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Original poster

Aibu to want to yell "disgusting " at the next person to spit on the pavement

53 replies

Lonelybunny · 15/01/2013 13:56

That is all :)

OP posts:
mrsjay · 15/01/2013 14:37

sorry it is a scottish word it means those people who walk really really slowly and then stop to admire the scenery when YOU are trying to get somewhere they need a cattle prod Grin

Absy · 15/01/2013 14:40

I've just sent him an email saying this "why you shouldn't spit in the street"

  1. It's gross
  2. It spreads diseases such as TB
www.who.int/features/qa/08/en/index.html www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/magazine-13134283

Other diseases that are airborne www.biology.ed.ac.uk/archive/jdeacon/microbes/airborne.htm
"

That covers it. He was saying it doesn't spread disease unless you're licking the pavement. Hmm

Original poster
Lonelybunny · 15/01/2013 14:42

Minger!

OP posts:
Tailtwister · 15/01/2013 14:48

YANBU. It's completely disgusting and I'm always amazed people think it's acceptable. Vile, vile, vile!

limitedperiodonly · 15/01/2013 14:49

It's disgusting. About a year ago I spent all day complaining to various departments of a blue chip company after one of their contractors spat at me in the street.

I became so persistent when I realised it wasn't being taken seriously - one department asked me in all seriousness whether the man really had spat at me or had 'only' gobbed a greeny inches from my feet by 'accident' because he had a cold. He had done it deliberately btw - I guess he has a problem with women walking along minding their own business - but that's what tissues are for isn't it?

At the end of the day I was told this workman had been identified (not difficult because I'd emailed them his picture) and wouldn't work for the big company any more. No idea whether that was true but I was still made to believe that he was a poor lamb and I was being a bit precious and costing him his job because of a misunderstanding.

limitedperiodonly · 15/01/2013 14:52

Don't know why I'm being so coy. It was BT. Hope they've stopped employing gobbers.

ResolutelyCheeky · 15/01/2013 14:52

Thanks mrsjay I live and learn Smile

Tigerbomb · 15/01/2013 15:14

I hate people gobbing - it's disgusting.

Filthy wretches

AhsataN · 15/01/2013 15:23

i despise spitting its completely vile, and smokers who spit especially teenage smokers. im sorry but if you dont like the taste of cigarettes you shouldn't be bludy smoking. it makes my blood boil where i live a large Somalian population and they chew chat and spit over the floor, the local council have now taken to on the spot fines. bludy good!
rub peoples faces in it theyll soon think twice about it.

SueDoku · 15/01/2013 15:56

It a foul habit. I have a friend who uses a wheelchair, which she self-propels by turning the wheels with her hands - need I say more? Angry

YesIamYourSisterInLaw · 15/01/2013 16:17

Do it please! My mum does this and it's absolutely vile. She has some kind of throat problem but I would never spit on the floor regardless. I wish people will yell at her so she would stop because no amount of nagging on my part works

polkadotsrock · 15/01/2013 16:21

I do tut and shake my head. And if it looks like someone who should know better I tell them that. Dead brave me.

polkadotsrock · 15/01/2013 16:22

Actually I tell dh they should know better but loud enough for them to hear. Not that brave...

shrimponastick · 15/01/2013 16:24

Ugh. It is rank. YANBU - I also want to yell at the gobbers - but am a bit scared.. Blush

shrimponastick · 15/01/2013 16:25

suedoku - ugh. Does your friend wear gloves? I would have to.

Fakebook · 15/01/2013 16:27

I normally make the most disgusted face I can muster and give the spitter a glare. Once I actually shouted "disgusting" and I think I embarrassed the spitter because he looked down and ran off. Spitting, burping and farting in public is unacceptable.

Lorialet · 15/01/2013 16:29

YANBU. I trod in some once when I was wearing flipflops and it kind of twanged up the back of my leg like an elastic band. Turns my stomach more than dog crap.

limitedperiodonly · 15/01/2013 16:31

lorialet that's grim

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/01/2013 16:33

YAsoNBU!

It's utterly disgusting.

TeamTennant · 15/01/2013 16:39

Someone gobbed in my front garden as they were walking past. I was just getting my DC out of the car, and called "Do you mind not spitting in the garden?!".
So he stopped, turned around, called me fucking cunt and then continued down the road shouting about "Can't even scratch ya fucking bollocks in fucking public now! Fucking cunt. Fuck off!"
And this is a naice area... Wink

hugoagogo · 15/01/2013 16:45

yanbu

Spitting in public is so disgusting.

I did actually throw up in the street a few times when I was pregnant, but I really really couldn't help it. Apologies to anyone who had to see it. Blush

AhsataN · 15/01/2013 17:36

i think being sick in public when you really cant help it due to ill health or pregnancy can be forgiven. my son was travel sick but as hes 3 didnt tell me he felt ill until he puked and covered the entrance to sainsburys. the amount of cats bums faces he got i wanted to tell them to fuck off but was too busy rushing him into the nearest toilet. i did go and tell customer services and it was cleaned up.

elizaregina · 15/01/2013 17:59

TB isnt rare anymore,

my nurses in hospital said they reckon in a few years they will have to bring the univeral jab back - as TB is rife once again Confused

spitting is VILE.

elizaregina · 15/01/2013 18:01

"Spitting, burping and farting in public is unacceptable."

TBF FAKEBOOK

you cant help farting or burping but you can help spitting.

Nancy66 · 15/01/2013 18:01

it is horrible but it doesn't bother me as much as the gum spitters and the fag butt leavers.

At least spit disappears on its own