Late nineties, backpacking through Nepal.
We spent 9 days trekking in the hills outside Bharatpur. If you’ve never visited Nepal, it’s a stunningly beautiful country, but extremely poor – the rural areas especially so. And take it from me, genuine Nepalese cuisine (as opposed to the Westernised version) is nothing to sing about . So hiking all day with only the local delicacies to look forward to can be a fairly dispiriting experience.

One particular favourite is ‘bhat’, a kind of stewed rice and grain porridge flavoured with locally foraged herbs, moss, yak’s milk and whatever the fuck else they can find to put in it. Worse, to make it go a bit further they massively overcook it to allow the herbs to ‘brew’, then water it down to a thin consistency and drink it out of mugs or bowls. Pretty soul-crushing when there’s nothing else on offer.

Another common myth about Nepal is that it’s bollock fucking freezing the whole time. When you think of the place you imagine snow, sherpas and toes lost to frostbite but parts of it are actually fairly warm all year round, and pretty fucking hot in the summertime (we were there in July, and it was 30+). Despite this, they insist on serving steaming hot mugs of delicious bhat all year round, regardless of the weather.

Long story short, after a long day’s hiking I’d have chewed off my own arm for a cold beer, but all we could get was unseasonable gruel tea.
(Joy Division Oven Gloves Death to false metal, Sun 21 Jul 2013, 14:27, 6 replies)

Ooof, right in the kisser.
One of the best ever.
( Ghoti Fingers, Sun 21 Jul 2013, 14:58, closed)

You fucking cocksnorter.

(SSSSSSSSSS, Sun 21 Jul 2013, 20:29, closed)

I didn't even spot the pun until after I read the replies,
so enraged was I by the though of gap-year, backpacking wankers.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 21 Jul 2013, 23:45, closed)

played sir
best pun EVAAAAAAAAA

extra points as ^^bitchtits^^ pointed out for 1st making me think you were just a gap year cunt whining about the local grub then powwwwww PUN OF THE FUCKING YEAR
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Mon 22 Jul 2013, 17:51, closed)

For the record, I still think he/she's a cunt,
gap year or no.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 23 Jul 2013, 8:37, closed)