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QI · Season 1, Episode 15

Alan Davies, Stephen Fry and others in “Unfinished Business”

[On the legend of Romans vomiting in order to be able to carry on eating]

People definitely did that in pubs when I was growing up.

They threw up in order to drink more?

Yeah. Go outside, be sick on the pavement, shake their heads, go straight back to the bar.

Oh yeah, the tactical chunder. Totally.

Yeah. "I feel terrible. I'm gonna have to go and have a tactical chunder." Come back five minutes later: "I'm fine now!"

Hmm. Makes sense.

Makes sense. Four quids worth of bitter in the gutter and carry on.

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