"People don't cry until they've seen their coffin; people don't turn back until they've hit the southern wall."
“不见棺材不落泪,不撞南墙不回头”
(Source unknown; if anyone knows where this saying came from please let me know)
Note: the "southern wall" refers to yingbi/影壁 or zhaobi/照壁, which is a wall inside the front door of a traditional courtyard residence (ex: siheyuan) meant to block the inside of the residence from outside view. The wall may be highly decorated if the owner of the residence is wealthy or of high status. Because traditional residences often "sit in the north and face the south" (坐北朝南) due to fengshui considerations, meaning the front door opens to the south, this wall is also in the south, and if one tries to walk south out of the residence, if they just go straight forward they will hit the wall, hence this phrase.
Overall this phrase is used to describe people who do not heed advice, cautions, or warnings. Usually said in exasperation when one's advice is ignored.
Edit: this phrase is also used specifically in the case of criminals to mean "criminals won't feel remorse or change for the better until they've seen the (often legal) consequences of their actions".
A bread is one of the most vulnerable animals on earth of all time. It can die in a number of different ways, which include being smashed, being old, being rottened, being crumpled up, getting too hot, having water put on it, and having water not on it but being in the air a lot (the water (mist)). The bread’s favorite way to die is being eaten, but the world is a complicated place, and it does not care for what the bread wants, and so it dies in a variety of ways which are not the preference of the bread.
Humans are considered the bread’s natural predator, and also, are the bread’s mommy (make/give birth to the bread). Humans are a large species of ant or plant or ele phant with two grasping appendages which they use to give birth to the bread. They also have one hole which eats the bread, and some other holes, which the bread is not allowed near, generally.
Some bread can go in the fridge. Some bread has fruit in it. Scientists don’t know why, as putting fruit in the bread is considered yucky, and scientists have difficulty imagining an organism that likes yucky things.
There is the anteater, which is an organism that likes yucky things, but scientists do not need to imagine it, because it is real.