Why do people spit?
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I don't know why people would spit. I usually swallow ...
Oh. Oh!
Okay ..., who didn't see that coming?
Some say it's an urban myth that such animals live below the streets -I say why risk it
I can buy needing to spit if you're involved in some kind of sporting activity, such as running or playing football or whatever. But just randomly needing to spit walking around town or just sitting in an office or whatever? I totally don't get that. Unless you have some kind of drooling problem for whatever medical reason, and even then, most people I've met with that sort of issue carry a few hankies or a pack of tissues around with them to mop things up instead.
I don't know why people would spit. I usually swallow ...
Oh. Oh!
Okay ..., who didn't see that coming?
I'll be here until i'm banned.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
What a genteel bunch.
In less than ideal situations, sometimes you (by you, I mean people who work for a living, not prissy twits in desks jobs) get grime and dust in your mouth. You don't want to swallow that. Though it best to spit while no one is looking (but with spy satellites...someone is always watching
).
Now walking around spitting on the sidewalk and stuff, that's repulsive.
Spitting while in the restroom. Umm...is that any worse than what you are already doing there?
In less than ideal situations, sometimes you (by you, I mean people who work for a living, not prissy twits in desks jobs) get grime and dust in your mouth. You don't want to swallow that. Though it best to spit while no one is looking (but with spy satellites...someone is always watching
).Now walking around spitting on the sidewalk and stuff, that's repulsive.
Spitting while in the restroom. Umm...is that any worse than what you are already doing there?
If I have some phlegm I'm going to get rid of it. If you don't like it, boo f*****g hoo to you.Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people that they feel the need to spit all over the place in public? It's totally classless, disgusting, dirty and disrespectful.
Every time I see someone do it, I just want to punch them in their stupid little face.
Don't you have unpacking to do or something?
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people that they feel the need to spit all over the place in public? It's totally classless, disgusting, dirty and disrespectful.
Every time I see someone do it, I just want to punch them in their stupid little face.
T'Baio Travel Tip of the Day:
Never EVER go to China. I mean, NEVER.
You have not seen 'spitting' until you have been to China, where a huge percentage of that even more huge population all have chronic respiratory ailments due to massive air pollution.
You are walking on loogies all day long over there.....and living in terror every time you hear someone behind you on the street clearing their throat and getting ready to spit. Which is an occurrence that happens like every 3 or 4 minutes in cities like Beijing and Xian.
And the things I saw up close and personal on the floor of the ladies restroom (remember, ladies have to squat over there) give me the dry heaves to this day whenever I think about them.
Like now, for instance.
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Amaris
Guest
I only spit if I have either swallowed a bug, or if I am caught by surprise and am in the process of drinking something. Other than that, I do not, because I find it unhygienic. Is that a word?
J.
J.
Yep, I just double checked. It is a word.
Spit should stay in the mouth or in a tissue. If you're alone in the woods, go for it. If there are people around, they shouldn't have to see it or step on it.
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Amaris
Guest
Ah, thanks. It's just that sometimes I create words I think will fit in various locations of a sentence.
Yep. I hate stepping in bodily fluids, even my own, so there's no way I'm stepping in someone else's voluntarily.
J.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people that they feel the need to spit all over the place in public? It's totally classless, disgusting, dirty and disrespectful.
Every time I see someone do it, I just want to punch them in their stupid little face.
T'Baio Travel Tip of the Day:
Never EVER go to China. I mean, NEVER.
You have not seen 'spitting' until you have been to China, where a huge percentage of that even more huge population all have chronic respiratory ailments due to massive air pollution.
You are walking on loogies all day long over there.....and living in terror every time you hear someone behind you on the street clearing their throat and getting ready to spit. Which is an occurrence that happens like every 3 or 4 minutes in cities like Beijing and Xian.
And the things I saw up close and personal on the floor of the ladies restroom (remember, ladies have to squat over there) give me the dry heaves to this day whenever I think about them.
Like now, for instance.
Oh toughen up. India's got a lot of hygiene issues too but the sheer memories of them aren't going to make me ill. It's bad when you're in a place like that and you have to deal with it, and then you leave and it's done. Unless you live there. In which case ... I don't know what to tell you.
Man I feel so spoiled sometimes.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people that they feel the need to spit all over the place in public? It's totally classless, disgusting, dirty and disrespectful.
Every time I see someone do it, I just want to punch them in their stupid little face.
T'Baio Travel Tip of the Day:
Never EVER go to China. I mean, NEVER.
You have not seen 'spitting' until you have been to China, where a huge percentage of that even more huge population all have chronic respiratory ailments due to massive air pollution.
You are walking on loogies all day long over there.....and living in terror every time you hear someone behind you on the street clearing their throat and getting ready to spit. Which is an occurrence that happens like every 3 or 4 minutes in cities like Beijing and Xian.
And the things I saw up close and personal on the floor of the ladies restroom (remember, ladies have to squat over there) give me the dry heaves to this day whenever I think about them.
Like now, for instance.
Oh toughen up. India's got a lot of hygiene issues too but the sheer memories of them aren't going to make me ill. It's bad when you're in a place like that and you have to deal with it, and then you leave and it's done. Unless you live there. In which case ... I don't know what to tell you.
Man I feel so spoiled sometimes.
Funny you should bring up India. Back in high school, one of the science teachers and her husband would go every couple of years on missions. The teacher explained how people in India blow their nose (the old hand and fling it on a tree trick) and we students were gagging. Her husband then demonstrated that he blew his nose in a handkerchief, and one of the natives asked him, "What the--? You blow it and save it????"
Which begs the question -- which is the more disgusting of the two behaviors
I spit in order to express my disdain for T'Baio
T'Baio Travel Tip of the Day:
Never EVER go to China. I mean, NEVER.
You have not seen 'spitting' until you have been to China, where a huge percentage of that even more huge population all have chronic respiratory ailments due to massive air pollution.
You are walking on loogies all day long over there.....and living in terror every time you hear someone behind you on the street clearing their throat and getting ready to spit. Which is an occurrence that happens like every 3 or 4 minutes in cities like Beijing and Xian.
And the things I saw up close and personal on the floor of the ladies restroom (remember, ladies have to squat over there) give me the dry heaves to this day whenever I think about them.
Like now, for instance.
Oh toughen up. India's got a lot of hygiene issues too but the sheer memories of them aren't going to make me ill. It's bad when you're in a place like that and you have to deal with it, and then you leave and it's done. Unless you live there. In which case ... I don't know what to tell you.
Man I feel so spoiled sometimes.
Funny you should bring up India. Back in high school, one of the science teachers and her husband would go every couple of years on missions. The teacher explained how people in India blow their nose (the old hand and fling it on a tree trick) and we students were gagging. Her husband then demonstrated that he blew his nose in a handkerchief, and one of the natives asked him, "What the--? You blow it and save it????"
Which begs the question -- which is the more disgusting of the two behaviors
They're both gross. Disposable tissues were invented for a reason: so people wouldn't have to carry rags around with them all day. People who still do...
I might spit if I'm outside doing something strenuous like running or playing a sport or mowing the lawn, because attempting to swallow that when my mouth is dry is likely to make me nauseous, which is a distinctly worse scenario than a little bit of spit. I don't spit when I'm walking around town in public because it's uncouth.
Hell, my mother is the typical tightwad old lady who uses a Kleenex and wads it up, puts it in her purse to reuse later. Growing up, we literally had to use every square inch of a Kleenex before it was to be tossed into the trash.
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