A video showing off Guizhou street food. He gets pork crackling fried rice (10RMB), roast peppers with 5 fermented eggs (38.5 RMB), breadstick burrito with soy milk (6 RMB), and soft tofu rice (10 RMB).
Comments say, “Roast peppers with fermented eggs takes no effort to make at all. 38 RMB is way too expensive.”
“10 RMB for a bowl of tofu?? Their profit margin’s gotta be like 9.5 RMB.”
“I remember seeing you post about these fermented eggs before. The owner was all bragging about what big portions she give, and I thought each serving wouldn’t be too expensive, but in the end, she charged you for all the extra portions anyways? So you pay out the ass for those big portions, huh?”
[A Qinghua student recently publicly accused a Suzhou Director of corruption.] On this topic, a blogger writes, “This case in Suzhou really should’ve been investigated by a task force from another state, or at least from a higher level up. If you ask them to self-investigate, that’s not really gonna work.
I had a junior under me once, who became a judge in his hometown after he graduated. A couple of years ago, I’d get in touch with him every year when I got back, and he told me a lot of stories about local politics. Basically, it was all about connections.
Everyone’s interests are all tied together, they all support and cover for each other. It’s all connections.
In the TV show Li Xuejian starred in, he had a line like, “If you don’t take it, how can I take any? If I don’t take it, how can Specialist Geng take any? If Specialist Geng doesn’t take any, how are you or I going to advance?” When his underling kept refusing, he told him off and said, “You have to get into this social network. It’s like we b. Anyone who produces any silk is on this web.”
Art comes from life and is above life. It might not perfectly match, but you can savour that scene.
It’s actually places like Beijing where connections don’t matter as much, because Beijing is too big. There are too many institutions in it, and too many big fish. And it’s a typical immigrant city, stranger culture, and that makes networking much shallower. But in small towns, there’s only so many people, and most of them are locals who are gonna spend the rest of their life there.
It’s not hard at all to build a connections network.
Self-investigating isn’t really gonna work in such a place. Think about the Chained Woman case, or the Duck Neck case. What did the first investigation results from the local government look like?
Of course, I’m not saying that there’s definitely something fishy going on with the Suzhou local announcement. I just want to say that the investigation results would be a lot more believable if it came from an out-of-state or higher up team.”
Comments say, “The announcement basically didn’t say anything on point anyways. Everyone knows what self-investigation really means.”
“I hear that Jiangsu is the best place to be a government official. Dunno if it’s true.”
“The announcement is just trying to avoid the point, lol. That poor Qinghua bro isn’t gonna be able to make it in that department anymore. They’re always talking about how Chinese people face a glass ceiling in the west, like that’s not a thing here too.”
#Charity head exposed for demanding patient’s mother sleep with him. “Lately, in Henan, Nanyang, a big influencer accused head of the China Children’s Charity Association and volunteer with 9958, Mr. Lei, of regularly manipulating sick children’s moms into sleeping with him. The influencer claims, “Mr. Lei makes the sick kid’s moms sleep with him before he’ll give them a little bit of donations, and if they want more, they have to keep sleeping with him, until the kid dies and he can embezzle the rest.” Text exchanges between Mr. Lei and moms have been exposed, in which Mr. Lei typed, “I love you, love you for the rest of my life.”
In response, China Children’s Charity Association workers responded, “I don’t know anything about this. I need to ask my boss.” And Henan Social Security Office’s Charity Office responded, “We’re still learning about the situation.””
Comments say, “If this is rumours, the rumourmonger should go to prison. If it’s not, this fake philanthropist should go to prison.”
“As soon as you have power, it’ll become a test of your humanity.”
“This is why I never donate to Chinese charities.”
“Zhejiang Electrical explains that Chinese experiments show if you turn on your AC on cooling mode, with the temperature set to 26C, and keep it on in one room while regularly closing it and restarting it every 5-10 minutes in another room for 30 minutes, the results show that both ACs consumed 0.28 degrees of power. And yet, the AC being started and shut down was only running half the time. Therefore, this method not only doesn’t save on electricity, but it actively exacerbates electricity usage.
If you need to run an errand and briefly leave a room (within 1hr), it’s better to not close your AC, because starting up your AC takes the most amount of power. Before you leave, you can turn the temperature up a degree or too. It saves power while keeping your house cool.”
Comments say, “I’ve never trusted claims like this.”
“Closing it every 5-10 minutes? What normal person does this?”
“So you do need to turn your AC off if you’re leaving for more than an hour?”
#10 million lottery case in Xi’an finally reaches final ruling after 5 years of legal battles. “After a 5-year-old legal marathon, the final ruling has finally arrived.
Five years ago, Xi’an citizen Mr. Yao transferred money over wechat to the lottery store owner to buy a lottery ticket. Little did he expect that the ticket the store owner sent to him won 10.01 million RMB. But afterwards, the lottery store owner tried to claim that he accidentally sent Mr. Yao the wrong ticket, and they got into an argument over the ownership of the 10 million RMB lottery ticket. Finally, the lottery store owner’s cousin went and collected on the reward.
On the 2nd of August, Mr. Yao received Xi’an’s Mid-Level People’s Court’s final ruling—the judge denied the award accepter’s application for appeal and maintained the first ruling, which was that the lottery store owner’s cousin must return all winnings plus interest to Mr. Yao.
Mr. Yao tells Upstream News reporters that he doesn’t know either how long it’s going to take between getting this ruling and getting his money back.”
Comments say, “I bet he’s spent it all already.”
“Holy shit I’d be so mad.”
“This is why you need to buy them in person.”
“After the match against Harimoto Tomokazu, Fan Zhendong has received a new nickname from Japanese media: “The Wall of China.”
Japanese media rights, “Unfortunately, Harimoto Tomokazu was unable to overcome the Wall of China and was defeated by his opponent.”
Before this, Japanese media used to call Fan Shengdong, “The Guy With No Dates.”
Many other Chinese Ping Pong athletes have gotten nicknames from Japanese media before, like Ma Long (Imperial Destroyer Dragon), Zhang Jike (Imperial Vicious Tiger), Wang Hao (Grand Imperial Treasure), and Zhang Yining (Supreme Queen).”
Comments say, “ “Biggest Head” — Wang Chuqin.”
“Even Liu Guoliang [the team coach] has a nickname, “Commander of the Empire”.”
“Why are Japs so middle-school. It’s all imperial this, dragon that.”
“Internet citizens are busy writing fanfiction about the Turkish marksmanship uncle. We have proposed titles:
“They paid 5 million but didn’t say it would be the Olympics.”
“Only got silver because they ban smoking in the arena.”
“Wipe off the fingerprints when putting the gun down.”
“If only it was a human-shaped target.”
“This name is just one among my dozen passports.”
“Not getting enough orders on UberKills, so I had to come over to OlympicDash.” [The original makes puns based off of Chinese food delivery apps.]
The funniest part is that his interview after his win was telling his ex-wife to give him back his dog.”
There’s a compilation of various memes around the internet, including some from over the Wall:
“After winning silver, he stood emotionlessly on the podium and was like, “Sharon, if you’re watching, give me back my dog.” Hahahahahaha, so if he working this hard for custody?”
“Hello, my dear ex-wife. Can I have my dog back now?”
“ “They paid 5 million but didn’t say it would be the Olympics.” First chapter: A Surprise Invitation.”
“Chapter 2: Fighting for the Medal.”
“Chapter 3: Better Only Get Silver.”
“I’ve been suspicious of him from the start. Every time he shoots, he reflexively wipes off the prints.”
Comments say, “Client: You gotta win [赢, ying, to win]. Assassin: You want silver? Got it. [银, yin, silver.]”
“The Turkish uncle got 10th ring every time. It’s his sucky teammates who got him silver.”
“What kind of dog can make an assassin make such a name for himself in public? [doge]”
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