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.

Absolutely repulsive. Beyond repulsive. I told DH before we had babies that if we had a son and he ever did this I would whack him. Son is now 18mo and I stand by it. (would never normally hit a child btw!) I just find it utterly, utterly offensive.

Can't believe no one else seemed to pull Sole up on that dreadful, ill thought out comment.

You can roll your eyes all you want, I can't believe a MUMSNETTER said that at all!!

I'm sure sole was not being serious.

Horrible. I've also been to HK and it was so bad that I could never go back.

I was running the other day and half swallowed a fly. I had to spit it out into the grass, and I felt a bit disgusted with myself then even.

It's not nice habit and it can spread disease.
Yuck.

brdgrl If you're happy to have people sniffing up and flobbing out in front of you then all power to you. I just hope you don't catch anything serious from them. I can't even be bothered to address the rest of your post regarding languages because clearly even if a non English speaking person went to live in Wales, it would be more beneficial for them to learn English rather than Welsh...given the fact it's more widely spoken in the UK.

Oh come on, as if Sole was being serious!

Gosh! How can a thread about gobbing in the street become about cultural relativism? I wonder why some peoe jumped to the conclusion that the gobber wasn't white/uk?

My brother does this. He is born and bred UK.

I see LOTS of people do this in my town - similarities are that they tend to be white and male. I have had young men deliberately aim their gob just in front of me just to see my reaction. I am also white and uk born so that behaviour is nothing to do with cultural acceptance it's just bloody disgusting.

OP YANBU!

my sister in law does this!!! she grew up in a house full of men, granted it is in the bathroom, but the sound of it every morning when your staying there, boak.

All the lads & men i see spitting in the street are white, English.. even seen some women do it!!

Spitting is actually multicultural & universal where gross people are concerned.

Just say, 'probably best to spit like that down the toilet not outside, then you can flush it away' followed by 'i've heard you do that for a while - are you unwell?'
With lads & gross habits - embarrassing them works quite well.

YANBU- its totally minging! There is no excuse- it is entirely possible to get rid of excess gunk quietly and discreetly.

Passme I know the thread's too long to read back but it came about by someone asking a question...something like "I wonder if it's a cultural thing?"

Then the conversation turned to "So what if it was?" "Well I think blah blah"

It was never assumed that he wasn't 'white/uk' and many people have said that spitters come from all backgrounds/ages/races etc...

Actually, the OP came back and said he was White and British but the conversation continued as it tends to on MN.

it's disgusting here and everywhere else. The fact that some cultures don't think it is disgusting is irrelevant not only because we don't live in that culture, we live in this one, but also because objectively speaking, it is unhygienic.

Just to show my evenhandedness, we have our own fair share of disgusting habits that might be the cultural norm but they are still disgusting (binge drinking and vomiting in the streets for example - which is particularly British and culturally almost ok but utterly disgusting). I think foreigners are absolutely right to judge our culture poorly on that - and I agree with them.

And yes I guessed the OP was talking about a white British teenager so the whole "you lot are cultural oppressors" was a) annoying and b) unnecessary.

And just LOL at the myopic and middle class. If only I took my Boden sunglasses off I would see spitting for the valued act of self-expression and multiculturalism that it really is.

A scruffy old man in Dublin gobbed on my foot once, it was so foul I wanted him shot, never mind bleached. (Obviously not a well thought out wish). He was Irish same as me, culture my bum.

Does not wanting another person's slimy mucus on my foot make me a member of the EDL?

BTW the Chinese - if it's so acceptable how come there are signs all over the palce in Shanghai and Beijing warning people not to do it? Same in Singapore.

I can't even be bothered to address the rest of your post regarding languages because clearly even if a non English speaking person went to live in Wales, it would be more beneficial for them to learn English rather than Welsh...given the fact it's more widely spoken in the UK.

...and that is about the level of respect for the other national languages and cultures of the UK that I would expect from you, given these posts. "Toodle-oo."

It's a multiculturally universal bad habit - like BO & farting, bad breath & pissing in public - lovely.

and yes, things moved on a bit from the OP, as they have a habit of doing.

I've never seen any Chinese or Indian people spit ever; & i've met a LOT of people from those cultures... i think they would be hugely offended to think i thought they would spit in public.

Riiiight so suggesting anyone moving to Wales from a non English speaking country would benefit more from learning to speak English, rather than Welsh (which isn't the most widely spoken language even in Wales) shows a poor level of respect for other national languages and cultures of the UK does it?

Really?? See for me it's more about common sense.

But then again, you seem to be arguing for arguments sake because it's not like you've made a point worth agreeing with yet.

You really don't understand, do you, worra?

I'm not arguing for argument's sake, actually, and I am not even arguing with the majority of people on this thread, who think that it is a disgusting habit, as they are entitled to think so. It's not a habit I like, either. But you have expressed your views in a manner that displays prejudice and ignorance, and it is that which I am arguing against. You have also made an invalid assumption about the abstract notion of "British culture". I don't need to have your agreement on that, because there is already an enormous wealth of academic literature which explores the complex notions of 'culture' and 'Britishness'. If these questions actually interest you - if you are not, in fact, the one arguing for argument's sake - I would encourage you to read up on it. While doing so, you may wish to look into the history of the Welsh and Irish language movements.

I don't intend to engage with you any further, as this is like replying to the racist comments at the bottom of a youtube video...

Katie I imagine it's probably got something to do with SARS. Signs went up all over HK too post-outbreak. It's discouraged for health reasons but still culturally accepted (or was, when I was last there).

Oh I understand alright brdgrl

The only thing I'm struggling with is this...

How do you manage to type so coherently with your head stuck so firmly up your arse?

Vile. Vile. Vile.

I cannot stand when people do that. It's the nasal equivalent of needing to take a shit. You wouldn't squat down and drop a deuce in the street, so why would you hock up a loogie?!

YANBU. Revolting.