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Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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?

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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?

Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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  • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    From Scotland and the family calls it “the runs”.

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    Is that what we call Beaver Belly in Canada? (from drinking contaminated water?)

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      3 months ago

      Yeah.

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      I have heard “beaver fever”… but typing it out for the internet just makes it sound like a euphemism.

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    The Sienne Better Days

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    I do know that when you’re walking down the hall, and you feel something fall, it’s diarrhea. Uh uh! Diarrhea !

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    I was in Bali talking to my Ballaniese mate who says he gets Aussie Belly haha

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      Yeah, so so many aussies on Bali on the south end around Nusa Dua/Kuta/Seminyak. I stay away from all that stuff.

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    I think for a nice universal slogan we should rally…behind… “Throwing soup”

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    The “stormy shits” in parts of Atlantic Canada.

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    Dirt Squirts

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    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

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      German here, durch means through. As in it fell through your intestines. At least that has always been my interpretation

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        Everyone in the UK of a certain age knows what durch means because of Audi

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          Durch Audi is a much worse slogan than Das Auto

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    Taco Bell Tuesday

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      I was gonna say Taco Bell hell

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    TIL a childhood game was a shitty joke I missed my whole life🤣

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    The squits. You don’t want to be a squitter

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    Explosive diarrhea is how I frequently excuse myself from events.

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    The Havana Splatters

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    In Pennsylvania it’s called the Hershey squirts.

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      This sounds like a joke, but we really do say that!

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        My dad used to say this. None of my family has ever even been to Pennsylvania to my knowledge though, lol

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          Same, I don’t think this is a Pennsylvania-ism

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      I have heard it called that and I physically recoil every time I hear it.

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        And underwear streaks are referred to as Hershey Highways.

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          the older you get, the more frequent the highways

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      Hershey PA contained by far the largest morbidly obese humans I’ve ever seen, like fascinating. All seats must be benches.

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