# Man commits suicide after girlfriend insists on more shopping **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940 "2013-12-10T01:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/21 "2013-12-10T05:12:16Z")
Glad to see the body was removed fairly quickly. I mean, honestly, who wants to look at that at Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/22 "2013-12-10T05:18:11Z")
> [@LinusK](#): > > He did the right thing. What is it with women and shoes, anyway? Its retail therapy, covers almost the entire gender\* and avoids body confidence issues that can be connected with every other aspect of fashion. Then there is shoepidity, wearing uncomfortable shoes simply cause they look good. \*some women don’t like their feet for some reason. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/23 "2013-12-10T07:15:59Z")
> [@LinusK](#): > > He did the right thing. What is it with women and shoes, anyway? I’m not sure. I only know one woman and she just went that way shouting “The Shoesah!” ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/24 "2013-12-10T07:26:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > A cable news show repeating a Nigerian wire story about an event that supposedly took place in China. Right. > > Anyone know if Kanye West has commented his views yet? Agreed. The odds of this story being true are miniscule. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/25 "2013-12-10T09:00:40Z")
Anyone read Chinese? Here are apparently the Chinese sources: [http://opinion.hexun.com/2013-12-09/160414722.html](http://opinion.hexun.com/2013-12-09/160414722.html) [http://photos.caijing.com.cn/2013-12-09/113667225\_1.html#pic\_bt](http://photos.caijing.com.cn/2013-12-09/113667225_1.html#pic_bt) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/26 "2013-12-10T18:13:10Z")
It seems a bit of an overreaction. If it is true, I wonder if he was so confused he forgot what floor they were on and thought he’d survive or just break a leg and not have to shop with her anymore. Ironically, now she does need new shoes for the funeral. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/27 "2013-12-10T18:17:39Z")
> [@Julius\_Henry](#): > > I’m not the only one who just now learned that they celebrate Christmas in China, am I? Apparently so, although they don’t always get the nuances. A friend of mine swears he was in a shopping mall in China where they had a Santa… nailed to a cross. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/28 "2013-12-10T18:24:13Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > A friend of mine swears he was in a shopping mall in China where they had a Santa… nailed to a cross. [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/cross.asp). ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/29 "2013-12-10T18:25:37Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s synonymous with Christmas? Kentucky Fried Chicken! > [@](#): > > Santa… nailed to a cross Christmas, you’re doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/30 "2013-12-10T18:27:33Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/cross.asp). Hmm. Right. I shall be having words with him. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/31 "2013-12-11T01:06:39Z")
Wile E: > [@](#): > > Ironically, now she does need new shoes for the funeral. Close the thread, we have a winner. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/32 "2013-12-11T05:23:55Z")
Christmas in China is \*not \*big And it is recent. 30 years ago it was \*completely \*non existent. 20 years ago in Shanghai Christmas was pretty hard to find. 10 years ago getting an excused absence for a 3 year old from preschool in Shanghai, the most “Western” of Chinese cities, because it was Christmas was really pushing the envelope. It’s gotten a bit bigger more recently and probably just because all that xmas crap is made in China and then leftovers sold cheaply. And yes, to the extent it is “celebrated”, its a secular holiday with a few Christian worshippers thrown into the mix. As in eat and get drunk and maybe give out a present for fun. When I lived in Japan in the early 90’s, Christmas eve was for one thing for the 20 something crowd - SEX. Some movie star came out saying the Christmas eve was about romance maybe in the 80’s and it turned into a bonk fest. Not that that is a bad thing, mind you. I don’t know if this tradition still holds. Have a “Marui Christmas” was a great tag line one year I lived in Japan in the 90’s. Marui was one of the big department stores. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/33 "2013-12-11T06:02:03Z")
I’m reminded of the ending of A Christmas Story where the staff of the Chinese restaurant is singing Xmas carols to Ralphie’s family. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940/34 "2013-12-11T14:49:30Z")
Christmas in Japan is much bigger than in Taiwan. **China Guy** , you caught the biggest period for the Christmas is for romance period. There were a zillion tv shows all about the question if the couple could overcome all of their problems and remain a couple until Christmas Eve. You would hear of guys spending a couple of grand on an other-the-top present, dinner at a fancy restaurant and a night at Hilton. Families eat what they call a Christmas cake on Christmas The 25th isn’t special at all. Back several decades ago, when women were getting married much earlier than now, a woman not married by the age of 25 was jokingly called a “Christmas cake.” That is, a leftover no one wants. Fortunately that has stopped. In contrast, there are very few Christmas decorations here in the small Taiwan town I live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-commits-suicide-after-girlfriend-insists-on-more-shopping/675940.md?page=1)