Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Spitting and worse
I hate it when people spit in the street, leaving a puddle of goop on the ground. But today a man passing me blew his nose through one nostril onto the pavement, then fastidiously wiped his nose with a handkerchief - has nobody told him you could actually blow the snot INTO the hankie?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Cultural, innit.
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte A on
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Gross. I see lots of people do that. Spitting is disgusting, especially when it's preceded by a good old hoik up of lung gunk. Ugh.
How is it in any way cultural? It's about as cultural as taking a piss in a phone box. When I was growing up all the boys spat because they saw footballers doing it on telly and thought it made them cool.
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It's cultural in the sense that it is acceptable in certain cultures. Just as walking a dog on a lead is cultura l and picking up or not picking up its waste is cultural. Or standing downstairs in the bus when the top deck is empty. Or using your mobile while driving. Some of these practices are unpleasant(certainly hawking and spitting phlegm is to most people) In our diverse city, there will always be practised that offend, but they can change. Most people have become far more responsible about their dogs and nobody would dream of smoking in someone's home. Drunk driving used to be acceptable!
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Acceptable or tolerated? I suspect the latter. How are picking up dog poo or using a lead cultural? Or standing downstairs on the bus? Some people don't like going upstairs because everyone knows that the 'kids' go upstairs and then cause bother; or they can't climb stairs. Or they're only going 2 stops so what's the point.
Using your mobile whilst driving is illegal in this country. I don't think people who do so anyway are from any particular 'culture' they just can't possibly wait to take a call/send a text/change the song/snapchat the traffic until they've stopped. And of course none of them could possibly be so stupid as to cause an accident on the A34 that kills half a family.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Unfortunately. some cultures think that storing snot in a hankie is disgusting, as is swallowing phlegm. In most of rural India it's the normal thing to take a crap by the roadside.
It's all a question of what non-British cultural practices are acceptable; what not; and what we do about the latter.
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Permalink Reply by Geraldine on
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The word 'culture' seems not to mean what it once did. And by the way, the first time I saw a nasal evacuation as described was from a man delivering school dinners when I was at South Harringay Primary School back in 1947. Have never forgotten that one, though witnessed similar many times since then in places other than Harringay.
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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sorry but i can admit to doing that when cycling, it just always makes my nose run. but according to cycle etiquette,you have to look behind you for any poor unsuspecting cyclist behind you first
Dont mind spitting too much. But few weeks back saw man peeing in the passageway beside my flat. he was all suited and booted, and had clearly just come from the office probably via the pub-DISGUSTING, and no excuse
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