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CES 2005 Day 1 - Walking The Show Floor

Posted by timothy on from the vicarious-ogling dept.

TheTechLounge writes "Our second day in Vegas for CES, and our first day on the actual show floor was pretty much what I expected: mountains of new gadgets, people in suits staring at your name tag and scantily clad models trying not to get angry as they are repeatedly photographed. We started our excursion on opening day in the upper levels of the South Hall. Big name companies like ATI, nVidia, AMD, Logitech, and HP were showcasing anything and everything they could fit into their floor space."

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  1. Re:Hmm. by jmcmunn · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Seriously, did they think they were hired for their hard work and moral values? Ummm...no I think they were probably told outright that they would be eye candy for the masses of geeks there wandering around. And is that so bad? If you've got the assets, you'd be a fool not to use them right? Personally, I don't think a woman/man is degraded by modeling her/his body professionally.

    Now maybe the moral problem comes in when you get paid by people stuffing dollar bills down your underwear...but who am I to decide what peoples' morals are? :-)

  2. Models are not promotions people by Magickcat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article poster is confusing "models" with "promotions" people.

    A model walks on a catwalk or is seen in a fashion magazine, wheras a "promotions person" wears does the type of job you're mentioning. Models have a fashion type of look and this is normally their professional career while it lasts, wheras promotions people are expected to be a sort of good looking sales person and can look any sort of look. Generally people who can't get into fashion end up doing depressing and explotitive jobs like promotion work. A model wouldn't be seen dead doing this type of work.

    Additionally, if they were modelling clothes, they wouldn't mind being photographed. The fact is however that promotions girls are just tits and ass.

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    1. Re:Models are not promotions people by Sloppy · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Additionally, if they were modelling clothes, they wouldn't mind being photographed. The fact is however that promotions girls are just tits and ass.
      Saw a job advert for meat, decided to apply for the job as meat, got hired as meat, worked as meat .. then get angry when treated like meat. Go figure.
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  3. Re:Hmm. by SandSpider · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Makes me embarrased for my gender...

    That's just because you haven't seen any women with the male booth babes, er, hunks. Whatever. Then you could be embarrassed for all of humanity, or your country, or whatever you prefer.

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