Comments on: What do STD shops in India sell?

By: Audrey | That Backpacker

Audrey | That Backpacker — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:27:46 +0000

Haha, funny post! When my sister and I were travelling through India we stopped to pose at these phone stands. We had some good laughs over it… 😀

By: girishsr

girishsr — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:55:22 +0000

RT @grrrltraveler: What are STD shops in India for? http://t.co/K3EpMkOh

By: Christine Ka'aloa

Christine Ka'aloa — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:48:00 +0000

In reply to rashmi. @rashmi: Cultural misinterpretations are fun! It creates a space for your imagination to go haywire! Though you know it can't mean there are shops selling STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) it opens the gateway for fun!

By: Christine Ka'aloa

Christine Ka'aloa — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:21:33 +0000

In reply to Dave.

@Dave: Ewww.. sticky keypads! I wonder if you could get STDs from them? Yeah, I don’t think I’d go into those “booths”. Went into a local internet/call place near a bus station in a small Indian town. All male (w/ the except of me) and 97% on girlie sites. A bit humorous as every Asian internet joint i’ve been to before India, was filled with boys addicted to video games. Sadly, w/ the India joint, it wasn’t even porn they were looking at but just chicks in bikinis. My heart kinda went out to them. They were staring really hard at those photos, as if those bikinis would melt off. But I digress…

By: rashmi

rashmi — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:17:04 +0000

That is funny. I am from Nepal and we use the same abbreviations for different calls within the country and outside the country. I never noticed the second meaning of STD until one friend of my college who went to Nepal brought back the photos from different shops that had the signs of STD and ISD. He thought it was hilarious and was having a good laugh out of it.

By: easyhiker101

easyhiker101 — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:57:35 +0000

What are STD shops in India for? http://t.co/CmFQlpQF via @grrrltraveler

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:50:14 +0000

I remember these places so well. I think I spent 2 days trying to buy a sim card from one of them in New Delhi. That was after a half day of being stuck in wooden box cubicle listing to beeps and crackles of telephone exchanges.

Never mind about the sticky keypads!!

By: Puna Choo

Puna Choo — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:52:29 +0000

Haha no disappointment just very interesting and educational=)

By: Christine Kaaloa

Christine Kaaloa — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:13:47 +0000

Awww, did it disappoint. haha. Everywhre I went I kept seeing STD shops. I had to know what it meant.

Thnx for the Foodland compliment. 😉

By: Puna Choo

Puna Choo — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:57:59 +0000

Haha I thought u bought some! Or it was a clinic for people who had. Many ways to look at it haha! Btw I finally saw your food land commercial!=) very nice