Quit trying to kill me, Phuket

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Last seen with: A tsunami

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/11/travel/0111-PHUKET_index.html

Like 14-year-old girls on facebook everywhere, this slideshow of Phuket's sites is doing a great job presenting one side of the story. The side where little Madison/Phuket appears totally cool and attractive. Flipping through it's tagged pictures, we can see that Phuket is the most luxurious, amazing, beautiful place ever, even with that little dash of native culture in there. Unfortunately, due to a rampant national ADD outbreak, everyone in America has apparently blacked out about the horrible, raging tsunami that killed tons of people across South Asia a few years ago, specifically, the entire population of Phuket (white tourists too!).
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With clear knowledge of our weakness for forgetting stuff Anderson Cooper is not currently lecturing us about, Phuket has gotten it's shit together and tricked prominent travel writers into pimping it out, nevermind that lots of people prefer not be swept away by record-breaking tidal waves during their mini-breaks. The slideshow's title, "Paradise in Thailand," might be overselling it even if travellers didn't have to constantly fear a guerrilla attack by massive quantities of batshit H20. Personally my vacation destination list line-up would put Phuket below various parts of Pakistan, a movie theater screening Bride Wars, and Jurassic Park, which when you consider how annoying those goddamn kids were, is impressive.

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Quit trying to kill me, Phuket, or at least be up front about it.