Tell you what. When hippos, snapping turtles, crocodiles, etc. al, develop opposable thumbs and the wherewithal to build human zoos, they can chuck as many watermelons at me to eat as they please and I’ll do my best to entertain them.

I don’t see any comments that suggest anyone has a problem with weed or anything else. Personally I find it a bit arrogant of a 20-something American to land in another country for the first time and immediately start figuring out how to best skirt local laws and customs, then writing about how cool and worldly she…

“eating mono meals or eating only one type of food until satiated is beneficial for optimal digestion and absorption of nutrients. Our bodies have a really difficult time breaking down and assimilating nutrients when we combine foods. I eat mono meals ever day.”

I love the fact that:

Challenge accepted. At first it didn’t recognize the face. However, if you rotate it so the face is upright... Also a chimp.

Really? MC Fructose seems worse. Far worse...

I once ate a whole watermelon at a summer camp I worked for in high school. It was a boredom thing, mostly. I think I was also trying to impress a female counselor (who wasn’t present, but I hoped would hear about the event), which gave me the required motivation to work through that fucking rind. The rind tastes bad,…

Hey, that snapping turtle is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen. I hate that animal and want it extinct.

Should we talk about that pig eating his watermelon on wall-to-wall carpeting in somebody’s home? Also, I hate the hippos’ handler.

We need 4 hippos and about 60 watermelons. Now

Yeah I kept thinking, I know weed isn't actually addictive, but fuck if this lady hasn't got a psychological addiction...

I have never, ever smoked weed good enough to justify doing anything as risky as what you just described.

Or you could, you know, just refrain for however long your trip is to avoid winding up in a foreign prison. (Which would be especially dire as a woman i’d imagine). This coming from someone who partakes regularly.

For every “it will be FINE” story with a happy ending, there are enough stories that end badly to support a more prudent approach. eg, a friend of a friend was seconded to work in a muslim country where drinking is forbidden but the common understanding is that if you are able to gracefully pour yourself into a taxi…

Yup. I don’t smoke, but I have no problem with weed. This may sound judgy regardless, but as I was reading I couldn’t help but think that there’s something wrong when a person will risk that much danger in a foreign country just for recreational drug use. Or maybe I’m just a square, I don’t know.

Seriously, it just makes no sense. And the tone here is that this was something to be proud of. I mean, not really?

Yeah, I don’t get it at all. Like, I get wanting to turn up (or, rather, down) while on vacation, but there’s places you go to get messed up and there’s places you go to see shit. Sometimes there’s an overlap and that’s great, but why not just skip the weed for a few days while you’re staring at the pyramids in the…

Good thing weed isnt addictive at all. Should make doing without on a trip no problem. Then you dont have to worry about any of this.

I was so terrified reading this. What if that cabbie had come back with the Cairo police?