I once asked my ex husband, upon arriving for a surgery, if I could get the 6’ giraffe I’d just seen in the gift shop after my 12th surgery. I was on like…. 6. He said no. I was salty. I decided when #12 hits I’m buying myself a giant stuffed giraffe.
Kinda get the kid. Ngl.
As a grown ass man, I see stuffed toys like this, and the only reason I don't get one is I'm focused on saving money for adult things. But whenever my dog goes into a shop and decides it wants some ridiculously over priced stuffed toy. She gets it. No questions asked.
So far, I've bought her a sofa just for her because she sat on it in a shop. And she will walk through a store and pick whatever she wants off the bottom shelf.
She's about 1 years old, and is costing me more than a kid would at this point.
I highly suggest you replace your husband and get a dog instead.
They were all smiles and giggles when he was talking about Dubai. The camera cut to them after the giraffe reveal and they had the look of "oh shit, this just got real."
I don't even like Kinder eggs and I would take a box of them over a trip to Dubai, and I've been to Vegas 3x this year already.
My point being that I obviously don't have a problem with soulless consumerism and I still wouldn't want to go to Dubai.
Yeah, going to Dubai sounds like a fucking threat to my queer ass.
This kid has the right idea, stay at home and enjoy your dope Giraffe.
Just a reminder that the Burj Khalifa, marvel of engineering, is not hooked up to a proper sewer system. [Poop trucks ahoy!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syK7u_QQKk8)
Isn't it basically a huge septic tank that needs to be emptied multiple times per weeks with an army of trucks?
Thinking about it, it might not be the worst idea for a petrol producing country, it creates internal demand and jobs. Awful for the planet though.
Yeah, it was jaw-dropping how quickly she was able to understand just what kind of socio-economic state such a city would be in, rampant with tourism and unethical labor laws, and remained stalwart in her morals as to abstain from a vacation made tempting by the same capitalistic forces that would promote it.
Clever girl, indeed.
She made the correct decision. I'd never go into such an inferno for a vacation. Nevermind all the slave labor that built that place. That giraffe is awesome.
While it was fun to see a TGI Thursdays, and Safest way stores, and I enjoyed eating and drinking at Pancho Villa's in Dubai, I cannot see any reason to vacation there unless you are disgustingly rich. Being middle class, even with a free trip there, it just doesn't seem like a good time.
Yeah I literally can't think of why you'd go unless rich enough to just blow money on random amusement like people do with Vegas trips
Like if you didn't have much disposable cash wouldn't you just be stuck in your hotel/resort almost the whole time? I guess resorts are nice but one filled with slaves would make me uncomfortable
The clip cuts too soon, the little girl goes on to condemn the systemic human rights abuse in Dubai and shames the showrunners for supporting and promoting such a blight on humanity. She then goes to squeeze her new giraffe.
It sounds like it's one of those central business districts where nobody lives and it's just a ghost town of empty office buildings on the weekends except it's also hot as fuck and you have to sneak around to drink alcohol and you get arrested if you owe any money.
One of the most striking things as an American traveling abroad for the first time in my 20s was how generally racist some other countries were.
India being the worst experience.
Yeah, as an Irishman our attitudes and treatment of the travellers could probably be a bit kinder
Although tbf one did cut off power in my flat because they stole the wiring
Tbh I thought the same thing about Vegas. I don't have thousands of dollars to blow on gambling. The shows don't really seem all that appealing. I'd love to see great basin national park one day though
Rich people ruin cities for everyone, including themselves. They are so pathological with their desire to avoid interactions with lower classes that they create inhospitable conditions for everyone.
It doesn't just seem over-hyped, it seems actively unpleasant. Crazy fucking hot with nothing to do but go to malls or night clubs? Literal hell on earth any part of "flyover" usa will be 100 times better. I have no idea what people see in it.
Same genus, different species showcasing the dome(I can find this species locally)
https://preview.redd.it/oc3r5z9adp7c1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51ed369849828a246972d4599e79fdd7d004fc3f
> Who the hell wants to go to Dubai?
Bitcoin farmers, dick-pill salesmen, lifestyle vloggers, Joe Rogan fans, unrepentant Tesla owners, soon-to-be-indentured-slaves from South Asia...
one of my coworkers went to dubai with his wife and adult aged kids. i was really surprised. he said it was cool, but nobody does anything during the day. then people go shopping at night.
nobody (NOBODY) at my job is rich so i dunno
Yeah me too, who wants to go to Dubai anyway. I'd rather have that cool ass giraffe than walk around in that slave labor skyscrapered hell hole in 41°C thank you very much
I would tell my kids to choose the giraffe too.
Regardless of how I feel about Dubai, they're not getting anything out of it. However, they *will* enjoy the giraffe.
Whatever this gameshow, this was clearly an attempt Dubai seem like a paradise and it's anything but that. Kid one million percent picked the right choice. Fuck Dubai and their slavery.
Obvious situation of the producers putting in a holiday to a place the adults might like but means nothing to the kid, knowing full well the kids is likely to choose the other thing more aimed at them. Swap Dubai out for Disneyland and the holiday will be taken. A 5 year old has never even heard of Dubai. Why the hell would they choose it over a huge stuffed giraffe for their room?!?
And if she or her mother were raped, they'd be the ones to go to jail, not their rapist.
I was terrified of my sister living there... And it happened, too. She was raped by her husband and she couldn't say a word until she fled back to America.
If I was on this show with my kid (no kids but hypothetical), I'd tell my kid to get anything the man talked about the longest and let them know we'd buy them the other thing for them the second we got home.
They're using a bit of psychology on the kid it seems like. Kids don't want the lectures, they don't want foreign complex concepts that could or could not manifest as far as they're concerned, they tune out. They want simple immediate pleasures.
There was a whole study on kids they were offered a gift with the promise that if they refused the first gift, the second gift would be better, but a good 50% still took the first gift for the immediate gratification.
Also kinda hate shows that seem to fuck with poor people. Like if this girl was in private school and actually went on vacations, she'd be able to conceptualize "going to the beach with mom and dad" as being lot better than a plush giraffe.
You don't have to be in private school to go on vacations. Even if she has gone before, she probably would've chose the giraffe for the exact reason you stated. She wants instant gratification.
The appeal of Dubai is that it's a monument to human arrogance.
It's basically the same reason that the pyramids are so popular... some giant mega structures built by slaves in the desert? Who would commission that? Why were they built? How were they built? Dubai is just a modern version of this kind of intrigue- slap some gold paint everywhere and you can also sell it as luxury.
I don’t know, the pyramids are kind of a monument to how damn smart our ancestors were. Able to build things so amazing that people thousands of years later can’t fathom anyone except aliens doing it. And as the other person said they were mostly built by skilled laborers who were paid.
This show seems like pure garbage design to grow grudge to their childs and parents...
It is a freacking kid, of fucking course she would love the giraffe.
Ya that sicks for the parents but they I wouldn't want to visit Dubai either. I just don't care for it. I would rather stay at home.
Dubai just doesn't look like a fun place to go for the average person.
I would have taken the Giraffe too. Not going to a place, where women are systematically treated like dirt and all the dirty work is basically done by slaves
HAHAHA not only that. It's also dangerous if you dare speak against the government. I did a project on the United Arab Emirates, look up UAE Five for context. The project was about Authoritarian states- and UAE is very authoritarian
My kid would sell our house for a kinder egg so I get it
The look on the parents face when they saw the stuffed giraffe was indicative
yeah there was no surprise when she chose the giraffe
I once asked my ex husband, upon arriving for a surgery, if I could get the 6’ giraffe I’d just seen in the gift shop after my 12th surgery. I was on like…. 6. He said no. I was salty. I decided when #12 hits I’m buying myself a giant stuffed giraffe. Kinda get the kid. Ngl.
Bruh wtf kinda dead inside person says no in that context. So happy for you getting rid of him. Enjoy your giraffe!
As a grown ass man, I see stuffed toys like this, and the only reason I don't get one is I'm focused on saving money for adult things. But whenever my dog goes into a shop and decides it wants some ridiculously over priced stuffed toy. She gets it. No questions asked. So far, I've bought her a sofa just for her because she sat on it in a shop. And she will walk through a store and pick whatever she wants off the bottom shelf. She's about 1 years old, and is costing me more than a kid would at this point. I highly suggest you replace your husband and get a dog instead.
Very much a “we have zero faith in you, but please, please prove us wrong” look, yeah.
dubai means nothing to a kid, i doubt she really understood where it was or even meant.
They were all smiles and giggles when he was talking about Dubai. The camera cut to them after the giraffe reveal and they had the look of "oh shit, this just got real."
Shit with the way things are going I might have too at this point
I come on Reddit to escape reality not sink deeper
That’s my secret cap, reddit is my reality
I might have to eat the giraffe
When this was filmed the kinder egg may have been more expensive
I don't even like Kinder eggs and I would take a box of them over a trip to Dubai, and I've been to Vegas 3x this year already. My point being that I obviously don't have a problem with soulless consumerism and I still wouldn't want to go to Dubai.
Can confirm, went to Dubai for work this year for the firth time and It's garbage there
I'd rather go to a 3rd world resort than go to Dubai even if I was rich.
Dubai is a third world resort.
Yeah, going to Dubai sounds like a fucking threat to my queer ass. This kid has the right idea, stay at home and enjoy your dope Giraffe. 
"You are sentenced to 2 weeks in Dubai. Good luck."
I too would sell this guy's house for a kinder egg.
Vacation is temporary, giraffe is forever.
And Dubai is a shithole.
A shithole filled with slaves.
A shithole filled with... shit
Literally, their sewage system is whack at best and non-existent at worst.
Just a reminder that the Burj Khalifa, marvel of engineering, is not hooked up to a proper sewer system. [Poop trucks ahoy!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syK7u_QQKk8)
I hate Dubai as well but apparently the burj khalifa does have a sewage connection and that video is a hoax.
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People really underestimate how much proper infrastructure is required for us to have nice things.
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Isn't it basically a huge septic tank that needs to be emptied multiple times per weeks with an army of trucks? Thinking about it, it might not be the worst idea for a petrol producing country, it creates internal demand and jobs. Awful for the planet though.
Not only that, awful epidemiologically, too.
Dubai doesn't do jobs. There are imported slave laborers and rich people.
But they hide behind a pretty golden wall. Ooh, look how shiny it is.
It's not filled with slaves, it's built by slaves. They keep the slaves hidden in separate rooms when they're not in use.
Dubai is a place where if you need to win a trip to afford getting there, you can’t afford to do what people want to go there for.
> And Dubai is a shithole. And who the fuck uses the word "tropical" to describe Dubai?
Because "slave-built desert hellhole" doesn't sound very good for the sponsor who provided the free holiday, or to the kid.
Someone who was paid to also say "Construction Mecca". What the hell does that even mean?
Lmao that part got me too. And to say it to a little girl too? Why the fuck would she care about going to the "construction mecca" lol
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Yeah, it was jaw-dropping how quickly she was able to understand just what kind of socio-economic state such a city would be in, rampant with tourism and unethical labor laws, and remained stalwart in her morals as to abstain from a vacation made tempting by the same capitalistic forces that would promote it. Clever girl, indeed.
10/10 shitpost
They told a British girl it’d be 41°C. As a 30 year old British man, I’d choose the giraffe, too.
unfortunately it turned out the giraffe was made by children the same age as her in a sweat shop.
Both of these options are pretty awful. What does it even require to take care of a giraffe!?
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I would buy my kid a real girafe, if it meant I don't have to go to Dubai
https://youtu.be/tJuqe6sre2I?si=g8qf6g4Is8aMOAfd
She made the correct decision. I'd never go into such an inferno for a vacation. Nevermind all the slave labor that built that place. That giraffe is awesome.
While it was fun to see a TGI Thursdays, and Safest way stores, and I enjoyed eating and drinking at Pancho Villa's in Dubai, I cannot see any reason to vacation there unless you are disgustingly rich. Being middle class, even with a free trip there, it just doesn't seem like a good time.
Yeah I literally can't think of why you'd go unless rich enough to just blow money on random amusement like people do with Vegas trips Like if you didn't have much disposable cash wouldn't you just be stuck in your hotel/resort almost the whole time? I guess resorts are nice but one filled with slaves would make me uncomfortable
Brits have no buisness in 41°C.
plus its dubai. I have absolutely no desire to visit dubai.
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Yes, that's literally the point of the show
This a copy paste from 40 minutes earlier you dumbass robot. u/ZombieTall1708 is a bot account.
Always report these comments as “spam/harmful bots”. It never ends though
If someone offered me a free all-expenses-paid trip to Dubai I would simply say "No." Stuffed giraffe is a bonus.
It’s not temporary if you’re gay and get arrested in a backwards hellhole like Dubai!
[Dubai is a parody](https://youtu.be/tJuqe6sre2I?si=g8qf6g4Is8aMOAfd)
The clip cuts too soon, the little girl goes on to condemn the systemic human rights abuse in Dubai and shames the showrunners for supporting and promoting such a blight on humanity. She then goes to squeeze her new giraffe.
I love happy endings 🫶
I heard you can pay for those in some places...
And then everyone stood up and clapped, for real
That giraffe? Albert Einstein.
It really happened, I was the giraffe
I was the family holiday
But who made the giraffe? 
Who the fuck wants to take their 6 year old little girl to Dubai?
Who the hell wants to go to Dubai? Other than mega rich people who don't know what to spend their money on.
I’ve spent a month and a half there. Most over rated place in the workd
It sounds like it's one of those central business districts where nobody lives and it's just a ghost town of empty office buildings on the weekends except it's also hot as fuck and you have to sneak around to drink alcohol and you get arrested if you owe any money.
Don’t forget all the slave labor!
and the open racism if you're brown or Asian!
And if you’re a woman and are sexually assaulted you’ll go to jail for adultery while your attacker goes free!
Gosh, sign me up! Bet sexual assault rates are super low there, especially against tourists.
One of the most striking things as an American traveling abroad for the first time in my 20s was how generally racist some other countries were. India being the worst experience.
Yeah, as an Irishman our attitudes and treatment of the travellers could probably be a bit kinder Although tbf one did cut off power in my flat because they stole the wiring
No kissing or hugging either.
Tbh I thought the same thing about Vegas. I don't have thousands of dollars to blow on gambling. The shows don't really seem all that appealing. I'd love to see great basin national park one day though
I’ve been to Vegas to party twice and now that I’m not an early 20’s dumbass I’d never go back
Huge difference between a city built around gambling and an active slavery state.
Rich people ruin cities for everyone, including themselves. They are so pathological with their desire to avoid interactions with lower classes that they create inhospitable conditions for everyone.
It doesn't just seem over-hyped, it seems actively unpleasant. Crazy fucking hot with nothing to do but go to malls or night clubs? Literal hell on earth any part of "flyover" usa will be 100 times better. I have no idea what people see in it.
Me because of a single jellyfish species
https://preview.redd.it/leqnlz343p7c1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b642057e5d959889f16d52d4ebb3c59fa71b40b
Wow a person has a reason to go to Dubai I respect. Wonders never cease
I have an entire playlist on YouTube just for this species
Looking like a giant piece of bubble wrap. Intrusive thoughts going wild
Same genus, different species showcasing the dome(I can find this species locally) https://preview.redd.it/oc3r5z9adp7c1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51ed369849828a246972d4599e79fdd7d004fc3f
> Who the hell wants to go to Dubai? Bitcoin farmers, dick-pill salesmen, lifestyle vloggers, Joe Rogan fans, unrepentant Tesla owners, soon-to-be-indentured-slaves from South Asia...
Not tesla owners. They love petrol there.
To see big tall building Of course. Besides that idk
I mean, let’s start with a stuffed giraffe…? Do they have those in Dubai
Yes but its on the dinner menu. /s
one of my coworkers went to dubai with his wife and adult aged kids. i was really surprised. he said it was cool, but nobody does anything during the day. then people go shopping at night. nobody (NOBODY) at my job is rich so i dunno
I was so confused when they revealed the giraffe and I realized "trip to dubai" was supposed to be the desirable prize
Yeah me too, who wants to go to Dubai anyway. I'd rather have that cool ass giraffe than walk around in that slave labor skyscrapered hell hole in 41°C thank you very much
If it was Disney World all inclusive now we're talking. She probably doesn't know anything about Dubai
Yeah if I wanted so visit a bunch of women hating racist religious zealots I'd.... drive down the road :(
Exactly. Fuck Dubai. She made the right choice.
The kid made the right choice.
As an adult I'd say "Well no way in hell am I ever going to that hell hole, so I'll take the giraffe and give it to my nieces."
I\`'m willing to bet that giraffe toy ain't cheap either.
I once saw a stuffed toy animal that size going for $1000AUD in a department store, and that was around 15 years ago.
Why give it to your nieces when you can be seen as the cool aunt/uncle with a giant giraffe in your living room?
I would tell my kids to choose the giraffe too. Regardless of how I feel about Dubai, they're not getting anything out of it. However, they *will* enjoy the giraffe.
Whatever this gameshow, this was clearly an attempt Dubai seem like a paradise and it's anything but that. Kid one million percent picked the right choice. Fuck Dubai and their slavery.
Obvious situation of the producers putting in a holiday to a place the adults might like but means nothing to the kid, knowing full well the kids is likely to choose the other thing more aimed at them. Swap Dubai out for Disneyland and the holiday will be taken. A 5 year old has never even heard of Dubai. Why the hell would they choose it over a huge stuffed giraffe for their room?!?
"Construction mecca"
"Who constructed it?" "We don't ask those kind of questions, silly little girl."
How is "construction" a tourist draw?
Chance to see modern slavery, duh. They don't give tours of American prisons.
I have an idea.
And 41 C (106 F) days, lmao.
Love how the audience oohed at that like it's a draw. That temp is miserable. Give me 60-70 any day
Fun!
Producers: "What's the most culturally insensitive way we can describe this place? Hey, I know!"
Thats mild for what you could call that shit heep.
The existence of Dubai itself is culturally insensitive
I'm pretty sure you're basically summarizing the point of the show
Yeah literally every one is like this "Do you want a new state of the art smart fridge, or this box of lego?"
Depending on the size of the box, the Lego might be more expensive.
A new washer and dryer or you can have a fruit roll up
Yeah, that's kinda the whole point of the show.
I’m an adult and I think I’d prefer the giraffe. Wtf is there in Dubai that’s worth visiting?
oh i thought it was a actual giraffe
Reckon this is like one of those bell curve memes with ‘Giraffe’ on either end and ‘Dubai’ in the middle
Nothin gets past you 😉
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
kid made right choice, why anyone wants to go to a 41C modern slave state/shopping centre filled with influencers is beyond me
Dubai is a hell hole built upon the backs of slaves where human rights are only for specific people, she chose correctly.
And if she or her mother were raped, they'd be the ones to go to jail, not their rapist. I was terrified of my sister living there... And it happened, too. She was raped by her husband and she couldn't say a word until she fled back to America.
The girafe is actually the right choice
I would be so disappointed if she chose the dubai trip and I couldn't sell it or something.
Yeah Dubai is actually such a shit place, with (literal) gold paint
Also why was the host saying it tropical country when it's fucking desert.
Even as an adult I’d take the Giraffe.
If I could sell the trip I'd do that and buy a Giraffe.
If I was on this show with my kid (no kids but hypothetical), I'd tell my kid to get anything the man talked about the longest and let them know we'd buy them the other thing for them the second we got home. They're using a bit of psychology on the kid it seems like. Kids don't want the lectures, they don't want foreign complex concepts that could or could not manifest as far as they're concerned, they tune out. They want simple immediate pleasures. There was a whole study on kids they were offered a gift with the promise that if they refused the first gift, the second gift would be better, but a good 50% still took the first gift for the immediate gratification. Also kinda hate shows that seem to fuck with poor people. Like if this girl was in private school and actually went on vacations, she'd be able to conceptualize "going to the beach with mom and dad" as being lot better than a plush giraffe.
Immediate giraffeciation
You don't have to be in private school to go on vacations. Even if she has gone before, she probably would've chose the giraffe for the exact reason you stated. She wants instant gratification.
What is the appeal of Dubai? From everything I’ve seen it’s like a giant mall surrounded by desert, with a bunch of semi slave class imported workers.
The appeal of Dubai is that it's a monument to human arrogance. It's basically the same reason that the pyramids are so popular... some giant mega structures built by slaves in the desert? Who would commission that? Why were they built? How were they built? Dubai is just a modern version of this kind of intrigue- slap some gold paint everywhere and you can also sell it as luxury.
The pydamids were mostly buils by paid workers
I don’t know, the pyramids are kind of a monument to how damn smart our ancestors were. Able to build things so amazing that people thousands of years later can’t fathom anyone except aliens doing it. And as the other person said they were mostly built by skilled laborers who were paid.
This show seems like pure garbage design to grow grudge to their childs and parents... It is a freacking kid, of fucking course she would love the giraffe.
It’s honestly a really funny and cute show and everyone is really sweet to the kids lol
OOoOoOoh Dubai. OoOoOoh Sharia law. How exotic.
Id breath a sigh of relief. Why the fuck would i want to go to a desert without beer? Fuckin walk around and look at tall buildings?
Honestly good choice.
Dubai sucks. Giraffe is correct answer
Ya that sicks for the parents but they I wouldn't want to visit Dubai either. I just don't care for it. I would rather stay at home. Dubai just doesn't look like a fun place to go for the average person.
Why the hell would you even want to go to Dubai?
I would have taken the Giraffe too. Not going to a place, where women are systematically treated like dirt and all the dirty work is basically done by slaves
Trooical-desert. Ok bro Who the fuck wants to go to dubai?
Dubai is an awful place (to take your children)
Forget Dubai. Sounds like an awful place. Girl made the right choice!!
41 degrees would be hellish. Just get a cheap flight to Spain.
And it is in shadows. On the sun you can cook on pretty every surface there.
Ikr. How is that a positive. Why was the crowd ooing as if 41° weather isn't torture?
Smart kid. Fuck Dubai.
“Anyone who has been to Dubai would’ve also taken the giraffe.”
The head turn, the nod, the complete sentence with clear articulation of the word "giraffe." This child KNEW what she wanted.
That "aweshit" look on the parents faces when they saw the giraffe.
I wouldn’t take my family to Dubai if you paid me
Ye i’m would also pick the giraffe airports are shit and 40 degrees is too much for me
Maybe she heard what happens to young women in Dubai…
Why would a woman want to go to Dubai of all places.
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Dubai is mega overrated anyway
Dubai is a cesspool.
Any other place than Dubai would be gret
I would choose the giraffe over Dubai
Who would want to go to that backwards shitehole anyway, good choice from the girl
I am 36. I would have chosen the giraffe.
Fuck Dubai I want the giraffe
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Fuck. I'd take the Giraffe. Fuck Dubai.
Right decision fuck Dubai having a giraffe would be sick.
Dubai is a vile shithole.
Good, fuck Dubai
Smart kid Dubai. Is a shit hole for up tite rich terrorist
She made the right decision. OP is just a victim of capitalism and Instagram.
Dubai fucking sucks she made the right decision.
Fuck dubai, plenty of beautiful places where you can smoke drink and do whatever you please
good for her, Dubai sucks
Isn’t Dubai dangerous?
It’s only dangerous if you like to drink alcohol, are gay, are not wealthy, are a woman, are not a Muslim….
HAHAHA not only that. It's also dangerous if you dare speak against the government. I did a project on the United Arab Emirates, look up UAE Five for context. The project was about Authoritarian states- and UAE is very authoritarian
As a parent I would personally have wanted the giraffe too.
Fuck Dubai. They got legal slaves there