In Mexico it's called Montezuma's Revenge. In Bali it's called Bali Belly. What other colloquialisms for gastroenteritis are there around the world?
In Mexico it's called Montezuma's Revenge. In Bali it's called Bali Belly. What other colloquialisms for gastroenteritis are there around the world?
La tourista !
Every time I get it (like once every 2-3 years) for me it's never with diarrhea.
Just agonizing with a lot of vomits, fever, congestion, coughing, muscle pain etc.
Oof that's so much worse.
Explosive diarrhea is how I frequently excuse myself from events.
Is that what we call Beaver Belly in Canada? (from drinking contaminated water?)
I have heard "beaver fever"... but typing it out for the internet just makes it sound like a euphemism.
Yeah.
US here. When I was a kid in the early 70s, in the Midwest we called it Hershey Squirts.
Feces Pieces, Dookie Crisp, poop loops, tootie pebbles,
From Scotland and the family calls it "the runs".
Taco Bell Tuesday
I was gonna say Taco Bell hell
Taco hell one may say
The Havana Splatters
In Pennsylvania it's called the Hershey squirts.
Hershey PA contained by far the largest morbidly obese humans I've ever seen, like fascinating. All seats must be benches.
There's Dehli Belly as well. No alliteration, but it's got the rhyme.
The Sienne Better Days
I never liked the term Montezuma's Revenge. Moctezuma the Second was an accomplished leader and deserves more respect than to have his name misspelled with a diarrhea diagnosis.
That being said I got it right as I left Mexico from vacation and prayed for death to take me.
I like the idea that he's so powerful and vengeful that he's returning from the grave to fuck with Europeans
His name translates roughly "angry lord" or "lord he who frowns/grimace" so I like the idea he's just mean mugging the descendents of man until the end of time.
I totally agree with you on Moctezuma. Tourists ruin everything. Especially their own digestive tracts.
I wanted to go see Tenochtitlan and Teotihuacán. Worth it.
TIL a childhood game was a shitty joke I missed my whole life🤣
The squits. You don't want to be a squitter
I like the actual German name for it, "durchfall". When I look in the toilet, it looks like something that would be called "durch". And yep, it fell right outta me lol
"Beaver Fever" is the occasional Canadianism I've heard, although its specifically for giardiasis.
That sounds utterly horrific for a vagina
It's probably a term used elsewhere too, but in the US Navy, when it's coming from both ends, especially stationed or deployed on ship, it's the double dragon. Ship food is bad. Ship food is rejected prison food. Moldy. Horrible. Absolute garbage. Garbage would probably be safer.
The “stormy shits” in parts of Atlantic Canada.
My mom taught me intestinal distress.
Rolls off the tongue.
I'm not here to kink shame but that's pretty gross
Nurse?
No
I do know that when you're walking down the hall, and you feel something fall, it's diarrhea. Uh uh! Diarrhea !
Not a place around the world but when I was growing up there was a restaurant called genghis grill and it was really good but we called the aftermath Kahn’s revenge
Dirt Squirts
I was in Bali talking to my Ballaniese mate who says he gets Aussie Belly haha
I think for a nice universal slogan we should rally...behind.... "Throwing soup"
Huh, I'd never heard of this meaning to Montezuma's Revenge. I was only familiar with the old video game.
UK - autism
;p
Can xou explain how you got there or are you just here to offend people?
Andrew Wakefield invented a new form of gastroenteritis that he "theorized" caused autism.