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In news that has been featured in Britain's proudest, most dignified and noblest newspaper, The Sun, two Shanghai "businessmen" are offering their services as human punch-bags to stressed-out office workers (although presumably anyone can hire them if they so wish).
Charging 120 RMB for one minute of physical abuse and 100 RMB for 10 minutes of verbal abuse, they have already had five customers, of which, "[t]wo yelled insults, one chose a slap and two just wanted to talk".
We heard about this sometime ago, with Japanese university students offering the same services to office workers, but we didn't think it would catch on in China ... it seems that everyone here is taking out their stress during most moments of the day anyway ...
Pic of Homer stress toy from Amazon.
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do they sell the homer toys in Shanghai? Methinks that those or something similar might sell well, if only because everyone likes to clutter their house with useless trinkets that you could occassionally use as punching bag.
"useless trinkets that you could occassionally use as punching bag."
I think they do that in Japan as well. But they call them "wives". Kidding.