Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Spitting!
Is this area full of spitters? Every time I go for a walk I come across quite a few. What prompted me to post this was a walk up from Homebase on Saturday. First a chewing gum nearly landed on my shoe. It was spat out of the window of a car waiting to escape from the Arena retail park. I made it clear to the spitter that that was disgusting. Then a young girl turned around as she was entering a shop on Green Lanes, and spat out through the door. A bit further up a man was gathering phlegm from deep, deep within before he deposited what he managed to find right on the pavement in one big, horrid, sticky glob.
I have actually stopped people in the past, telling them that their behaviour is disgusting, and have actually received a few apologies!
Is spitting now socially acceptable? Are people so used to it they don't stop and think about how unhygienic and horrid it is? And how can we make them think about what they're doing? Posters? On the spot fines? Who would fine them?
I have actually stopped people in the past, telling them that their behaviour is disgusting, and have actually received a few apologies!
Is spitting now socially acceptable? Are people so used to it they don't stop and think about how unhygienic and horrid it is? And how can we make them think about what they're doing? Posters? On the spot fines? Who would fine them?
Tags for Forum Posts: disgusting, revolting, spitting, unacceptable
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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I love that idea. Could we make them lick it up if we're too late with the tape?
..I think I should probably stop now..
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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On the big scheme of things it’s way down my priority list.
Although it is not pleasant, many people who are running, cycling or doing any exercise spit. This is 100% natural. I do wish people were more discreet about spitting out on the pavement right in front of people and open fresh food.
Will parping, burping or having bad breath be next on the ban list.
There is a cultural element to it but also the amount people smoke down on Green Lanes on exacerbates the need to spit.
I’m not going to pick my nose in public anymore I will be named and shamed on here : )
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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When the cyclist I am about to overtake decides to clear his nostrils or spit... I usually wear it, often on the face. I am cycling harder than them but I feel no compulsion to spit whatsoever. However, yes, it's not even close to the top of my priority list either.
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I very, very occasionally spit on whilst on my bike, I always look around and make sure there are no pedestrians or other cyclists around. I sometimes get flies or other things flying in my mouth and being a veggie I spit them out immediately to help them on their way.
When I was climbing the three peaks over the weekend, I spat and snotted quite a lot and so was everyone else.
Far more dangerous is people flicking cigarette butts out of car windows only to land in a helmet of a motorcyclist or cyclist behind.
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Permalink Reply by GK/OD on
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I used to do athletics, trained and ran many races. Played football and many other sports and never spat. Granted I`m from an earlier generation and things were a bit different then. Footballers since the late seventies early eighties bear some responsibilty.
I hate it
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Maybe you physically didn't need to, others do including myself and I am not ashamed to admit it. There was a documentary a while back in which a posh lady went to try and stop a Sunday pub football team from spitting and swearing, this is not the opera. I’m a little tired of the middle classes downing the under classes and their ways.
Spitting is natural part of the human engine and it is all very bourjois not to expect it to go on, although the spitting of big dollops of flem on the pavements of Green Lanes is unacceptable, I agree.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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B2. stop getting your jockstrap in a twist about this. Spitting is not a class war issue. The only exercise, I imagine, the loping spitters of Green Lanes indulge in is raising their can of Stella of an evening. It is in every way as disrespectful of the neighbourhood and the streets as dropping said can of Stella, or cig butt, or chicken box. Coming as I do, from a highly respectable and thoroughly working class family, I can assure you my Mum would have a few words for the foul creature that deposited a gob full just in front of the buggy the other day (and god help him if my grandma was about).
Freedom to spit in your own living room or discreetly away from other possible human contact is of course entirely to be supported. In the Harringay Passage, during the 'school walk', is not.
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“Freedom to spit in your own living room or discreetly away from other possible human contact is of course entirely to be supported. In the Harringay Passage, during the 'school walk', is not.”
You have just reiterated what I have said.
You can tell this area is getting more bourjois, I found a half glass of red wine just placed on the floor in the Passage a couple of weeks ago – bloomin birkenstockers : )
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I concur Ms Liz.
We all moved to this area, warts and all and we all know and possibly like its rough edges, that’s what makes it real London, and not a micro Crouch End. -
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