The blogger who wrote the last post covered yesterday updates to respond to comments today, that a lot of people say that if a girl got into university in the 60s to 80s, their parents would definitely let them go. She points out that first of all, university isn’t a house, you can’t force your daughter to give up her spot for your son. And back in the day, not only was university free, the uni paid you to go with food ration tickets. If people actually had to pay tuition like nowadays? Well, why do you think there are free charity schools for girls and not boys? Even free public education—do you think there are more girls kept from going or boys?
Ask anyone born before the 80s, if there are girls and boys in one household, it is always the girls that did more housework. If a girl was spending all her time washing clothes, cooking food, sweeping floors, how much time does she have for studying? And then you turn around and say well, whichever one of my children make it to university, I’ll pay for it? Don’t you think that’s like sending someone to a boxing match with one arm tied behind their back?
Even if you send both kids to university, when they both need living expenses at uni, who are people going to prioritise? Making sure their son has enough money or their daughter?
Sophomore uni student’s boyfriend broke his leg and is facing a 8000-9000 medical bill, and he wants her to cover 1-2K of it. All of her money comes from her parents, so she’s not sure about helping out. Comments ask if her boyfriend is an orphan.
Entertainment blogger is mad that the latest announcement from a K-pop band was released in three languages, which do not include Chinese. They don’t understand why Chinese people would be fans of a group that don’t care about them.
More controversy over panda abuse at the Memphis Zoo. A video showing the panda Lele begging for food. Because of long starvation, it is having problems with bloody stool, diarrhoea, and not being able to digest bamboo. And yet, Memphis Zoo claimed Lele was healthy. A few days after this video, Lele passed away. They’re insisting that the same thing is now happening to Yaya and people need to pressure Memphis Zoo to return Yaya to China.
After government employee’s first date with girl doesn’t work out, he bombarded her with rude and mocking messages, and she reported him to his place of work. Now he has apologised to her and written an essay reflecting on his behaviour to his place of work.
A Taiwanese celebrity has a divorce with her husband due to his cheating last year, and the internet has been making fun of her relentlessly for continuing to spend her ex-husband’s money on her current boyfriend. A blogger points out that her ex-husband was ordered to pay damages by the court, and he was the one who chose to pay it in monthly payments instead of all at once. This caused the situation to look like he’s paying for her dates with her new boyfriend, when it’s legally 100% her money to begin with.
Man goes on date with his girlfriend, who met him with a glass of bubble tea from a very cheap brand for him, while she had a cup of much more expensive bubble tea. He gets upset and no longer wants to go on a date with her. She’s mad, because she commuted for an hour to meet him. He asks about the milk tea, and she says that he usually shops from very cheap brand anyways. Expecting something more expensive just because she’s paying makes him sound very gold-diggery.
A review of a movie set in the federalist era, where a bride is taken by bandits on the day of her wedding. When she is rescued, her MIL tests her virginity by throwing ash on a white sheet and making her squat on it and sneeze. If the ash doesn’t move, she’s still a virgin. Then, because her husband died of an accident on the wedding day, she married a wooden doll carved with his birthday, and spends her days with the wooden doll, taking it out in the yard during the day, sleeping with it at night. She falls in love with a servant in the house, and when that is discovered, her MIL has her Achille’s tendon cut and chains her up in a shed to prevent her from remarrying.
Influencer is doing a lottery drawing for one lucky subscriber to give 5000/month for the remaining 10 months of 2023, to get more likes and subscribes.
People speculate that Genshin is less fun because you put your elite team on a new game, and that’s why Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma are all so fun. But starting from Sumeru, it feels like they’ve switched over to a mediocre team while their elite team got pulled to work on a new game. And now the over world exploration is shit, and you’re locked into quests you have to complete before you get to run free, forcing people to do a whole bunch of side quests. They’re bleeding active users like crazy, so they’re running popular old character banners all the time, but not actually putting any effort into new characters. Even when one comes out, they don’t want to bother making an interesting character mechanic, so they just throw them into the permanent pool and stop caring. At this point, no matter how badly their perform, Genshin is too big to fail, so they’ve stopped caring. There’s a chance Genshin won’t even survive until Snezhnaya.
Someone asks for help on the internets that his neighbour has filled their shared corridor with shoes, cabinets, and children’s bicycles, making the corridor stinky and crowded, and the apartment management company refuses to do anything about it. He asks what he can do. I comment that it’s easy if they have kids—just follow their kids for a couple of days, take photos, comment on how pretty they are, and make sure your eyes light up every time you see their kids. In a couple of weeks, they’ll have moved.
A blogger writes that a friend of his who works in upper management says that women shouldn’t talk about having careers. She’s 35 and was let go last November and only just found a new job now. She’s not married, with no kids, and never plans on getting married. And yet, every time she interviews, all they care about is asking her marital status, and when she promises she never plans to get married, HR just look at her with distrust and suspicion. This blogger, who is over thirty themselves, is facing the same situation. She had a job previously who didn’t ask about her marital plans, but when she got engaged and showed up to work with her engagement ring, her boss stared at it for a while, and the next day she found out she was being laid off. She asked her friend what she plans to do, and her friend said, “What can I do? Just keep job searching and working ’til the day that no one wants me anymore.”
Three pandas return from to China from Japan—Yongming and her twin daughters. People celebrate in the comments and hope that Yaya will return soon too.
Man is feeling depressed because he’s been out of work for 3 months and having trouble finding new work. He’s jealous that other people have good parents who can buy cars and houses for them. He’s 34 and because he didn’t go to a good university, he can’t find a good job. He quit his last job because it was stressful and didn’t pay much, and he hadn’t saved any money because his income had been unstable. The dates he goes on end as soon as girls find out that he doesn’t have a car. Women are more and more materialistic, no one is looking for love. His parents are not very healthy too, and he’d just had to pay for his mom’s surgery with a credit card. He feels like no one understands how hard his life is, none of his relatives talk to him. He wants to make money, he wants to be successful in business, but he can’t get anyone to invest in him. If he had been born in a better family, he feels like this wouldn’t have happened. His classmate has a 3-year-old child already, and his house and cars were all paid in full by his parents.
> He asks what he can do. I comment that it’s easy if they have kids—just follow their kids for a couple of days, take photos, comment on how pretty they are, and make sure your eyes light up every time you see their kids. In a couple of weeks, they’ll have moved.
Sorry, I don't get this – can you explain how this works?