Everyone in my town spits and it fucking pisses me off. I mean, spitting in public! It’s disgusting. alert: repulsive material ahead i dont just mean ordinary spitting, but im talking clearing-throat-and-searching-for-anything-to-expel kind of spitting. I wonder if its some kind of genetic defect in Rwandese citizens…sigh. This is Africa anyway 
PS: First time to post in the pit. Its a very charming place…
I hate it too. Sometimes I’ll say, “Excuse me—I don’t want your HIV”. Although that might not be the most tactful remark in Rwanda…
Sccchhwwaah Pooowwie, to this thread.
It really is disgusting, and they do it here in the USA, too. Usually men do it, but I can remember the time I saw a woman do it on the street. I was so horrified I almost went up to her to scream at her, but something told me this was probably not a good idea.
Spitting was actually illegal here for many years due to the threat of tuberculosis.
That actually gags me- and a large number of people here in NC seem to chew tobacco, which means MORE spitting. It is absolutely disgusting. I think it should be legal to taser people who do that, but that’s just me.
You think spitting in general is annoying… One neanderthal at my High School spits on the hallway floor… THE GODDAMN FLOOR! Not just regualr spit, but big, green loogies. When I saw him do it the first time, I nearly lost my respect for humanity.
Don’t go to China. Really. I mean it.
Or Korea, for that matter…
I don’t really understand what it is with the Chinese and spitting. In Hong Kong they actually have signs saying “No Spitting” in many public places.
I’m with you; spitting is disgusting. Here in Canada, it’s particularly lovely when someone hawks a huge green and red loogie on the sidewalk and then it freezes there for all to enjoy. Blecch. One thing I just can’t stand is looking at other people’s loogies on the sidewalk. It is very nearly the only thing that causes me even the slightest quiver in my stomach.
I’ve never understood this behavior.
The spitter has to “gather” the material to spit in the first place. If you didn’t just spend 10 seconds making disgusting noises in your throat, you wouldn’t be spitting now. They spit because they just spent a bunch of time making themselves have to spit. It’s very circular.
I never have the urge to spit, and think it is disgusting. There are rare cases , when I get something nasty in my mouth, that I will spit it out. Very much the exception to the rule though. It happens a few times a year, tops. Maybe these people just make too much saliva and mucus?
You don’t want to go to Mexico then, either.
My boss chews tobacco, and spits in my wastebasket. It’s a power thing with him. Like a dog marking his territory.
The asswipe.
God, just thinking about it makes me gag. Especially those who chew tobacco, with their nasty brown spit.
I saw a woman in a store once who carried a little bowl with her to spit her tobacco juice into. Honest to God, I nearly threw up.
For some reason, I recall that back when TB was a bigger public health threat that spitting on the sidewalk was punishable by a fine or jail time. Ahhh, the good old days!
Some folks in New York City like to use the sidewalk as their personal spittoon as well. Not only do they audibly spit out phlegm, they also shoot out boogers from their noses.
insert nausea smilie here
Around here, holding one nostril closed while you snort an booger on the ground is known as a “cowboy Kleenex”.
Yes, I wish we had a barf smiley, too.
I’m a dipper.
I am a socially-aware, very discrete person while I am dipping.
Yes, I know it’s a disgusting habit to you non-dippers.
I do not spit on the sidewalks, I do not spit in public. When I do spit, I use my own cup, which I then hide from public view as much as possible.
Don’t indict ME while you rail against all others.
I’m glad you are aware of the rest of us Thunder.
People that expel slimy goo, both natural or unnatural, anywhere and everywhere with no regard to their fellow (wo)man make my stomach turn.
I used to work at a nightclub, where I saw (and cleaned up) many bodily fluids. People spit on just about everything, and club security threw out more then one person for public expulsion of various bodily substances.
If someone’s counting the number of posts asking for the barfing smiley, count me in. Ugh.
Mwa hahaha! You’ll have your mettle tested if you ever go to PNG. Many (most) of the locals chew betelnut. It’s kinda like chewing tobacco except that when they spit it’s dark red and stains. I’ll never forget watching this one guy do a long spit into a garbage can: it looked like he was barfing up blood. Lovely.
Expelling bodily substances in clubs?
Nah… too simple.
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