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[–] Forester@yiffit.net 148 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a really shitty place to visit

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 71 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

3rd you need a connection flight

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Google “Dubai porta potty”

You can't make me do that.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 9 points 5 months ago

Third is you're an influencer and don't want to pay taxes.

[–] Liome@pawb.social 106 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What not to do in Qatar:
-come

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think that's covered in "dating" unless you want to do it by yourself.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

Sounds kind homoish to me though

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Don’t count out the DIY crowd

[–] kcop@lemmy.world 90 points 5 months ago

Addendum -- What not to do: "Visit Qatar."

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Kolrami@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I mean it is in every way a threat. There's a silent "or else" at the end.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Thats a weird-ass Yakuza NPC if I ever saw one.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 67 points 5 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.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 53 points 5 months ago

Things you can do: slavery

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why would anyone want to visit this shit ass petrol state?

[–] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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).  
[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 months ago

Thats because the organizers take bribes from the petrol state

[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 45 points 5 months ago

what a sad boring place. don't go and spend your money somewhere else.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

No dating? How do they reproduce?

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 41 points 5 months ago

Glorified rape

[–] Otakulad@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Two words, arranged marriage.

[–] Randomdude@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago

One word, rape.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

Have you seen their population diagram? They import.

(Yes, I know, it's more complex than that.)

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Your parents match you, an Imam marries you, then the Emir impregnates the wife.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago

I wonder if it's meant to contrast to a "chaste courtship" sort of thing. Just a wild guess, though.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I think I'd break 6-7 of these just by going to the beach.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 27 points 5 months ago

Damn

Straight to jail.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 24 points 5 months ago

Cool, an intolerant place i wont ever go.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

This place sounds boring as fuck. What a bunch of squares.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

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

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was a drunk gay in Qatar.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

That seems dangerous. Why did you do it?

Remember to not behave like you're gay kids!

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You have to respect people. You don't have to respect ideas.

Passively expressing disinterest in another's ideas is part of the very nature of humanity, and is absolutely not disrespect.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

The coolest of cool guides.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

The easiest thing not to do is to not be in Qatar. At all. Ever.

[–] NahMarcas@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It come from the troll man in reddit, dont be idiots please

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Elaborate on which part or parts is actually completely safe to do in Qatar.