The GBT- one of the best moments in NW. I had a loads of fun with that one
-Popp!!
-Hsssss!!
-AAAAHHHHHHH!!
Could scare the hell out of anyone.

Sir Gawain you are quite correct but also quite pedantic! an admirable fault in a man/women/vampire/vampiress/troll/trolless(?)/dwarf/uh. . .dwarf.

well I kinda imagined a bottle full of bubbles being shaked, opened and inserted into the man's hide...should hurt like hell...although it's a bit nasty when you think about someone actually shoving it in...

Ew. Ow!
I also imagined something similar to the "ox medicine" trick...
And, by the way, the ox medicine was also used once by Nanny Ogg, on a cow in Lancre. Quote:

"Take these two pills. One's for the cow."
"What's the other one for?"
"Well, you want to catch it, don't you?"

The GingerBeer Trick probably involved use of the carbonation to pump the Ginger into the nasal passages. Done right I'm sure it hurt--but perhaps just the anticipation was enough to make people talk..............especially if they didn't know where ti was going...........................

You're right, it seems.
Although it is, in the book as such, left to the fantasy of the reader... Pratchett sometimes leaves such details open, I seem to recall. I seem to stumble upon a few questionmarkable situations in each book, and not all of them can be blamed on the language barrier...

I consulted my family "hexpert" in Pterrian Stuff and he says a Big part of the "The Ginger Beer Trick is that we don't really KNOW what orifice the Ginger Beer goes into (or comes out of) because its much moe frightening to imagine one(or another) as it were.

PTerry's confirmed that it's the nose. It's the Coca-Cola torture so popular in Mexico and other locales. The torturer puts his or her hand over the top of the bottle, shakes it, and then releases it into the victim's nose. agonizing pain follows, but doesn't leave a mark.

Of course, that's what it's meant to be, but part of the torture in NW is the doubt that is left open to the people being tortured about what is going to happen.

Katcal means NW, surely, for Nightwatch?

Katcal has no idea what Ba is going on about.

I see we can now give a reason for deleting a post. That's a neat solution for double posts!

Thanks to the "reason for editing"-box, it is indeed. We've never had that before.

The Ginger Beer Trick is just that, a TRICK. In horror films, a lot of the time, the gory details are left out, this isn't to avoid censorship, its because the imagination can do a much worse job than images on a screen. The same is true here. By leaving the most nervous prisoner til last, he can hear everyone else being "tortured," but he cant see, so his imagination makes it horrific. The idea is to get the last prisoner so scared that he gives everything away, without any violence of any sort.

As for Carcers torture, I always imagined this to be similar to the Mexican way, but I must say I always imagind it to be up the anus, particularly after the part with the Ginger and the Ox. It just seemed the way it would go.

isn't the word 'Trick' a bit of a give away? I have heard of it being used by some of our less salubrious nations using assorted carbonated beverages. Brings to mind a very interesting, and not a wee bit disturbing, image. Although i'm pretty sure that there are probably people out there who would quite happily pay for this sort of fizzy enema!