cynicalsecurity :cm_2: on Nostr: There seems to be a lot of chatter about "booth babes", I imagine some US conference ...
There seems to be a lot of chatter about "booth babes", I imagine some US conference has happened with the usual "display of meat" to entice the buyers.
It dawned on me a few decades ago that when I went to the computer trade show in Milan (aka "SMAU", don't ask…) as a child, and then as a geeky teenager, the reason the ladies at the booths wanted to speak to me was that I was perfectly harmless¹ and gave them an excuse not to interact with the Italian males swarming around them…
Pretty sad realisation, really.
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¹ yes, I was perfectly harmless even as a geeky teenager and thought it wonderful that they wanted to know about my school and let me play the video games with them (with an infinite amount of coins!)
It dawned on me a few decades ago that when I went to the computer trade show in Milan (aka "SMAU", don't ask…) as a child, and then as a geeky teenager, the reason the ladies at the booths wanted to speak to me was that I was perfectly harmless¹ and gave them an excuse not to interact with the Italian males swarming around them…
Pretty sad realisation, really.
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¹ yes, I was perfectly harmless even as a geeky teenager and thought it wonderful that they wanted to know about my school and let me play the video games with them (with an infinite amount of coins!)