10/26/24 - Xiao Hong Shu is doing its utmost to prevent users from exchanging contact info, with almost perfect defense.
A compilation of the comment section under the question, “Are really proper-looking male doctors also really proper in private life?”
Comments say, “My ex-husband sure looked all prim and proper, and he was a doctor too. Didn’t stop him from flirting with all his patients.”
“My husband really loves people taking care of him too.”
“A lot of patients need to strip to get operated on, and some surgeons will comment on girls’ figures and looks after they’re under. Some even grope the girls, especially if they’re young and pretty.”
“Lol, are there no cameras?”
“Oooh, me, me, me! I have the gossip! I know a guy, post-doctorate, super strict, even to his patients. He had a girlfriend he got in high school who wanted to break up with him in his third year of his Doctorate degree, so he asked me to go out for late night snacks with his girlfriend in case she got too drunk. And his girlfriend ended up telling me that he has to go home to visit her every week, and whether it’s because he missed her too much or he’s under too much stress, the way he vented was by having sex, and he had to be super loud about it too. He’ll go on for several hours and not end.”
“I’ve experienced it. When I was interning in the surgery department, my teacher looked really proper and professional, but after we went team-building once, he started asking me out all the time and saying I was good-looking and had a great figure.”
“Don’t date doctors. It’s a matter of statistics, but it’s still a good idea to avoid them. My friend’s SO is a doctor, and just like the first commenter said, he wants sex every week. And he said if my friend wasn’t willing, he’d go find someone else.”
“But…I don’t get it. Isn’t it normal to have sex every week if you’re young? Or did you mean to write every day?”
“They’re not proper at all. My ex-boyfriend is a surgeon who looked really proper, and he was a fucking freak in private. He’d buy those super shiny stockings for me to wear, put me in maid outfits with nipple chains, and he’s always after my ass. Sometimes, I wonder if he goes both ways. After we broke up, he got drunk once and his coworker called me on his phone, asking me to go pick him up. Once I got there, his coworker tried to grope me. I asked his coworker what his name was, and he said his name was “dog”. It was ridiculous.”
“After reading this comment section, my rose-coloured glasses about doctors have completely shattered. It’s so hard to get through medical school. Why wouldn’t they care a little more about their reputation?”
“Because they’re men before they’re doctors. Don’t have rose-coloured glasses about any profession. Anyone who can excel at being a doctor have too much energy and are always rearing to go.”
“I heard with my own years a whole bunch of doctors in the same department talk about getting whores. The most decent, honestly looking doctor who’s currently in the middle of wedding planning had his opinion too: several days’ worth of pay is only enough to get one chance at fun.”
“Family doctors are a little bit better. I would stay the hell away from surgeons.”
“Whether he’s proper depends on whether he’s into it or not. I’m a female doctor. I know male doctors like the back of my hand.”
“Yeah, no way. My husband looks all proper at the hospital, but he’s always sniffing me at home and trying to lick my asshole.”
“My hospital’s orthopaedic surgeon talks about whether a girl is tight or loose down there while doing surgery on her.”
“A while ago, I found a really reliable buying agent [someone who purchases something that’s not available locally and ships it to you for a fee]. I told them I really wanted to try some Luosifen [stinky rice noodle] straight from Guangxi.
But on their entire website, only one shop was voted positively. Everything else had a lot of comments about not buying there.
I’ve always been someone who took advice to heard, so I only bought from that one shop, and it really was super delicious. Completely different from any other Luosifen I’ve tried.
So I recommended it to all my friends.
One of those friends was an adventurer, and was like, “Well, I’m here anyways. I want to try some other stores.” And well…she certainly learned a lesson. She said it was tasted so bad that she couldn’t breath.
…I don’t know about anything else, but Chinese people need to trust other people’s experience when it comes to food.”
Comments say, “I’m the opposite case. I’m super rebellious, and I’ve stepped on so many landmines.” [when you consume something you really hate]
“Yeah, my friend from Liuzhou also got me some from this store. If you go to Liuzhou directly, every single place tastes great.”
“Li Ziqi’s brand is pretty close. It’s what I ate the couple of years that I’ve been out of state. I got used to it, and when I came back again, it took me a while to get used to the original, slightly sweet flavour.”
Question: Why do I feel like a school district house isn’t that important?
Answer: “This is a very simple calculation to work out. Let’s suppose that a 10 million RMB school district house can 100% get your kid into Qinghua University. Hypothetically speaking, how many years is it going to take for him to make back that 10 million?
If you bought this school district house when your kid was 5 years old, and he graduates from his Master’s Degree from Qinghua University at 25-years-old, and he’s lucky enough to get a 1 million RMB salary right off the bat.
Minus all the taxes you have to pay on a salary that high, deduct all the insurances and expenses per year, let’s say he saves up 400K a year.
That is to say, from the time that you invest into this house, to when your kid starts making decent money, you need 20+25 = 45 years to make back this investment.”
Comments say, “Are you dumb? So long as it hasn’t been over-hyped, a 10 million school district house can be sold off for just about the same price when your kid graduates from school. Your math isn’t much better than all those people saying that instead of buying a house, you could just live out of a hotel.”
“What, this house completely loses all value by the time your kid graduates?”
“You can get your capital back when you sell the house. The problem isn’t whether or not you can make back your investment. It’s whether or not it actually gets your kid into a good university.”
“The first girl to buy an artificial diamond necklace in my office is a typical example of someone who gives great emotional feedback.
She doesn’t make as much money as her husband, and they’ve been going through buying a house, remodelling it, having a kid, raising a kid, etc these past few years, so they don’t have much savings.
Her husband wanted to buy her a birthday gift and asked what she wanted, and she said she wanted a diamond necklace. She doesn’t care whether it’s going to hold its value. She just wanted something pretty.
So her husband bought it for her.
And she acted super happy. She’d often admire the diamond’s sparkle under the light. She’ll deliberately buy clothes that show the necklace. And she often asks her husband, “Isn’t this necklace gorgeous?”
Her husband was so proud of himself that he can’t wait until he gets his year-end bonus and buy her something even more expensive.
She doesn’t have much in savings at all, and this necklace still got about a months’ worth of expenses for her family. It’s not super expensive, but it’s definitely not super cheap either.
If Mai Mai [influencer, I think. I’m not up to date on this gossip] would just say outright, “I want this expensive thing,” and then Li [her SO] bought it, and then she was super happy, then he’d obviously be really motivated to keep buying her things. And she’ll get these things and get to show them off in front of her friends, and she’d be even happier. And he’ll feel like he’s satisfied his wife. It’s win-win.
But she won’t say it!!! I can’t take it!!!!”
Comments say, “I used to not say things outright too, and just wait for other people to guess what’s on my mind. And I’ll get upset if they don’t guess right and secretly cry at night. Later on, my SO would force me to sit up and demand I explain just what the hell was going on, why I was upset, and refuse to go to bed until it was all talked out…so I changed. I just tell him outright what I want, and he’ll get it if he can. And he’ll ask his family for help or figure out a way to get it if he can’t. Now I feel like being straightforward is so important in a marriage.”
“Her husband was willing to buy a diamond necklace for her even when they didn’t have much money on hand, so he was a great husband to begin with.”
“Just bring up your needs outright, it’s simple and efficient.”
A video of hand-making shoes from start to finish. “These ancient techniques are almost lost these days. Everything you buy on the market is machine-made.”
Comments say, “It’s not lost. It’s just too expensive.”
“All lost techniques were eliminated. Useful things with actual value never get lost.”
“Learned something today. Someone on Xiao Hong Shu really loved one of my posts and wanted to gift me a standup ticket.
I was super happy.
I arrived at the venue, and this netizen sent me the QR code for the ticket. I waited forever and nothing came though. It wasn’t until she asked me, “You got in yet?” that I realised the QR code was censored by Xiao Hong Shu.
So I wanted to talk over wechat instead, and I sent her my wechat ID. She couldn’t get it.
I tried just calling her on Xiao Hong Shu, and it told me on my end that the call never got picked up, but she never even got a notice that someone was calling on her end.
I tried sending my phone number to her. Of course, she still couldn’t receive it.
She couldn’t even get my message of, “Can you see this message?”
There’s no notification that my message failed to send. There’s no notification that I was breaking any rules. There’s no tag that only I could see what I was trying to post. Nothing.
I thought she was getting my messages, and she thought I was getting hers. And we just had to work around this bullshit for 20 minutes before we could get a message through to each other, add each other on wechat, and get the tickets. It was like an entire escape room.
Xiao Hong Shu is doing its utmost to prevent users from exchanging contact info, with almost perfect defense. But ironically, at first, we never even considered adding each other on wechat.
If at any point during this process, one of us didn’t persevere, then we would’ve lost contact for real. I would’ve thought I’d ran into a scammer, and she would’ve thought I already got the ticket.
And a beautiful experience would have become a “scam” thanks to the lies of this platform.
And this could happen to anyone.”
Comments say, “But why though?”
“With so many people recommending products on Xiao Hong Shu, they could make their own store system for sure. But the store system keeps trying to scam merchants out of their money.”
“Communications technology has only ever had two goals in all its years of development. 1 is speed, 2 is reliability. Baidu’s cloud tells us it doesn’t matter how fast your internet speed is. Xiao Hong Shu has taught us that it doesn’t matter how reliable your communication is.”
Question: The people who to go top universities already have great IQ. Why are they still so easily turned against their country?
Answer: “I had a dog when I was little. Back then, we weren’t allowed to keep dogs yet, and I had him in secret. I was super excited, of course, and every day, I trained him to sit, shake hands, whatever. And if he did it right, I’d give him a snack.
My BIL was a veterinarian, and one day, he saw me training my dog and he joked, “It’s too costly to train him this way. You should just feed him saltier food, and use water as a reward. If he does it right, he gets a sip of water.”
See? When suffering becomes commonplace enough, even the most basic of rights can be used as a reward.”
A discussion on medical insurance:
“I pay 410 RMB. You cover 880 RMB. Now I’m not paying anything anymore, but you don’t have to cover anything anymore. So why are you so mad?”
“In reality, they’re paying other people with your 410. They’re not spending a cent of their own. They just built a pool of funds.”
“Because you actually paid for real, but they’re not actually covering at all.”
“If you don’t pay 410, how can old people in Shanghai keep spending 70 million to live in the ICU for 4 years?”
“I don’t know whether this scam can get on the Guinness Book of World Records.”
“Hospital charges 50, 40 gets covered by insurance, you pay 10. But the real price is just 10, the 40 is just a made up number. But if you don’t get medical insurance, you have to pay 50. What can you do?”
“If I pay 410, and you cover 880, could I just not pay the 410 and you pay it for me? I don’t want the other 470. Does that work?”
“I pay 410 and get 70% coverage. Why stop there? Could I pay 610 and get 100% coverage?”
“The 880 is just the bait. The 410 is the fish they’re trying to get. They’ve already thrown in the bait. Of course they’re mad that they can’t get any fish.”
“With insurance, a bottle of medicine is 48, 42 gets covered and I pay 6. But if I buy the same medicine from a pharmacy and don’t bring out my insurance card, it’s only 4. Isn’t that weird?”
“410 RMB is an actual tax from you, and 880 RMB is a part of the budget, which also comes from taxpayers. But if you didn’t pay the 410, they can’t get the 880 out of the treasury. And without so much money in the medical insurance pool, there wouldn’t be anything for hospitals and officials and capitalists to fish from.”
I didn't quite get this parable of dog training in relation to university graduates turning against their country. Would you mind elaborating a bit, please?