3/4/23 - We even opened a can of mussels.
A answer to the question, “Why did you go no-contact with your parents?” The answer is, “My parents killed my cat. Threw him in boiling water. I was on a work trip. My dad did it while my mom watched my cat struggle in the pot as she called me.”
“They said I need to focus on the important things in life. Told me to stop wasting my time on animals. Told me to work harder and find a wife, hurry up and marry and have kids. She casually said that she’s doing all of this for my own sake, as I listened to my cat scream.
I didn’t say anything, just wrapped up work as fast as I could and hurried home, but I never found my cat’s body.
A few days later, both of them weren’t at home. I started destroying everything. All the furniture, all the electronics, all the kitchenware. As broken and smashed as I can make them. The things I can’t destroy, I still damaged as much as I can. Cut the leather sofa to strips with a razor, threw all clothes into a bathtub of bleach, cut all the mattresses and filled them with shit. When there wasn’t an intact lightbulb left in the house, I left too.
I changed my job, my address, my phone number, and now live several thousand kilometres away from them. I send them the legal minimum amount of money and have no contact with them.
Now I have a cat, a dog, a house, and a car. I’m living happily.”
Internet commenters ask if he thinks of his parents when he sees old people struggle down the sidewalk.
Somewhere in Hunan, a woman is walking her dog without a leash when a little kid gets scared of the dog (who is standing calmly by his owner not moving a muscle). The parents grab a meat cleaver and threatens the owner, and she breaks down in tears. Internet commenters say, “Oh, so she knows to be scared when someone walks up with a knife, but she doesn’t care whether other people are scared of dogs without a leash.” Other internet commenters say that he should’ve just hacked the dog to death, or she’ll never learn her lesson.
Someone asks how much are you allowed to take company stuff for your own? “I work at a small company, less than ten people. We had a sales guy who’d use the company account to call ubers for himself. The company threatened to sue him unless he paid it all back.”
“Another one is an intern. We have coffee reserved for our clients. But because we don’t have any free coffee or tea for our break room and the intern really likes to drink coffee, she’s been using that coffee on herself, managing to get through a whole bag every month. She got fired when the company got curious how their coffee was getting depleted so fast, even though we barely have two or three clients come over every month.”
“I think everyone takes free work stuff home, at least everyone around me does. Like, I’ll take rolls of toilet paper or boxes of tissues home. I’ve taken coffee pods or tea bags too. But the difference is, most people just take whatever’s left over when it’s clearly not going to get used, and these people just took so much that the company couldn’t ignore it anymore.”
Internet commenters say that they fill up their 1.5L bottle of water at the company and make sure to shit and shower before clocking out. Someone adds that they charge their portable charger at work too.
Man posts a photo of dinner consisting of a small bowl of peas, a small bowl of canned mussels, and a little bit of spinach soup with two pieces of beef floating in it and says that, “My girlfriend took this photo of the dinner we made when she first came over to my house and threatened to post it on the internet and get people to judge us. She even blocked me, I only found out about this through her best friend. Yeah, at first glance, it’s not a great meal, but she’s not mentioning any of the context.”
“First, we didn’t get home until 8, when all the grocery stores had closed. And my parents had no idea that my girlfriend would be coming over. Next, we always eat spinach soup at home, but my girlfriend mentioned that soup is better with beef, so my mom went out of the way to add beef for her. We only open canned mussels when there are important guests over, and we opened one for her. We even made the peas just for her.”
“She doesn’t mention at all how my mom used all the ingredients we had at home to make a pretty decent meal—maybe it’s not super luxurious, but it’s still delicious. We even opened a can of mussels. But she doesn’t care, she just keeps repeating how this is her first time over to my place.”
Sina Sport News celebrates Chinese men wins curling at the World Junior Curling Championships for the first time, with Germany coming in second, and Scotland coming in third.
Entertainment blogger responds to the hashtag #all minors should be banned from gaming by saying, “It’s not a bad suggestion, but it doesn’t get to the root of the issue. My suggestion is to go right to the source and ban minors from being born. That way, we can avoid capitalists from ever poisoning them.”
A thread of people talking about their experience being disappointments to their parents. “Both of my parents graduated from top universities, I’ve lived in their shadow all my life. To prove that studying is way harder now than it was back them, I made them take Master’s degree entrance exams with me. They made it. I didn’t.” Internet commenters say, “Now it’s your job to support them through their degree.”
“I was studying for my exams in 2020, right in the middle of lockdowns, so I was at home. My mom looked over and said I got four out of five questions wrong. I got mad and told her, ‘You do it then!’ Then I watched her get full marks on that test.”
“I remember 7th grade, I was taking chemistry and memorising the periodic table at home, and just could not get it down. My mom showed off how she can recite it forwards and backwards, down the columns and down the rows.”
A video showing the bed of a Dynastic Chinese noble lady. The video explains that much like some otakus today, noble ladies were expected to never leave their bed, but this bed is the size of a small room. There’s the actual bed portion, which they have a mannequin sitting on. There’s a small study next to the bed where you can read and write. The opposite side is a vanity. Next to the vanity is a small alcove where you do your business, opposite of which is a small area where one can bathe. The entire backside of this monstrosity of a bed is a closet for clothes. This is a 10 square metre space in which a noble lady can live the entirety of her life.
Guy asking for advice—he’s going on a date with a girl tomorrow, and he feels like she’s totally trying to date up, but his friends all say that they’re about the same social status. He is 26 years old, 175cm, 6/10, went to Jilin University (normal state university tier) for finance, and now works for a foreign company. Makes about 300K a year, but goes on a lot of work trips and has a good chance of promotion, and his salary will continue climbing. Owns a house at a good location already paid off, worth over 8 million.
The girl was introduced by a work friend of this guy’s mom. She’s 23, pretty tall, supposedly 173cm, 5/10, going to some 211 university in Nanjing (equivalent to one tier below an ivy league), and is interning while she finishes her senior year. I checked her major’s employment prospects, and she’ll make 180K tops in a major city, and still needs to build up experience, get certifications, and salary growth will be slow. She has a house under her name too, worth about 4 million.
Maybe my friends think she’s doing pretty well because she has a big amount of money in the bank (supposedly an inheritance from her grandpa), and a rental house too that brings in 7K a month. I asked if she intends to get a Master’s degree, and she didn’t seem particularly ambitious to me, just wanted to chill. Even in her studies, she’s pretty chill, just constantly screwing off and having fun.
As far as family goes, my parents are all highly-educated and both have government jobs. They’ve got another two houses under their name, and though they’re smaller, they’re still worth 500K or so. My total family income is 350K a year, pretty stable and comfortable.
The girl’s dad supposedly runs a construction team, makes over 500K a year, but it’s not nearly as stable as my family. Because of covid, he’s not been getting much business. They’ve got a mansion that’s worth about 8.5 million under their name too.
I’ve also got a sister, so there’ll be one more person to take turns when taking care of my parents when they’re old. She’s a single-child, so she’ll have to do everything by herself. In general, I think I’m much better off than her, and she’s trying to date up. We’re pretty equal when it comes to family background, but all my friends say her family is better off than mine, and she’s younger, so there’s no dating up to speak of. I don’t understand—is there such a huge difference between 23 and 28? Or is a Bachelor’s degree from a 211 university worth more than a Master’s from a state university? Some say I’m short, but I don’t think 175cm can be called short. It’s not like she’s taller than me?
And she’s only got middling looks—pretty thin, pretty white. I look pretty good, all kinds of girls try to date me.
Internet commenters say, “Every sentence of this post makes me want to call the police.”
I like that you started mentioning more about the comments people make on the posts.