What is the type of torture using "ginger beer" hinted at in Night Watch???

I cannot wonder if its a dig into the torture Mussolini used to inflict with castor oil ...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_028.html

a quick google reveals.....

There has been much confusion on alt.fan.pratchett concerning what exactly constitutes the 'ginger beer trick', and which bodily orifices are involved. Terry says:

"To save debate running wild: I've heard this attributed to the Mexican police as a cheap way of getting a suspect to talk and which, happily, does not leave a mark. The carbonated beverage of choice was Coca-Cola. Hint: expanding bubbles, and the sensitivity of the sinuses.

Ah ...

I was googling for "ginger beer torture" - and I thought it might be going in another orafice. Esp as Vimes does a similar trick with raw ginger and an Ox's backside later on ...

i remember talking to a friend online once while he was doing shots of peppermint schanpps.

appearantly he coughed or hiccuped or something at just the wrong moment... and you know how when you laugh really hard while drinking milk... yeah, he did that with 100+ proof peppermint schnapps.

I must say, karmicly, this guy was the sort of creep who'd deserve that sort of agony, but still.. yeouch.

The funniest nose spurting story I ever heard was my Dad's neighbour who did a lot of VoIP chat site stuff using the voice of death... anyway, he was drinking red wine on the internet late at night quite pissed, something someone said made him laugh and he spurted red wine out of his nose. He was so pissed that he then said in the voice of Death:

" My brains are leaking out my nose"

The image of it still makes me smile...although he tells it much better than I ever could.

I allways thaught the GB was administerred to the backside. I assumed this because in the scene where they trick the Unmentionable they say "Hold his LEGS appart"

Somewhat obvious (when reading) to me.

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Me too.... I thought I was involved the behind as well.....

Although the other way probably does a better job....

Hm, no, not quite...

They're tricking an assassin, and the quote says:

It sounds to me like "See you don't get kicked when he fights back." It at least leaves that possibility.

in the occasion in night watch i think that the whole point was just to get the other prisoner scared like the link says, i cant really imagine vimes doing something really bad but meh

Ur... no one said anything contrary.
It's too obvious from the books anyway.
But the men seemed to have a clear idea what "The Ginger Beer Trick" was working like exactly - after Carcer tought it to the Cable Street Particulars, as far as I remember- otherwise the scaring bit wouldn't have worked so well on them. The question what exactly the "Ginger Beer TrickW was supposed to work like spinned a lot of people's heads.

ah right i get ya

Yah.

Heh?:?:

As I recall Vimes opened the bottle and had someone else scream to make the prisoner outside think that they were tourturing the other prisoner.

Actually, he never opened the bottle. He made the popping noise with his thumb and Colon screamed.