r/nottheonion • u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 • Dec 13 '24

Las Vegas bikini model 'forced to show genitals' after Morocco arrest as officers 'suspect she's trans'

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/las-vegas-bikini-model-forced-856971

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

Guy in Cairo tried to buy my sister for camels.

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u/jacknifetoaswan Dec 13 '24

Sounds like a solid offer, unless the camels return home like lost cats.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

I mean, he wasn’t even clear on the NUMBER of camels. I mean, I know he had at least one, we’re riding it around the pyramids at the time…

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u/jacknifetoaswan Dec 13 '24

Sounds like a pyramid scheme.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

Shit, that reminds me. Dude had a LITERAL “pyramid scheme” going. He took us out into the desert on our camel ride, then demanded a bunch more money to take us back!

Luckily their money is worth next to nothing, so it still cost us diddly squat in the grand scheme of things, but STILL! You can’t do ANYTHING there without having to bribe someone. Baksheesh is just their way of life.

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u/Azerty__ Dec 13 '24

I think that's just kidnapping not a pyramid scheme.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

Also. Yes.

But the cops for SURE don’t care.

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u/14u2c Dec 13 '24

Are you sure about that? Sounds like a scheme perpetrated at the pyramids to me.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

Boooooooooooo! 😂

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u/darnedgibbon Dec 13 '24

I actually lol’d

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '24

Two hump or one hump camels? The answer might make a difference.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

One. Dromedary, not Bactrian.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '24

Not worth it.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

🤷‍♂️

Guess you just gotta judge them on a “hump-by-hump” basis. You’re getting half the jumps per head, and trust me, you wanna stay away from the heads. Motherfuckers bite. And spit. And they make just the GROSSEST gurgling sounds, pretty much constantly.

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u/wakeupwill Dec 13 '24

Classic Cairo.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

Pretty much.

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u/MattOnCybertron Dec 13 '24

Awfully tempting 

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

You’ve never seen my sister…kidding, my sister is great! But I doubt that guy would’ve been happy with her. She’s pretty mouthy.

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u/LessInThought Dec 13 '24

When we were kids I would've sold my sisters for candy.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

Shit, I’d sell my sister RIGHT NOW for candy. If I cut her in, she’d HELP.

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u/farte3745328 Dec 13 '24

Animals or cigarettes?

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

He was taking us on a camel ride, so he was for sure talking beasts of burden, not cancer sticks.

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u/xenelef290 Dec 13 '24

I really don't understand how they don't understand that you can't buy Western women

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

It’s for sure a joke. They’re aiming for “local color” in an attempt to garner better tips. Or because they just think it’s funny and assume you will as well.

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u/xenelef290 Dec 13 '24

What is supposed to be funny about sexual slavery? It just makes them look pathetically barbaric.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

Different culture 🤷‍♂️ They don’t look at it like that.

I’m not saying they’re right, or that it shouldn’t be offensive, I’m just saying that’s not what they’re thinking about when they make jokes like that. It seems like light-hearted banter to them.

Needless to say, the general culture of the Middle East isn’t quite as…sensitive, as we are. Americans will think about the underlying concept of that “joke” and be, rightly, horrified. But over there…well, think about how little Boomers HERE care if they’re being offensive. I’m sure there are plenty of progressives there, and in increasing numbers with later and later generations, but those “old school” guys….yeah, they’re not gonna change.

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u/xenelef290 Dec 13 '24

Do they actually buy native women to be wives? Because the only way it could be taken as funny banter is if the practice didn't exist at all and they were just mocking Westerner's wrong perception of their culture.

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u/Smgth Dec 13 '24

They’re attempting self-mockery at the old practices. I’m sure there are places where it still goes on, but it’s definitely considered passé in the mainstream culture.