06/21/23 - Some say that cleanly washed mango seeds are very soft and very relaxing to stroke.
“I really don’t understand my parents’ view of money. They bought these completely ordinary looking furniture sets for over 50K RMB, and yet, they won’t turn on the AC in their rooms at night in this hellish temperature. I guess being able to show off is worth it in the end or something?”
Comments say, “Those look so hard. Why wouldn’t you get a proper couch? I honestly don’t even know what kind of person would buy these…”
“These furniture is 80% just for showing off and to save face. First, they take up tons of room. Second, they’re super uncomfortable to sit on. Third, all those edges are gonna hurt as fuck when you inevitably bump into them. And this kind of furniture is always way overpriced, and most of them are just made out of particle board instead of proper wood.”
“I feel like you’re from the Guangdong/Guangxi region.”
A blogger posts screenshots of a compilation of comments on tiktok, underneath a video where a cosplayer at a convention gets mad about people taking close-up pictures of her cleavage and walking off.
“I just don’t understand. If you don’t want photos taken, why would you even go? There’s gonna be a lot of people wanting pictures at an anime con, right? What, you don’t want poor people to see, but you’re worried rich people won’t see?”
“If you’re gonna cosplay, then cosplay. It’s not like no one’s dressed up as that character before. None of them ever acted this way.”
“Why bother cosplaying if you’re gonna be covering your chest up the whole time?”
“This isn’t for you to see. It’s for her sugar daddy to see.”
“Is she gonna become the next Doghead?” [Doghead Loli is a famous Chinese streamer known for toeing the line for what counts as pornographic material.]
“At least Doghead is generous.”
“Doghead really is super generous. If she didn’t whine constantly about her life, it’d be even better.”
Comments under this blogger writes, “If they can’t get away with sexually harassing you, they make up sexual rumours about you. Men cycle between these two states their entire lives. I’m sick and tired of this already.”
“Do men die if they don’t assume every woman they see is a whore?”
“Only men can have such fresh takes on sexual harassment.”
A PSA from Weibo Health about why people don’t have memories from before 3-4 years old. It’s very long and mostly goes into common sense science stuff that doesn’t have much to do with hilarious Chinese medicine, so I think I’ll save my word count.
A tiktok video of a grandma badmouthing her DIL in front of her grandson, and the 9-year-old boy argues back on his mom’s behalf.
Grandma: “Your mom’s gonna find a lot more flaws in your future wife than I’m finding in her. Just you wait and see. Look how much of a picky eater she is. She doesn’t like this, she won’t eat that, she orders out every evening.”
Grandson: “She didn’t get takeout tonight! You can’t just make up whatever bullshit you want!”
Grandma: “You can’t spoil her like that.”
Grandson: “You’re the one who spoiled your son! That’s not my fault!”
Grandma: “There’s nothing wrong with my son!”
Grandson: “Yeah, cause smoking and playing on your phone isn’t wrong.”
Grandma: “He doesn’t eat snacks though. Your mom is always eating takeout.”
Grandson: “What’s wrong with takeout?”
Grandma: “I just don’t think that’s the right thing to do.”
Grandson: “Stop bothering her. Your son is even worse! Get your son in line before you bother my mom.”
Grandma: “Oho. So, are you saying that her parents never kept her in line? You saying they didn’t raise her properly?”
Grandson: “I’m saying you didn’t raise your son properly.”
Comments say, “The grandma is a bitch, but the little kid has great logical reasoning.”
“This kind of MIL has a hole in her brain.”
“Ignores the mountain of flaws in her son, but wants an absolutely perfect angel as a daughter-in-law. Ptui.”
Under the hashtag #woman makes 570 loaves of bread while pregnant to eat while sitting the month, a blogger writes, “I don’t even know what this is trying to promote??? That’s all she’s gonna eat while sitting the month? Bread that’s been frozen for months?? Is she the only person in her family who knows how to cook?
I repeat my PSA: You can’t get pregnant all by yourself. It’s not illegal to never get pregnant.”
Comments say, “The tone of praise in every news media posting this story makes me want to throw up.”
“This hashtag was created to lower birth rates.”
“They’re probably trying to promote the idea of women giving birth, taking care of themselves, making money, raising kids, and paying for their husband, while men just laze around at home.”
“A lot of young friends of mine still don’t understand why normally loving couples start having problems as soon as they have kids. I’m gonna go into a little bit of detail about why I started doubting myself and my marriage the very night I gave birth.
I had a great relationship with my husband. We don’t have super high expectations of each other. He never minds that I almost never cook or do housework. I don’t mind that he likes to game as soon as he gets home. We chat with each other when we have something to say. We sit together and scroll on our phones if we don’t.
But I had just went through hell in the delivery room, finished with a C-section, the baby isn’t doing well because of polluted amniotic fluid. Her scores were really low, and she’s showing signs of oxygen deprivation. She was sent to NICU right away. I’d just been through the pain of contractions, and only barely got a glimpse of my baby before she was rushed away. I was already feeling super upset. I was planning on what I was going to say to my husband when I got out, maybe something like, “I’m sorry, it just hurt too much”. But when they wheeled me out, nobody was waiting for me.
At that moment, I felt like I had just been dropped into a pool of ice cold water.
The nurse wheeled me back to my room, and I saw his entire family gathered around the staircase with grave looks on their faces, calling all the doctors they knew, reporting on the current situation. Their faces were all very dark, so I didn’t say anything.
I was silent the whole way to my room.
In a little bit, my husband returned, and I told him to hand my phone to me. He snapped at me, “You want to play with your phone now of all times? You don’t even care about our baby?”
I startled a bit, and weakly said, “But I need to tell my friends and family I’m okay. And I know the baby’s going to be fine.”
Looking mad as hell, he handed my phone to me. When I talked to him about this afterwards, he completely doesn’t remember we had this conversation. He wouldn’t admit he snapped at me at all.
But I remember. I remember every detail about that day. Every fleeting expression on everyone’s face. Every word they spoke to me. I remember it all.
He said before that adults are more important than babies. He decided he was going to put me first. Why did it all suddenly change?
When I got out of the hospital and came home, I saw that my MIL had put a vase of flowers on the bedside table on the baby’s side of the bed. There was nothing on my side of the bed.
I’m not trying to compete with the baby for attention. I understand too that people were freaking out in an emergency situation, nobody was in their right mind. I can understand and forgive if they weren’t picking their words carefully or they didn’t have time to think of everything.
A couple of days after getting home, I sent all the old people home. I only kept the month-sitting nurse with me, and quietly raised my baby for a couple of days before I finally calmed down.
When I go through the events, it was honestly just a bunch of very small stuff. They weren’t a big deal at all if I didn’t make a big deal out of them. I could extrapolate out these events to be a lot more serious than they are. Or I could just let it go, and understand people were panicking and not being rational.
If our relationship gets closer from here, then it would just become a joke between us. But if we fight in the future, this is going to become a landmine.
A lifetime is very long. There are only a few moments carved into your heart.
Thankfully, I still have a baby to comfort me. When she makes a drunken smile at me after feeding, I feel like nothing else matters.”
Comments say, “Why would you apologise to your husband????”
“I had to have an emergency C-section with my daughter too. As they were wheeling me out of the delivery room, I suddenly realised that my daughter would have to go through the pain and suffering of having a baby when she grows up, and it made me cry. I didn’t have time to think about much else, because I started bleeding heavily after I got back to the maternity ward.”
“Did the doctors tell you the baby would risk suffocating if you kept attempting vaginal delivery?”
“I’ve been with my boyfriend for two and a half years. His parents won’t approve of us being together. Mostly, his mom is super against it. He’s a civil servant, I’m not. His mom thinks my job isn’t stable enough. And he’s 180cm, and I’m only 160 cm. His mom thinks I’m too short.
I’ve met his mom a couple of times, and she’s always been super cold to me. Every time he brings up wanting to marry me, she tells him to think it over more, to not hurry. Yesterday, we snuck out and got our marriage certificate together. My family knows about this. But I have no idea how to break the news to his parents.”
Comments say, “I mean, at this point, if you want to break the news to your in-laws, then your husband has to be the one to do it. To put it bluntly, so long as he’s absolutely set on you, there’s not a damn thing his mom can do about it. Maybe you’ll have to move out by yourselves. But there’s no point in you worrying about this. Also, don’t get pregnant for a while. I feel like you’re in a pretty risky situation.”
“It’s none of your business. Let him figure out how to handle his own family.”
“So what if he’s a civil servant?”
The leader of the Chinese Soccer Association is being investigated for violating Association policy and breaking laws.
Comments say, “Arrest them all. None of them are innocent.”
“Is there anyone clean left in the Chinese Soccer Association?”
“Just throw them all in prison and disband the whole association. Let Chinese Soccer develop in the wild. Maybe it’ll do better that way.”
A tiktok video of the newest trend among Chinese uni students: brushing their mango seeds. After mango seeds are dried, they become very fluffy and furry. This makes uni students experience the joy of keeping a dog or cat as a pet. Some say that cleanly washed mango seeds are very soft and very relaxing to stroke. Some criticise them for “wasting their time”, and a mango seed owner replies, “Keeping mango seeds is exactly the same as people keeping paper doggies in their college dorms. A good way of putting it is, it’s emotional satisfaction. A blunt way of putting it is that we’re just bored.” Mango Seed Owner Meng tells the reporter that the process of keeping a mango seed is a lot more complicated than just eating a mango and sunning it out. You need to wash off the extra mango flesh carefully, and then use a toothbrush to brush it until it’s not yellow anymore, then blow dry it with your hair dryer. You have to be careful that the fur doesn’t stick together the whole time. And finally, you expose it to the sun to ensure it’s thoroughly dried and won’t get mouldy. Ms. Liu owns two mango seeds, named “Big Fuzz” and “Fuzz Two” respectively. Currently, Ms. Liu’s “Mango Diaries” has eleven entries.”
Comments say, “What, middle-aged people can keep bracelets, but young people aren’t allowed to keep mango seeds?”
“What a perfect pet! It’s low-effort and cheap! Perfect for me!”
“I’m going out tonight to buy mangos. What variety has the cutest seeds?”
parent's -> parents'
Now I want to go buy a mango!