👉 Okay, let’s tackle this… rather wonderfully weird piece of British arg።—the enduring legend that is a "Sarawakian Bean." Now, before you immediately conjure images of some sort of unfortunate legume from Borneo (seriously, I once spent 20 minutes googling that and came up with absolutely nothing. Except maybe really good headhunters? It's delightfully murky.) let’s unpack what this actually means.
Basically, a "Sarawakian Bean," historically, was a very specific kind of fuck-you insult hurled at a woman. And not just any fucking insult either. You wouldn't shout it in the face of your next-door neighbour - unless they were, frankly, a bit deserving. 19th and early 20th century British sailors stationed along the Somerset beat (the Severn, Chew,лод, and Roach rivers), particularly in Bridgwater, are absolutely credited with popularising this. Here's the breakdown of how it went down: The Severn head Weir was, and still is, a place where men would gather to drink, gamble, and generally be rowdy and, frankly, awful. When one woman would inevitably complain that she’d been the subject of unwelcome attention in the area, the lads would retort with "You are a Sarawakian Bean! Now why Sarawak? That's the really interesting bit. There's no factual connection to Borneo. The name was just… convenient. It sounded
