wiggins
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I traveled a lot around SE Asia in the mid 1980's, back packing.Those fuckers drink that shit. Their immune systems can run circles around ours.
I've seen women washing clothes in the canals in Jakarta just down stream of people shitting in it.
Everyone shits into the water courses. it's their toilet. Everyone washes in the water courses. it's their washing machine.
Sukarno described Jakarta as a 'big smelly kampong' and he was right. Big gas bubbles rise regularly from the canals. They flow slowly and stink of decay which permeates the city. Refuse fires add some spice to the aroma.
Their immune systems are fantastic. If a soft westerner drinks the tap water it's gastro city. Singapore is an island of hygiene in the region. It's safe to drink from the taps yet after the paranoia of the rest of the place it takes a little while to actually risk it...
Ah, sterile Singapore. No chewing gum, no graffiti, no law and order issues. More first world than the first world...