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Title: Travel advice
Post by: wes mantooth on September 24, 2010, 01:14:28 PM
Going to Jamaica tomorrow, any advice on what i need to know?  Never been.  :dunno:
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: Saulbadguy on September 24, 2010, 01:16:34 PM
Ignore the locals, they will try and sell you worthless crap if you acknowledge their presence.
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: steve dave on September 24, 2010, 01:18:57 PM
shrooms are legal there
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: AbeFroman on September 24, 2010, 01:24:08 PM
Ignore the locals, they will try and sell you worthless crap if you acknowledge their presence.
By worthless crap do you mean cheap  :bigtoke:
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: The42Yardstick on September 24, 2010, 01:24:16 PM
Going to Minneapolis tomorrow. I feel like Minnesotans are more dangerous than Jamaicans b/c of how passive-aggressive they are. Plz help :ohno:
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: wes mantooth on September 24, 2010, 01:24:56 PM
Any local food/drink that I absolutely must hit?  (don't say jerk chicken, already looking forward to that)
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: CNS on September 24, 2010, 01:29:17 PM
Any local food/drink that I absolutely must hit?  (don't say jerk chicken, already looking forward to that)

Red Stripe

 :lol:
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: Saulbadguy on September 24, 2010, 01:34:44 PM
Ignore the locals, they will try and sell you worthless crap if you acknowledge their presence.
By worthless crap do you mean cheap  :bigtoke:
No, I mean wooden statues of horses painted with shoe polish
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: Cire on September 24, 2010, 01:38:24 PM
Jamaican meat patties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: big e z on September 24, 2010, 01:41:07 PM
My wife and I went there for the honeymoon. I got asked  to buy weed constantly (including before we even got out of the airport parking lot). Somebody told us prior to going to take extra shoes (sandals, whatever), locals will trade all sorts of touristy feces for your shoes. We didn't, but observed that they were correct. We went to a Sandals, and had a good time.
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: ben ji on September 24, 2010, 04:38:59 PM
Going to Minneapolis tomorrow. I feel like Minnesotans are more dangerous than Jamaicans b/c of how passive-aggressive they are. Plz help :ohno:

Was there a month ago, in milwaukee now. One thing to know about these passive aggressive Northerners, DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT ask them about any recent Jamboree's they have attended. They will talk for HOURS in their stupid hokey pokey accents saying stuff like boout(about) and beeeg(bag) while you stare at them with a blank face.
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: Pete on September 24, 2010, 07:07:01 PM
Going to Jamaica tomorrow, any advice on what i need to know?  Never been.  :dunno:

Two things:

"Ganja" is weed.

Wear a condom.
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: yoga-like_abana on September 24, 2010, 07:08:54 PM
Don't drink the water.
Title: Re: Travel advice
Post by: MeatSauce on September 25, 2010, 10:46:13 PM
Any local food/drink that I absolutely must hit?  (don't say jerk chicken, already looking forward to that)

I have a relatively HJIQ....

Goat Belly Soup. actual food dish & actually not terrible.  Eat everything, especially the seafood, but drink bottled water.  Drink Red Stripe, it's a lot better there

Do you have a driver? You should get a driver.  The cabs/cabbies DGAF about you and you're basically subject to the hookers/criminals they pal around w/ so you'll have to deal not only w/ "Pay me w/e i tell you" cabbies but also deciding if you want to pay for sex & drugs every time you get in a cab.

The Indians [store owners] there are assholes.

Make a ton of bobsled jokes & references.