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First UK prosecutions for spitting in public!

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  • #2
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Hitchens wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430724/Pair-men-caught-spitting-prosecuted-Britain-LITTERING-laws-fined-300-each.html

    Vile, nasty habit in fairness!

    If it ever happens here, Robbie Keane will be bankrupted     :pac:
    God I hope that happens here. Can it be my Christmas present? And outlaw chewing gum for my birthday.


  • #3
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Hitchens wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430724/Pair-men-caught-spitting-prosecuted-Britain-LITTERING-laws-fined-300-each.html

    Vile, nasty habit in fairness!

    If it ever happens here, Robbie Keane will be bankrupted     :pac:

    I really hope this crosses the water.

    Spitting is the most vile and disgusting thing in the world and imo completely unnecessary.


  • #4
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    If it's in the Daily Mail, then it is definitely true.


  • #5
    Peanut2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭Peanut2011


    Now that is a law that I would support!


  • #6
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    next will be farting in public think i seen it on tv there trying that somewhere


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  • #7
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I really hope this crosses the water.

    Spitting is the most vile and disgusting thing in the world and imo completely unnecessary.

    What about a chap choking with sinuses problems? Not something you can prep for.

    I say spit away.


  • #8
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    How do soccor players produce so much phlegm? When I play sport or run or whatever, I don't hawk up as much as they do? Is it the hard man image or something?


  • #9
    markomuscle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    does this include sports players during games?


  • #10
    Play To Kill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭Play To Kill


    Got a cough or a cold? Better not go outside in case you get fined for clearing your throat. Silly law!


  • #11
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    Ever been to China? They'd collect a lot in fines if they ever brought it in there


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  • #12
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Is it OK to have a flute?


  • #13
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    What about a bit of phlegm, surely that's better out than in?


  • #14
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    kneemos wrote: »
    Is it OK to have a flute?

    Yes, you'll have to pay the spittle tax though.


  • #15
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    And outlaw chewing gum for my birthday.

    Why chewing gum:confused:

    GUM CHEWING'S FINE WHEN IT'S ONCE IN A WHILE.
    IT STOPS YOU FROM SMOKING AND BRIGHTENS YOUR SMILE.
    BUT IT'S REPULSIVE, REVOLTING, AND WRONG.
    CHEWING AND CHEWING ALL DAY LONG
    THE WAY THAT A COW DOES


  • #16
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    myshirt wrote: »
    What about a chap choking with sinuses problems? Not something you can prep for.

    I say spit away.

    :rolleyes:

    Not what was talking about obviously.


  • #17
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    It is a durty habit alright, but sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!


  • #18
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    myshirt wrote: »
    What about a chap choking with sinuses problems? Not something you can prep for.

    I say spit away.

    Have you never heard of a tissue?


  • #19
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,043 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Have you never heard of a tissue?

    atishoo! :P


  • #20
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Let's have fines for jaywalking too.


  • #21
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Have you never heard of a tissue?

    If the good Lord had wanted us to carry tissues around, he'd not have invented sleeves.:)


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  • #22
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    I spit on their fines. Haaaaawwwwkkkk-poooook.


  • #23
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Have you never heard of a tissue?

    Please inform yourself of the ailment before any glib out of hand comment. That is just embarrassing.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Have you never heard of a tissue?

    Are you made of money for little 10 packs of tissue, or do you expect us to top up with big roll every time we're in the loo?


  • #25
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    I spit on their fines. Haaaaawwwwkkkk-poooook.


  • #26
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Have the place like Singapore!


  • #27
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I really lose a little bit of respect when I discover someone is a spitter. You should always swallow.


  • #28
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Larianne wrote: »
    Have the place like Singapore!

    Full of noodles and slings:confused:


  • #29
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Are you made of money for little 10 packs of tissue, or do you expect us to top up with big roll every time we're in the loo?

    Reusable hankies, be grand!


  • #30
    hansfrei
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭hansfrei


    Ban blowjobs too. They're worse. French kissing? Disgusting. We should all become robots.


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  • #31
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Are you made of money for little 10 packs of tissue, or do you expect us to top up with big roll every time we're in the loo?

    I don't give a **** what you do, as long as you don't spit phlegm all over the place.


  • #32
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    Spitting is the most vile and disgusting thing in the world and imo completely unnecessary.

    Loads of things are worse. Rape. Racist acts. Violent crime. Pooing on the street. Exposing yourself to kids and their grannies. Farting on a baby. Assaulting someone's fingernails. Forced cheese eating. And many more!


  • #33
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    hansfrei wrote: »
    Ban blowjobs too. They're worse. French kissing? Disgusting. We should all become robots.

    Well you can't have oral sex in public, sure it's fun but it's against the mutha ****n law.
    You can spit all you like at home.
    My friends Mam used to make him spit into the bin.


  • #34
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,043 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    should elderly people be exempt?


  • #35
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Scaldy shabby ignorant fookers spitting their vile cummy gob all over the shop. Fine the *****.


  • #36
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Makenzie Black Recipe wrote: »
    Loads of things are worse. Rape. Racist acts. Violent crime. Pooing on the street. Exposing yourself to kids and their grannies. Farting on a baby. Assaulting someone's fingernails. Forced cheese eating. And many more!

    Of course there are. I didn't mean it imply otherwise.

    But spitting is one of the worst things I encounter on a daily basis, right up there with people who leave bags of dog poo on walls or fences rather than carry them to a bin, and I think punishment is order.

    It's not that hard to carry a tissue.


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  • #37
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    Of course there are. I didn't mean it imply otherwise.

    But spitting is one of the worst things I encounter on a daily basis, right up there with people who leave bags of dog poo on walls or fences rather than carry them to a bin, and I think punishment is order.

    It's not that hard to carry a tissue.
    Have you seen the massive grollies that get hawked up? And you expect people to put them in their pockets? Eeuugh. That's why God invented grass verges.


  • #38
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I really hope this crosses the water.

    Spitting is the most vile and disgusting thing in the world and imo completely unnecessary.

    Have you ever gone distance running. After a while it's impossible to do anything but spit. Spitting has it's uses, otherwise humans wouldn't have evolved to do it.


  • #39
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Have you ever gone distance running. After a while it's impossible to do anything but spit. Spitting has it's uses, otherwise humans wouldn't have evolved to do it.

    We obviously have a lot of long distance runners roaming the streets.

    It would explain the tracksuits I suppose.


  • #40
    Howard Juneau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    I love spitting! I'm a "spit spotter" there's a group of us that go around taking pics of hocks on the ground & we mark them for thickness, size & colour,
    have even scraped a few up & brought them to group meetings to show the wondrous beauty of our finds.


  • #41
    greenbicycle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭greenbicycle


    oh god, there is even a picture of the offending spit on the ground in the article. Cannot finish my porridge now, feel so sick.


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  • #42
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    NuckingFacker wrote: »
    Have you seen the massive grollies that get hawked up? And you expect people to put them in their pockets? Eeuugh. That's why God invented grass verges.

    Pockets, sleeves, bins, anywhere but on the ground.
    minidazzler wrote: »
    Have you ever gone distance running. After a while it's impossible to do anything but spit. Spitting has it's uses, otherwise humans wouldn't have evolved to do it.

    What uses?


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I don't give a **** what you do, as long as you don't spit phlegm all over the place.

    You know what happens when you swallow?

    It gets spread all over your trachea and oesophagus.

    Then you breath it in and get a chest infection that you don't lose for 6 weeks.

    A few winters of get cold>swallow phlegm>get chest infections and your looking at athsma, decreased lung capacity, and you'll still be hocking it up like a smoker.

    If you can, find a bathroom to cough & spit into.

    If you can't find a bathroom, get a tissue and bin it after.

    If you can't find a tissue, find a drain.

    Can't find a drain, make sure you're spitting somewhere no one will see it on the ground, will be walking on it & no one's seeing you do it.

    If all the above are not options, ****then****, you can swallow.


  • #44
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    You know what happens when you swallow?

    It gets spread all over your trachea and oesophagus.

    Then you breath it in and get a chest infection that you don't lose for 6 weeks.

    A few winters of get cold>swallow phlegm>get chest infections and your looking at athsma, decreased lung capacity, and you'll still be hocking it up like a smoker.

    If you can, find a bathroom to cough & spit into.

    If you can't find a bathroom, get a tissue and bin it after.

    If you can't find a tissue, find a drain.

    Can't find a drain, make sure you're spitting somewhere no one's will see it, will be walking on it & no one's seeing you do it.

    If all the above are not options, ****then****, you can swallow.

    You are talking about phlegm, right?


  • #45
    fl4pj4ck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭fl4pj4ck


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  • #46
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I really hope this crosses the water.

    Spitting is the most vile and disgusting thing in the world and imo completely unnecessary.

    Don't be daft.


  • #47
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    At the risk of sounding like a bit of a snob, I find that those who spit in public are almost always the same... type of people.


  • #48
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I really hope this crosses the water.

    Spitting is the most vile and disgusting thing in the world and imo completely unnecessary.

    You obviously don't smoke 20 ciggies a day so.

    Let's ban ciggies too like I think their doing in Iceland soon.

    And we can ban music as it's too loud.

    And smiling, let's ban that too, it's simply just not fair on sad people to see other people smile.

    EXCELLENT!!!


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