Spitting
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I also don't see footballers doing it every 10 seconds...
As said, when doing sport sometimes you just need to spit and sometimes the need is greater than other times.
But on the street yes, I'd be embarrassed to spit even if I really needed to (load of snot?
) unless there was literally nobody about and I'd do it into some foliage or something not just leave a wonderful sight on the pavement.
As said, when doing sport sometimes you just need to spit and sometimes the need is greater than other times.
But on the street yes, I'd be embarrassed to spit even if I really needed to (load of snot?
) unless there was literally nobody about and I'd do it into some foliage or something not just leave a wonderful sight on the pavement.It's vile and disgusting.
But, with the sad celebrity status afforded to predominantly footballers (because of the amount of air time they're given) and other sports people, is it any wonder its a pervasive habit, given that these people are (sadly) role models?
But, with the sad celebrity status afforded to predominantly footballers (because of the amount of air time they're given) and other sports people, is it any wonder its a pervasive habit, given that these people are (sadly) role models?
Agreed with all the above. I regularly umpire hockey matches, anyone who I see spitting on the pitch gets an automatic yellow card.
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Completely agree with everything said above.
On another note, I was walking through my local village the other day and a woman was letting her toddler have a wee up a corner by the shop when there were toilets 200 yards away. Surely he could've held it in for 200 yards!
Farmers tend to spit. A lot.
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Why wouldn't he be? The players just don't spit because they know the rules.
The points people are making about footballers are:
It's the most aired sport in the UK
Ergo the chance of seeing a footballer spit is higher
Footballers in general seem to spit a lot
Sport can (in some people) create phlegm or saliva build up, which is no surprise that footballers feel the need to do it.
However, as a result of seeing it so prolifically on TV people start doing it (at a young age) in their daily life, and it becomes a life habit.
What people should do is catch it in a tissue and bin it. It's not different to sneezing on someone, or around people - it's about being a decent human being and making the world a more pleasant place for everyone around you and not being selfish.
I go back to my point, that vomiting and other bodily excretions should never be performed in public - it's disgusting. (Of course there are always exceptions to the rule, but, my point stands.)
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Don't care, I'm there to uphold standards and regulate the match, not make friends
If only more "popular" games, especially the televised ones that everybody seems to worship in this country, had the same amount of respect and pride in behaving well, society would be leaps ahead of where it is now.
I find that there are certain types of people who tend to spit a lot, and I am forever dodging it on the pavement near Finsbury Park Station.
Typically its the troublesome youths who tend to be constantly doing it. I can never work out why though, is it because they think it makes them look hard? Because it shows a lack of respect for society? Or is it because they just never had anyone around to teach them any manners?
I also notice a lot of people in my area who have immigrated to Britain being big offenders. I think perhaps this is a cultural difference though where people are more inclined to spit on the street and think nothing of it.
Typically its the troublesome youths who tend to be constantly doing it. I can never work out why though, is it because they think it makes them look hard? Because it shows a lack of respect for society? Or is it because they just never had anyone around to teach them any manners?
I also notice a lot of people in my area who have immigrated to Britain being big offenders. I think perhaps this is a cultural difference though where people are more inclined to spit on the street and think nothing of it.
Sports?