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To all those who spit on the street, sidewalk or bus stop… consider this wise saying: “Whatever we do to the earth, we do to ourselves.” Have a little more respect for both, please! —Disgusted and Heartbroken
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2010.
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WHAT A FILTHY FUCKING HABIT. I got no problem standing next to smokers, but spitters make me puke.
I sometimes spit to get rid of mucus/phlegm, but that’s about it.
I think it’s really, really gross habit too. Ugh. And what’s with people who chew that tobacco gunk? Groooooss. It was popular when I was in high school and the guys were just nasty carrying around a bottle with brown spit in it. Gross, gross, gross.
Meanwhile, I sometimes have to spit when I’m running because my throat gets all clogged up on really sticky days, but beyond that… never.
Gross.
Worse than that are those sidewalk runners who hold a thumb up to one nostril and then blow the snot out of the other as they run. Fucking disgusting!
I am pretty impressed with a really awesome snot rocket but I wish people would be discreet and courteous if they need to launch one, or spit. When I run I try not to spit around other people, and try to spit somewhere where people aren’t likely to step in it.
ya, that’s pretty nasty…
I completely agree that people horking loogies all over the sidewalk is disgusting, but the signature of this bitch is hilariously melodramatic, don’t you think? “Heartbroken”? People’s spit makes you heartbroken? However do you cope, OP….
I think it’s because mother earth cries a little every time we spit upon her face…
Goddamn hippies.
disgusted ..yes heartbroken huh?
yeah heartbroken is a bit much. when i was an apprentice a lot of people from different countries thought nothing of horking up some snot and spitting it anywhere/anytime. took a lot of convincing from the chef that it was not cool. still some kept at it, the worst was slipping on it
Heartbroken perhaps at yet another sign of the inexorable decline of Westen Civilization. One of the young wad-wastes whose P.O. chased him out to Dunder-Mifflin for a job interview thought nothing of spitting on the floor in his workstation, until a 50 year old bingo-mama with a heart of gold and tongue like a wood rasp promised him a ladies steel-toed size 9 where it would do most good if he did it again. Heroes aren’t born; they rise to the occasion.
good point Ivan..however methinks the OP is a … in the words of Don Cherry ..a “pinko ” 🙂
Oh Yeah….>; )
Only you can prevent loogies
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Is it really that disgusting? It’s just spit…
I don’t want to see, hear or smell someone taking a dump next to me in public; why on Earth would I want to be anywhere near their putrid lung butter?
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yeah GF… I don’t get it either…
I mean, if you think that little bit of spit is bad, I’d hate for you to imagine how much is still actually in your body.
what’s the matter Ivan?
don’t want to play battle-shits?
I’ll have taco bell and you can dig into some chilli….
Vietnamese! Ivan plays to win.
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i guess spit, when frozen, looks like a dime. i saw a bum try to pick one up last year, it was fucking hilarious.
but yeah, it is pretty gross, especially from a wino, those great big old deep rooted honkers coming up, with half of their gut, booyah.
nice imagery suckulous, goes well with the gigantic pizza pie
Not one, but 2 Christmas movie references Painey. >; ) Screeeeeeeeee!
Ugh, such a gross habit. It makes me stomach turn when I see people standing around just spitting over and over again. Nasty.
I saw a guy in the mall recently walking around with a bottle and he was spitting into it. He must attract all the ladies with that sexy move.
“it’s too early. i never eat december snowflakes. i always wait until january”
“They sure look ripe to me”
“whoa. whoa. unmush, will ya?”
“Well, some day I’d like to be a dentist”
I agreee spitting is SICK but there are a very some percentage that have to if there is no washroom or garbage can near. I for instance always get gross wet coughs at least once a year. But I rarely ever spit it out in public, I try my darndest to find a bathroom! And my BF who just can’t back from Afghanistan has this horrible hacking cough because of all the dust and things he inhaled…so he’s been hacking up icky stuff and blood and may be for months to come :(!
I have always been amused that spitting on a subway platform is a finable offense…but you can puke your guts out & no charge ~:)
Funny ole world i’n it ?
@Mel. – Major thanks to your BF for his service. Welcome Home and Merry Christmas to you both. >: )
I’m with the Funkster on this one. It IS just spit; some saliva. Those who enjoy oral sex certainly don’t mind it on their privates but on the sidewalk is some kind of travesty.
Thanks Ivan :D!
My pleasure Mel. Me Old Dad spent the Christmas of 1965 in a tin shack in the Gaza Strip with 3 other Sergeants, 2 bottles of Heineken per man, and a pan of Jiffy Pop that amazed the locals. Me being a spoiled little only child; I made out like a bandit in the prezzie department that year. >: )
Horking up a loogie is one thing- definitely disgusting and bothers me when people do it…. I have cat allergies and for about 2 days after I have been visiting someone who has cats, I bring up chest phlegm when I cough. I have no choice but to spit it out wherever I am……. swallowing it is NOT an option. It didn’t COME from my stomach, so it doesn’t belong anywhere near it.
I’ve never peed on myself, ever.