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...Rather than reaching for the bananas, the preferred method there is to just reach for the item in question, making policing a dirtier job than it really needs to be. ®

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Urgh. That was an image I didn't want.

Is this going to be good advice for Dan Lyons, maybe, after Steve Jobs' goons catch up with the Phantom Blogger?

Oh, we've recovered your necklace, here you go. Might want to soak it in disinfectant for about a year...

Surely taking the miscreant out for a Friday night of beer and vindaloo would have been quicker and easier than bananas. I know from experience that you could look down my mouth and see clear out my arsehole the next day.

I was very surprised when I saw this story, because the experience with my infant son has been that bananas have exactly the opposite effect. Mango or, that old humorous standby, prunes would have been successful much more quickly.

Considering the number of references to bottoms as well, it's just as well this story was based in India rather than, say, China...

Are they known as Peelers?

I thank you

Um... in my family we eat bananas when we have diarrhea, to help things return to a solid state!!! Maybe things work differently in India, but I doubt it's THAT different!!!

A gallon of apple cider (not the alcoholic stuff - you brits!) or a couple of glasses of prune juice probably would've done the trick. Or as someone else suggested, lots of mangos in a nice big fruit salad. But the worst diarrhea I ever remember was after drinking too much apple cider as a child in the autumn when we had a tour of the orchard & cider mill. Went on the hay rides, had our fill of cider and spent all night on the throne swearing I'd never have another drop of yummy cider again. Hmmm, I wonder where I can get some cider today? I should sit down with a few bananas and a big glass of cider... maybe they'd equal each other out.

...so to speak.

I'll get me coat...