Boys/Men Spitting

[ckay87]

When a guy says he "has" to spit, that there aren't any options....I guess that's what I don't understand. I'm going to be sorry I asked this, and I don't particularly WANT an answer, but what I silently wonder is what God-awful foreign substance is materializing in your mouth that you have to expel it so urgently? Is it gasoline, some kind of seeds, mulch, small auto parts, dirt? What???

 

[AustinTink]

Spitting in public is absolutely disgusting. I would never allow my son to do so.

 

[meandmytwogirls]

Women to the bathroom in packs and men spit. Just how it is. I spit alot and will continue to do it.

 

[Momvic5]

Spitting is so gross, but I guess it is necessary for some sometimes. I have a friend that during every one of her pregnancies had over active salivary glands. She is a fifth grade teacher, and it was so bad that she had to carry a spit cup with her. If she swallowed it, she became very nauseated. If she did not have a cup, she would just spit where ever she was. She was so embarassed by it, but it was part of her 4 pregnancies. As soon as she had her baby, she was back to normal.

 

[joyjoy]

Women to the bathroom in packs and men spit. Just how it is. I spit alot and will continue to do it.

Wow. Disgusting AND proud of it.

Way to go.

 

[DisneyBlonde]

I picked Unnecessary and nasty...but I also want to select Never and punishable. My son knows not to spit. It's disgusting, disrespectful to anyone nearby, makes you look like a hillbilly, and it's germy.

For those who use 'sometimes you have to' as an excuse, you have to pee too...and there's a place for it. Use the restroom.

 

[sunlver]

Women to the bathroom in packs and men spit. Just how it is. I spit alot and will continue to do it.

Well you cant really compare..like apples and oranges..

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I do not care for spitting but I think the Farmer's Sneeze is worse.

OK, I had to google this. It's what I thought it is. I was at a soccer tournament recently, and the sideline ref (an older adult male) was doing that, several feet in front of us!

Re: spitting. I see this mostly on the soccer field, but that's where I spend most of my time. But they're not carrying tissues out there. Not sure why they "have to" do it. Hate watching professional baseball players tho...are they still chewing tobacco? I thought that was outlawed or something.

Yeah...not a big fan of spitting.

 

[NMAmy]

When a guy says he "has" to spit, that there aren't any options....I guess that's what I don't understand. I'm going to be sorry I asked this, and I don't particularly WANT an answer, but what I silently wonder is what God-awful foreign substance is materializing in your mouth that you have to expel it so urgently? Is it gasoline, some kind of seeds, mulch, small auto parts, dirt? What???

I've wondered this myself.

You know, I never saw my grandfather, my father, my father-in-law, my nephews, or DH spit in public. So I guess I wonder what the heck all these other men need to spit and why my family seems immune from this practice?

 

[SaraJayne]

My son (12) has picked up this vile habit from other boys he hangs out with.

That is, until I started making him wipe up the spit, regardless of where we were and lecturing him about how vile, nasty and uneducated he looks while doing it.

That seems to have done the trick.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

This drives me nuts! Yesterday my coaster was down due to a guest getting sick at the exit. I was talking to the guests in the station while we were taking care of it when this boy takes a sip of water and spits it on my station floor! I couldn't believe it! Then he did it a second time. At least he stopped when I asked him too, but I noticed that guys were doing it all day. People take their shoes off before riding because my coaster is inverted, nobody wants to walk through your spit in their bare feet. Gross gross gross!

 

[sbell111]

When a guy says he "has" to spit, that there aren't any options....I guess that's what I don't understand. I'm going to be sorry I asked this, and I don't particularly WANT an answer, but what I silently wonder is what God-awful foreign substance is materializing in your mouth that you have to expel it so urgently? Is it gasoline, some kind of seeds, mulch, small auto parts, dirt? What???

YOu are not expecting an answer, right? You are just pretending to not understand what phlem is, right?

 

[Feralpeg]

I hate it that people (mostly men) spit. It is totally disgusting. Saying it is necessary is just an excuse. You don't see most women doing this. I can honestly say the only time I ever did this is when a bug flew in my mouth.

When I was about ten, I was riding in the backseat of my parents car. We didn't have air conditioning and it was the middle of summer so all the windows in the car were down. Yes, you can see where this is going. A guy in a car slightly in front of us spit out his window. Guess where it landed? Right in my face! Yuck! I HATE SPITTING!

 

[OK!]

I picked Unnecessary and nasty...but I also want to select Never and punishable. My son knows not to spit. It's disgusting, disrespectful to anyone nearby, makes you look like a hillbilly, and it's germy.

For those who use 'sometimes you have to' as an excuse, you have to pee too...and there's a place for it. Use the restroom.

OK...what if you're out running and your lungs are producing boatloads of crap--which is what happens during my exercise-induced asthma--and there is no restroom nearby? You can't very well swallow it. Sometimes spitting actually IS necessary.

I will say, though, that I always try to do it when nobody's looking, and always in grass, so at least people don't have to look at it. It's gross, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it actually does have to happen.

 

[Shelton123]

I just swallow it if my mouth is unusually watery. I've seen women spit too, y'know but I think it's disgusting. Same with spitting out food. I don't care if it's the most vile, disgusting tasting thing ever! Just swallow it!

 

[DebbieB]

I don't understand it either. Unless I have a cold, I've never found it necessary to spit and certainly not in public. What I think is gross is when you are sitting a light and a guy in front of you (usually in a pickup) opens the door to spit!

 

[clgwli]

I don't particularly care one way or the other, as long as it's done during an "as necessary" situation. I'm a woman, but I have exercise-induced asthma and I sometimes have to spit when I'm working out (but only outside, obviously!). But if it's just a "see just how unbelievably studly I am"-type scenario, then-- gross.

I am with you on that. As a former runner I have no issues seeing people doing some sort of athletics or sports needing to spit. It isn't gross to me then because swallowing it just can't always happen. I admit I have spit as well while doing athletics only.

Other types of spitting disgust me. Though the poster who talked about the pregnant spitter I would understand that highly as well. Both my pregnancies any time I sneezed I'd gag so I see why she might need to do that.

 

[Shelton123]

I don't particularly care one way or the other, as long as it's done during an "as necessary" situation. I'm a woman, but I have exercise-induced asthma and I sometimes have to spit when I'm working out (but only outside, obviously!). But if it's just a "see just how unbelievably studly I am"-type scenario, then-- gross.

I have exercise induced asthma, and I don't spit. Even if I "have" to, I just swallow it and deal with it.

 

[Handbag Lady]

It is gross and if you spit in front of me or in my field of view, you will be mocked, yelled at, commented upon, or worse, you will get the evil glare.


The evil glare even made a stranger at Disneyland apologize to me for doing it, saying he was sorry and realized his own mother would have smacked him.

 

[DisneyBlonde]

OK...what if you're out running and your lungs are producing boatloads of crap--which is what happens during my exercise-induced asthma--and there is no restroom nearby? You can't very well swallow it. Sometimes spitting actually IS necessary.

I will say, though, that I always try to do it when nobody's looking, and always in grass, so at least people don't have to look at it. It's gross, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it actually does have to happen.

If you were running by me OK!, say in a 10 k or what have you, and you were having an exercise-induced asthma attack and there was no restroom available, I would be understanding of your need to spit. Just stay downwind from me.

Unfortunately most of the time this isn't the case. It's just some random guy walking along, or talking with his friends, who turns his heads and hawks a green and yellow loogie on the sidewalk. I just witnessed this in NYC 2 weeks ago, a street vendor pulling down his cart, turned his head and whafted one onto the sidewalk in front of me. If you have a medical issue and know you're inclined to have this problem, carry kleenex with you. My DS20 has severe allergies and is very juicy. He always has tissues in his pockets.