YES! Calc BC in Junior year was literally the 1st time I went into math class NOT knowing at least 80% of the content
I’m struggling with this one. My parents had a bad habit of spoiling me by just handing me cash whenever I “needed it” instead of actually giving me an allowance to budget.
YES! and in the SHANGHAI SUMMER too!
Yep! Corporal punishment was huge. I remember hiding all the clothes hangers to avoid the threat of getting hit. I’m the lucky one- my mom realized that beating me was useless a couple years ago. My brother and dad still get the rod (broomstick) on occasion
That was my parents throughout elementary school. The scary thing is that by MS, they’d already brainwashed me to think that for myself. By HS, they were telling ME not to get worried over a B
白酒is the life of parties. My grandma was famous for her drinking abilities. My grandpa once organized a drinking competition between my dad and uncle (before I was born). My uncle ended up with a permanent stomach ulcer
It’s amusing how we’re not supposed to say certain sterotypes because they’re rude, but really, they’re often stereotypes for a reason - everything about grades and lack of voicing loving emotions is stuff I’ve heard, but didn’t actually just go around assuming was true of any Asians I knew.
My parents/aunt & uncles and their friends all grew up in the late 80’s and 90’s in our town. At the time it was mostly whites and some Natives and Latinos, with very few blacks or Asians. There was one Asian kid my family is still friends with. I don’t know for sure how to spell his name, but I think it’s Siyot. Or Sayot. I believe he’s Thai. Teachers and classmates never knew how to say his name so he ended up just being known as “Asian” lol and still goes by it to this day. I don’t think he minds, but it’s pretty hilarious to me. He also has a tattoo that says “Made in Thailand”.
I want one on the back of my neck that says “made in China”. The only thing stopping me is the lack of fat there (way more pain) and career aspirations
Why the back of your neck? If you wore your hair down I bet most people wouldn’t see it - so for like a job interview or something.
I think I might get my first one soon here. My cousin’s dad opened a tattoo shop recently and he’s pretty professional and talented. The other ones are…gross. Pretty much sums it up.
I think I’d get it on my forearm, but I haven’t decided yet. I don’t plan on being at a job where tattoos wouldn’t be approved of - like a big corporate setting or anything, so I don’t see it being an issue. I also think a lot more people are becoming more relaxed about piercings and tattoos but I suppose it depends.
yeah. Apparently, a thick layer of fat is what reduces pain since there’s no nerve endings. Muscle and tendon are pretty bad, but skin on bone is the worse. I obviously don’t have experience, but I’ve had more than a few conversations with that lit teacher who in addition to the 2 full sleeves, has most of his back covered too. I think that’s enough experience for 3 people
A haggis-loving Scotsman won’t go near your favorite dish. (Lol @Yogi1 where have you been?)
You get smacked at the dinner table when you put your elbows in the table.
You have to tell the others at the table to eat one by one in order of rank.
Your dad told you that if you point at the moon, the Moon Goddess will cut off your ear.
When you heard the term “Secular Buddhism”, you had to look it up.
You’ve thrown a pregnant cat over the coffin at a funeral because old people told you that the dead person will turn into a zombie. Probably just me.
Your house turns into a gambling den for a couple of days during the Lunar New Year.
This will also happen at your funeral.
Your wife spends the whole day making herbal soup because it’s “healthy”. Then she serves it to you with 3 other dishes submerged in oil. And the soup gives you a nosebleed.
The only herbal soup you actually like turns out to be the one for menopausel women that your wife made for your mother.
Tuppleware jokes are mostly accurate.
You’ve trolled a Traditional Chinese Medicine student by asking her to open your ren and du meridians. Probably just me again.
You couldn’t sit through the Dragonball Z live action movie because Chow Yun Fat was your childhood hero.
You have no idea why people keep making a big deal out of the words “dao”(Tao) and “qi”. There are almost a hundred variations and combinations of these words.
