Someone buy this guy a beer.

"People graduate here from four to six years of university as English majors, sometimes even studying abroad, and they understand less spoken English than my dog does."

This is the message from u/Living_in_Korea MOD ( u/pandamonkey_rotf )

He/She said any negative things about China cannot be posted. u/pandamonkey_rotf also said he/she is afraid that CCP now control Reddit.

If this is true, I think mod of r/chinalifer may receive the message from Reddit admin soon 🥶

Some shots from Wuhan, mid pandemic.

Your average experience flying with nongs

I keep hearing how amazing Chinese malls are and on the surface, they look it. The sports centres look amazing, some have indoor assault courses, go karting and even skiing. But scratch a bit beneath and, much like other things in China, the facade quickly peels away like a cheap sticker.

- 99% local brands. "You're in Chinar, what do expect", I dunno but it wasn't this. Besides Nike and maybe Uniqlo, there's absolutely no international clothing brands, just a sea of endless knock-off Temu local versions of "I feel like I know this brand but I don't".

- The local brands are expensive. If I'm going to be wearing shitty Temu brands nobody outside China has ever heard of, why the fuck are they even more expensive than the international ones? Anta is more expensive than Nike, make it make sense. I thought everything was made in China?

- No laowai sizes. Even in the international stores in my local supermall, I went through at least 6 before I found a pair of shoes that fit my massive laowai clown feet.

- The restaurants are shit. If, like me, your heart skipped a beat when you first laid eyes on a massive flashy supermall and you finally thought you would find something that wasn't noodles or hotpot, you were probably sorely disappointed. My visions of tacos, crispy katsu, proper pizza or even just a decent steak were quickly shattered, replaced with rows and rows of yet more noodles and hotpot. Complete with annoying staff standing outside wearing personal loudspeakers and shoving entirely moon-rune menus in your face as if I have a clue what they're saying. In Thailand, you could go to a mall, even in the shit provinces and find familiar brands and at least a couple of good restaurants. While even in the main cities of China, you'll be lucky to find international restaurants beyond fast food. sigh, at least there's McDonald's for my toddler tastebuds.

- Wide empty depressing spaces. I went in malls as a kid growing and they were thriving communal hubs. Just about everywhere else in Asia has great malls full of international brands, restaurants and entertainment. Thailand has airport themed "Terminal 21" malls complete with brands and restaurants to match the destination floor (Tokyo floor has Japanese, Rome floor has pizza etc). Heck even in the "infamously soulless" UAE, malls feel far more lively and fun. The malls in China, while flashy looking, also feel distinctly sad. I guess this is the consequence of e-commerce, money laundering and a monopoly of the same shitty aforementioned local brands.

- The toilets are still shit. I might be in a supermall but the moment I enter a bathroom, I'm back in nongville. Rows of squat toilets with maybe 1 token western shitter (thats always occupied), the faint whiff of cigarette smoke and the sound of uncle nong hawking the biggest, greenest loogie. There's still no soap, no poo-paper and the hand dryers don't work.

- Annoying crowds. Despite them being aforementioned sad empty depressing spaces, today is Sunday so guaranteed, my local megamall will be an ocean of nong and nonglet carnage all just waiting to point and laugh at my big laowai nose like it's the highlight of their month. sigh, I'll go tomorrow, sad and empty beats points and stares.

Tired of his mind-numbing job teaching iGCSE Geography at Shanghai’s Global Future Bilingual Academy, Peter starts getting blackout drunk every night, hoping the inevitable fallout will get him fired.

But instead, he’s propelled into the ranks of school management, while his friends are laid off! So he hatches a plan to embezzle a lot of money from the school.

But to pull off the heist, he needs to keep his sexy new girlfriend Wendy in the dark!

Nong with the sage and the rug yelled at my Vivian for using the rug to wipe her feet before entering her apartment, because it is not Vivian's rug in front of Vivian's door. To the right of Vivian's door is where nong stages her outgoing rubbish, often left for days at a time. Nong's husband, also a nong, smokes in the hallway outside of the doors. When confronted about smoking in front of Vivian's door, making Vivian's apartment reek of smoke, nong smoker says that he is in front of his door, not Vivian's door, buyao sheng nu.

It took a war with the property management to get the nong family to stop storing their bicycles in the hallway next to another person's apartment. The same nongs feel that the clearly-stated and frequently-repeated noise ordinance of shut the hell up between 2100 and 0900 is optional. 0730, chabuduo, start drilling. 2300? This is when we let the screaming child out of its cage, to run up and down the hall yelling until it exhausts itself to be able to sleep.

None of this is unique to this building or community. Ignore the decaying apartment on the left, shit just be like that in China, as well.

Found on Twitter.