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Stop Spitting on the Streets!

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  • 09-09-2009 8:56pm
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    RubyXI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭


    Can we please start a campaign to get people to stop spitting on the street.
    It is so disgusting walking through the streets covered in other peoples bodily fluids.
    I'm sure it's also very unhealthy. In this day and age when we are all carrying around hand wipes and following the catch it kill it bin it rule, it seems basically stupid to be spitting on the streets.
    Can we please try to put a stop to it?


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    #2
    Gazza22
    Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    How would you propose you stop people spitting? Anyway, this thread doesn't really fit in with Bio+Med.


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    RubyXI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭RubyXI


    By awareness. People probably dont even realise they're doin it. and no it might be the right forum. i don't know where to put it. Mods?


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    PhysiologyRocks
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    phi3 wrote: »
    By awareness. People probably dont even realise they're doin it.

    If it were that easy, then someone would have stopped it by now.

    Also, I'd be willing to bet that people know full well what they are doing


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    RubyXI
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭RubyXI


    PhysiologyRocks wrote: »
    If it were that easy, then someone would have stopped it by now.

    Also, I'd be willing to bet that people know full well what they are doing

    Just thought it might be worth a try.


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    PhysiologyRocks
    Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭PhysiologyRocks


    phi3 wrote: »
    Just thought it might be worth a try.

    I'd love if it stopped, by the way. I hate it too!

    I'd be all for introducing a fine.:)


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    suspectpackage
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    I have to say i am one of the people who enjoys spitting. I usually try to spit on some grass and not on the pavements. There are just some times when you have excess saliva that you just can't swallow. it's a lifelong habit for me. I spit like a maniac whenever I have eaten anything or drunk anything. I just can't swallow the slushy residual of my meal that is left in my mouth. I think the issue should be stopping people spitting by awareness first of all and secondly by using some sort of "spit bag" or something? because some people are going to spit regardless.


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    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    suspectpackage wrote: »
    and secondly by using some sort of "spit bag" or something? because some people are going to spit regardless.


    we all have a spit bag, it's called our stomach. your salivary glands make the saliva so that you will swallow your food comfortably, and maintain a correct oral ph so that your teeth won't break down. you just have a bad habit of spitting, it's just like any other habit, it can be broken. with a bit of will power!


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    DrIndy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭DrIndy


    phi3 wrote: »
    By awareness. People probably dont even realise they're doin it. and no it might be the right forum. i don't know where to put it. Mods?
    We can keep it here and talk about the hygeine/microbiology stuff. Feel free to open another thread in another forum for different responses.


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    TirNaNog.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭TirNaNog.


    What about the people that blow molecules of nasal mucus onto the pavement on their jumpers!


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    ottobock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭ottobock


    phi3 wrote: »
    Can we please start a campaign to get people to stop spitting on the street.
    It is so disgusting walking through the streets covered in other peoples bodily fluids.
    I'm sure it's also very unhealthy. In this day and age when we are all carrying around hand wipes and following the catch it kill it bin it rule, it seems basically stupid to be spitting on the streets.
    Can we please try to put a stop to it?

    Im a wheelchair user and I totally agree .. its absolutely disgusting.. i regularly have to check where im going, whether the wheels go over one of these disgusting spits, whether my hands have picked it up, whether my cuffs are full of somebodys phlegm.
    The worst is when Im being pushed and Ive no control over where Im going..
    whats worst is my total awareness from a microbiological point of view,,im gagging now typing but I live with this day in, day out, day in day out day in day out


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    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    ottobock wrote: »
    Im a wheelchair user and I totally agree .. its absolutely disgusting.. i regularly have to check where im going, whether the wheels go over one of these disgusting spits, whether my hands have picked it up, whether my cuffs are full of somebodys phlegm.
    The worst is when Im being pushed and Ive no control over where Im going..
    whats worst is my total awareness from a microbiological point of view,,im gagging now typing but I live with this day in, day out, day in day out day in day out

    That's a very good point. I'd never thought of it from the perspective of a wheelchair user. It must e horrible for you.

    I've been in Singapore a few times, and it's a criminal offence there.


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    Kevster
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    phi3 wrote: »
    Can we please start a campaign to get people to stop spitting on the street.
    It is so disgusting walking through the streets covered in other peoples bodily fluids.
    I'm sure it's also very unhealthy. In this day and age when we are all carrying around hand wipes and following the catch it kill it bin it rule, it seems basically stupid to be spitting on the streets.
    Can we please try to put a stop to it?

    Nice one... but I don't fancy your/our chances of getting through to people. I find it revolting when someone spits on the pavement. I think that some pick up the habit from footballers spitting while they play. I remember once standing at a bus stop and there was a group of guys to my right. One of them just turned away from the center of the group and spat on the ground. Then, a few more did the same, thinking nothing of it.

    That same day, I saw something quite astonishing too: A guy bought something in the shop but - while leaving to get into his van - he threw the container AT a bin and missed from around 7-10 metres away. He saw that he missed but just walked on.

    What's the answer? - Extermination.


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    ottobock
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    That's a very good point. I'd never thought of it from the perspective of a wheelchair user. It must e horrible for you.
    .
    the wost "offenders" (if i can use the term) are groups of young land standing at a wall or outside a shop..


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    RubyXI
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    I was walking behind a guy once and he was spitting every few minutes. There was a trail of spit every few metres along the path. No-one needs to spit that much. People say they have to do it because they have phleghm in their mouth. Can they not swallow it? I have never had a circumstance that i "had to" spit on the streets or anywhere else either. The comment about wheelchair users was a very good point. I also think about the kids that are always reaching down to the ground if they see something unusual even when it gets on your shoes and your taking the germs back to your house.


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    sunnyjim
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    That's a very good point. I'd never thought of it from the perspective of a wheelchair user. It must e horrible for you.

    I've been in Singapore a few times, and it's a criminal offence there.

    Is it not one here, too? I thought it was brought about to combat the spread of TB.


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    drzhivago
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭drzhivago


    tallaght01 wrote: »
    That's a very good point. I'd never thought of it from the perspective of a wheelchair user. It must e horrible for you.

    I've been in Singapore a few times, and it's a criminal offence there.

    Might surprise you to know tallaght old pa that it is an offence in Ireland too

    Old Statute from the 1950's when TB was rife, think it is still active though rarely acted upon

    Would prefer to see one about spitting gum on streets as well


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    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    Wow. Didn't know it was illegal in Ireland. Not lived full time in Ireland in the last 13 years. Interesting point, though.

    Probably not a hugely important TB control strategy nowadays though.


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    taram
    Registered Users Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭taram


    Saw a guy spitting in the Ilac Center in Dublin onto the floor! Was horrified!


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    #20
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    If it was the ilac centre, you're lucky he wasn't having a slash on the floor!


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    drzhivago
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    Wow. Didn't know it was illegal in Ireland. Not lived full time in Ireland in the last 13 years. Interesting point, though.

    Probably not a hugely important TB control strategy nowadays though.

    Very old law to stop people spitting when TB rife, would be useful now with respect to H1N1 to get people to consider others when spitting/snotting on streets


    I havent heard of any prosecutions from this in a long time though


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    tallaght01
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    drzhivago wrote: »
    Very old law to stop people spitting when TB rife, would be useful now with respect to H1N1 to get people to consider others when spitting/snotting on streets


    I havent heard of any prosecutions from this in a long time though

    citizen's arrest next time you see it happening ;)


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