Spitting.

[Urakro]

Ever since I remember, every man liked to spit. My dad spat. People at school spat. My brother spat. People from different jobs I had spat. There was even a few girls I knew that spat as well.

It always seemed to be a symbol of being tough. Recognised as being a hardened individual who couldn't care less. A sign of being in group and heterosexual.

Even though it felt isolating a little bit, I never worked up the courage to do the same. I imagined I could mess it up, and it accidentally land on my shoes. Or the wind carry it away and it getting on someone else. But most of all, I just didn't have the personality for it. So instead, I just watched. I have spit before, but only if I honked up something monstrous where there was no way in hell I was going to swallow it down.

But now I don't notice anyone spitting any more. I didn't notice when it happened, but where I am, it completely stopped. I haven't heard of any new spitting law, but if there was, I'm sure it wouldn't deter anyone from continuing. It's been so long since I seen a casual spit that if someone just did, it would really seem odd now. Really out of place.

Are people still spitting elsewhere? Or did everybody run dry?

 

[JimJambones]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThMjlCxvxZI

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

aww this brings back memories of the jolly days on the unsinkable ship when my boyfriend jacques taught me how to spit like a real man

 

[Tannhauser]

The only place I allow myself to spit is inside bureaucrats' offices.

 

[Reluctantly]

It's fucking gross...

Unless they got a load in their mouth, then it kind of makes sense. Maybe they weren't as heterosexual as you thought?

edit: only people i know that spit use "dip".

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

I haven't seen anyone spit 'recreationally' since like elementary school.

aww this brings back memories of the jolly days on the unsinkable ship when my boyfriend jacques taught me how to spit like a real man

Did you really have a boyfriend named Jacques? Because, for some reason, that sounds like the fakest (most fake?) name I could possibly imagine for anyone's boyfriend. Like the type of name that Liz Lemon from 30 Rock would come up with.

 

[Jennywocky]

edit: only people i know that spit use "dip".

That's the only time I really remember seeing people consistently spitting.

Although where I grew up, that was a large number of people. One of my friends had a spit bottle. It was pretty gross, although better that spitting loose. We used to make horrible jokes about someone not in the know going to take a swig of his "Coke"; that would have been interesting....

I will spit on occassion if I'm outside and I've just run for awhile and my mouth feels all gunked up, and I'm alone... but not otherwise.

 

[QuickTwist]

some smokers spit a lot. It does increase saliva production. Really the only time I spit is to let go of a gross lugi.

 

[Pizzabeak]

Re: Sp

I haven't seen anyone spit 'recreationally' since like elementary school.



Did you really have a boyfriend named Jacques? Because, for some reason, that sounds like the fakest (most fake?) name I could possibly imagine for anyone's boyfriend. Like the type of name that Liz Lemon from 30 Rock would come up with.

I knew this one guy in this one class once. Seemed like the kind of guy who only takes classes to pick up chicks. Forgot what his real name was but he was enrolled as Jacques as if he officially changed his name to that. Was real into the PUA scene... I suppose that's the kind of name that makes girls tremble at the knees.

 

[Pyropyro]

It's disgusting and spreads diseases especially TB. There's nothing manly about having tuberculosis.

 

[Brontosaurie]

Splitting (also called black and white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking) is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a cohesive, realistic whole and i think it's cool and it makes you special. You can take a test online to see if you have it or not.