#TuesdayTruthday: Goody Feed Beings Reveal The Weirdest Experiences They’ve Had Abroad

We all agree that the Internet is filled with nothing but truthfulness: that influencer whom you’ve been stalking definitely looks like a diva 24 hours a day, and travel 365 days a year.

Your friend is in a great relationship because she’s been posting lovey-dovey images on Instagram, despite the fact that you saw her on Tinder this morning.

With so many people having such a perfect image online, we thought of having a weekly section called #TuesdayTrueday, whereby we Goody Feed, the imperfect human beings on the Internet, reveal some of our stories to show you the truth online.

And for this week, we’ll be talking about the weirdest experiences Goody Feed beings have had abroad.

Ah, the holidays. Nothing excites you more than boarding a plane to a foreign land where the only thing you have to worry about is how much food to eat and alcohol to drink.

Travelling to other countries also entails experiencing different cultures, traditions, and attractions.

If you think we Goody Feed beings have never been abroad because we have no friends, you’d only be partially right. We don’t have friends yes, but we don’t go overseas because we’re contractually obligated to work 365 days a year.

But after a mass protest involving me and another writer just outside our office where we held up signs saying “We Want Holidays”, our boss passed by after visiting the restroom and said “Ok, lah, take next week off. Just get back to work”.

And so we did. And we experienced some rather strange things.

Laughing gas in Vietnam – Editor, 24

The only time I had heard about laughing gas was when my friend gave birth and told me that she inhaled a lot of laughing gas and got high. I thought, how nice. 

Up till then, I didn’t think that laughing gas could be used for anything other than the purpose of spitting a baby out of your privates. Thinking about getting high from laughing gas as a recreational activity was a thought that never came to mind. 

Until I travelled to Vietnam with my friends. 

There was a place that we went to that had these massive balloons hanging outside the store. They were so full and huge that I thought if anyone touched them, they would explode. At first I thought that it was just for decoration (a rather weird one at that) and not for funsies.

I was wrong. Each of those massive balloons cost $10 and was filled to the brim with laughing gas. You could see people in the establishment sucking the air out of the balloons like it wasn’t weird at all. Of course, my friends tried it, but because I did not want to die before my time, I didn’t. 

They would inhale briefly and feel high for a very short awhile (about a minute or two), before they had to take another inhale. They described the feeling as “the floor is soft”, which was probably amplified by the fast af music. The place gets bonus points for having hot dancing girls.

Ping Pong Show in Thailand – Deputy Editor, 27

While the Ping Pong show sounds like a demonstration of skilled paddlers, it is more like a demonstration of how certain skills should never be demonstrated.

There are ping pong balls involved, yes, but paddled they are not.

Even though ping pong balls spend most of their existence getting smacked and accidentally stepped on, they endure a type of abuse so strange in the ping pong show that one almost feels the impulse to call PETA.

You will notice my reluctance to describe exactly what I witnessed; this is due to the fact that this is Goody Feed and not an E.L. James novel.

Basically, semi-nude girls take turns doing weird things on stage. Some sexual, some indescribable, and some plain horrific. Some acts involve stuffing inanimate objects (like ping pong balls) into unspeakable places, with one act even involving a live bird. I’ve never been able to look at birds the same way since.

All I can say is that the show is certainly an unforgettable experience, one not for the faint-hearted or the visually unimpaired.