07/11/25 - Being willing to deliver to your door is already the top-end of British package delivery services.
I was out on a business trip and wanted to eat some Chinese food with my coworker, and there was a Chinese restaurant nearby, but the reviews were terrible and it was all left by white people. We hesitated for a long time and went because it was close.
It was actually pretty good. The owner had been running the place for 26 years.
I asked him about the online reviews, and he said it’s normal. It’s just not made for local tastes.
But every time these white people come eat, he’ll ask how they like their food, and they always go, “amazing, perfect, fantastic” to his face, and then turn around and leave a bad review…”
Comments say, “Westerners are like this. The very first time they meet you, they’ll be like, “OMG, we’re besties!” And act super friendly. And then they’ll turn around and ignore your messages and not even say hi when you run into each other.”
[Switzerland IP] “There’s no good Chinese food at my IP, but all the Chinese restaurants are filled with white people, so…T_T”
“Westerners are totally fake.”
“I don’t know whether I should ask this question or not, but when you guys edit your photos, do you enlarge your boobs?
I’m actually pretty well-developed naturally, but because I don’t like wearing bras, they looks fine in-person, but on every photo, they look super saggy, so I have to add a bit of technology.”
Comments say, “Hahahahaha I only wear sports bras so you can’t tell.”
“How do you edit? Is there a tutorial?”
“Hahahahaha, I don’t have these worries with an A- cup.”
”Lemme tell you how to pick up a package delivery in England.
First, the delivery driver will send you a text and tell you a rough time period that he’ll come for delivery (usually a 2 hour period, but he’s not likely to show up on time).
So an hour before this time period, you need to bring out a chair and sit on the road in front of your house. Yes, it has to be on the road.
Third, you can’t play with your phone. You need to pay attention to any car on the road that might even possibly be a delivery vehicle, and you need to keep your phone camera on at all times on standby.
Fourth, as soon as you see any car come to a stop in front of your house and the driver has pulled out his phone to take a picture of your door, you need to run up like you’re playing GTA and open the door of his car while your phone is recording.
And finally, you need to tell him your name and delivery order number with maximum speed, and jump off the car before the driver steps on the gas and zooms off.
Of course, lately, English package delivery companies have improved their measures. They’ve changed their delivery system to use a vague GPS address. So long as the delivery driver has been roughly in the area of your house, it’ll automatically assume that a delivery was attempted and you weren’t home.”
“Exactly the same in the Netherlands. It only slightly improved once we added a package drop off to our building.”
“The package delivery drop-offs around me are all near shopping malls, almost 3km away, and square boxes don’t fit in them. And only a couple of delivery companies can even use them. And they fill up right away so there’s no space to put in anything new.”
“How ridiculous. Delivery driver’s in China will just toss it at your building and shoot off a text before running.”
“We don’t even get texts here, nor phone calls. Don’t ask. If you ask, they’ll say that the GPS shows the delivery driver’s been to your house, but they can’t actually show you the GPS records.”
“Same in America. Either they won’t attempt to deliver at all, or it’s “signature required” and they bring it to your apartment door.”
“Being willing to deliver to your door is already the top-end of British package delivery services. Even if they just threw it on the street that your house is on, that is a hard-working, honest delivery driver.”
“Delivery slacking is a global issue. They used to actually knock on your door. And if you’re not there, they’ll stuff the item in your mailbox. If it’s too big, they’ll leave a receipt and you can pick it up at the nearest postal office.”
“Knock on your door? They don’t even give you a call. Delivery services want you to just choose to let them deliver to the nearest post office so they can save on effort. But some deliveries are too important and postal offices won’t take them, but delivery companies don’t want to deliver them, so they’ll do fake deliveries and make you go to a local warehouse tens of kilometres away to pick it up yourself. And a package will go through 4-5 different companies before reaching your hands—the company that you ordered the item from, the delivery company that consolidates all the orders, the logistics company that ships items across regions, local warehousing company, and the company that hires local delivery drivers. And every link is going to blame things on each other.”
“Ten years ago, I saw news stories about how well Amazon treat their customers. Holy shit.”
“Amazon is literally the worst. Delivery drivers will get the goods at 3-4AM, and then immediately check off “we attempted to delivery but nobody was home”, and then drive home and sleep. And you’re forced to choose to let them send it to the post office the next day.”
“That sounds so painful. This is a combo that’s going to make me give up on internet shopping entirely.”
“And if you end up buying a scam item or get conned, you won’t get a refund. The platform will just tell you that anyone can open a shop on the platform and they have no responsibility to ensure that those shops are legal. And in order to protect the seller’s privacy, they can’t tell you or the police any personal information about the seller. And the victim should be responsible for being scammed while internet shipping because you didn’t check before you placed the order whether the item actually existed/worked in real life.”
“Are animals also suffering with this extreme heat?”
“You might not feel much when there’s only one AC unit blowing hot air to the outside, but when millions or tens of millions of them are doing it at the same time, the whole city turns into a giant steamer. Asphalt roads can’t absorb the heat so it all gets reflected into the air. Humans can hide indoors, but there’s nowhere to hide for the animals outside. Just thinking about it makes my heart break. I had finished off some watermelons and didn’t want to just throw away the peel, so I put them in a field outside where it’s not going to bother anybody, and immediately, birds started landing to eat it. It’s like a gift from the gods against the heat for them. When I’m in the countryside, I always fill up a big bucket of water for any animals that walk by to drink. Sometimes, I think people who are capable of empathy suffer a lot.”
“And asphalt roads are dark, so it absorbs heat and then releases it at night, and increases the heat island phenomenon in cities.”
“Some people are saying climate change is caused by ACs? Nobody’s gonna talk about illegal factory emissions or rich people’s private jets? The amount of pollution a normal person generates by keeping the AC on their whole life doesn’t even begin to compare.”
“I set my AC to turn off at 5AM, and by 7AM, even the rats are so frustarted that they’re tearing their nests apart.”
“I witness with my own eyes at the animal hospital yesterday, an Alaskan walked two blocks and suffered major organ failure due to heat stroke and screamed and threw up blood for over an hour before it died.”
“The stray dogs are all drinking the AC condensation from my store. Sparrows will stop and drink water and wet themselves too.”
“Even mosquitoes can’t survive high heat. Only Guangdong-style cockroaches who can survive major extinction events can survive in the shadows to come out and spook you at night.”
“I always set aside two servings of food and water for birds on my balcony.”
“The worst off are the stray animals. No food, no water, nowhere to go when it’s hot. It’s hard for them to survive either the cold of winter or the heat of summer.”
#Chinese military did not aim laser at German plane. “The Ministry of National Defense has responded on the 10th to the Global Times’ questions about certain media stories regarding “Germany accuses Chinese military of aiming lasers at German planes”. “What Germany described is not at all in accordance with the facts.”
According to media reports, the German government has previously complained that the Chinese military aimed a laser at a German plane in the Red Sea. This behaviour threatened the safety of German personnel and is completely unacceptable. Germany has already summoned the Chinese ambassador to talk.
In response, the Ministry of National Defense has responded that what Germany described is not at all in accordance with the facts. At the time, the Chinese navy was performing an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden. They were not active in the Red Sea and never turned on any laser equipment. “We hope that Germany will respect objective truth and increase communication with China to maintain proper Chinese-German relations.””
Comments say, “Victim complex XD”
“White pigs are so bitchy.”
“So what if we aimed at them? We’re already being nice by not shooting them down.”
“Not in the Red Sea but in the Gulf of Aden. Not a laser by a flashlight.”
Brits are pretty fake. The germans, russians and the french are much more straightforward.