Rant thread #147: spitting

[benborp]

I'm going to have to make the suggestion of a spitoon for someone at work. He has a routine of clearing his throat with a good hawk and then spit before he goes on stage. He seems to think that rubbing it into the carpet afterwards makes it ok.

 

[Moodyman]

Better out than in if it's genuine - chest infection or sport-induced.

 

[Maz]

When cycling, I spit when I'm recovering from a cold. Always on the road or in the gutter. Never on the pavement. Always when there's nobody looking!

 

[gbb]

Immigrant labour.
Not entirely of course, but some are remarkably course and it doesn't even register with them that they're in female company...let alone in public.
Before anyone goes off on one, its based on observation. Ive worked for the last 11 years in an industry where the vast majority of staff are immigrant labour, maybe 10/1.

My last employer had a lot of immigrant labour. We'd sit in the smoking shelter and there'd be 6 or 10 of them stood nearby, some of them frequently gobbing on the floor...while girls were sat a few feet away. Completely oblivious to what they were doing until Mary went red faced with anger and shouted 'FFS you dirty b'stard ' I think she'd been bottling it up and couldnt hold it in any longer (her anger not gob )
Or put another way...plenty of us spit if bodily neccessary, but we do it while no-ones looking.
In all the years ive been working, i've very very rarely seen people spit...until we got immigrant labour. I see it now so much more regularly from them it hardly registers anymore.

 

[Maz]

My last employer had a lot of immigrant labour. We'd sit in the smoking shelter and there'd be 6 or 10 of them stood nearby, some of them frequently gobbing on the floor...

Definitely a cultural thing. Where are you immigrant workers from? India/Pakistan?
You should go down any ghetto 'curry mile' streets in any major city and look out for the terracotta-coloured gob stains on't pavement, courtesy of paan chewers. Deeeees-gusting! On another note, we had a Chinese guy in our office once who used to gob int kitchen sink, whilst we were making a cuppa. Nice.

 

[col]

The only time Iv seen spitting is from school kids in the town. It seems to be more habit than needing to in any way. One was spitting every few seconds, even though he was struggling for saliva.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Spitting? me?? never, there is no need for it!

I was on a bus in Glasgow a year or two ago, and there was a ned (chav) gobbing on the floor of the bus every few seconds. I was going to ask if he had seen a doctor about it, but then thought better of it!

I've also seen kids do the proper projectile spit. Quite impressive, but utterly vile at the same time.