06/17/25 - I get mad seeing people walk their dogs after dinner too.
“I remember when I was little, my parents could always cook dinner after work and eat it as a family. Every day. Same with my neighbours. Same with all my classmates. Why is it so fucking hard to eat on time nowadays? What the fuck is up with work these days?”
Comments say, “It was a magical time. You can eat dinner at 6PM as a family, and then take a walk at 7PM. Parents are still relaxed after a day of work, and kids can have fun after a day of studying. The streets are full of strollers at 7-8PM. Why can’t we have such simple things these days?”
“My family can still do this. I get home at 6:30 and finish eating at 7PM, and I can take a walk around 7:30. I can do this because my mom helps with cooking, or else I’d have to hire a maid to cook.”
“I’m confused too. Every day, after school, I’d get home and smell the fragrance of dinner. And I can eat in a few minutes. And my mom is in such a good mood, and she doesn’t look exhausted at all. She has to work too, and she always buys fruit on the way back from work, and she cuts it and puts it on the table after she gets back. And our house was always tidy and neat. Now that I’m a mom, my house is always a mess and I’m always exhausted. I’m not like the last generation at all.”
“Same! My mom always cleans the whole house and looks so energetic when she’s cooking. And I always feel like I’m possessed or something. I can’t even move.”
“I remember I’d come home during noon, eat lunch, watch Legal Today, and take a nap, and then go back to school.”
“Right? It felt like we had so much time.”
“The reason is that our lives are more and more convenient now, and so service industry people have to work longer hours, and every industry puts pressure on every other industry in this loop…”
“Right? Whenever I see people proud that China’s takeout delivery is faster and more convenient than other countries, I feel awful. No, we’ll all have to spin like tops like this.”
“I just get mad when I enter my development and see people taking a walk after dinner.”
“I get mad seeing people walk their dogs after dinner too.”
“I feel like people used to work super close to home. Now everyone’s having to squeeze onto a packed subway and everyone lives far away. You waste so much time commuting.”
“It’s not just that. Workplaces used to have their own cafeteria and child care, and there was no overtime or business trips. And everyone had family nearby to help out.”
“When I was little, I would eat with my family while the news was on. Now at 7PM, I’m either working overtime or commuting.”
“Right? You could hear the news broadcast in every household. And the weather report.”
“When I first started working, in 2008, I’d clock out as soon as 5PM hit. I’ve never heard of anyone working overtime. Everyone’s hurrying home as soon as they’re done with work. 25 minute bike ride home, not exhausting at all, I’m just filled with joy the whole way. My siblings are waiting for me at the end of the street, and as soon as I turn in, they’ll yell, “Big sister is home! Big sister is home!” And all the neighbours come out to say hi. And I’ll cheerfully greet them back. Sometimes my dad is taking a shower. My mom is cooking (sometimes, my dad cooks, and he makes amazing food). And soon enough, we have dinner on the table, and we eat it out in the yard. I’ll carry the table out, while my siblings get the chairs, and my parents get the food. That food would fill me up with contentment. I was eating happy memories. Every night, my mom would pack me my lunch for tomorrow. And after dinner, my mom would take the three of us on a walk, while my dad goes to watch people play cards in the alleyway…”
“When I was little, my mom would pick me up from daycare and take me to the park and let me swing a little before going home to make dinner. It’s really unbelievable.”
“I feel like we ate about 6PM, and after eating and finishing my hometown, we still had time to watch a couple episodes of TV before going to bed at 9PM!”
“Back in the day, my mom would wake up at 6AM. What time do you go to work these days?”
“I usually leave the door at 6:30AM.”
“I remember cooking and eating at home for lunch.”
“I remember coming home to eat for daycare, but my primary school was too far away.”
“Long commutes, frequent overtime, no leaving early, and school runs later too.”
#Man attempts to reconcile with son with two houses and savings and is rejected. “According to the video interview, the guy and his wife got divorced when the son was 3-years-old. In order to not pay 50RMB in child support, the guy said in court that his son wasn’t actually his.
When the son was 7-years-old, he changed his surname to be his mom’s, and the guy went over to his school to beat him up. And then he refused to let his son enlist and beat him up again.
He’s been divorced thirty years, and he’s never cared about his son. Now that he’s old and needs somebody to take care of him, he tries to use two houses as bait to make his son acknowledge him and take care of him.
And he even dares to say, “I don’t know what I did wrong…”
This is exactly the same as the type of people to call women “whores” and then act all like, “I never did anything to you!” How do they even say such shit? I’m honestly impressed.
Is God asleep or something? It’s time to get to work. Clean all the scumbags up so they’re not polluting the earth and grossing everyone out.”
Comments say, “It’s two awful people getting together. Stop reviewing the case and go find your daddy.”
“So after all that, did his son take the bait?”
“Bullshit. Unless he donates it, it’ll be his son’s anyways after he dies.”
#Taeil sentenced to 7 years. “On the 18th, Seoul Central Court conducted its first hearing of Taeil and two friends. Taeil and his friends pled guilty to all charges of special case rape, and were sentenced to 7 years. According to the prosecutors, Taeil and the victim were friends. After running into each other in the early AM, he drank with the victim, and took her to his residence, where he and his friends gang-raped the victim from 4AM to 4:30AM.”
Comments say, “This happened June last year and it took until now to sentence him to 7 years? That’s way too light.”
“You got the translation wrong. The victim wasn’t his friend. The original text says that the defendant was out drinking with his friends when he happened to meet the victim.”
“Koreans are all evil.”
#Man claims he’s getting beaten by his wife every week for not handing over his pay check. “Henan, Xinxiang, Mr. Meng says that he and his wife met through a matchmaker. She was divorced with a child. But after marriage, he gets beat by his wife every week. “The reason she beats me is for the money. When we got married, we negotiated that either I would give her 100K in bride price, or give her all my pay checks after marriage. But I gave her the bride price and she still wants my pay check. And she wants me to pay rent and bills. She’ll beat me if I don’t give them to her. Now she’s deleted and blocked me.” When Mr. Meng’s wife showed up, she slapped him twice right in front of the reporters. She said, “It’s hard taking care of him, and he lies all the time and beats me too. I’m pregnant and I don’t want to deal with this anymore.” Mr. Meng wants to work things out with his wife.”
Comments say, “What’s the point in marriage.”
“He’s getting beaten and he still doesn’t want to leave? Instead, he wants to expose his wife to the news media? I don’t get it.”
“Either way, you can’t get violent.”
[Another news report on the Taeil case, with more details that he was a member of the idol group NCT who was fired by the company and now works at a friend’s restaurant. And indeed, the prosecutor says that, “The defendants are friends. 2:33 AM, on the 13th of June, they were drinking at a bar in Itaewon when they met the victim. After drinking together, they forced the victim into a taxi and went to the defendants’ house.”]
Comments say, “[Screenshot of a news story out of Mexico, “Man murdered for sexually assaulting 5-year-old girl, castrated, hung in the middle of the road, with his genitals stuffed into his mouth.”]
“7 years is pretty light, to be honest.”
“He really should be dead.”
“Let me tell you how people are ruining the fairness of Gaokaos!
They’ve written textbooks to where you can’t understand anything without teachers and their materials.
What’s the next step? Not allowing students to bring supplementary tutoring materials to school.
They can’t understand their textbooks, and they’re not allowed any tutoring books on their desk. Not work booklets.
Schools have tried everything. They have all the kids tear the front pages off of their tutoring materials…and it doesn’t work. If they get caught, they get fined. So now all kids have to keep their tutoring materials, work booklets, and practice exams at home.
My kid is one year away from the Gaokao, and all he has on his desk are a bunch of textbooks he can’t understand.
What’s the Department of Education doing? Checking every school to see if it has anything that might aid in learning?
Isn’t that interesting? That’s so interesting!
What the hell are these departments after? I really don’t get it.
My son hates when schools leave too much homework too, but when this sort of shit happens, he’ll only be resentful of the Department of Education screwing everyone over, just like us.”
Comments say, “Rich people get their elite education, poor people get their happy education, and all paths up have been cut off. Anyone who relies on hard work instead of talent can stay in the underclass their home life.”
“There are traitors in the Department of Education.”
“In high school?? I thought they were only doing this to primary schools! Everyone in high school is there to get into a good uni! Why do they care about tutoring?”
Taeil was not sentenced yet. 7 years is what the prosecution asked for.