her DIL wastes too much water showering every morning.”
“They’ve got a city-centre apartment unit that they refuse to rent out, just letting it sit empty for years, saying that it’s too much hassle for not much money. But they’ll haggle over a couple of cents while shopping for groceries.”
“Basically, to summarise, they won’t spend money on actually making themselves comfortable, but they will spend money on stuff they can show off. They never actually treated themselves, but money still got spent like crazy.”
“Every time they’re done using something, they’ll unplug it, saying it saves on electricity. But all the money they saved won’t pay to fix the outlet once it’s fucked up.”
“My mom is willing to buy meat, even when it’s skyrocketed to 30 something bucks for a pound of pork. But she won’t spend money on nicer kitchen knives. She’ll spend thousands on health supplements, but she won’t buy calcium tablets or vitamins.”
“My friend got blacklisted from American visas for the rest of her life. What should she do? Around the beginning of 2022, my friend found out she was pregnant, so she wanted to give birth in America. But at the time, it was really hard to get a visa, and she procrastinated a lot herself.
She was five months along by the time she finally got around to applying, with a huge, obvious tummy, telling the visa officer that the reason she needs to go to America is for “emergency medical treatment”. That her eldest had a serious condition, and has to go to America to get treatment.
The visa officer let her through. She got the visa. But before she could actually set off to America, the consulate got suspicious and wanted more proof from her. Then she did something nobody understood. She completely ignored the consulate and just flew to America a month early.
Then she had her baby safely and returned to China. February of this year, she got mail from the consulate that her visa has been canceled and she’s been blacklisted from applying for any kind of visa for the rest of her life.
Now she can’t apply to move to America using her baby. Is there another way for her to go?”
Comments complain, “Fuck! So this is why it’s so hard to get visas to America these days!”
“You could illegally immigrate over.”
“You can try going to Fujian and praying to Mazu (Chinese Poseidon). If Mazu agrees, you can hop on a boat tonight.”
A tiktok video of a man whose wife is pregnant with quadruplets, who has such severe back pain and leg problems that she cannot walk as a result of the pregnancy. “Every time I go to work, I have to carry her to the bathroom first so she can relieve herself. My dad and my sister says she’s just a burden on me. But she lived in a pig sty with me. And she’s birthing four children for me. She was with me at my lowest point. Of course I have to stick with her now.”
Comments say, “He’s an upstanding man with a sense of responsibility.”
“Having kids when you’re this poor should count as child abuse.”
“She’s having four babies, and this guy’s parents call her a burden? Are they even human?”
A compilation of embarrassing things that happened at work:
In a company-wide group chat, OP posts a reaction image, “haha, all of you go die”
OP: “I’m outside and accidentally pressed on the wrong image, I’m so sorry. [Sends red pocket]”
OP: “Hello, Kan Sensei, I’m Tan Chuan.”
Kan Sensei: “Oh, I just wanted to ask you—you never show up for lessons, never sign in to class discussion, what are you even here for?”
OP: “[Sends an invite to become Facebook married to you.]”
Kan Sensei: “[Agrees.]”
Reaction image reads, “Wanna play games tonight?” And is posted to the group chat, “Preschool 3-year-old class” by OP, who is the teacher.
Guo Yuchen’s Mom: “Yes! Yes! Yes!”
Wu Xinyi’s Mom: “Gao Sensei, what kind of games?”
Cao Yuchen’s Mom: “Is it hide and seek?”
OP: “I accidentally posted that! I’m so sorry!”
Guo Yuchen’s Mom: “Oh, I thought there was some kind of parent participation thing going on tonight hahaha.”
In a company group chat, the boss posts, “I’ll go over the group chat rules briefly.”
OP: “Got it.”
Boss: “First, there’s no need to reply “got it” to everything I post.”
OP: “[One message has been withdrawn]”
Boss: “Second, don’t apologise. It affects the mood of the group chat. Third, don’t delete your own messages in group chat.”
OP: “[black person reaction image]”
Boss: “Fourth, don’t post reaction images. It disrupts the readability of the group chat.”
Next are a bunch of submissions without images. “I bought a huge bucket of sago, wanting to make some sago milk tea at work. But it slipped out of my hands, dropped to the floor, and now the entire office is completely covered in sago. My coworker picked up his shoes, and poured a whole bunch of sago out. Some even bounced off of my boss’s face. It was horrifying.”
“The very second day after I got hired at a new place, my boss’s husband came looking for her. So I ran to her office and said, “Hey, some old creep is asking for you!””
“A coworker was passing out apples around the office, and when he got to me, my brain went blank and I asked, “What is this thing?””
“Accidentally caught my boss and the head of accounting kissing. I cringed so hard my toes curled. They’re both middle aged with a family and kids.”
“My boss was eating out with his mistress, and I was his chauffeur. He told me to go buy some cigarettes, and I actually went and bought some cigarettes for him.”
“Working at the bank. My job was destroying the old versions of our cheques. But it was my first day and I didn’t know what I was doing, and ended up destroying thousands of the new versions of cheques. Our branch manager had to go apologise at headquarters.”
A blogger reposts someone else’s instagram posts, begging, “Someone tell me she is making this shit up, please!”
“3:50 AM, my husband got off of work. I’m making some egg fried rice for him and his friends.”
“I wanted to make it beforehand, but he says that egg fried rice is only good when it’s fresh.”
“He wants me to deliver it downstairs to him. Says it’s too hot and he doesn’t want to get up.”
Comments say, “This isn’t the same person you’ve covered before who’s taking care of three kids, cleaning the house, cooking the food, and also making meals for her brother-in-law, and cooking for her husband’s friends, and doing laundry for a bunch of men she doesn’t even know, right?” OP replies, “Yes, it is.”
“The algorithm loves stories like this. She’s doing it on purpose.”
“I feel like it’s fake. With how much she has to do every day, how is she having time to film all these videos and edit and cut them?”
“You can tell by camera angle that she’s got a professional team behind this.”
“I just discovered how important genetics is. I’ve got a coworker who married a super gorgeous wife. He’s just okay personally. Today, I finally saw their kid and I swear to god, I’m not trying to attack anyone personally. I think the vast majority of kids are super cute. But this little kid made me swear to God that I need to be careful finding a boyfriend. There really are kids who manage to precisely inherit all of the ugliest parts of both their parents. Oh my god. And she’s a little girl too! I can already predict, in this appearance-obsessed society, what kind of hellish life she’s going to lie. It’s so shocking. I’m completely lost for words.”
Comments say, “I totally get it. My little brother inherited my mom’s eyes, double lidded, long eyelashes, just absolutely gorgeous. I inherited my dad’s monolids and short as fuck eyelashes. TT_TT”
“Same. My brother’s eyes are huge and gorgeous, double lids. It looked even better before he turned into a fatty. Two of my eyes are only as big as one of his.”
“Sons take after their moms, daughters take after their dads. My mom is super fair and cute, with a baby face. She’s almost fifty and still looks thirty. My dad has monolids, coal skin, and a huge nose. Now that I’m old and know how to do make up, it’s a little bit better. But when I go out with my mom, people ask if she’s my sister. None of her good traits got passed down to me.”
“My brother has no body hair at all. Mine is super thick and long. Who gets it?”
“My brother got into Fourth High School in Beijing, and I can’t even get into an ordinary high school. My hard work and payoff ratio is an absolute joke. I’m like a retard compared to the rest of my family.”
“It’s not fair at all. I was in my final year of high school and 158cm. Finally got to 164 in my freshman year of college. But my sister is effortlessly 174cm. It’s not fair.”
“I combined all the worst traits of my parents’ appearances.”
“I’m the only monolid in my whole family.”
“Lol. My own daughter said, “Aunty, you look pretty. Mommy, you look funny.””
“My sister used to play on her phone until 2-3 AM at night all the time, and she’s got -1.50 eyesight. I’m super paranoid about protecting my eyes, and I’ve literally got over -10.00.”
A blogger wrote, “After Fudan University released Chinese people’s genetic map, Pfizer started targeting pureblood Chinese people in Europe for medical experiments. Without any incident, probably within the next 6-12 months, there’ll be biological weapons designed against Chinese people being released.”
And another blogger commented on the post, “I’m not surprised at all that America would design genetic weapons against China. But I don’t get why Fudan would release Chinese people’s genetic information. This seems like top secret information that could affect the safety and lives of the entire Chinese race!?”
Comments say, “When is the Department of Education and Culture going to be investigated?”
“You mean, the first stage human testing that was recruiting Chinese people? It was for a medicine for prostatic hyperplasia, and according to Chinese law, anything that affects metabolism has to show experimental data with Chinese people in order to ensure the safety and effectiveness of the drug, before it can be sold in China. Even if they didn’t do the experiment with Chinese people in Germany, they would’ve had to do it with Chinese people in China.”
“Spies and traitors are getting entirely open and fearless now!”
I suppose total ignorance about genetics and wild conspiracy thinking are universal norms on the internet.
"But he’s not worried at all when he lost a million dollars on the stock market." Is it common for people in China to invest using USD rather than RMB? I guess it makes sense, it's probably easier to transact on international markets in USD but somehow it never occurred to me.