I gotta know. I really HAVE to know why men spit outside in the streets! What compels guys to spit in the streets? Do men have overactive mouth glands that produce too much saliva and need to spit all the time? What is going on? Do guys think it's sexy or cool? Do you really think women want to kiss you if you're hocking luggies all the time all over the streets? WHAT THE HELL?
I spit when I need to spit. If I spit indoors, I do it in a sink or a toilet. Outside, a sink or toilet may not always be available when the need arises. I prefer to spit in a natural area, but will spit in the street if I must. Y'all need to deal with that. ?
Where do you spit when you brush your teeth? A tissue?
Can't believe this is even a question. You don't always have a tissue or such handy, you don't want to swallow it, and you don't want to leave the loogie in your mouth. WTF is everyone going on about? What is TRULY GROSS is letting that stuff stay inside of you! Now just spitting for no reason, that would be different.
@Redcupcoffee Pocketbooks?
@Redcupcoffee Agreed. Better to swallow or seek a toilet. If you've swallowed due to infection, then drink a small amount of well diluted abtiseptic, such as TCP, to kill the nasties carried down. I've done it all my life. The result of a wild colonial upbringing.
So I guess clamping one nostril and blowing the other is out of the question?
Only from the pitcher's mound, and you have a big number 40 on your jersey.
That’s what we call a snot rocket. Works great for cleaning the nasal cavities.
@AMGT well, that’s done at work when needed, can’t really carry around Kleenex two miles away from truck in thick woods... maybe not on the street
Loogie hocking is as old as the species. Considering that spittoons were once common in nearly every public gathering space, and only recently has chewing tobacco been replaced by sunflower seeds in the mouths of baseball players, it seems that some progress has been made. There may come a time when the world will follow Singapore's lead, where spitting in public can land you a $1000 fine, but I doubt it. Personally, I find it gauche to expectorate in mixed company.
Why men spit in the street is less curious to me, perhaps because it is less noticeable here in Southern California than some other places. What inspires my curiosity is why men frequently spit, scratch their gonads and cross themselves on baseball fields..?
@Redcupcoffee You make a compelling case with few words. Wish I could counter with an equally convincing one for the 20%. Even that can be daunting.
I spit alot, I had a massive stroke when I was 12 years old, and although I was able to regain the use of my left side, I have not been able to control my saliva glands since then, if I don't spit I am constantly drooling and in my opinion nothing looks worse than a 58 yo with drool running down their face.
@Redcupcoffee it's not a big deal learned to live with it long ago, but it is the reason I will be taking early retirement at 62 if tRump and his minions don't rob me blind in the interim.
Could it be similar to marking their territory, such as peeing on a fire hydrant?
Similar to peeing
Most men should live in a barn with the dogs and cats
Or as shreck says better out than in
Grew up in the mid west smoking just to keep the bugs away always a contest how far quite an art too
@Redcupcoffee Competitive spitting is quite different to hawking in the street. I can achieve a goodly distance, but it's in a field, not the street. The dogs and cats threw me out of the barn!
I think women would be more inclined to kiss after it has been spit out rather than with it still in there.
@Redcupcoffee Me neither, they are gross and have cooties.
Hahahaha! Is it a territorial thing? Now street-based snotrockets...that's REALLY sexy, right?
Iam a man, I don't spit.
watu wa East Africa ni watu wazuri. We were, in the main, brought up to have a social conscience. I lived in Kampala between 1975 and 1980, and left in a hurry when Amin's state research came after me. Just made it!!
@0752532706 Wewe ni Kijana, bwana. I was born in Nairobi, in 1941. I haven't used Swahili for the past 30 years, apart from a visit to Nairobi and Watamu in 2012. There doesn't seem to be much call for it in South-Eastern Spain!!