Vacationers warned not to buy marijuana cookies in Thailand

Yeah, it being 2022 means most educated and intelligent people have learned not to make sweeping ethnic generalizations and to orientalize people.

Hello. North Korea is extremely weird. Everybody knows that. Wake up.

At least they have tacky gulag chic. South Korea has the worst beer on the planet and pop culture centered on disposable groups of slaves performing annoying music composed by creepy old men.

North Korea needs some synth Juchewave techno.

North Korea needs some synth Juchewave techno.

that post was bait, to lure you from your cave. you've avoided praising the superiority of korean beer and k-pop this time, Tino...   but the fish always finds the lure.

that post was bait, to lure you from your cave. you've avoided praising the superiority of korean beer and k-pop this time, Tino...   but the fish always finds the lure.

I bet he's pissed off he wasn't a member of  'the hateful eight '!

Hello. North Korea is extremely weird. Everybody knows that. Wake up.

Yes. Most countries ruled by authoritarians with cults of personality are.

Ever heard of Turkmenistan? Probably not.

Yes. Most countries ruled by authoritarians with cults of personality are.

Ever heard of Turkmenistan? Probably not.

The one where the leader renamed January for himself, outlawed ballet, and decreed that his face be printed on the bottol of yoghurt cups?  No, never heard of it.

The one where the leader renamed January for himself, outlawed ballet, and decreed that his face be printed on the bottol of yoghurt cups?  No, never heard of it.

What? That's impossible. The only people weird and strange enough to allow stuff like that to happen are Koreans, well at least according to renowned scholar SPQR.

What? That's impossible. The only people weird and strange enough to allow stuff like that to happen are Koreans, well at least according to renowned scholar SPQR.

Hello, Turkmankistan is like Club Med compared to North Korea. Wake up.

Eating "samgyeopsal" with a glass of soju in while traveling Thailand can bring the peculiar joy of having popular Korean barbeque in an exotic environment.

Still, Korean tourists are advised to be cautious, as the aforementioned Korean meal may be served with marijuana, which is forbidden in Korea, according to the nation's customs agency.

Yep, that's what I do. When I get to Thailand I go straight for a Korean restaurant
and eat pork and soju............... .........wtf.

So, as this article says, don't buy cookies. So I guess buying several different
strains at a dispensary and smoking in your room is OK.

This article is so Korean it makes me laugh.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2022/08/488_334276.html

On topic, while this article certainly is ridiculous...would it be anymore ridiculous than someone writing an article about immediately seeking out narcotics and prostitutes upon landing  (or doing said things)?

"I'm in a new country. I need to get high."- Wow. Big upgrade.

That all being said, if it's being packaged in samgyeopsal and soju, that strongly suggests the market for that is deliberate and that basically all that article did was be an advertisement to Korean tourists that Thailand has pot-laced soju to enjoy.

Hello, Turkmankistan is like Club Med compared to North Korea. Wake up.

Dude, we've had crazier or just as crazy "strange rules"/Cult of Personality in Turkmenistan or Libya or Romania or China or Togo.
We've had far more militaristic regimes in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
We've had regimes with strict rules of behavior and conduct, particularly in the Middle East
We've seen various dictators attempt to keep it in the family. As to the actual workings of the DPRK regime, we can't be very sure where the real levers of power lie, especially given Kim's various convalescences over the years.

I know you're desperate to paint Koreans as some sort of exceptional bizarre other outside of humanity, but let it go. All humans from all places around the world can be brainwashed, support families in power (U.S. and Canada have recently done it) and come up with bizarre social rules (which is basically what people in the West spend half their time yelling at each other on twitter over) and spend unhealthy amounts of time obsessing over the famous.

Maybe instead of focusing so much on how "they" are so different from "us", why don't you try focusing on what makes us all similar?

Dude, we've had crazier or just as crazy "strange rules"/Cult of Personality in Turkmenistan or Libya or Romania or China or Togo.
We've had far more militaristic regimes in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
We've had regimes with strict rules of behavior and conduct, particularly in the Middle East
We've seen various dictators attempt to keep it in the family. As to the actual workings of the DPRK regime, we can't be very sure where the real levers of power lie, especially given Kim's various convalescences over the years.

I know you're desperate to paint Koreans as some sort of exceptional bizarre other outside of humanity, but let it go. All humans from all places around the world can be brainwashed, support families in power (U.S. and Canada have recently done it) and come up with bizarre social rules (which is basically what people in the West spend half their time yelling at each other on twitter over) and spend unhealthy amounts of time obsessing over the famous.

Maybe instead of focusing so much on how "they" are so different from "us", why don't you try focusing on what makes us all similar?

Nope. Not same. They don't even crap the same. My pastor said all pipes
and toilets are broken there, so people crap out windows. Wake up.

My pastor said all

sounds like a reputable source

Maybe instead of focusing so much on how "they" are so different from "us", why don't you try focusing on what makes us all similar?

says the guy who calls people morons and idiots when they have a different opinion to him.

sounds like a reputable source

Question- Why are you so desperately trying to assert that Koreans are some group of people completely outside all the rest of humanity?

says the guy who calls people morons and idiots when they have a different opinion to him.

Not so, I lay out the reasons the thinking is moronic/idiotic and then assert it.

It's also almost always not about opinion but drawing incredibly poor conclusions, almost always from incomplete facts, and THEN tying them to incredibly strong opinions.

Not so, I lay out the reasons the thinking is moronic/idiotic and then assert it.

It's also almost always not about opinion but drawing incredibly poor conclusions, almost always from incomplete facts, and THEN tying them to incredibly strong opinions.

No, to someone who just said "so-and-so", you respond with "If you think 'so-and-so', you're an idiot."

Only an idiot would think that's not calling someone an idiot.

Let's stay on topic here people. Crapping out windows is some
serious shit.

Carry an umbrella, folks. S*** is going to fly. 

Shit happens. But if you could get your pigs to eat rather than let fly out the window that would make for some serious old school samgyupsal Jedju style,

Shit happens. But if you could get your pigs to eat rather than let fly out the window that would make for some serious old school samgyupsal Jedju style,

Haha, finally some TGIF, non-serious replies. I can't believe people
were taking me seriously on this........shit.

Haha

(Crapping out the windows...oh, man.)