Spitting

MooMoo444 · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:52

Why don't people just swallow instead of spit.

Amp34 · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:54

B@Th*nG said:
honestly don't know why people are dropping it all on footballers either, just another typical hurrr durrr football opinion. people spit when doing all sorts of sports

B@

I don't think I've ever seen anyone spit whilst playing tennis and rarely (if at all seen anyone spit playing rugby)...

Just don't understand why footballers have so much saliva, and it must be saliva because phlegm usually comes out in big long stringy bits half attached to your face!

Janesy B · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:55

My local High Street has a stained red pavement because of people chewing Gutkha and spitting it out, every tree/bench/parking meter is surrounded with it. It's nasty, the council have to send down power washers every so often to clear it up.

Yaayuh! · 29 Jul 2013 at 15:56

When i jog i require a good ol' spit now and then. But that's the only time i feel the need to do it.

Diesel · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:08

Amp34 said:
I don't think I've ever seen anyone spit whilst playing tennis and rarely (if at all seen anyone spit playing rugby)...

Tennis players have the luxury of stopping every couple of minutes when they can swallow it with a drink or expel it into their towel.

MooMoo444 · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:09

Rossi~ said:
When i jog i require a good ol' spit now and then. But that's the only time i feel the need to do it.

-require
+desire

There's no actual need to spit, people just do it because they think it helps.

CosmicClown · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:15

Doesn't bother me as it has no personal effect on me, I'm not one to go around telling people what they should/shouldn't do based on a personal preference.

If you spit, good for you, whatever floats ya boat.

If you don't, well again, good for you, just don't go around trying to enforce your behavioural traits on other people.

gigeorge · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:18

I find when run / cycle i need to spit, esp when breathing hard.. Nothing wrong with it in middle of athletic endevour, but on the street - no.

Janesy B · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:22

CosmicClown said:
Doesn't bother me as it has no personal effect on me, I'm not one to go around telling people what they should/shouldn't do based on a personal preference.

If you spit, good for you, whatever floats ya boat.

If you don't, well again, good for you, just don't go around trying to enforce your behavioural traits on other people.

I'd rather not walk into spit, and then walk it around my house etc. I don't fancy getting Tuberculosis or one of the other infectious diseases on the rise because people don't know how to act civilised. It's a dirty habit.

Col_M · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:26

When people casually spit on the floor for no apparent reason it's abhorrent and disgusting.

I can see there would be situations where you may need to, like coughing something up and you don't have a tissue or hanky on you, or if a bug flies in your mouth etc. these things happen and as long as the person is discreet and does it into a drain, gutter or bush then I don't mind much.

FinglisHobbit said:
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!

Over here that seems to be completely normal, there's a shopping centre 5 minutes from where I work that has trees planted outside with the grates around the base, I've lost count of the number of mothers I've seen let their kids pee against the trees. The strange thing is there are free toilets in the shopping centre less than a minute from the entrance.

Dj_Jestar · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:36

Not only is it disgusting, it is literally filthy. It's the leading factor to the spread of tuberculosis in built up areas.

Twirlywoos · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:38

Rainagul said:
Bit bored at the office and noticed a fine representation of human society across the street spitting like a 'hard' man every 10-15 seconds as if we were on a farm.

I can appreciate the need for a good old spit every now and then when the time calls for it but this seems a little silly.

Do people recognize this as a genuine problem with the person or is this just a bad habit that 'rains' down on our streets and should be dealt with?

was he a bagladeshi?

wnb · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:39

Janesy B said:
My local High Street has a stained red pavement because of people chewing Gutkha and spitting it out, every tree/bench/parking meter is surrounded with it. It's nasty, the council have to send down power washers every so often to clear it up.

Gutkha

Had to google Gutkha, that worse than normal spitting.

antijoke · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:40

I was expecting a Bieber rant.

Janesy B · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:41

I know what it is because I always have to dispose of the empty packets that blow into my garden lol.

MooMoo444 · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:44

Janesy B said:
I know what it is because I always have to dispose of the empty packets that blow into my garden lol.

Wiki'd what the stuff is, that's gross

Frightful Boar · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:47

Yeah. spitting is gross and nasty.

And it's a definite that people who do it think it makes them look cool or tough. Or something equally useless.

Gotta love that even for something as universally reviled as spitting, there's some plank saying that it's ok and you shouldn't try to force what YOU think is right on other people.

Twirlywoos · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:49

wnb said:
Gutkha

Had to google Gutkha, that worse than normal spitting.

you should go to a bangali's house. They spit on their walls and in every room there is a spit corner. They often have who can spit the highest competitions during their weddings and the venue is covered with red spit descending from walls.

-westy- · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:51

Freefaller said:
Why wouldn't he be? The players just don't spit because they know the rules.

To be fair, spitting isn't specifically prohibited in the rules, however I see it as disrespect towards the officials and staff that supply the facilities, therefore disrespect towards myself, especially as I often give my time free of charge.

Janesy B · 29 Jul 2013 at 16:57

MooMoo444 said:
Wiki'd what the stuff is, that's gross

So is Khat, I see the odd monged out Somalian on the train munching a load of leaves with an utterly rotten mouth.