A compilation of stories about classroom pets:
“My school adopted a stray dog, named him Professor Huang, because he patrols the school corridors all day, and sometimes sits next to the podium and listens in on classes. If he’s bored, he’ll go people-watch by the school gates. If he sees a teacher yelling at a student, he’ll go stare at the teacher until the teacher bursts out laughing, and save the student. During exam season, he has a special cage under the tree shade, with someone on hand to give him snacks and water. The school took care of him for 16 years. Every graduating class loved Professor Huang. We all remember him if we have tasty snacks. Maybe that’s the purpose of school—it doesn’t just teach you about reason and logic, but also about love.”
“My grad school had a squirrel that everyone called Squirrel Senpai. We were locked down for a long time during covid, and by the time we came out to see him again, he’d gone bald XD”
“Xi’an’s Eurasia University’s Mop Senpai—he had his own nest, got groomed regularly, got vaccines and baths, and would chase students around for fun and to ask for snacks. When he passed away, the school built Mop’s Grave in its forest. I even visited again about two years after I graduated.”
“We have cats at our school too, generations of them. Sometimes, students get scratched trying to feed the cats, and the teachers will hold a meeting to remind all the students to be careful when feeding cats. They’re not just cute, they’ve got a temper too. When I left, the cats even came to see me off, and a teacher took a photo of the moment. That photo is in my yearbook :( “
“As Xiucai and Yixiao Qingcheng [influencers aimed at older people] have gotten popular, this phenomenon has made me feel very uneasy and uncomfortable. It reflects a growing problem among middle-aged and older people in China. Familial conflicts have got to be 10 times worse now than 10 years ago.
If you agree that it’s not appropriate for underage minors to spend a ton of money on video games or tipping influencers, then you have to agree that it’s just as wrong for middle-aged or old people to do the same.
The two scenarios are very similar. As people get older, they’re less capable of independent reasoning. Their critical thinking skills go down. They’re not so different from underage minors. They’re not people who are capable of being responsible for their decisions.
Dynastic Chinese people were right about this and we should learn from their example: back in agricultural days, doing back-breaking labour in the fields your whole life, you can’t keep going once you’re above 45. You age far more than just working a desk job, your physical capabilities take a dive. And they’d voluntarily let their children become the leader of the house too, and take on a supporting position themselves. Their children rule the family, and the old people accept their leadership and their management.
Unfortunately, the nutrition and medicine brought about by the industrial revolution has increased old people’s capabilities and health. This is a good thing—but it hasn’t increased the IQ of old people.
This has created a phenomenon where a large amount of old people are borderline retarded by the time they’re 55, 65, but they’re still extremely confident in themselves. They still want to be leader of the house, and refuse to let their children take charge.
And now a retard is in charge of the household finances and major decisions. This causes irreversible and extremely severe disasters. Like blowing their entire savings on the livestreamer they like the most.
It used to be that when we talked about familial conflict, it was mostly about rebellious teenagers. It was mostly a problem of psychology—overly-controlling parents has caused kids to become insecure and have low self-esteem. Rebellious kids make parents anxious and stressed out and helpless.
And sure, psychological problems can be pretty severe, but it’s nothing, trivial, when compared to financial problems.
You’re only stressed out and worried if your kid’s rebelling and fighting you all the time. But if your child blew your entire savings on their favourite influencer, you’ll feel like your whole world’s ended.
If your parents being controlling makes you insecure and depressed, then your parents blowing their entire savings on an influencer will make you feel like your whole world’s ended.
This is why familial conflict is getting more and more severe. At least 100 times worse than 10 years ago. Ten years ago, middle-aged and old people can only blow their money on health supplements and cheap souvenirs on vacation. But now? There’s internet loans, phone scams, livestreamers, ponzi schemes, relatives wanting to borrow money…there’s always something out to get you.
In this world, the most valuable thing you own isn’t your money, but your credit. A honest, down-to-earth couple might only make a couple grand a year, and have next to no savings, but because they’re honest and down-to-earth, they can easily loan out a million RMB. And then they’ll be scammed or tricked and tip it all away.
But once you graduate, at most, you would only be making 100K a year, and you live pay check to pay check. If your family’s a million in the whole, that means it’ll take you ten years to pay it back if you don’t eat or sleep. And if you do, it’s at least 20-30 years. How many 20-30 years do you have in your lifetime? That’s a lifelong burden on you.
And that’s how shameless scammers are. I’m not saying that all livestreamers are scammers or anything, but old people are a demographic that’s severely lacking in critical thinking skills. Making money off of them is an inherently immoral thing. It’s not any different than making money off of kids. It’s just that most people haven’t realised this.
If he had the money, it’s great if he’d invest it in his children. Even if he won’t, just actually using it to improve his life, eat out a little, that’s all great.
But saving up money, denying yourself pleasures, to tip influencers or lend it out to your relatives or buy into MLMs, and even taking out loans for it? That’s a disaster. There’s a reason we have the saying, “old kids” (老小孩). Most old people become more and more child-like as they get up there in age—and they’re retarded kids too. In the age of computers and other electronics, they barely knew how to operate it. But as soon as smartphones came out, they all became experts.
Doesn’t that feel just a little bit weird and unnatural to you? They’re still the same people. They haven’t gotten any smarter. They’ve only gotten dumber, if anything, because they’re 10 years older now. And yet they can effortlessly use a phone.
What would these people who no ability to reason and no intelligence or independent, and yet an extremely high level of confidence, do with a phone? Why do we have more and more scammers these days than ever? Because the market and the target demographic has gotten bigger.
If you don’t want your family and your life to sink into such a desperate situation, you need to take what I’ve written here, and repeatedly educate your parents. Don’t think that you can mention it once—you have to keep nagging at them. Why do you think your parents nag at you? Only repetition can strengthen memory. You have to talk about it every time you see your parents, every time you call your parents.
“Don’t watch livestreams, don’t believe in health supplements, don’t play on your phone, don’t believe anything you read on there.” Talk to them more about proper nutrition, buy them fresh fruit and meats, make them exercise. Even staying at home and watching TV or taking a walk is better.
But even if you did all this, so long as you don’t live with them every day, you still can’t fully prevent this disaster. But doing it is better than not doing it.
Don’t overestimate your parents’ intelligence. In reality, the older people are, the easier they are to trick when it comes to scams, the dumber they are when it comes to tipping livestreamers.
I believe this problem is only going to get worse in the future.
People really need to take this seriously.”
Comments say, “Are we 80’s people gonna be like this when we get older too?” OP replies, “Of course we won’t be this retarded.”
“What do old people do in the West when they don’t live with their kids? What is their social outlet?”
“I’ve never liked Xiucai. He’s so fake, it makes me uncomfortable to watch him. I don’t get what old people see in him.”
A tiktok video from the west that’s gotten very popular with Chinese people, about how to spot an authentic Chinese restaurant.
There’s a compilation of comments under this video:
“They’re like NPCs in a video game—there’s always two kids, the older one is a girl, the younger one is a boy. The girl is helping with the food.”
“And the couple running the restaurant always hate each other and fight all day.”
“They’re probably just bantering tbh, not that I know what they’re saying. But the tone definitely sounds like fighting.”
“Lanzhou Noodles: the man who’s cooking food like it’s the most serious thing in the world. The woman with a head scarf. The siblings doing their homework.”
“One time, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut and pointed out a mistake in their homework, and got made to stay and tutor them on maths XD”
“Lanzhou Noodles: the man working the dough, the woman with the headscarf cleaning, a pregnant nanny, kids writing homework, and the local teenage girl helping in the kitchen. And they always talk in some dialect you don’t understand.”
“The kind grandma is from Guangdong. The auntie with tattoo’d eyebrows is from Dongbei.”
“At first, I didn’t believe him, until he talked about the kid doing homework next to the counter. Then I knew what he was talking about.”
“The kid doing homework—the copy-pasted NPC in all Chinese restaurants around the world.”
“I’m not even kidding, the owner of the noodle shop I go to has changed three times now, but there’s still a kid doing homework there every time.”
“Watched an ob/gyn’s videos, and it’s all older women coming in to get their tubes untied. One of them is 47, and the other is 38. The 38 year old already had a son and a daughter and had her tubes tied for 9 years, and the doctor was all like, “Why do you still want kids?”
She replied that she’d found a new husband.
The doctor asked how old he was, and he was like 55. And the doctor was all like, “Woah, you better think on that. Even if everything goes well and you give birth by next year, by the time the kid’s 20, you’ll be 76!”
And the guy was like, “Of course I want kids. Why would we come here if not for kids?”
And the doctor was all like, “Fine. I’m just making sure. Just don’t regret it later.”
Another girl had had ectopic pregnancies twice, and her parents came with her to the doctor’s, all like, “her husband’s threatening divorce if she can’t have kids.”
And the doctor is like, “Come on, don’t cry, so what if you get divorced? You’ve got such great parents, why do you need to have kids for someone else? Take care of your body first. I bet it’ll all go smoothly if you just tried with a different person.”
Sigh. I don’t get it.”
Comments say, “I’ve heard of people threatening divorce if their wife won’t have kids, and she was already on her second kid. I don’t get why anyone would even consider having a second child if things are already at that point.”
“My husband’s cousin is like this. She’s an optometrist at a top hospital, from a wealthier family than her husband, and they’re long-distance too. And her in-laws were getting so bitchy at her because she couldn’t get pregnant for a couple of years. Then they ran some tests and found out it was the husband that had a problem. His cousin tried IVF and failed and was gonna do another round. And I told my husband, “Why doesn’t she just try with someone else? IVF is such a pain.” And my husband was like, “Well, they have a good relationship.” Good relationship my ass. If it was the other way around, they wouldn’t have a relationship at all.”
“Stop the bullshit with mothers being great. They’re just having kids as tribute for men. They don’t care if the kids are healthy or happy at all. At that age, his sperm has got to be bad. By the time the kid’s in primary school, they wouldn’t be able to keep up with him at all. If he dies young, the kid has to grow up in a single-parent household. If he dies old, then the kid has to take care of him as soon as he becomes an adult. He won’t have a single happy day in his life.”
A tiktok video where a grandpa was babysitting his grandson, when he lost the kid. It turns out, the kid was rescued by a man passing by, and for some reason, the kid built a bond with this stranger, and won’t leave him. Seeing this, the grandpa calls the cops. The man is still worried and insists that he won’t return the kid until the kid’s parents show up to pick him up.
The man on the video is saying, “Look how little he is! I’ve already called the cops. Would you be okay with this if it was your own child? What if it’s your daughter? Look, guys. His parents refuse to show up. They just send the grandpa. I’m telling you, no! I’m only letting him leave with his dad. Tell his parents to come! Uncle, I’m not trying to make things hard for you. But you need to tell his parents to come.”
Comments say, “Of course he needed to call the police, cause the kid’s acting like he doesn’t recognise this grandpa. Why would he not recognise his own grandpa? Of course that’s suspicious as fuck. Even if it’s just a misunderstanding at the end of the day, isn’t it better to be safe than sorry and call the cops?”
“Does the kid explicitly say he doesn’t want to leave with his grandpa? If so, then I definitely wouldn’t return the kid either. What a responsible man. No wonder the kid’s clinging to him so hard.”
“Of course you need to turn the kid in to the police. It’s not like anyone could just walk up and claim to be his grandpa, right?”
“A lot of people don’t understand the law. They don’t understand that cheating is not considered a major fault in a divorce. Even in the case of domestic violence, you need proof from the police that there were incidents of domestic abuse for it to count. If he just slapped you in the face or strangled you a little bit, that’s just a family dispute. It’s not a major fault in divorce either. There are places where they’ll try to talk the wife into forgiveness even in the case of drug abuse, and make her welcome her husband home.
In a lot of regions, there’s two different standards for men and women. If women cheat and have a kid, the man could sue them in court and get successful payment most of the time. But if men cheat and have a kid, the woman has to use their mutual assets to pay for the kid’s child support.
There’s no possibility that you could divorce a man without him taking your assets. Even if there really is actual fault in the divorce, like gambling or hiding assets, he would only get a smaller portion of your stuff.”
Comments say, “And even if the law is the same either way, it can be pretty different based on how people choose to enforce it for different genders.”
“We live in a patriarchal society, so of course laws favour men and ensure their rights first.”
“A lot of people don’t know the law, they don’t understand that when it comes to cheating, you need actual proof. And photographs or even videos don’t count as actual proof in court. And even if you could prove it, at most, you might get 10% extra share of the assets. But if you find a good divorce lawyer, you might still make the scumbag walk away with nothing.”
they’re voluntarily -> they'd voluntarily
his sperm is got to be bad -> ???
is actual faults -> is actual fault
pretty difference -> pretty different
patriarchy society -> patriarchal society
That tiktokker has somehow become very popular in the “Australian” feeds. Talks a lot about their prison stay and from what I’ve seen is pretty media savvy. Also has a very Jordan Peterson feel about them