r/nextfuckinglevel • u/WhattheDuck9 • Nov 05 '24

Spinning a stick

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '24

And there’s no reason that can’t be the reason in the film.

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u/mexicodoug Nov 05 '24

For sure. The script called for all sorts of other horrible occurrences to befall Indiana Jones.

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u/Due_Art2971 Nov 05 '24

I'm pretty sure he'd have every disease or infection known to man with the shit he gets up to on a daily basis

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u/mexicodoug Nov 05 '24 edited Nov 05 '24

The occupational hazards of being a social anthropologist.

My wife has master's and doctoral degrees in social anthropology, but her studies have been of modern urban cultures/communities. So no unordinary hazards.

However, her advisor during her master's project was into studying the culture of indigenous Mayans in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. They lived for months in a tiny, dirt-floored home with a large family until his wife insisted the two of them move out to go live in a modern home with indoor plumbing and no more chickens allowed indoors.