A short one.
More a thought for the day than a blog post.
When you go travelling, one subject that is fairly taboo in England becomes a real genuine regular topic of conversation. This subject is 'bowel movement'.
Faye and I had two very different conversations one lazy evening.
One was about said subject.
Lonely Planet said the definition of diarrhoea was a loose motion more than 3 times in 24 hours. I begged to differ.
"Faye", said I, "with diarrhoea you must ask yourself one question and that question is this...
Would it go through the eye of a needle?
When all is said and done, if it won't, it just doesn't count."
The conversation progressed.
As we were going to sleep I asked Faye to tell me a story.
She told me about Dante's Inferno.
I, in return, told her about Hercules and Hades and that God in the sky and his wife and the unicorn thing called Pegasus and those women dancing on pots.
How cultural, well educated and broad-minded we are.
Dysentery and Greek mythology in the same breath.
Her knowledge from guide books, study and university professors.
My knowledge from experience..
And Walt Disney.
More a thought for the day than a blog post.
When you go travelling, one subject that is fairly taboo in England becomes a real genuine regular topic of conversation. This subject is 'bowel movement'.
Faye and I had two very different conversations one lazy evening.
One was about said subject.
Lonely Planet said the definition of diarrhoea was a loose motion more than 3 times in 24 hours. I begged to differ.
"Faye", said I, "with diarrhoea you must ask yourself one question and that question is this...
Would it go through the eye of a needle?
When all is said and done, if it won't, it just doesn't count."
The conversation progressed.
As we were going to sleep I asked Faye to tell me a story.
She told me about Dante's Inferno.
I, in return, told her about Hercules and Hades and that God in the sky and his wife and the unicorn thing called Pegasus and those women dancing on pots.
How cultural, well educated and broad-minded we are.
Dysentery and Greek mythology in the same breath.
Her knowledge from guide books, study and university professors.
My knowledge from experience..
And Walt Disney.
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