AOLA new trend in China has lonely teenagers walking cabbage “pets” on a leash, according to video from geobeats.
Groups of young people were photographed dragging around heads of cabbage at Midi Music Festival in Beijing.
The teens say they are expressing their isolation and trying to find a way to connect and interact with people, or even meet up with other lonely youth, geobeats says.
“I have more interest for my cabbage than I do my parents,” 17-year-old Da-Xia Sung said. “I feel it understands me.”
Psychiatric professionals say a cabbage companion can be a healthy form of therapy if you’re feeling lonely, but they also warn about the effects of becoming too attached to a vegetable and not getting enough human interaction, geobeats says.
Other people say that they can put all their negative feelings into the cabbage and then release them by throwing it away when they’re done.
Here are the last three sentences (they didn’t come through):
“I have more interest for my cabbage than I do my parents,” 17-year-old Da-Xia Sung said. “I feel it understands me.”
Psychiatric professionals say a cabbage companion can be a healthy form of therapy if you’re feeling lonely, but they also warn about the effects of becoming too attached to a vegetable and not getting enough human interaction, geobeats says.
Other people say that they can put all their negative feelings into the cabbage and then release them by throwing it away when they’re done.
It has been remedied. Sorry about that.
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Thanks. 🙂
And these fish head china guys are infilterating our country?, guess that we will get what we deserve now that we got the mexicans and the china guys here.
Strange phenomenon from a strange country. Maybe it’s the pollution in the air. Wouldn’t be surprised to see this trend happen in our country in the not too distant future with the way our dumb down people are these days.
I don’t get it NC, just about every soup they make has cabbage in it right? What the hell is going on over there anyway, good lord….
What next, they come over here and stick a 24 ounce sirloin on a leash and drag the damn thing around ?
I don’t know, Mark. The Chinese might be able to afford wasting money on a sirloin steak and attaching it to a leash, but the American people sure as hell can’t. 😆
Yeah NC, it’s like the “Pet Rock” thing that was so popular a few years back. This is really strange so I’m sure it won’t be long before the price of cabbage doubles as this stupid trend infects the millions of Americans too stupid to resist the idiocy.
Looks to be more messy than a pet rock. At least the pet rocks could be hung around your neck.
Wow, same page REDHORSE! 🙂
LOL
” At least the pet rocks could be hung around your neck”
or they could be put in your pocket ( “worry stone”).
““I have more interest for my cabbage than I do my parents,” 17-year-old Da-Xia Sung said. “I feel it understands me.””
Kinda reminds me of what Henry always says, “The elite must think we have the head of a cabbage to think that we are not able to remember what happened a week ago”. 😆
Maybe the Chinese have the head of a cabbage, but We the People DO NOT and are awakening more and more to what’s going on around us each day.
LOL 🙂 😉
Agreed.
Are we sure that it’s not their brains they are dragging around? I think it is the Scott’s that use the phrase “loosing you cabbage”.
recall the cabbage patch dolls that were so popular years ago
I remember that, too. The dolls even had “birth certificates” LOL
Yea, but did people ever walk their cabbage patch dolls on leashes?
However, lately, I’ve been seeing more and more parents in shopping centers having their kids walk around while having a leash attached to them like they are walking a dog.
Are parents really that stupid that they want to treat their kids like dogs or is this the new indoctrination into world bondage these days?
I remember being appalled at seeing parents walk their kids on leashes in NYC in the 80’s and 90’s. They’ve changed, from walking their kids, to pushing them (we’re talking 5 year olds) in heavy duty baby strollers. Unbelievable! 🙁
you know — funny you mentioned that. I saw some yuppie pushing her 5 year-old to a playground once and when the kid jumped out of the stroller she could barely walk. No balance, no grace, and you would think that she just learned how to walk a week ago.
The poor kid was deprived of a normal development because her Mom was in too much of a rush to walk with a kid (kids don’t make good time), and always stuck her in a stroller and pushed her. (I don’t know that for a fact, but it seemed obvious to me when I saw that kid get on her feet)
Yep, they don’t make “good time” in the City. Self-centered, poor parenting. 🙁
Hi, NC. I don’t think it is that the parents want to treat their kids like dogs. I think that most parents are too lazy to teach their children how to behave.
When they are home they allow them to behave like complete idiots. I guess when they are out in public they have to keep a leash on them.
Poor parenting. Period.
I agree.
Lazy and self-centered. Poor Parenting.
NC,
When I saw this piece today, I thought of your comment. I sent it in, but Admin was unable to load the photos for posting. Here’s the link:
http://mom.me/parenting/6389-kids-leashes/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing11%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D479529
“I have more interest for my cabbage than I do my parents,”
“Psychiatric professionals say a cabbage companion can be a healthy form of therapy if you’re feeling lonely”
So who’s crazier here, the kids or the psychiatrist?
There’s absolutely nothing healthy about developing an emotional bond with a vegetable, and if a shrink says otherwise, it only supports my belief that the entire psychiatric profession is full of shite.
Are you lonely, honey? Try walking through the streets naked instead of putting a cabbage on a leash, and I’m sure you’ll meet a few nice boys.
I agree. “So who’s crazier here, the kids or the psychiatrist?”
Your last statement has me on the floor laughing.
“Are you lonely, honey? Try walking through the streets naked instead of putting a cabbage on a leash, and I’m sure you’ll meet a few nice boys.”
🙂 😉
I guess that would be an extreme method of attracting potential mates, but the loneliness would definitely end.
Now that I’ve thought about this for a minute, the fact that this cabbage walking has become a trend is almost like a form of protest against a society that’s become too impersonal.
Perhaps.