“How do I say no to people in a high EQ way? My friend used to be my coworker while we both worked minimum wage. We’re not super close, just chatted every now and then…until she suddenly moved next door to me. And I’m kind of a close-minded person. Once I’m off work, I just want to be by myself. I don’t want to have to maintain relationships. And I’m lazy. I don’t like other people coming to my house, because it’s super awkward. Oh my god, how do I refuse? Wouldn’t it be awkward? The main thing is, if I said yes to her, then I’d have to bring her face masks every day. My refrigerator isn’t a makeup refrigerator either. Just thinking about it feels like such a hassle! Save me! Waiting online.”
She shows screenshots of texts from her coworker.
Coworker: “I just went to Beijing to get my acne checked out. The doctor prescribed me three boxes of face masks, but they have to be refrigerated. My rental doesn’t have a refrigerator. I’ve already asked Xia and Lei, and they said I’m not allowed to store it at work. I spent 1300+ on these face masks. Can I put them at your house? TT_TT”
Comments say, “Reply to her, “Can I use them too? I’m having horrible breakouts lately too! T_T””
“Yeah, sorry, I’m low EQ too. I’d just say no, it’s not convenient for me, sorry.”
“Tell her that if she’s already spent 1300 on face masks, then she might as well spend another 2-300 on a mini-fridge. After all, you don’t have much space in your fridge either, and sometimes you’re not home and it’ll be inconvenient. Or just tell her no outright.”
“I will never be roommates with a good friend again. I realise now why everyone recommends against living with your friend. Because of a couple of tiny issues, I’ve had a falling out with my friend of five years, and now I have to move overnight by myself. Whose life is more tragic than mine?”
OP posts pictures of their moving process:
Comments say, “How does she have so little stuff? Every time I move, it eats up half my life.”
“I broke up with my friend of ten years and almost got depression.”
“Maintain your distance. Distance creates beauty. The friendship between gentlemen is always as flavourless as water. Only say a third of what you want to people. Don’t give your heart to anyone.”
“My friend got hired at a company. His first day, before he even sat down at his desk, he got called into a morning meeting. In the morning meeting, the boss asks everybody, “How’s everyone feeling today?”
And they all reply in unison, “Good! Very good! Extremely good! Today will only be better!”
The boss asks, “What are we going to do today?”
They all shout in unison again, “Work hard! Work harder! Work our hardest!”
My friend is absolutely frozen.
But that wasn’t the end. The boss yelled again, “Start now!”
And then everyone there started running in place. XD
My friend says his face was something like this: O_o
The boss said to stop, and everyone freezes in one second.
Then the boss says he’s introducing another family member to everyone. Alright, come on, brother, introduce yourself. Speak loudly, don’t be afraid.
My friend is all like, “O.O”
And the boss was like, “Let’s welcome our new family!”
And everyone clapped. And then everyone stopped clapping at the same time.
And the boss said again, “Start now!”
And my friend immediately saluted his boss and told him, “Goodbye.””
Comments say, “Sounds like some kind of MLM company with no skilled employees.”
“Sounds like a mental hospital XDD”
“I’ve been to a company that insists on playing “trust-building games” every Monday morning. God, it was so annoying.”
An imported tiktok video of a lady explaining her screwup with her Sim characters:
Comments say, “It’s okay. At least it was really ’til death do us part (right now).”
“Find a couple more unfortunate vampires, and you can marry Death itself.”
“I’ve done the same thing. My Sims were marrying in a garden, and I forgot their friend was a vampire, so I invited them too. Before the ceremony even started, the vampire friend died, and the wedding immediately turned into a funeral. Everyone was weeping around the vampire. T_T”
“2nd of August, 2023, in Heilongjiang, Jiamusi City, the news that a local district is going to build a shelter hospital [emergency quarantine places built for containing covid] has gotten on Weibo’s trending posts. Jiamusi City’s Natural Resources and Planning Committee responded, “When the project applied for funding, their intention was to build a “shelter hospital”, because the government gave special subsidies towards such projects during pandemic times. But the actual plan involves building cultural and tourism-based attractions and hotels. In the morning of the 3rd of August, Jiamusi City’s Tourism Board’s employee has replied to Southern Weekly’s reporters that the project is currently only in the initial idea stage. It hasn’t been decided what it’s going to look like in the end. Jiamusi City’s Natural Resources and Planning Committee’s phone employee also says their bosses are still in discussion about this.
According to open government bidding information, the Jiamusi Shelter Hospital and Centralised Quarantine Construction Project has an initial investment of over 42 million RMB, and plans to be completed by the end of 2024. Heilongjiang Province’s Public Resources Transaction website also shows that aside from Jiamusi, Harbin also published plans to build the third stage of their shelter hospitals in July of 2023. Public information shows that Jiamusi City once built a shelter hospital in their Conference Centre in downtown. According to reporting by Jiamusi Daily, that hospital admitted its first patient on the 27th of September, 2022, and closed its doors officially on the 2nd of October, in the same year. It was open for only a week. On the 3rd of August, Jiamusi City’s Pandemic Control Centre replied to Southern Weekly’s reporters that Jiamusi was never affected much by the pandemic. Their situation had always been stable.”
Comments say, “Politicians are willing to do just about anything if it doesn’t get on the trending posts and people aren’t talking about it. How fucking shameless.”
“Now you know why Dongbei’s economy sucks.”
“Just wait a while. Once everyone’s been positive a couple of times and their bodies are collapsing, PR’s gonna turn around on this.”
Screenshots between a guy and a girl:
Guy: “Are you awake?”
Girl: “Why?”
Guy: “Nothing, just missing you. Have you eaten yet?”
Girl: “Then buy me some boba tea after work.”
Guy: “Next time you’re off, I’ll take you out to dinner, sweetie. You wanna come out on Wednesday? I’ve got Wednesday off.”
Girl: “No, I got work that day.”
Guy: “Then when are you off? I’ll take the day off.”
Girl: “Just buy me some boba tea after work.”
Guy: “I don’t get off of work until midnight today, my princess.”
Girl: “So send me the money and I’ll go buy it myself.”
Guy: “I only have cash. Why are you such a realist.”
Girl: “That’s just the kind of person I am.”
Guy: “Fine. But I’ve only got cash.”
Girl: “It’s expensive to like me.”
Guy: “Fine.”
Girl: “It’s up to you now.”
Guy: “But are you seeing any other guys, my little princess?”
Girl: “You won’t buy loot boxes for me. You won’t buy boba tea for me. What can you give me?”
Guy: “I can give you my love! All the money I’m saving is for your sake.”
Girl: “Wow. You are so good to me. Thanks.”
Guy: “But I need some action from you too, right? Otherwise, how am I supposed to spend money on you.”
Girl: “Mm. Fine.”
Guy: “So I can date you?”
Girl: “Uhhhhhh o.O”
Guy: “Can I?”
Girl: “Well, that’s hard to say.”
Guy: “Give me a chance, come on.”
Girl: “No.”
Guy: “I’ll be good to you, I swear. I’ll spoil the shit out of you.”
Girl: “Then buy me a loot box.”
Guy: “Send me the link?”
Girl: “[Sends link]”
Guy: “I don’t have that much money.”
Girl: “Oh.”
Guy: “But I’ll be good to you.”
Girl: “Thanks. I already felt it.”
Guy: “What is with that tone? Do you think I’m making empty promises?”
Comments say, “God, I hate that line—“I’m saving money for your sake.” Vomit.”
“Is this a matter of what she thinks? You’re slapping her in the face with empty promises.”
“One side is shameless and demanding. The other side is stingy and insecure.”
A compilation of people on tiktok making fun of Yang Yang
“Look at the girl in the photoshop of Yang Yang. Look how much they’ve distorted her legs.”
“Hahahahaha, it looks like her legs are a metre long XD”
“Her legs start right under her boobs.”
“He’s probably only 150cm.”
“He looks like Guo Jingming in raw photos.” [Chinese director well-known for being very short.]
Comments say, “My only impression of him now is cowardly, arrogant, and greasy.”
“I just saw a streamer who’s there in person ask him if he’s really 180cm. And his reply is that he’s very good looking. You give him a yes or no question, and he’ll probably pick or.”
“Thank god everyone knows he’s fifty-fifty. [That is, his leg to upper body ratio is 1:1.] I said he was fifty-fifty before and got yelled at.”
“In the “Shopping Paradise” Hong Kong, a lot of makeup stores are selling low-quality knock off products. According to investigation from Phoenix Web Reporters, the knockoff make up mostly comes from knockoff factories in Mainland China.
Reporters went to Shenzhen’s wholesale markets to investigate in person. Some wholesalers point out that their knockoffs can be guaranteed to be exactly the same as the real thing in scent, colour, and packaging. What costs 3000 RMB at the actual retailer can be bought for 300 RMB from these knockoff wholesalers.
The wholesaler says that his customers from Hong Kong mostly are mostly small stores purchasing in small amounts, or professional purchasing agents, who take it to Hong Kong and ship it back to mainland customers again. Some even ship it right from Shenzhen. Most big purchasers of knockoffs from Hong Kong have long-term relationships with middle men, and can contact them online to place orders.”
Comments say, “Mainland factory makes it and send it to Hong Kong, where it suddenly transforms into the real thing and gets shipped back to the mainland. What a fucking joke.”
“I remember when people used to say Hong Kong doesn’t have any knock offs.”
“I want to know whether Sam’s Club stuff is real or knock offs.”
“My brother got 518 points on his college entrance exam, and can go to a public state university. I don’t know how he filled out his application, he got admitted by a private university instead. His tuition every year is like 30K-40K O_O Can he withdraw the application and do it again? Can anyone give us any ideas?
PS: I asked him. It’s Minnan University. He says the tuition is so expensive because it includes the cost of studying abroad in England for 2 years. Is it real or fake?
PPS: I just checked. It’s Minnan Teacher’s University. Still don’t know if studying abroad in England is real or fake.”
Comments say, “It’s a blend of state-funded and privately funded, does include 2 years of study abroad, but you can choose to not go and do all four years in China. It’s a common choice for an average family in an average city.”
“My understanding is that studying abroad is really just spending money on a long vacation overseas.”
“But Minnan Teacher’s University is a proper public university. Is it some kind of for-profit knock off?”
Were most people really on the side of the woman in the boba/loot box conversation? Crazy
was vampires -> was a vampire
mostly are mostly -> "mostly are" or "are mostly"
Several occurrences of SIM and SIMs should be Sim and Sims.