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Spitting in the stands

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Even when I’m out with the dog in the black dark at 5.30 am I feel guilty about having a hockle in the bush. Certainly wouldn’t do it in public or daylight. My Governess would turn in we grave.
 
Not so many folk have coal dust or iron filings on their lungs these days. When I was a bairn almost all men I knew spat when they were outside.
 
Keawyeds said:
Never quite understood that either and yet I've done it.
Weird.
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It’s probably in our genetic code you reckon? Like when dogs circle around and scratch stuff before they lie down, that’s because when they were wild they used to gather twigs and leaves for a bed and they’d make it nice and cosy
 
Nothing like howking up a huge, greasy ball of phlegm and watching it slither down a drain.

it‘s a disgusting thing to do in public, though. It’s not about the disease issue, someone could slip on it.
 
Grimes said:
It’s probably in our genetic code you reckon? Like when dogs circle around and scratch stuff before they lie down, that’s because when they were wild they used to gather twigs and leaves for a bed and they’d make it nice and cosy
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Learned behaviour. You'll have seen someone else do it and think it was the thing to do
 
I’ll be honest I have no intention of going back if I’m not allowed to spit all over the joint.
 
I kill time on dog walks by trying to hockle on my dog whilst he’s running about, little bastard is undefeated after 8 years.
sponge said:
I’ll be honest I have no intention of going back if I’m not allowed to spit all over the joint.
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What ya wanna do that for you’ll get the weed wet eventually.
 
Always remember the owld miners, back in the day, emptying both nostrills into the gutter. A mixture of black and green gunge then wiping what was left on their beak, on their snot rag.
 
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Borgsten said:
Remember the “No Spitting” signs on the buses when going to school. Seems strange now looking back. Green greasy cockles on the ridged wooden floors …. Lovely
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"TB or not TB, that is congestion
Consumption be done about it? Of cough, of cough.
But it takes a lung, lung time.”

Allan Stewart Konigsberg 1972
 
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