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That said, teens are dropping brown bombs in swimming pools, which is a whole different conceptual kettle of shitting fish. Here's the Mirror's report on it, because… I guess they did a hard-hitting investigation into how and why teens are shitting for fun?I don't know. 2k15 is, if I'm being honest, an extremely confusing year:Trending on VICE Sports: It's Time for Everyone to Support the England Women's Team
They are doing this, the shitting teens, because of a sequence in popular teenager film The Inbetweeners Movie 2, where Inbetweener Neil—the sweet, simple Inbetweener—drops a turd down a log flume and it hits Inbetweener Will—the nerd Inbetweener—directly in the face. Years and years of evolution. Thousands of hours of schooling. Our teens are shitting in swimming pools because the monkey idiot shat in the face of the geek.Dozens of holidaymakers have fallen ill after teenagers deliberately pooed in the pool in a sick Inbetweeners-inspired "logging" trend.
Tourists have been confined to their rooms and put on drips after becoming seriously unwell at a holiday village in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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Essentially, what I am getting from this is: 19 people had diarrhea in Egypt, and it's a trend now. Like, someone took a shit in a pool in Spain, and one in the Dominican Republic, and that's a trend now. That's all it takes for a trend to happen. Extrapolate the data. It's possible that only three turds happened, three shits in three separate pools across three continents. But that's a trend, for teens to enjoy. That's a trend piece. An IRL meme, if you will.Will it be in this week's New Yorker? It will not. "European Teens Are Detoxing Their Buttholes Over the Warming Jets of a Communal Swimming Pool, and Here's Why You Should Too": no. But it's something to talk about, isn't it? Something for us to pearl-clasp over the inexorable spiraling-downward trajectory of the world's teens.Teens don't know what they are doing, and we don't know what teens are doing. That's the truth at the root of all of this. Are teens shitting in swimming pools? It is very possible. Teens have done amusing shits in swimming pools before, and they will do it again. It is a trend? No. Is everyone on holiday at constant risk from cryptosporidium and E. coli from a thousand bobbing teen shits? They are not. Are teens actually so bored of having constant, unerring access to the internet and the ego-ruining feedback loop that is their notifications center—are they so bored of this that they can only ever truly feel alive when voiding their bowels into the chlorinated water of an all-inclusive resort swimming pool in Sharm el-Sheikh? That the only thing they can get close to feeling an emotion with is their butthole as it gulps one huge warm mouthful of water up after shitting completely into the deep end?Last week, a British woman was paid £2,000 [$3,155] in compensation after she fell ill while staying at the same resort in Egypt in 2014.
Travel companies have now threatened to fine those caught pooing in the pool.
Travel expert Nick Harris, of lawyers Simpson Millar, said the number of affected holidaymakers in Egypt over the last few weeks ran into double figures.
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