You know what they say… if it sounds too good to be true, then it’s probably cursed.
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“He took the opportunity of being blasted with radiation to have a power nap.”
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“How was your day? Fully clothed? Masturbator free?”
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“Now I’m hungry for warning waffles.”
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Necroing slightly, when I moved to work at a Chinese university I was baffled to discover that everything was done by WeChat (which very roughly approximates to WhatsApp). Most people didn’t have email address or know what they were, so even if you’d found one it wouldn’t help.
Every time I taught a new class I’d have to create a WeChat group and then get every student to scan my phone to join it.
Learning about anything that was happening depended on whether you had been added to whichever chat group was circulating that news. Getting anything done depended on you knowing somebody who knew somebody who could give you the personal phone information of the person responsible.
Most people didn’t distinguish the concepts of email vs. message. They struggled to understand why it was difficult to do outreach to foreign universities or attract foreign students or overseas staff by sending messages from classic Chinese personal emails like 023928852743092720@meiniao/.cn and writing a polite chat message. Not everyone, but a large majority of the people I interacted with. Email just didn’t exist for them. Apparently that’s standard for business. I suppose they’d jumped straight from phones & letters to synchronous messaging tech, without most people going through the stage of asynchronous email that we had.
About a year after I’d left, remaining in touch, my entreaties finally resulted in them creating official email addresses with the university’s domain and something resembling a name or a title, and actually sending news to them for the foreign staff at least. Dunno if they’re widely used though. But at least it’s possible to contact someone official without instantly looking like a scammer.
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A: ‘Nothing a pair of secateurs can’t put right.’
B: ‘That holds true in so many walks of life.’
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