Originally Posted by
arkansasbob
warning: rambling nonsense ahead. tl;dr: laos doesn't exist. change my mind.
so i was in the shower thinking about some good food i had a couple months ago (i think about food a lot) and i couldn't remember what country the food came from. it was a southeast asian country, but not vietnam or thailand (it was malaysia, but for the life of me i couldn't think of that name). so i was trying to think of every southeast asian country i could think of, trying to picture a map in my mind. i thought of myanmar and cambodia and laos. then i realized i don't know anything about laos. i am skeptical as to whether laos actually exists.
i have met people from almost every country in the world that i can think of except laos, belize, madagascar, mongolia, nepal, and mauritania. i know people who have visited belize and mauritania, so i am fairly confident they exist. i have seen tv shows featuring mongolia and nepal, so i'm willing to believe in their existence. i've seen lemurs, so i'm willing to accept madagascar (although i'm not too sure about those funky-looking trees -- pretty sure they're made up). but i have never met nor heard of anyone from laos. i'm not even sure what you would call someone from laos (not looking it up on google or wikipedia -- you can't trust them on these things). so i have concluded for now that i will refuse to believe that laos exists until someone presents evidence that meets my low standard of proof.