Compilation of snarky Chinese New Year banter goes viral
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A google document compiling snide remarks and snarky Chinese New Year banter has gone viral on the web.
Hosted on Google Docs, the link was first shared on Reddit as a “Compilation of all the crap people say on CNY”. The page has since been shared on social media and by local media outlets.
According to the page’s description, the compilation is a “list of power plays and microaggressions [sic] thinly disguised as harmless CNY banter about ‘your boy/girl’”.
Originally open to public editing, visitors could add snide remarks and passively-aggressive Chinese New Year banter to the document’s fast-growing list. Some users even added useful retorts and comments to the snide remarks.
Highlights:
“My son drove us here in his new car, very hard to find parking you know.”
“My son can give your son tuition.”
“See this privilege banking angbao from my son’s bank one, he banker ya.”
“My son still has to go back serve ns in 2020, he’s studying medicine you see.”
“Gahmen very unfair don’t let my son buy hdb, say he earning too much, aiyoh.”
*dramatic apple watch wrist flick*
“Eh I thought you are the one who got the scholarship? Oh, not you ah?”
“You go into local U? Really?”
“Your parents no money send you to international U?”
“Haiyo, drink more green tea. You got so much pimples on your face eh!”
“You eat so many love letters won’t get real one la.”
“My son DSA, not easy you know, poor boy must study and go for extra lesson.”
“Huh, your son/daughter still study overseas ah? Why so long one? Later bring back angmoh bf/gf how?”
“What you working as now ah?” “journalist” “that one real job ah?”
“Why you date foreigner? You mean Singapore got no more guys/girls around huhhhh?”
The compilation’s creator has since put his page on “lockdown mode” due to the influx of edits, with new additions to be added via a submission form.
The page’s creator wrote, “One day, when civil society looks back upon the atrocities committed in the past, they will find this document useful.”
The full list is available here.
