...for hating people GOBBING ALL OVER THE PAVEMENT?

[frogs]

Well am I?

What is that all about? It's not like it's just a particular subgroup of people, and we can hope they'll grow out of it -- they're all ruddy well at it. I even saw an elderly lady hawking and gobbing today.

WHY? WHAT IS THIS FOR?

I do not want to walk though gobbets of other people's phlegm on the streets. It is DISGUSTING. STOP IT NOW.

I thank you.

[wildwoman]

oh gross it makes me ralph....stop talking about it! ON THE SPOT FINES!

[fransmom]

ewwwwwwwwwwww

no yanbu. i find it disgusting too. [green faced yuck emoticon]. it's even better if dd sees them she turns to me and asks why? and says they're naughty and should use tissues

[MaryAnnSingleton]

I once dropped my keys in a huge, and I mean huge pool of gob by a bus stop - I was so upset I had to go home and bleach them...truly vile habit

[needmorecoffee]

not unreasoanble. Its a disgusting thing to do. Right up there with letting your dog crap on the pavament ad not picking up.

[onebatmother]

I loathe it. I think they should bring back those posters from WW2, you know, germs kill or something.

[DANCESwithaMuffinTop]

Absolutley farking disgusting. No excuse. I agree, on the spot fine of £500 at least.

[lucyellensmum]

marmaduke, this reminds me of a toe curlingly embarrasing experience i had once. Our department was very multi cultural, and we had a (admittedly rather strange) chinese guy doing a PhD. One tea time he did the most enourmous hawking flob into the sink where the teas are made - everyone around the table just looked flabbergasted. We had quite a few chinese people, they looked equally horrified. Yuck yuuck yuuuuuck.

[Glammama]

It's not just spit round my way, it's phlegm. And wherever I am in the flat, I can hear that tell tale back of the throat clearing noise and then a pause and then the sound of it hitting the pavement. And whenever I go out........

Think I might have a Michael Douglas Falling Down moment very very very soon.

[pinkmook]

blerrrgh! My SIL is quite posh, but yet when out running thinks its perfectly acceptable to gob all over the place....does running somehow make this practice acceptable???!

[Blandmum]

I think that they should have thier filthy noses rubbed in someone else's phlegm until they stop. Utterly vile practice and most unhygenic!

[JackieNo]

Truly disgusting. And I'm not sure what purpose it's supposed to serve - how does it make them feel better?

[scottishmummy]

especially the grunting phuuurrrrr get it up noise that accompanies it. Gross and unhygenic

[pinkmook]

Jackieno - I agree. What excuse is there for it? Apparently runners do it cause they get all phlegmy - but I dont give a crap if they feel phlegmy - get a fecking tissue or summat!! And footballer are always at it too

[PaulaYatesbiggestFan]

my children are high risk tb - dont ask! i realy object to gobbing

vile

ugly habit

also gum all over the floor surrounding waste bins like a star burst - why?

[mawbroon]

Urgh, this gives me the boke just thinking about it. Here in Edinburgh, we have the Heart of Midlothian on the High Street on the site of an old prison. People spit on it for some reason (the reason escapes me, but it is historical apparantly although I think it's more likely to do with football rivalry). Anyway, I have to cross the road as I can't bear to even think about all those green slimers sitting on the stones.

[mawbroon]

Here we are. Heart of midlothian. No phlegm in this picture, I promise

[scottishmummy]

oh id forgotten about everyone gobbing on that

[skidoodle]

FGS people, how are diseases like TB supposed to spread if we stop our fellow citizens from leaving big gelatinous gobs all over the street?

you've obviously all bought into the marketing of the big tissue industry.

[MrsEi25]

YANBU its a totally disgusting habit!! i cant bear it when you walk along the road and someone does a big mouthfull of phlegm on the pavement [bleurgh emoticon] it used to be a prosecutable offence i think to spit on the pavement due to the spread of infections like TB and alot of people with TB nowadays dont know they have it for months!! its disgusting to think that my DD could walk along the street and fall in someone elses spit on the street eeeewwwwww
it knocks me sick!!!
xx ei xx

[DoodleToYou]

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[BroccoliSpears]

The thing that I wonder about is why people suddenly have this excess of spit. I know my parents and grandparents generations didn't gob all over the place, so why is our generation so flobby? Someone should investigate.

[BadKitten]

It is truely and utterly revolting. And you are right Broccoli - there does seem to ben an epidemic of it.

[springlamb]

It is disgusting. My stomach was turning last night watching shots of the England footballers doing it on the pitch. Kept hoping they would get tackled and end up rolling in it.
This thread is welltimed - I have just emailed the council about the disgusting state of the road on the way to school - so much gum, gob, dog poop and dropped food. Made worse by it being an on-kerb parking zone and the residents all letting their hedges overhang the pavement, so we have about eight inches of pavement actualy useable. It's like doing Nadia Komaneci (sp) on the beam every morning.