Swallow don't Spit

[JtB]

Looks like flies may become a regular part of our diet if splitting is no-longer an option.
BBC Link

 

[asterix]

You mean you don't eat your flies? What a waste!

 

[661-Pete]

Well - for a chronic catarrh sufferer like yours truly, it could be a problem especially when on the bike. Reaching for a hankie can be awkward without coming to a stop - even dangerous in some traffic situations. If I have the need I always do it discreetly and try not to attract attention. All I can say really about an embarrassing topic...

 

[byegad]

Well - for a chronic catarrh sufferer like yours truly, it could be a problem especially when on the bike. Reaching for a hankie can be awkward without coming to a stop - even dangerous in some traffic situations. If I have the need I always do it discreetly and try not to attract attention. All I can say really about an embarrassing topic...

+1 as an Asthma sufferer it sometimes is the only real solution.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Well - for a chronic catarrh sufferer like yours truly, it could be a problem especially when on the bike. Reaching for a hankie can be awkward without coming to a stop - even dangerous in some traffic situations. If I have the need I always do it discreetly and try not to attract attention. All I can say really about an embarrassing topic...

+2

 

[Spinney]

Wonder what the MP would say about snot rockets then?

 

[tyred]

Well - for a chronic catarrh sufferer like yours truly, it could be a problem especially when on the bike. Reaching for a hankie can be awkward without coming to a stop - even dangerous in some traffic situations. If I have the need I always do it discreetly and try not to attract attention. All I can say really about an embarrassing topic...

+3

 

[661-Pete]

+1 as an Asthma sufferer it sometimes is the only real solution.

+2

+3

I'd no idea I had so many fellow-sufferers! All I can say is, try not to be noticed. Aim for grass rather than tarmac if you can.

Being spat upon is definitely below-the-belt. I can remember an occasion, years ago, nothing to do with cycling. I was on a train crowded with football fans hooligans. That was in the old days when trains had smoker and non-smoker carriages. I politely (and foolishly) asked one of the yobs, smoking, to move to the 'right' place. The answer was a mouthful of tobacco-flavoured gob. Could have been worse I suppose .

 

[Fnaar]

I went to China on a work trip once... everyone spits all over the place there!
I spent a long time working in the NHS in various guises, and I used to have a poster picked up on a ward somewhere that said "Spitting prohibited" in about 30 languages...

 

[tyred]

I don't have a problem normally but I find if I push myself hard while cycling in cold weather, I end up coughing up lumps of phlegm.

 

[asterix]

What happens to you in Singapore? Oh yes, that'll be $500, please.