• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      695 months ago

      Realistically there are two reasons you’re going there, one is because you have a business obligation or potential contract which incentivizes going there, and two is because you got conned by tourist bait ads that try to hush hush all this stuff because it drives people away.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          35 months ago

          Fourth is you’re an influencer and are getting paid to let them shit in your mouth.

          Yes, this is a thing that happens. Google “Dubai porta potty”

  • @kcop
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    905 months ago

    Addendum – What not to do: “Visit Qatar.”

  • @CptEnder
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    735 months ago

    My gay buddy wants to go to Dubai I’m like bruh they don’t drink, arrest gays, and it’s a fucking cardboard movie set city. It’s omega lame af.

    Just go to Vietnam or Thailand instead. Great food, cheap af, and they party.

    • pewter
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      315 months ago

      People play too many games with their lives. If a government is telling me not to go to their country, I interpret that as a threat.

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        35 months ago

        I mean it is in every way a threat. There’s a silent “or else” at the end.

    • @thesporkeffect
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      115 months ago

      Thailand: don’t say anything at all about the monarchy

  • @[email protected]
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    635 months ago

    Alternatively you can also avoid going to countries with no respect for human rights. Act in a way that if everyone else did too it would have an actual impact on the world. Be the change.

    • Fugtig Fisk
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      115 months ago

      They seem to get all the major sports championships.

      2004 Asian Men's Handball Championship - hosted in Qatar.  
      2004 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships - hosted in Qatar.  
      2005 West Asian Games - hosted in Qatar.  
      1998 Men's World Open Squash Championship.   
      2002 Women's World Open Squash Championship.  
      2004 Men's World Open Squash Championship.  
      FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.  
      Qatar Grand Prix (Formula 1).  
      IAAF World Athletics Championships.  
      AFC Asian Cup.  
      Qatar motogp.  
      WTA Qatar Open (tennis).  
      
    • KingJalopy
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      215 months ago

      If you’re a man, anything. If you’re a woman refer to the guide.

      • @[email protected]
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        265 months ago

        I feel like homosexuality and making fun of religion might get you into hot water regardless of gender.

        • @[email protected]
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          35 months ago

          Everything in the image will probably get you in trouble regardless of gender except maybe inmodesty

  • @Etterra
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    235 months ago

    What to do: never go to the middle east without an armored battalion backing you up.

  • @[email protected]
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    185 months ago

    I’m not inheritly against different cultures wanting to maintain their values, but I definitely wish people could freely enter and leave their culture.

    In the case of Qatar, I can imagine not many women would be interested in staying if it was super easy to switch cultures, but at the same time cultures around the world are beautiful, even if different, and it’s a shame that they can’t be preserved.

    • KingJalopy
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      Cultures evolve like anything else. Even language is constantly evolving. Preserving cultures is for museums, not for a growing society. I think that’s part of the reason we are in such a shitty place everywhere. 2024 and there’s still racist homophobic idiots everywhere trying to preserve the “good ol days”

  • @ExtraMedicated
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    145 months ago

    Top of my list of things to not do is visit Qatar.