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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like a really shitty place to visit

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

3rd you need a connection flight

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 3 points 1 week 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"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Google “Dubai porta potty”

You can't make me do that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What not to do in Qatar:
-come

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Sounds kind homoish to me though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Don’t count out the DIY crowd

[–] kcop 90 points 1 week ago

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

[–] CptEnder 73 points 1 week 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 31 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] thesporkeffect 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Rayspekt 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week 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).  
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Thats because the organizers take bribes from the petrol state

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago

Things you can do: slavery

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

No dating? How do they reproduce?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Glorified rape

[–] Otakulad 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Two words, arranged marriage.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

One word, rape.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Have you seen their population diagram? They import.

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

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds easier to list what you can do there.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Tier1BuildABear 23 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Etterra 23 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 14 points 1 week ago

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

[–] JimVanDeventer 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was a drunk gay in Qatar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That seems dangerous. Why did you do it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Remember to not behave like you're gay kids!

[–] Reddfugee42 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Reddfugee42 2 points 1 week ago

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