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A Mandarin word, "躺平", literally means "to lie down" , which is widely used on social media and among young people. The word has indifferent connotations.
Tangpingers give up fighting for a better life like they used to. They are in total submission to the status quo and they willingly lower their aims, wishes and even expenditures.
They have no more unrealistic expectations, illusions, pressure or interest in real life. No more ambitions, craving for success, struggle, resistance or fear. They try to be a normal person and chillax.
All they want to do is to lie down, to "tangping" and do nothing. They aren't cooperative and they don't give a F*CK to other people's opinions or blames.
Tangpingers scorn the behaviour of fleecing and milking the Masses by devious capitalists and speculators, which always try to play the young people for sucker.
So no more Pie-in-the-Sky or brainwashing. Either you pay me decent money to get the job done, or I choose to "tangping" and you get nothing.
They try to find the inner peace, happiness and balance, let go of themselves from enormous burdens, pressure and baseless accusations and focus on themselves only.
Tangpingism is a peaceful "demonstration" and non-cooperation movement against social inequalities, exploitation, elitism and meaningless competitions of any kind.
Tangpingers give up fighting for a better life like they used to. They are in total submission to the status quo and they willingly lower their aims, wishes and even expenditures.
They have no more unrealistic expectations, illusions, pressure or interest in real life. No more ambitions, craving for success, struggle, resistance or fear. They try to be a normal person and chillax.
All they want to do is to lie down, to "tangping" and do nothing. They aren't cooperative and they don't give a F*CK to other people's opinions or blames.
Tangpingers scorn the behaviour of fleecing and milking the Masses by devious capitalists and speculators, which always try to play the young people for sucker.
So no more Pie-in-the-Sky or brainwashing. Either you pay me decent money to get the job done, or I choose to "tangping" and you get nothing.
They try to find the inner peace, happiness and balance, let go of themselves from enormous burdens, pressure and baseless accusations and focus on themselves only.
Tangpingism is a peaceful "demonstration" and non-cooperation movement against social inequalities, exploitation, elitism and meaningless competitions of any kind.
A: Jacob, What the f*ck are your doing? Why are you sitting around? Don't you have a work to do?
B: Boss, I'm tired and I just want to tangping, so f*ck the work.
A: My god, the house price keeps rocketing up, when can I afford an apartment of my own?
B: With your current salary, maybe 100 years later you can get one.
A: Aren't you worried about that?
B: Nuh-uh, I know I can't afford it, so f*ck it, I'm gonna tangping.
B: Boss, I'm tired and I just want to tangping, so f*ck the work.
A: My god, the house price keeps rocketing up, when can I afford an apartment of my own?
B: With your current salary, maybe 100 years later you can get one.
A: Aren't you worried about that?
B: Nuh-uh, I know I can't afford it, so f*ck it, I'm gonna tangping.
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tangping
A romanisation of the Chinese expression 躺平 /tǎngpíng/, pronounced as /taang-ping/. It means, literally, 'to lie flat' (tǎng=to lie down/to be recumbent; píng=flat/level).
Tangping is the recumbent position that symbolises inaction and lethargy by choice (evoking the image of an idler lying comatose on their back and refusing to get up for anything or anyone), not out of pure laziness (as is symptomatic of a couch potato), but in professed resignation to, and protest of, the structural injustices of prevailing social norms
that perpetuate the tail-chasing rat race and exacerbate the mismatch between efforts and rewards or the perceived paradox that hard work is penalised with dwindling returns (aka 内卷 nèijuǎn, or involution).
Tangping is the recumbent position that symbolises inaction and lethargy by choice (evoking the image of an idler lying comatose on their back and refusing to get up for anything or anyone), not out of pure laziness (as is symptomatic of a couch potato), but in professed resignation to, and protest of, the structural injustices of prevailing social norms
that perpetuate the tail-chasing rat race and exacerbate the mismatch between efforts and rewards or the perceived paradox that hard work is penalised with dwindling returns (aka 内卷 nèijuǎn, or involution).
Inside a pub at 3 pm on a weekday...
- OMG, fancy seeing you here at this hour, Dominic. What's up?
- Oh, hi, Theresa, I rage-quit my job yesterday after an ugly row with my boss for the umpteenth time. I was so fed up with that dickhead!
- I'm so sorry to hear that. What are you going to do now?
- You know what? I've had enough. I've been working my arse off and look where it's got me. I'm still living like a pauper in a rented hovel... no, worse than that: a pauper has no debt but I do. F**k it! I'll just kick back, put my feet up, let my hair down, chill out... and give the finger to the world.
- You mean 'tangping'?
- Temping? No way, I'll be damned if you see me doing another day's work, not even temping...
- No, I mean 'taang-ping', not temping.
- I don't know what that means.
- You do now.
- OMG, fancy seeing you here at this hour, Dominic. What's up?
- Oh, hi, Theresa, I rage-quit my job yesterday after an ugly row with my boss for the umpteenth time. I was so fed up with that dickhead!
- I'm so sorry to hear that. What are you going to do now?
- You know what? I've had enough. I've been working my arse off and look where it's got me. I'm still living like a pauper in a rented hovel... no, worse than that: a pauper has no debt but I do. F**k it! I'll just kick back, put my feet up, let my hair down, chill out... and give the finger to the world.
- You mean 'tangping'?
- Temping? No way, I'll be damned if you see me doing another day's work, not even temping...
- No, I mean 'taang-ping', not temping.
- I don't know what that means.
- You do now.
ThanaPhong
A Phong or Thanaphong is a person that likes to gather large groups in a so callaed "hangout". Hangouts are rather quite unsucsessfull. He tries to lure people to his hangouts by tempting them with promesses of "ledlampor" and "alcohol".
ThanaPhong by BigMamaInThaHouse April 13, 2022
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