Try ﬁtting this in to conversation (if you aren’t Borat)

May 4, 2008 at 9:26 PM
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In the cultural differences’ file tonight: you have to head over to Procrastinator’s blog here on Vox for the song, ‘I Have a Bad Case of Diarrhœa’, as taught to Japanese learning English.
Just where you can fit in this catchy phrase is beyond me, though I imagine it is better to be armed with it than not.

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OMG, just trying to imagine any reason as to why I would want to share my...errrm...pain, with someone on the street has be laughing so hard, I would probably be in need of a diaper long before I could get the phrase out. So I think I would ask for the diaper first, then worry about clarity of speech later.

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Exactly! I would have just asked for the toilet location. I wouldn’t even explain why and folks can work it out during or after I was in there!

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Please pass the Pepto Bismol...Where is the toilet?

Jack Yan replied to Zak Klemmer’s comment:
May 5, 2008
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Yes—the Japanese know so many of the trade names (they probably invented half of them) that that should work!

Try ﬁtting this in to conversation (if you aren’t Borat)

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