Sex and Business in China

[Jacob]

Interesting article: http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/bro-code (contains a few NSFW pictures).

I had been doing the rounds of provincial cities as my boss' token foreigner for the whole summer, though, pitching training courses to the dim children of the rich so that they could study at foreign universities, and the routine of hard drinking followed by a group excursion to a brothel was becoming a familiar one. My status as a foreigner was enough to excuse me from the sex itself after only a light barrage of gay jokes from the others, but not from the social obligations around it.

[Josquius]

Increasingly rare Japanese business outings always lead to large snacks (only the big wigs go to the true hostess clubs).
Seems to be the same thing only with sex being far more acknowledged and common

[Admiral Yi]

Increasingly rare Japanese business outings always lead to large snacks (only the big wigs go to the truth hostess clubs).
Seems to be the same thing only with sex being far more acknowledged and common

[jimmy olsen]

Increasingly rare Japanese business outings always lead to large snacks (only the big wigs go to the true hostess clubs).

What? 

[Jacob]

Increasingly rare Japanese business outings always lead to large snacks (only the big wigs go to the true hostess clubs).

What? 

Don't you know what "snacks" are? Or are you confused about the concept of "large"?

Do you live under a fucking rock?

[jimmy olsen]

I thought he was using another bizarre northern British slang/euphemism.

[Valmy]

Euphemism for extra large bags of Doritos.

[Tonitrus]

Increasingly rare Japanese business outings always lead to large snacks (only the big wigs go to the true hostess clubs).

What? 

Don't you know what "snacks" are? Or are you confused about the concept of "large"?

Do you live under a fucking rock?

[Josquius]

I thought he was using another bizarre northern British slang/euphemism.

Err...no. Snacks are the most common sort of drinking place in Japan. Pay a large cover charge and a (supposedly) attractive girl keeps you company

[jimmy olsen]

I thought he was using another bizarre northern British slang/euphemism.

Err...no. Snacks are the most common sort of drinking place in Japan. Pay a large cover charge and a (supposedly) attractive girl keeps you company

Okay, then you were using some bizarre Japanese slang. The end result is the same, the audience doesn't know what the hell you're talking about.

[Tonitrus]

Damn.  Tim is back in Amerika for a few days and he is all feisty and shit.

[garbon]

And over something stupid.

[Josquius]

Okay, then you were using some bizarre Japanese slang. The end result is the same, the audience doesn't know what the hell you're talking about.

It's not bizarre Japanese slang. Many of the signs for such places outright say 'snack', articles written about them call them snacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_and_hostess_clubs#Snack_bars

[derspiess]

In Tim's defense, "large snacks" is not something you hear a lot, as it's sort of a contradiction in terms.  And it does sound like a fun euphemism for something.

[Jacob]

In Tim's defense, "large snacks" is not something you hear a lot, as it's sort of a contradiction in terms.  And it does sound like a fun euphemism for something.

Well apparently it's a type of hostess bar.