08/27/24 - At the time, I didn’t know “ice cream” was a racial slur.

“My assistant brought me dinner. Can anyone guess which country this food is from? I bet you can’t guess it.”

Comments say, “All four dishes are from the same country?”

“Pic 4 is already enough to dumbfound me. Is it sponge or something?”

“Ethiopia?”

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#Xueli [literally sweet pear] denies doing drugs. “On the 27th, Netizen Candy exposed influencer Xueli being a mistress and doing drugs with her husband, raising controversy. On the 28th, Xueli posted an announcement denying any accusations of drug abuse and claims that she has already filed a police report regarding these rumours.”

Comments say, “The last person who posted something like this is already in jail.”

“If announcements mean anything, Wu Yifan wouldn’t be in jail.”

“Why would I believe someone who doesn’t even pay their taxes?”

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“The character designs that western gaming companies make are getting uglier and uglier. Even though the actress modelling for the faces look just fine, they deliberately make it uglier once it’s in the game. And then they complain on the media all day about how their games aren’t selling so they have to do layoffs. Tens of millions of gaming industry workers are losing their jobs.

Like, let’s be direct about this. Gamers are 90% men and boys, right? What do men like? What do they want? Is it that hard to figure out? Why would you make a game that hurts to look at and expect men to spend money on it?

I opened up my PSN and XGP membership and took a look, and it’s filled with a bunch of games that I feel like is a waste of time even if they’re completely free and all I have to do is press a download button. Honestly, I feel like the American gaming industry needs to face another 1983 Atari collapse and have a complete do over to change how things are right now.”

Comments say, “But why? Are they doing it on purpose?”

“Thank god these dumbass influences haven’t worked on Black Myth Wukong.”

“Agreed. I hope the rise of Asian games like Stellar Blade and Black Myth Wukong can bring some new life to the industry.”

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#Man seeks to get back 100K bride price after divorce due to financial difficulties. “On the 26th of August, according to news from the Tianjin Supreme Court, Mr. Chen and Ms. Jin met in 2021 and fell in love. In 2022, Miss. Jin became unexpectedly pregnant. After talking with Mr. Chen and his family, she had an abortion. At the time, Mr. Chen signed the surgery consent papers as her boyfriend. At the beginning of 2023, the two planned to get married. Mr. Chen transferred 100K in bride price to Ms. Jin’s bank account, and then purchased a diamond ring and gold bracelet costing a total of 24K RMB. In June of 2023, the two got married. Half a year later, they began living separately due to emotional incompatibilities. Soon afterwards, the two signed a divorce agreement.

Mr. Chen has sued Miss. Jin in court, asking the court to rule that Ms. Jin has to return 100K in bride price as well as the diamond ring and gold bracelet, or the equivalent 24K in cash. Mr. Chen claimed that, “Miss. Jin’s demand of such a high bride price before marriage has caused my family’s already tenuous financial circumstances to become worse.”

After hearing the case, the court has ruled that Mr. Chen makes 8K in salary every month, a fairly stable income, and the evidence he submitted was not sufficient to support the claim that the bride price has caused him significant financial strain. Considering the amount of bride price, the amount of time the couple spent together, and Miss. Jin’s pregnancy and subsequent abortion, Mr. Chen’s request was denied in court.”

Comments say, “They’re married, they had a kid, they aborted the kid, and he wants his money back?? Thank god she got out of there quickly.”

“How can God allow a man like this to get a wife??”

“Thank goodness they got divorced. This guy is super stingy. Trying to get a divorce once they really had a baby together would just be even harder.”

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A compilation of encounters with homeless people overseas:

“You can just reply at random. My classmate was walking on the street and ran into a black guy. And the black guy was like, “Hey, do you have some bucks?” And my friend went ,”Sorry, I only have Starbucks.” Then he showed the guy his starbucks and left. The black guy just stood there, dumbfounded. When he told everyone else, they told him he was actually getting robbed lol.”

“Some foreigners have a really artistic way of robbing people. Like my friend got accosted by some black guy in American, and he demanded my friend buy his CDs and wouldn’t let him leave.”

“I’ve done something similar. Don’t copy me, though. Some black guy demanded money from me, and I just told him that if he needed money, he should go find some work. “You were born in America and I’m just an immigrant. If even I can keep myself alive, why should you get away with demanding money from other people?” Then I introduced him to some laundromat assistant or supermarket jobs and he was actually really grateful.”

“Our teacher said during class that when he was studying in America, he got held up at gunpoint and the black guy wanted 5 bucks. He pulled out a 10 dollar bill, and the guy refused to take it and insisted he wanted 5 bucks.”

“Just give him 10 bucks and have him put it on your account for the next time you get mugged.”

“The first time a homeless guy asked for money from me to buy a burger with, I didn’t have any cash on me, but I thought he was actually starving, so I opened up my book bag and gave him my snack—a box of milk and a bread roll. He said he didn’t want it, and I actually chased after him trying to press the bread into his hands. Now that I think back, he was looking at me like I was retarded or something.”

“I’ve seen this post on a rental website in Baltimore. The guy who posted was a PhD who was walking back to his rental apartment after doing some experiments. It was snowing really hard that night, so he tried to take a short cut through the park, and got mugged by some black guy. The black guy took all the money that was on him, and just as he was about to leave, the black guy noticed he was wearing a brand new winter jacket. So the black guy forced him to take off his jacket, leaving him shivering in short sleeves. The black guy looked at him and gave him his old winter jacket and walked away in his new jacket happily. The poor guy was really depressed and had to walk home in that stinky old jacket, and half way home, he reached into his pocket, and it was full of cash.”

“Riding the subway at 1AM in London, and this middle-aged white man came over, chatted me up, and randomly asked, “How big are you?” I thought he was asking how old I was [big and old can sometimes be used interchangeably in Chinese], so I was like, “23.” And his eyes lit up and asked if I wanted to come over to his place. Then I realised what was happening and ran away.”

“I walked passed a drunkard in Scotland, and he suddenly went, “You’re beautiful.” My brain went on automatic and I blurted out, “You too.” We were both guys, and we both froze.”

“I went to England in the summer of 2018 and ran into a homeless guy on the street who kept playing, “Any unnecessary changes?” [任何多余的改变] on his phone. Neither me nor my boyfriend could figure out what was going on. It took a long time before it occurred to us that he probably typed in, “any spare change?””

“When I pretend to be Japanese in America and say I don’t speak Chinese, black people and homeless people just bow to me and leave me alone.”

“When I was studying in America, I ran into a kid yelling “ice cream!” at us. At the time, I didn’t know “ice cream” was a racial slur. He saw we didn’t have much of a reaction, so he yelled something like “da nao ka”, and we still didn’t get it. So we asked him what he was trying to say, and he was like, “Fuck you in Chinese.” (He looked like he’d just started primary school and he seemed really proud of his Chinese). So we spent a while correcting his pronunciation, and after half an hour, he walked away with the most perfectly pronounced Chinese slurs. He even sincerely thanked us. I hope the next international student he runs into has good luck.”

“You guys are memeing, but I actually got robbed with a gun to my head.”

“A couple of years ago, I was in London, walking out of a small supermarket, and this black guy came up and asked for change. I opened my eyes really wide and sincerely asked him what “change” meant. The black guy wracked his brain and finally came out with, “Queen’s head.” And I asked him what “head” meant. Man, that was an exhausting performance.”

“My client is from America. After we were done talking business, he said that he posted his new song to youtube, that he was a rapper, and asked me to show my support there.”

“When I was studying in America, this Chinese classmate of mine said that he got really hungry one night and went to McDonalds and saw a black guy demanding money from a white guy there. And the white guy was like “Hold on a minute and let me make my order, and I’ll give you whatever change I have.” And the black guy agreed. So I guess mugging is something you can politely negotiate through.”

“A couple of days ago, I went to CVS and got intercepted by this super tall, super strong-looking black guy. He said he didn’t have enough money to get what he wanted and asked if I could give him some. I didn’t dare to say no, so I gave him all the change in my pocket. And then I watched as he stuffed the money in his pocket, didn’t buy anything, and just walked out the store. The alarms went crazy as he left, but nobody tried to stop him.”

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“Last night, my friend got sent to the ICU because of a bleed in his brainstem. His son hurried over from out of state, and saw that the fees for the very first day was 10K RMB. So he immediately told the doctors that he had no money and no insurance.

The doctor said that the bleed wasn’t very severe so they don’t recommend surgery, and his son just went, “We’re not getting surgery anyways.” He stayed in the ICU for three days, and his son looked at the bill, and it was 7-8K every single day. So he immediately told the doctor, “I don’t have any money!” And told the doctor to transfer his dad to a normal hospital room. At first, he only got some anti-inflammatories. But he got sicker and sicker, so his son just told the doctor to stop all the medication.

My friend was 57-years-old and never paid much attention to his health. He smoked and drank all the time. He was really hunched over, yellowed skin, definitely looked sickly all the time. He was from Heilongjiang, and came to Guangdong for work with some relatives a few years back. He couldn’t afford to pay health insurance and he has no savings.

The son must’ve figured his dad wasn’t doing well, and he wouldn’t be able to work afterwards even if he did get cured. He might live, but he’ll be an invalid. What are they supposed to do while his dad lingered on Earth for several years? He was an only-child, unmarried, and his mother was pretty sickly at home too. She’s been hospitalised twice the last few years too.

My friend’s 5 siblings wanted him to continue treatment, since he wasn’t super old or anything. They managed to put together a couple grand in red pockets. The son didn’t listen to them and still decided to give up and pulled the plug on his dad in the middle of the night, told the doctors to stop all medication and feedings. Died in a few days.

After everyone found out, a lot of people accused the son of being heartless and stingy, that he was just worried about his dad being a burden on him.

But some people think the son was being rational. His dad was too sick. He just pulled out in time and made his attitude clear from the start.

Do you guys think the son did the right thing? What would you choose?”

Comments say, “I understand the son, honestly.”

“This is just the helplessness of poverty.”

“He only looks like a bad son because he had no money.”