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The only way I would ever travel to Dubai is if I bought a complete new set of clothes (including shoes) at the airport after departures in the UK and ditched the old threads at the aiport. Even then I'd be paranoid as fuck about a particle from somewhere attaching itself to me. Obviously if you partake in any substances you're at a much higher risk but even if you're teetotal, the risk of contamination at the levels at which they're happy to prosecute are considerable in a country like the UK. If you carry banknotes you can easily pick up trace amounts of cocaine in your wallet and hash/weed is everywhere. You could easily stand in 0.003g of hash walking in any UK street and not even spot it on your shoe if you studied it closely.

On the plus side, I've heard the invariably racist officials of this medieval-attitude country target black / afro-carribean people far more than whites. If you're black, be very afraid. Otherwise, you should be ok.

Why anyone would want to go there in the first place is beyond me. All the white sandy beaches in the world wouldn't drag me to such a barbaric, backward hole.
(synapz, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 13:31, Reply)