Neighbours spitting out the window

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And also loudly and repeatedly huaking and spitting in their downstairs bathroom with the window open.

We live in a terrace and if we have the kitchen or downstairs bathroom window open or if I’m sitting in my home office, it’s going on constantly throughout the day. Whyyyyyyyy 😫

It’s soooooooooo disgusting

Particularly the opening the back window and spitting into their own yard 🤢🤢🤢

Background

Our neighbours are not British and we assume this is a cultural difference. There is a family with (we think) 3 adult grown men and 2 women and a baby. They are pleasant if we see them in the street and their baby is lovely.

I feel like there is probably nothing we can do but open to suggestions or even just being told I’m not going mad and this is fucking gross 😆😆 It is driving me mad!!!!

Ugh so entitled and inconsiderate

Reeks of arrogance

Prick.

Bravo for refusing to work with him! Not always easy to make a stand

In this culture it’s disgusting. They need to respect the country they are in and the manners expected of them here. No excuse.

hmmm interesting

I wonder if one of them might be genuinely ill?

Still, no need to spit out the window! Wouldn’t mind if they just did it discreetly

Yeah that’s kind of how I feel.

They would know it was us anyway 😂

True, the UK does specialise in PA comms lol

Just don’t know how we would go about it – if anyone has any suggestions for how to broach that conversation I’m all ears! Also mot sure how strong their English is

I HATE it when people spit in the street

When it’s not my neighbours I’m more direct and tell them it’s disgusting!

It describes the noise well!

Spit on that thang!!!

What the fuck is wrong with people?! It’s absolutely disgusting and even if it is a ‘cultural thing’ to howk up phlegm and spit it out in public, it’s absolute vile and they need to be told it’s appalling antisocial behaviour here.

I seen a guy do it the other day and I screwed my face up in disgust and I hope he seen! Filthy pig. Who wants to stand in that crap? Gives me the boak hearing it and seeing it 🤢

Even if they had TB, spit it in the toilet or a hanky and not do it in public fucking animals! 😤😤

It was an adult with special needs 😪 all day in the ally behind my house. Between that and kicking the bins it was awful. I never dreamt of approaching the family, although gross for me, almost certainly more difficult all round for them. It was really sad to witness.

Agreed.

I went to China some years ago and I saw many people gobbing in the streets. 🤑Men and women alike. It just seems to be something they do. Not sure about other countries though. It's disgusting.

So gross. It really bothers me how this seems to be more acceptable these days. It was really frowned upon when I was young but now I see people hacking up phlegm and spitting in the street all the time. It's vile and really unhygienic.

I feel your pain. My next door neighbour does the same thing. It turns my stomach and it's not very nice when you have friends over and other people can hear it too.

It probably isn't smoking though. My neighbour doesn't smoke. I think like yours, it's a cultural thing.

We live in converted houses so share a fire escape to our back gardens. One day he was sitting on the step right by my back door as I was cooking dinner, cutting his toenails 😱I did say something that day! I felt physically sick. Told him to get in his bathroom and do it! Thankfully he didn't do that again.

Possibly cultural I lived in India for few months 32 years ago (am white British female) and many men did this, but it is also an absolutely vile anti social disgusting habit that a lot of white men do too. My father did it every day of his life constantly, he used to spit out of car windows and it would smear all over the side he absolutely disgusted me and I wouldn’t allow him to collect me from school or be anywhere near my friends it was so embarrassing, he continued doing it but thankfully as an adult I no longer needed to be in a car with him, but he continued even on the walls of my sisters house (outside) but still foul. Honestly I had no respect for him at all. In your shoes I would go and have a chat with the neighbours about how culturally this isn’t ok here and it’s very disruptive and sweeten the visit with a gift some luxury biscuits or gift for the baby, it will not be a comfortable conversation but your other choice is to carry on listening to it which is also very unpleasant.

I had neighbours from Pakistan who spat in the communal staircase. They did not take kindly to being asked to stop. I had a visit from the police and was accused of racism.

Old tenement close. Concrete stair. I think they thought it was an extension of the pavement. Not that that wld be ok to spit on either.

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Interesting thread. Im a british female and do this in my house and sometimes have to do it outside too...i hate it as it sounds horrible but cant not as can feel it in my throat, I should probably go to the doctors as im sure my neighbours hate me too....this thread has given me a push.

Well, the only way to deal with it is to talk to them? You know, like reasonable adults. They might not change, they might tell you to get lost but if you don’t do anything then , for certain , nothing will change.

But don’t mention “culture”..it’s a hornets nest defining which cultural differences are acceptable and which aren’t. Just explain that you can hear it - they might not realise.

We have a few Indian dr’s where I work who snort and spit a lot.. it’s repulsive and really makes me heave!

Don’t they have a toilet in their house they can spit into?

It’s disgusting in British culture which is where I assume this is taking place. I’m also certain spitting in public is an offence in many areas punishable with a fine. Put a note through their door. If they continue, call 111.

Personally I’d be looking to move, dirty fuckers.

I'd probably approach it in an faux naive concern way "hi, I'm a bit concerned that one of your sons(?) might be ill because we hear him spitting a lot which is obviously not sanitary especially since COVID, maybe he needs to go to the GP?"

Geez.....just discreetly cough it into a tissue or else swallow it ....your stomach acid will deal with it.

There is literally no reason to spit in the street!