Is it 'horrible', or simply 'different'?Originally Posted by Peter
Habitual street crápping aside, it's surely generally more fascinating than horrible?
Is it 'horrible', or simply 'different'?
Habitual street crápping aside, it's surely generally more fascinating than horrible?
I put it to you that you would be less willing to overlook the grinding poverty, dead kids, street cràpping, etc in a less 'exotic' locale.
Are you not indulging in the soft bigotry of low expectations here?
Eh? What utter fúcktardery is this now? We're not talking about Croydon now, old chap. India is a more 'exotic' locale. Things are different. That's not to say that there aren't shítholes to be seen; I've been in duty, shítty burgs all over the third world thinking 'what the fúck am I doing here?' but scratching the surface of such environments inevitably (often?) broadens the mind, brings one closer to a true comprehension of the universe and soothes the aching chakras.
That, in fact, is your issue. Your chakras are fúcked.
Yes, but I do wonder if our somewhat mystical, exoticised view of the place means we let Johnny Indian off the hook a bit for the utter fücking state of the place. Oughtn't we to be saying that perhaps he ought to think a bit less about his chakras and a bit more about not taking a dump in the street?
Street shítting is a cultural oddity and is something that the Indian government and vast swathes of the population are actually addressing now. On the other hand I'm not sure we ought to be saying anything about it. If Johnny Indian wants to shít in the street and consider his chakras, who the hell are we to tell him what to do?
None of which is relevant to my point, which is that 'different' does not mean the same as 'wrong. I find these places where things are 'different' interesting. This, apparently, makes me weird.
Could I make you happy by only going on holiday to Magaluf and only eating in English restaurants?
Who are we to tell him what to do?! We're Englishmen, dammit! And, as such, his betters.
Pinko talk like that is exactly the sort of thing that lost us the empire.
I'm starting to have my doubts about you
You can **** in the street but you cant have a fag afterwards. That is a country that has its legislative agenda slightly arse about face.Who are we to tell him what to do?! We're Englishmen, dammit! And, as such, his betters.
Pinko talk like that is exactly the sort of thing that lost us the empire.
I'm starting to have my doubts about you
Far be it from me to judge any man but I am not sure one can just dismiss, or excuse perhaps, the concept of street shítting as a "cultural oddity".
Can they not carry little bags like dog owners*?
*dirty bástárds
I just can't imagine one can derive much enjoyment from a hastily coiled-down street poo, sw. And what do you wipe with?
All in all, unlike Sir C, I'd have to say I'm not a fan of street-shítting.
Honour killings, forced marriages and acid attacks are not 'different', nor is sh1tting in the street.
They are all abhorrent practices that you would be the first to condemn if executed by Muslims. But because you do holiday in India and not in Pakistan and Afghanistan you try and justify them.
I think the people are lovely, as I said, but I have precisely zero desire to spend my already limited number of holidays exploring a country that treats women like cattle, is utterly filthy and filled with disease and seems to employ about every third person as a security guard because of the lack of safety.
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