Shyness

Shoot, Shag or Marry is a wonderfully juvenile game, but brilliant when you’re A) bored, B) in the company of the same gender, or C) stuck halfway up a mountain in freezing snow and it’s too early to light the freakin’ yak-dung stove. (Under no circumstances should it be played with your boss.)

On my recent trip to Nepal, my fellow trekkers and I embarked on a round of SSM (not to be confused with S&M, which – I’m told – is far messier). Trouble was, our pool of men to declare shag- or shoot-worthy was small, fleece-clad and, like us, badly in need of a shower. So we moved on to celebrities: Colin Firth was a “marry”, Olivier Martinez a “shag” and Johnny Depp was split evenly between “shoot” and “shag”, depending on whether he’d bathed.

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