To want to shout 'you dirty, horrible being'

[storminabuttercup]

Well actually replace being with fucker but it's nearly the holidays innit?

The young lad next door has got a horrid habit, we've lived here 4 years and I'm sure it's new but he does that horrid snorting sound followed by a spit. It's fucking disgusting. It's every night, outside and I can hear it. It makes me gag. He'll be at it again first thing.

WIBU to shout 'oi, do you have to do that? you dirty fucker'

Bleugh.

When I was in China in the early '90s, everyone spat because they had horrible green phlegm from their horrible chest infection...... And everyone had a horrible chest infection from all the green phlegm being spat everywhere.

Culture - yes, as in something to grow bacteria in.

Oh god I am sorry if you are my neighbour as I know my 18 year ok'd does it as I have caught him a couple of times :-(

Wasn't it illegal at one point because of the spread of tb?

To be fair to the lad in the op's post I thought she could hear him through the walls, he is unlikely to be gobbing on his carpet. Footballers do it on the pitch so it isn't just a cultural (I presume we're talking foreign) thing, if I ever spot it on the telly I get the dirty bastard rage.

My next door neighbour does it repeatedly when he's in his garden. I blame football, I'm always seeing football players spitting on the pitch via the medium of television cameras. It seems to be acceptable in men's sport, although you never see basketball players do it (in my limited viewing of men playing sport), and presumably they are running around a fair bit, so I'm not buying 'they need to clear their lungs, they're running about' argument.

Why is mn so myopic :(

How am I being shortsighted?

The people who are saying it's acceptable because it's a cultural thing have obviously never trodden in a glob of someone else's snotty, stringy phlegm. Whilst wearing flip flops. I can tell you, it's most unpleasant

I hate seeing footballers doing it and joggers too.

At least the footballers flob on their own pitch where members of the public wont be walking/playing with their kids I suppose...although it's still fucking gross.

Joggers however just spit on the pavements instead of carrying a tissue.

What on earth is myopic about not wanting people to spit germs all over the place instead of into their own tissues?

It's the filthy spitters who are myopic in my opinion.

You know what makes me sad, when people excuse bad behaviour as cultural, please can you explain why one persons cultural should supersede another's?

There was a thread about spitting recently and I mentioned the footballers... I was shot right down so it's good to see some support here.
It's disgusting.
OP; yes, if it was my, I would say something. Probably lightearted, along the lines of "do you realise that's a real habit you have formed, just there?" and try to make a joke out of it, but it will make him think.

Myopic also means lacking in tolerance or understanding.

I'm not saying I agree with it. I'm saying people are different and have different rules of society. Doesn't make them filthy. He's spitting in his own back yard. Get over it. Mn is full of middle class white women who can't seem to understand that not everyone is like them.

I can't believe this has been compared to female genital mutilation. Get a grip.

You know what makes me sad, when people excuse bad behaviour as cultural, please can you explain why one persons cultural should supersede another's? So, he has the right to spit, you have the right to be disgusted. HTH.

BTW I hate spitting.

Get over it. Mn is full of middle class white women who can't seem to understand that not everyone is like them.

that is one massive generalisation. Glad you can see through everyone screens to see what class and race they are

I was making a point about myopism :). Sorry you didn't appreciate it.

"Mn is full of middle class white women who can't seem to understand that not everyone is like them."

How myopic.

I can see you're up for a barny, so I'll leave it there.

I can't believe this has been compared to female genital mutilation. Get a grip.

My point is why does it have to be explained as cultural therefore it's ok just because it cultural doesn't make it ok. All culturally develop and move on with time

Its true, nothing to argue about. Check your facts.

I grew up in HK where spitting is common and accepted (yes, the whole snort, mouth roll, spit thing). Something to do with not wanting to let the bad spirit that you've just coughed up back into your body but probably just as likely to be the atrocious air quality .

I'm all for respecting cultural differences and, having grown up as a gweilo (foreigner), understand tolerance but I think there's a line. When what you do directly impacts someone else in a negative way, you stop. And this is most definitely that. A taxi driver once spat his post-fag blob of phlegm out of his window and it flew straight in my window onto my face. I swear it made me itch. So I'm a little sensitive

Culture is not a "time thing". Its much more complex than that and should be treated as such.

Culture is a time thing. It changes and bends a LOT.