to all the people who seem to have nothing better to do than take up space standing around the busy streets of downtown hali. looking ugly and leaving piles of spit around them. please get a life. your habit is disgusting and you are doing nothing for the atmosphere of our city. — grossed out

This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2013.

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  1. when it rains in Vancouver the sidewalks are deadly slippery. all that dried phlegm rehydrates. I was terrified one day of landing on my rear in that slough of spit.

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  3. I don’t understand what induces people to spit. Your salivary glands are so overactive that you can’t control the overflow? Why expel your biological fluids on public or private property? It is absolutely disgusting and completely unnecessary. Like plugging a nostril and blowing a booger out of the other.

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  4. fuckin’ eww… the swallowers are grosser. I hear them all on the bus in the morning… snortin’ n’ coughin ‘n reswallowin’ all the way to work cuz they too scared to blow the hocker out their throat. Now THAT’S groady!

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  5. It’s gross to say the least…and distasteful to fellow passersby, but spitting it out is by far the better choice. Ones not sure the of all the little gremlin germs, carcinogens, (if you smoke) and other environmental nasties that we breathe in that can be in the makeup of phlegm. Sometimes in public places, one doesn’t have that choice, I try to be discreet and use an old timmies cup. certainly don’t want to swallow.

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  8. It’s worse on the Dark side ;_; You gotta spit, you gotta spit. Do you have to do it in the bus shelter where people stand? Just be a little more thoughtful about it! Ugh. I have no patience for smokers or spitters in those little tiny glass boxes…

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