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Ok, I admit it. I want to see her sex video. You know there's at least one out there, and it has to be good. That mouth was designed for one thing.
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Angelfire and Tripod are still safe. :) #yahoo
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Booth babes (called "showgirls" or "SG" here. No kidding.) is what draws the local crowd to various computer-related trade shows. I've never ever heard any geek talk about any product he sees at any trade show. The trade shows are all about snapping pics of scantily clad SGs. Virtually all Taiwanese male geeks are amateur photographers and own a high-end camera because of this. Albums of SGs are everywhere after big trade shows, and young girls vie to land jobs like these. Girls who work as SGs are really proud of what they do. Having an SG girlfriend is the ultimate dream of all male geeks here.
Random evidence that I googled out with generic search terms: A recent Engadget Chinese edition news item [chinese.engadget.com]
Rough translation:
Check out if this year's IT Month guiding angels are gonna be hot enough!
While IT Month is still a couple months away, preparations are already underway, and of course SGs are the focus of the event. (We aren't gonna ignore this!) While the audience's attention is generally on the vendors' SGs, most people don't know that the event has official "guiding angel" SGs, too!
Guiding angels are primarily sweet, healthy, "refreshing" girls. (Translator's note: it's kinda hard to translate this. It's purported to mean that these are not aggressive, dangerous sexpots. Just passive sexpots who will seem to be unable to fend themselves against your manly advances.) They will tell you about the trends in tech products, teach you how to use them, play Solitaire with you on a multi-touch screen (there won't be a couch for you two to do it on though. Dream on.) It's sooooo educational!!
(What follows is a call to readers to cast votes in the official guiding angels competition. It's boring, so I'll skip on translating the rest.)
At my boyfriend's company, at their annual end-of-year employee feasts, female employees clamor to don skimpy outfits to be voted as the hottest babes of the year and the winners offer kisses to their aging male execs. (No counterpart activity for men, of course.) Hiring ultra attractive receptionists is viewed as part of the essential employee benefit package and companies compete on this front. I've had friends who decide whether to change job on how hot a given company's receptionists are. While this doesn't happen at every company, companies that have real cash and need to compete for talent generally do this.
HOWEVER, hack days usually are really all about the craft and are devoid of SGs. Taiwanese hackers go to trade shows to ogle on hot girls and hack days to meet peers. What Yahoo Taiwan did really is outside the norm. It only means that Yahoo Taiwan is naive enough about what people outside Taiwan think of such things, not that they are more sexist than average. #yahoo
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