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On a trip to town this weekend for a period of one hour and fifteen minutes I counted 73 people spitting on the pavement. All were men and 46 of them Asian men. Some had perfected a silent way of propelling the contents of their mouths quite a few feet almost silently. Others chose to make a noise like a choking dog and drag the intended projectile from the back of their necks before lobbing it on the pavement. Eleven proceeded to stand on the results of the song and dance and perform a twisting action, why , I don't know, maybe its a sort of territory marking ritual, they then go home and walk on the carpet to add texture or something. Is it any wonder that TB is on the increase, what do they get out of this filthy habit? I tried it today, I spit 3 times and was so thirsty I had to go for a pint........ Well maybe that is it........ have I found the reason. don't think so. This is a filthy dirty habit and makes you wonder what you stand in on a walk around town. Your thoughts on why they do it would be interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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no idea why they do it but it irritates the hell out of me! You see it a lot on the footy pitch also, though I've heard that this is something to do with clearing the nasal passages to aid breathing. hmmm pockets in footy shorts for hankies, do ya reckon it could catch on?????

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Does nobody swallow these days..........ahhm............

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disgusting habit and the reason you are looking for fireman= disgusting pigs.

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Their is no doubt about that Cashy...........

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Nowthen harwood. Just cos Rory wouldn't let you retrieve his hanky from his pocket!!!

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Have we uncovered something here?

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Very anti-social and from a health point of view dangerous.

Football players don't set a good example on TV though.

On the old Accy buses it always said no spitting upstairs, anyone remember?

Was it acceptable downstairs?

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watching england today even flintoff was spitting,,,,,,,,i thought it was just a football thing..obiviously not.

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:eek: You mean I was actually spotted????? :o

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no i was shaking rorys hand vigorously!! Yeah I was, look are you arguing with me???? get back to the thread....... spitting......... disgusting!

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on a bus it mite have said spitting originally but how many times did u see it changed? lol

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My lips are sealed.



[Whilst I swallow.]

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Nah, I think not.

You'd die of boredom.:)

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I think the spitting rule on buses was a hangover from the days when people used snuff and the spitoons were for people who chose to chew tobacco. There is no excuse for spitting in public these days. As other members have pointed out it is unhygenic and anti-social.

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:mad: when you see that there is a reported increase in cases of TB it makes me wonder why people spit.


it would be great to be able to educate people about the danger of spitting and how that act can help in the spread of nasty illness like TB.


as to the busses spitting was not allowed anywhere but smoking was allowed on the rear seats of single deckers and in the upper saloon on double deckers.


i was having a "heated" disscussion one day when picking up my youngest from school (he now 22) with an Asian lady about the nasty act of spitting and got her to clean it up.


years later had another Asisn lady spit on the floor of my amb and i gave her some tissue to clean it up!!!!! i for one will try to avoid contact with that sort of stuff!!!!!! :engsmil:

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Spitting is a filthy dirty disgusting habit that should be carry some sort of penalty (death by being spat at springs to mind) My little'un at about age 3 thought it was ok to do it because the footballers on T.V did it. He soon learned the error of his ways and used to shout at anybody he saw spitting in the street.

one Asian lad at Bacup bus stop got quite a shock when he refused, at my request, to stop spitting. I threw up near enough to him for it to splash his trousers!! I was pregnant at the time and he was really turning my stomach. I warned him 3 times but he laughed at me. Served him right. I wonder if he ever spat in the street again.

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Go Debbie, Go Debbie, hee hee love it!!!!

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I have to agree that it is the most disgusting habit. Most ordinary people are either not aware of the increasing TB rate, or simple don't care because they think it won't affect them.

I too have made a lady clean up spit from a hospital floor when she leaned out of bed and gobbed at my feet. I calmly handed her a tissue as she pointed at the domestic. I got the translator to come to the ward and get her to clean it up. I also got the translator to tell her that she was being discharged there and then, and got her husband to come and fetch her...:D I can't abide spitting....

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At least spitting gave that one act pony Bob Carolgees a career.

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Spitting is a sign of contempt for others. Proberly why we see it in sport.

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It's high time that our sporting celebrities stopped spitting and doing St Nick's flick (emptying their nasal contents) on the sports field. When SARS hit the Far East, places such as Hong Kong made it illegal to spit in a public place. I think the fine for spitting back then was HK$1000. This fine was strictly adhered to, as is the HK$600 for littering. You are fined the full amount and basically rot in a prison cell until it is paid. For a major city this place is scrupulously clean. We should do the same thing here...:)

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I hate seeing anyone spit, I often see mainly men fling one out of the car window, I dont think there's any excuse for it, they could put it into a tissue, I think its become a habit with some people.

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I know I m hardly normal, but why do people spit?

I smoke and don't feel the need to spit. Surely if you get rid of saliva your body just produces more to replace it?

I think it's just a way for weak people to make a very antisocial mark on the world, like public farters.

Happily though, people that let rip a fart in public aren't putting your life at risk of disease.:eek: