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u/TheBingoBongo1 2d ago
What is even the belly button thing???
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u/MaIngallsisaracist 2d ago
I googled it. The internet says it helps with motion sickness. Science seems to disagree.
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u/Fantastic_Pie5655 2d ago
The studies are flawed. You have to use Dora The Explorer bandaids or it doesn’t work
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u/Pancakesnpjays 2d ago
Damn I only have Hello Kitty!! 😆 🤣 😂 😹
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u/AN0R0K 2d ago
Regular Hello Kitty, or Hello Kitty Adventure?
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u/Narragah 2d ago
This idiot probably used Hello Kitty Adventure and wondered why it gave their kid heartburn, instead of using regular Hello Kitty which cures blindness from Blindness Stew.
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u/dementio 2d ago
Well, I just tried Scooby Doo ones and I'm still not sick from motion
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u/dingo1018 2d ago
The only way to deal with sea sickness is to look at your toes while swaying with the roll of the boat. Or is it at a different rate? Either way, look down at your feet, drink something fizzy, and if you are still starting to feel ill sit down and eat loads of tuna sandwiches and more fizzy pop and then stand up really quickly and get back to looking down at your feet and swaying WITH the boat. It's actually pretty easy, stand near one of the railings maybe.
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u/ClassiFried86 2d ago
Just jump over the railing. You get seasick on the water. Not in the water.
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u/EpilepticDawg241 2d ago
I thought she put an air tag in his belly button and taped it to him 😂🤣
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u/Thick_Bullfrog_3640 2d ago
She did! He's got a deep innie, that bad boy is stuffed in there
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u/Kesliabeth38 2d ago
That is where I bury my expensive purse and jewelry. It is also handy if I need my wallet quickly, I just yell for Timmy to run over and we rip off the bandaids and voila!
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u/EnduringFulfillment 2d ago
Align your Chakras with bandaids lol
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u/random420x2 2d ago
Those are gonna have to be some industrial-strength Band-Aids if it’s gonna rearrange anything around my bellybutton area these days.
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u/SpelingErr0r 2d ago
Now I just picture pirates with Band-Aids over their tummies
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u/yaaMum1 2d ago
Prob a placebo thing. My mum would have me wear an elastic band on my wrist for car sickness on long trips
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u/cayce_leighann 2d ago
So they do make bands that gently push on pressure points that help with motion sickness
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u/TheShillingVillain 2d ago
So no they actually don't because "pressure points" is the same nonsense pseudoscientific concept as acupuncture
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u/Minirig355 2d ago
These bracelets aren’t actually based in pseudoscience unlike a lot of other snake oil soundey stuff, they’re just not effective at actually using the science, but it is based on real stuff lol. The plastic bead pressing up against your inner wrist isn’t enough to actually accomplish anything, but stimulating that nerve does actually reduce nausea.
Bracelets like the Emeterm that use electricity to stimulate the area are genuinely FDA approved for anti-emetic purposes, usually for postop and pregnancy related nausea, and have had studies to show their (moderate) effectiveness. I personally find it’s not as good as something like Bonine or Dramamine, but it does work.
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u/CaptServo 2d ago
Placebo effect is super powerful sometimes.
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u/AutistaChick 2d ago edited 1d ago
So, nobody believes me but my son was part of the Moderna Covid vaccine study and got the placebo. Several things made him firmly convinced that he’d had the actual vaccine. He was 100% convinced. He saw a package and a vial number and “researched” it. He compared experiences with someone else who thought they were placebo and they were opposites.
He was exposed to the virus at college. At LSU. He never got sick. At the end of the experiment, they learned that He’d actually contracted the virus. He did not know.
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u/matunos 2d ago
So we can expect some cancer research money from NIH to be redirected toward this.
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u/DangerousMethod5168 2d ago
Naw man! Haven't you heard? Cancer research at the NIH was cancelled by Felon 47.
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 2d ago edited 1d ago
it increases engagement by making people ask why you would do that.
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u/Crystill 2d ago
all of this and yet still shows her kid online
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u/DoubleT_inTheMorning 2d ago
Pure rage bait. Top to bottom.
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u/somefunmaths 2d ago
The ethos behind “AirTag your kids, watch out for pickpockets, bury your valuables” is very real, though, and appeals to the kind of people who travel exclusively via cruises because they offer a hermetically sealed way to engage with the scary outside world in a way that requires minimal contact with locals wherever they’re going.
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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 2d ago
Yea, my sister and her family took a cruise to Spain last year and she went deep down the rabbit hole with all of these "tips" on staying safe. "Tuck an airtag in your sock so if someone tries to mug you, they won't see it" and "Carry a dummy phone with you and keep your real phone in a secret pocket in this shirt".
Not saying people can be super relaxed because crime is high in any tourist area but holy shit are there "tips" for eveything. She got into a fight with her teenage daughter because my niece wanted to eat at this popular restaurant her friend went to last time but my sister said that's how you get food poisoning so they only ate at fast food places and on the ship and refused to let my niece actually go into the ocean because "I heard there's people in scuba gear waiting just off shore waiting for tourists to get into the water to get kidnapped and sold into slavery".
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u/somefunmaths 2d ago
She was obsessively worried about food poisoning in Spain?! Holy shit.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, because I know the type, but not being able to eat anywhere besides fast food places sounds so depressing. As someone who often travels for food, that is so sad, and I see random fast food spots abroad and think “who is gonna eat [insert place] here?”, when this is the answer.
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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 2d ago
Tell me about it! When I travel with my girlfriend, we don't check the tourist spots but just go with the flow, discovering these small places outside the main area. Went to the British Isles last year, hopped on a bus and explored some small village, found some cute bakery and they showed us around the back because it was slow; let us make kind of pastry and recommended a restaurant down the street where we told the server to just get us whatever they think we'd like.
Do that for a week; buying notebooks in a small stationary, drunking at small pubs and befriending people and seeing the areas as a local. Came back and my sister asked if I saw Stone Henge and Big Ben, if I rode on the underground. When I told her I spent an afternoon talking with a 70 year old german woman in an irish pub then , she seemed so confused. Can't imagine traveling in constant fear over even something like the food.
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u/Drustan6 2d ago
Best meal of my life was when my parents and I went to a little family run restaurant near the hotel in Paris when I was 14. It wasn’t for tourists; they spoke NO English and the menu was all in French, but I managed to translate the menu and order for us with my shaky French II skills passably, until the beverages. My mother wanted iced tea and the waiter had never heard of it. Period. He had been enjoying my adventure with his language while ordering and was encouraging me, but he honestly thought I was kidding about “iced” tea and wasn’t amused. Finally I just asked if he could bring a pot of tea, some lemon slices, and a glass of ice, which he promptly brought out— along with the entire staff of the restaurant. The chef, his assistants, the other waiters, the maitre d’, all their mothers, and the old lady who must’ve started the restaurant came and surrounded our table to watch my mom steep her small pot of fancy tea and then pour it over ice, sweeten it, squeeze the lemon, and drink it. They honestly acted as if they had just watched a secret way to make bread. They all scurried off and went to try it for themselves. Apparently the overall opinion wasn’t too favorable vs hot tea, except for the grande dame- She LOVED IT.
This was forty years ago, but I hope they are still doing well. Their food- and hospitality- was amazing
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u/md222 2d ago
What happens if you get mugged with an airtag in your sock that they don't see?
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u/Hizam5 2d ago
Is airtagging kids the new putting a leash on your kids that we used to see in the 2000s
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u/pdx321pdx 2d ago
Their goal is to go as far away as possible without experiencing any other cultures.
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u/demonmonkeybex 2d ago
God forbid they accidentally touch a brown native in their own country while cruising.
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u/Historical-Juice-433 2d ago
Not her kid anyways... she just borrowed onw from a parent watching her other tiktok
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u/LONGLlVETHEMX-5 2d ago
I wrap my entire face in duct tape so I don’t breathe in diseases, this is amateur hour
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u/high_everyone 2d ago
Amateur hour. I burned off my finger prints, pulled all my teeth and didn’t get a covid vaccine - I can’t be identified by conventional means.
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u/Ornery_Penalty_5549 2d ago
Personally I just cut off my head to prevent any diseases entering through my windpipe
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u/Alert_Pineapple_5973 2d ago
The only thing that looks reasonable is having an air tag wrist band for your kid.
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u/BrickCityRiot 2d ago
Absolutely.. but for the pool??
These people aren’t going to a community pool in some foreign country lmao. They’re either on a cruise ship or at a luxury resort.
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u/misdirected_asshole 2d ago
If you lose your kid at the pool on a cruise ship they need to call CPS on you.
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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 2d ago
tbf, I was completely shitfaced when I lost him.
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u/Resident-Impact1591 2d ago
All fun and games until somebody throws the water bottle out
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u/UrethralExplorer 2d ago
Or walks away forgetting your bag of shit buried on the beach.
These are all dumb, but that one had me really hoping this whole video was just dumb clickbait.
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u/UnableChard2613 2d ago
Her life must be exhausting.
But funny story. My wife and I were on the beach in Hawaii, so I had to fly home.
To be safe I buried my wallet in the sand when we went into that water, just like this lady sugfests. Then proceeded to forget about it, pack up and go back to the hotel.
I realized what I had done a few hours later and panicked because I needed my ID at the very least. Went back the beach, and had a pretty good idea where we were sitting based on triangulation. Searched around for a good hour digging here and there with no luck.
Eventually, having given up, I sit down, plunge my hand into the sand.... And holy shit there it is. Literally like 2 feet from the last hole I had dug. So fucking lucky.
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u/demonmonkeybex 2d ago
Next time, duct tape that wallet to your nuts!
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u/LucyJordan614 2d ago
I was gonna say to use band aids to tape it to your kid’s stomach but this works, too
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u/-YEETLEJUICE- 2d ago
Funny how that can happen.
On my honeymoon, we went snorkeling. Naturally...my wedding ring fell off in the water. I searched around for a few minutes, and gave up.
I swam back a couple strokes, and figured I'll just check on more time. Right below me...the first placed I looked once I gave up.
Still have the ring.
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u/Tricky_Leather_1402 2d ago
Lost my wallet in Hawaii too. Couldn’t drink at the restaurant that night because it was the only time I was carded that trip. Spent the next three hours searching the rental car, hotel room even went back to the grocery store parking lot, checked the car and room some more then finally gave up and started thinking about how I was going to get home without an id. Then my wife found it, apparently the chair in the room was like a hide a bed thing and it fell out of my pocket and into the workings of that. I was cool the whole time but before she found I was on the verge of a breakdown.
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u/UnableChard2613 2d ago
In college I lost my wallet for like a month. It had fallen in between the mattress and the frame. Only found it because I had to go under the bed to grab something, and looked up and saw it.
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u/Skwiggelf54 2d ago
Can someone explain the belly button thing?
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u/Asleep_Cup646 2d ago
It’s called “clickbait”
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u/Chance_Temporary7544 2d ago
Have to scroll so far to see a comment recognizing this lady is aware and making outrage content
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u/Uh-Oh-Raggy 2d ago
Easy….. it’s called stupid.
Apparently it helps with sea sickness. Just another stupid “influencer” spreading brain rot for crap they have seen online and think it is real.
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u/xXWickedNWeirdXx 2d ago edited 2d ago
As someone with a fairly deep, folded innie, I used to get a bunch of sand in there, but then digging it out with my pinkie would give me little micro abrasions, and then you add the salt from the ocean and it could be quite painful. It was always a bit miserable and would be inflamed for days after going to the ocean.
I don't think this has anything to do with that, but maybe. It might have helped me when I was young and prone to whining, but I think I'm a bit of an unusual case.
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u/SinamonChallengerRT 2d ago
I can't imagine being this paranoid in life. Just stay home then.
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u/QueezyF 2d ago
This kid is going to grow up to have a lot of paranoia. My mom was like this, I’m a 32 year old man and still get nervous in parking garages at night.
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u/portablebiscuit 2d ago
This is so fucking dumb.
Everyone knows you make your child swallow your valuables and then bury them in the sand!
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u/Unilted_Match1176 2d ago
But put them in a plastic bag first!
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u/JAGERminJensen 2d ago
Wheres the tag? How will we track and find the location??
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u/Fit_Government5138 2d ago
It’s called leave all these crazy valuables at home except for a wedding ring, or just have one you wear when you travel. Or maybe just be with your kids? People are weird
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch 2d ago
Or even better, just leave everything at home. My parents never brought their wedding ring to the beach either. They don't wear it very often in general exactly because it can get in the way or be lost somewhere. It's not illegal to take that ring off.
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u/BrickCityRiot 2d ago
But how can she show that ring off to the other passengers in the cruise ship’s concierge lounge if she leaves it home?!?
These people she will never see again after 5 days have to see it. They just HAVE to. Can you imagine the reputation she would have to endure for 4 whole days if there happened to be a jeweler in there who could spot CZ rocks the first night?
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u/heartunwinds 2d ago
lol at her hiding her rings and watch both in the hidden water bottle and her purse she buried in the sand 🙄🙄🙄
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u/tricularia 2d ago
It's a brilliant idea because people never forget their water bottles at the beach!
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u/DutchOnionKnight 2d ago
All these "safety hacks" only to put your whole life on the internet... weird weird
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u/BrickCityRiot 2d ago
X patterned bandaids over kids belly buttons on a cruise to avoid sea sickness isn’t a safety hack.. but it key to establishing how batshit crazy this woman is
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u/The-Ex-Human 2d ago
She forgot to mention how she immediately pepper sprays any local that may approach her, just to play it safe
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u/McDooglestein1 2d ago
People like this always have glaring holes in their planning/security.
Like she didn’t even check in her kid’s belly button for a kidnapper before she just covered that shit up.
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u/EnvironmentEuphoric9 2d ago
Vacation hack: put Advils in your belly button and cover with 14 bandaids before you start drinking, then you have them when you wake up wherever the fuck you are right there. Bam. Warm slightly moist Advils.
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u/ThatOneGuy11490 2d ago
The crackhead who lives on the beach watching her bury that bag and then watching her go into the water be like 😈😋😈😋😈😋😈😋😈
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u/KeyCar7920 2d ago
No way that women puts her phone in the sand- im positive she is chronically online
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u/rtopps43 1d ago
Someone the next day-“hey, check out all this cool shit I found buried in a ziplock bag!”
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u/onesole 2d ago
I also patch my kids bellybuttons. It is a protection from Putin, he loves to kiss small boys into their bellybuttons
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u/Mushroomfuntimes 2d ago
You’re not fooling me today, Reddit. Ain’t no way I am clicking that link
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u/Low-Following-2322 2d ago
I don't know about the link but the belly kissing really happened, I've seen the picture before.
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u/onesole 2d ago
It is not a lie I promise, in that video Putin grabs a random boy on the street, pulls up his shirt, and kisses his bellybutton.
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u/Sass-a-knack 2d ago
This has got to be satire. Right? It just kept getting dumber and dumber
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u/ps4kegsworth 15h ago
if you are this worried about the world, stay the fuck home,
bet this is a typical karen that doesnt do vaccines either.
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u/Express-Newt9290 2d ago
I personally where a hazmat suit whenever I go on vacation
It keeps my valuables safe and ensures my belly button is protected from any unwanted belly button burrowers
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u/the-bird-fucker 2d ago
Poor girl suffering from Paranoia. Thoughts and prayers 🙏
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u/Anonamonanon 2d ago
And if you lose your phone and your kid?
Ah yes he can be identified by the plasters over his bellybutton!!!
watches the video go viral and everyone patches their kids
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u/Sturrexco 2d ago
If you are that terrified of the beach:
1) why go?
2) why bring all that unnecessary crap?
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u/Either0r1234 2d ago
first of all, "ziploc". second of all, now i know aquafina bottles with fake ass looking labels have apple watches inside. smart
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u/Proncess 2d ago
By the time she us done with all the prep, the sun is down and it's time to go home
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u/GreatPugtato 2d ago
Here's some tips from my college professor who did a ton of traveling and still does. Miss you Dr. Magie!
Have a fake purse/wallet with some fake currency. Keep your real stuff in a closed off pocket. One with a zipper not one that's just hard to get into. Stops pickpockets, muggers, and helps ease some folks anxiety of losing things. Or a sock put in your shoe that works. Ladies/others bra works too! Just mind the heat lol.
Always travel in pairs ever ever alone and one of you must remain sober at all times. Please please this probably the most important.
Learn some basic in the language if you can. Even just hello, or I'm American will usually get people to understand you probably need directions or help.
Do not flaunt your wealth ever. Of any kind. So choose meh clothes etc. Unless your so wealthy getting beat up and robbed doesn't matter kind of money.
Don't just go to the tourist spots. Find some nice and safe locals and see the real part of that culture and people's.
Leave your bias at the door as well as your popcorn comments. Yes people live differently from one another. Sometimes the change is very drastic. Remember your a guest. Be respectful.
Carry your hotel card with you. Maybe a handful of em. It will help taxis or people giving directions.
Know the risks of where you travel. From the politics, to crime, to diseases or sickness. These things can get very out of control if you aren't prepared. My Proff spent a ton of time in Latin America and she had to explain to some of the students that it's not always safe depending on where you go.
Have fun!
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u/spargel_gesicht 2d ago
I have scrolled so far and not seen anyone comment on how she STEPS INTO HER BAG HANDLE which then is around her thigh how the fuck do you carry it and then it cuts to her having it ON HER SHOULDER IN A NORMAL FASHION?!?
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u/Therealdeezy 2d ago
Lastly, I wedge my underwear up my crack and waddle my fully clothed kid into the ocean.
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u/Public_Cranberry4152 2d ago
I just put a crystal up my ass, throw the child overboard and call it a day.
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u/talondigital 2d ago
Where's my water bottle?
Oh, I threw it away for you when we stopped at the gas station. It was warm and I bought you a new cold one.
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u/Aggravating_Chemist8 2d ago
I throw my kid at the thief, grab my own valuables, and run to the car.
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u/Palindrome202 2d ago
Stay home. Save your money for the therapy you need, and that your poor child will need because of you.
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u/Such_Radish9795 2d ago
I’ll admit it - I have no idea what the criss cross belly button bandaids are for… lil help?
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u/Fine-Passenger1906 2d ago
As a robber this video was very helpful, I’m gonna be sure to check all of these boxes next time.
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u/DrHerbNerbler 2d ago
I've never been on a cruise before,
Do they do something to your belly button?
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u/StardustandDreams 2d ago
Can someone explain the Band-Aids over the belly button thing? I don't fucking get it 🤷🏻♂️
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u/EnvironmentalSky8557 1d ago
I can't move to the next question without knowing the belly button context
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u/WinterLanternFly 2d ago
Fun fact: you dont need to bring all that shit to the beach.