When I lived in Thailand I nearly stood on a monster 12" long poisonous centipede, I'm not normally jumpy but this scared the s**t out of me!! I battered it with a broom handle, never seen anything so vicious, it even tried to bite through its own body to escape. I took a pic to show the neighbours, the student girls on one side jumped and gave a number of a bug killer as it would put you in hospital for a week, with the possibility of losing a foot!! The big Thai mama on the other side, who spent her day with a pestle and mortar making curry paste asked where it was so we could put it in whisky then made the gesture of putting one fist in the crook of her other elbow doing the wahay thing, saying it was good for the man!!!
In Portugal I've drunk whisky with lizards in, and in Bangkok Chinatown I've seen stuff you don't want to know about!!
