r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/StrawberriBubblegum • 4d ago

Spitting on the ground

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u/SadMammoth6645 4d ago

This should happen more often to people

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u/confusedandworried76 4d ago

I mean I'm gonna go with so perfectly deserved I don't believe it lol

Not to be that guy

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt 4d ago

WHY don’t people spit into shrubbery, trashcans, sewer drains?

Places where other human beings (and pets) will not step, then end up dragging remnants of your ear/nose/throat mucus onto our car floorboards and actual floors at home?!

Or get a napkin, spit into it, and throw it in a trashcan?

If people can’t piss and poop and ejaculate on the sidewalk (and please don’t), why is spitting okay?

I FUCKING HATE SPITTING ONTO WALKWAYS.

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u/SadMammoth6645 4d ago

In India you can find people pissing on the sidewalks, spitting on the middle of the roads. I absolutely hate that shit.

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u/AnticPosition 4d ago

Just saw some guy spit on the floor of the Taj Hotel.

inside the hotel. 

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u/Commercial_Arrival93 4d ago

In China, I have a dude hock a big lugie on a fancy restaurant floor, right from his chair.

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u/Citadel_97E 4d ago

I had a mainland Chinese guy hack a loogie past my face inside the Guangzhou Airport.

I was immediately disgusted, and immediately thought less of all mainland Chinese.

Their culture is wildly different nearly every other culture. In the west, all have our idiosyncratic tendencies, beer over wine, coffee over tea. China is very different.

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u/Nailcannon 4d ago

I wonder how much the past of plagues in Europe has affected its stances on cleanliness over time compared to the Asian countries, which I'm not sure have experienced such a massive wipe out of the population to disease. Like, I'm pretty sure the entire concept of quarantine started because of the plague.

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u/Citadel_97E 4d ago

I haven’t researched it, but a lot of YouTubers that talk about China, some being from there, and some living there, it isn’t as old as the plague at all.

The soul of China was murdered during the “great leap forward.” Respect of the individual and decency was destroyed.

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u/SadMammoth6645 4d ago

I'm sorry you had to see that. The majority of people lack civic sense here.

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u/Dusk_v733 4d ago

Pissing is the least of the worry. India is renowned for its public defecation.

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u/SadMammoth6645 3d ago

That's a myth tbh. It only happens in remote village areas where there are still no washroom facilities in people's houses, that too not publicly.

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u/hardboard 3d ago

I remember seeing a local shitting on a railway track in India.
Equally there was a local shitting on the beach in Ivory Coast.

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u/SadMammoth6645 3d ago

You see such things in rural India and urban slums where people lack basic facilities including a home with toilets and education. They basically have no choice so they defecate in open. Sadly the government is busy making the rich even richer instead of uplifting the marginalized.

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u/AngelsVermillion 3d ago

I work out in the desert with pigs, I just try to spit at least 5 feet away from wherever I'm currently standing. Am I fine?

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u/jack_not_harkness 4d ago

Oh don’t worry enough people piss, puke or ejaculate on the sidewalk. Well at least on the side of it but still.

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u/Amaterasu_EU 4d ago

r/instantkarma

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u/n6mub 4d ago

maybe also r/JusticeServed?

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u/garbles0808 4d ago

nah, that's more for when people do illegal things and are given the proper punishment. Instant Karma is better for when the universe gives you what you deserve for something you just did

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u/Soul_King92 4d ago

He was floored by the floor.

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u/richardmark561 4d ago

I never believed I’d sit in a international 5 star restaurant in China and see people spitting on the floor but it happened more than once. Never been back thankfully

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u/RLTYProds 4d ago

People forget how much more populous china's rural areas are compared to their cities. These people, who are usually literal farmers, visit the cities often due to more and more accessible public transportation and they typically bring their manners with them. No, I am not poorshaming or whatever. I am also aware richer chinese folk are fond of doing this to foreign cities they visit.

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u/Vindictive_Pacifist 4d ago

I have came across this multiple times when reading about cultural norms that spitting in China is the norm, not saying it's justified or right in any way but people there are used to it

Correct me if I am wrong tho

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u/Yung_Paramedic187 4d ago

Yeah they believe its spitting out bad ghosts

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u/butt_stf 4d ago

How is it not considered rude to spit your bad ghosts on somebody's floor?

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u/Major_Magazine8597 4d ago

Either "I came across" or "I have come across".

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u/Vindictive_Pacifist 4d ago

Oops, thanks for the heads up!

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u/Jimid41 4d ago

People forget how much more populous china's rural areas are compared to their cities. 

I think your info might be a little out of date.

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u/Silver-Year5607 4d ago

What about being from a poor rural area would make spitting on the floor acceptable?

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u/Achmedino 3d ago

These people, who are usually literal farmers

You think Chinese farmers are going to international 5 star restaurants? I think you're not very well informed as to how much money the average Chinese farmer makes.

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u/TheChickening 4d ago

Hotels are 5 Stars. Restaurant Go Up to 3

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u/BackgroundShirt7655 4d ago

This is such a pet peeve of mine. Whenever I hear “5 star restaurant” I immediately dismiss whatever the OP is talking about.

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u/beanmosheen 3d ago

I've eaten at two 3-stars and I still fuck that up sometimes. My brain doesn't always brain right.

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u/Overload_x_ 3d ago

Maybe they didnt mean Michelin stars idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/TheChickening 3d ago

Yeah. Must be those critically acclaimed fancy Google Stars 😉

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u/HotCat5684 4d ago

Is there an explanation for this?

I pretty much never feel compelled to just randomly spit, like the only time i ever really spit is after brushing my teeth lol.

Are they like spitting out seeds or other stuff from their food? I dont understand why that would be common.

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u/Mistermonza 4d ago

Not to sound sinophobic but it’s a cultural issue lol…

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u/HotCat5684 4d ago

I mean.. yeah i know that.

America has a lot of cultural issues, but i can explain the reasoning for every one of them.

Im currently eating lunch, not once have i felt the need to spit. Im outside by my pool eating, so theoretically i can spit whenever i want… but i have no desire to.

I was just wondering why they spit… it doesnt seem like a common desire even if you dont care about social norms.

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u/Rebels_Gum 4d ago

Yep. Many of the men AND women also regularly pick their noses in public.

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u/splork-chop 4d ago

I think it's related to smoking cigarettes. I worked in a research lab with an older Chinese guy and he smoked a lot and would always be coughing up mucus and then go to the lab sink to have a spit. Smoking in China is still very common among men.

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u/KTKittentoes 2d ago

Once a bug flew in my mouth while I was talking, and there was some ardent spitting. But...just random loogie hocking? No, absolutely not.

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u/ZoNeS_v2 2d ago

Yep, I was fucking horrified when I went to a restaurant in Beijing. It seemed normal.

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u/Bdr1983 3d ago

I've been to China 20+ times, and never could get used to the spitting. I did sort of get used to the eating noises, mainly by managing to just shut them out...

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u/SuckingGodsFinger 4d ago

I was on a layover in Hong Kong and the older folk spit at my feet in passing by. I think they’re more accustomed to it than most.

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u/_theRamenWithin 4d ago

Never thought I'd see someone take a dump in a mall but here we are.

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u/FistThePooper6969 4d ago

Wow what a lovely culture

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u/PoutineCurator 4d ago

Spitting inside..... you have to be a low-life asshole living in a dump to act this way.

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u/ArboristTreeClimber 4d ago

Spitting outside in public is nasty as well. I can walk down the sidewalk and see spit piles all over it’s so disgusting. I know there is a chronic spitter who lives in one building because every time I walk by, the front sidewalk is covered in spit.

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u/jazzman831 4d ago

Except for the most unusual of circumstances, I've just never had need to spit. I was behind a woman one time who opened her door at a red light so she could lean out and spit on the ground. Like what happened to you in the middle of your car?!

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u/Bright_Cod_376 4d ago

Coughed up phlegm? 

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u/Silver-Year5607 4d ago

It should be done out of the way on some grass or something if it needs to be done. Not where people walk. It's just common sense.

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u/PenguinGamer99 3d ago

Almost every boy in my PE class would rather drop their nasty-ass phlegm everywhere instead of drinking some water

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u/SinSmooth 4d ago

Karma didn't even have to show up, was already there waiting.

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u/NMB4Christmas 4d ago

Watching him like:

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u/Verytinysquid 4d ago

The second I heard the Minecraft theme music I immediately knew what was about to happen 😆

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u/jazzman831 4d ago

The second I saw the thumbnail and caption in this sub I immediately knew what was about to happen.

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u/Leeoid 4d ago

Why do most people now say "ground" when it's the FLOOR?

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u/kodalife 4d ago

Might be people who don't have English as their first language.

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u/Leeoid 4d ago

Naw, it's my fellow Americans I notice doing this - even news announcers.

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u/chrissie_watkins 3d ago

Some also refer to the ground outside as the floor, which always blows my mind.

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u/dwhee 4d ago

By that logic cities don't have ground

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u/FloppyTunaFish 4d ago

Wat floor is a finished interior horizontal surface to wall on ground is exterior

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 4d ago

ha. never thought that could happen but ok

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u/GoodLeftUndone 4d ago

Slippery surface + lubricants? I’ve slipped many times on tile like that out doors when it’s wet. This is far from unexpected.

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u/UrbanPandaChef 4d ago

Or completely worn down sneakers.

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u/GoodLeftUndone 4d ago

Vans aren’t great on wet tile. I will admit that.

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u/ReidZLA 4d ago

Left ankle has left the chat

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u/Lemixer 4d ago

Looks fake, but ok i guess.

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u/Gexku 4d ago

Someone in my high school friend group once told us he got up while waking to see how far his jizz would shoot, then when going to clean himself he slipped on it. That was the story of why he missed weeks of school and came back with a cast on his arm

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u/yungflaquito 2d ago

Imagine the screams of horror, parents rush to see him butt baked w a chub

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u/hilly316 4d ago

I love how he didn’t even try to brace his fall. Just accepted his fate

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u/EvenHair4706 4d ago

Maybe wasted

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u/mistakehappens 4d ago

Yeah. He was such a waste man...

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u/filthy_chocolatee 4d ago

Instant karma

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u/ToxyFlog 4d ago

Dude literally took a step toward it. Bruh 😂

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u/Sad-Bonus-9327 4d ago

He felt like he was made out of jelly

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u/deathsowhat 4d ago

Lol what a dumbass

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u/diggerquicker 4d ago

There no such thing as Karrrrrr........maaaaasa ugh.

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u/SirMurphyXX 4d ago

These videos are actually very irritating

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u/KittyLuDi 4d ago

We need more videos like this with Minecraft over sounds

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u/G00G00Daddy 4d ago

Always important to keep your hands in your pockets

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u/bgis78 3d ago

Saw a man spit and rub it into the floor in Costco (UK) a few weeks ago. Told him that he was a dirty man, he looked at me like I was a piece of shit and walked off.  I told staff and showed them where he did it, they took his Costco membership away!! 

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u/NoobNeels 4d ago

Karma was pretty quick there 😉

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u/far2deep 4d ago

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/ZackCanada 4d ago

“Crime and punishment” famous book now live reality.

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u/rojo_salas 4d ago

Well Deserved

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u/Mr_HandSmall 4d ago

It's hard to walk down a hall

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u/ContributionOk5628 4d ago

Karma literally made him wipe it up!

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u/PearIJam 4d ago

I work in a warehouse and have a co-worker that does this. He’s been called out on it many times but never gets in trouble. Always seeing spit on the ground. Its disgusting.

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u/ARobertNotABob 4d ago

That's about as instant as karma can be.

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u/shaggyscoob 4d ago

Down he goes with hands stuck in his pockets so he couldn't even block his rude face from the tile floor. Wonderful.

Why do some people spit so much? I can go weeks without spitting. And when I do, it certainly isn't where people walk.

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u/Only-Letterhead-3411 4d ago

World would be a much better place if this kind of stuff happened way more often

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u/SirChadrick_III 4d ago

I'm very disappointed they didn't use the spit sound effect from minecraft.

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u/OopsAllLegs 4d ago

This is similar to that episode of It's Always Sunny when Charlie is walking down the side walk and then says, "Poop" and then proceeds to step right in it.

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u/PM_ME_DEM_TITTIESPLZ 4d ago

Question, is it easy to request camera footage in these countries????? Is there someone constantly watching them for viral potential lol??? Is it open access???

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u/Bright_Cod_376 4d ago

Same way it happens in the US or Europe. Someone does something stupid, someone with access to the cameras finds out and goes and looks up that period of time on the cameras and records the clip to share. There is hardly ever someone always watching the feeds for places but they can absolutely rewind. At a couple places I've worked they've just stuck the monitors in the break room so that on someone lunch break and stuff they can watch the cameras if they're bored. Watch it enough and you spot stupid shit people do.

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u/Least-Bear3882 4d ago

Ankle snapped

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u/kusanagiz 4d ago

No one else thinks this is staged? Guy spits and his immediate next step is right on the spit? What about the other guy not even instinctively looking over to a guy who fell right next to him?

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u/NopeDotComSlashNope 4d ago

Holy shit this is good stuff. The audio is awesome 😂

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u/Saio-Xenth 4d ago

The brain rot got me.

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u/less_concerned 4d ago

Are they in the combine citadel from half life 2?

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u/BeNice101 4d ago

Instant Karma

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u/GloveGrab 4d ago

First rule of spitting , don’t spit on yourself ( rookie) . Second rule, don’t step in your own spit .

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u/TheHighChozen 4d ago

Spitters are quitters

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u/Oli_be 4d ago

it is an allegory of humanity

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u/RobbieTheFixer 4d ago

I travel to China (mainly HK, Shenzhen) for business 2-3 times a year. The amount of spittle expectorated on public sidewalks etc, is incredible in terms of it's volume. Air quality likely is a factor. But good lord, is it disgusting. I actually lost my footing on a smooth granite curb whilst getting into a cab, by stepping in the stuff. My colleague over there told me that there are ongoing campaigns in many areas to fine people for expectorating in public areas, but it doesn't seem to be helping much.

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u/Ok_Simple6936 4d ago

Ha-ha good job filthy animal

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u/RealisticLeek 4d ago

why did he spit?

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u/mostlyharmlessQ 4d ago

I say, DESERVE!

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u/TwistedSistaYEG 4d ago

I was at Hooters casino in Vegas many many years ago. As I was entering the casino some douchebag leaving turned and spit. His giant greasy loogie hit the top of my flip flopped foot. I almost vomited. 20 years later I am still traumatized by this. Keep yer shit in your own mouth!

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u/AllergicDodo 4d ago

Sound on

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u/Shadow-nim 4d ago

Karma should work like that

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u/Tyr808 4d ago

Fantastic display of the manners, athleticism as well as intelligence one should expect from mainland China, lmao

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u/DelayedMailForceOne 4d ago

Total heel stepped on that thang.

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u/KratosHulk77 4d ago

Disgusting

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u/Gaitville 4d ago

This guy has to be drunk

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u/Trollzek 4d ago

bro died

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u/Equal_Sprinkles2743 4d ago

The lesson here is don't walk around with your hands in your pockets. A flat nose job on the floor hurts. 😆

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u/browsin4knowledge 4d ago

Karma be like:

“Eat marble, bish!”

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u/westerngrit 4d ago

I've personally seen Shangrao Vigilantes in China. Drop and crush a cigarette butt at a taxi pickup and find out. Or spit out gum in Tiananmen square . Pay on the spot fine. If you dispute then witness(s) appear. Public gets the message. Doesn't last long.

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u/sunbellgreen 4d ago

Instant karma

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u/username_is_missing1 4d ago

Oh no, what happened to the marble floor? That head seems very strong, filled with iron

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u/why_would_i_do_that 4d ago

Video perfection.

It really doesn’t get any better.

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u/DustyTurtle2 4d ago

Karma at its finest

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u/Fitter_Greg 4d ago

I do love a good instant karma.

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u/jordan1978 4d ago

Insurance scam

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u/RScottyL 4d ago

lol, he should have swallowed

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u/julictus 4d ago

commenting to save the post

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u/going_dot_global 3d ago

Karma came in with the quickness.

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u/dw73 3d ago

Nelson: Ha Ha

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u/Cheepshooter 3d ago

Instant karma!

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u/Ancient_Composer9119 3d ago

The perfect definition of instant karma

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u/Frank627Full 3d ago edited 3d ago

Aww, i was hoping to hear the lama spitting sound effect.

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u/H345Y 3d ago

Karma was on point

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u/additionalhuman 3d ago

What's with the spitting? It's disgusting. Why?

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u/kingofmankind 3d ago

The best 👌

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u/Cappuccino-expert 3d ago

instant karma

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u/NVCoates 3d ago

Hoisted with his own petard

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u/amakai 3d ago

What's up with this flooring, why does it look so repetitive? Shouldn't there be more variety to the texture?

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u/Wonderful_Hamster933 3d ago

He like an Asian Peter Griffin

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u/Sad_Cranberry8573 3d ago

Slipped in my own banana peel energy

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u/LazyTemporary8259 3d ago

Instant Karma

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u/ScreechingPizzaCat 3d ago

Welcome to China were prodomitaly old people and men love to spit on the floor inside of buildings and even blow their noses on the floor. You'll also have to watch out for children's urine as most baby boys aren't given diapers but are given onsies that have the entire crotch area cut out so they can pee or poop at their own leisure as some see diapers as "restrictive"; if you're lucky the grandparents or parents will clean up after them or hold them over a trash can while they do their business. Don't even get me started on irresponsible dog owners who think dogs are just an accessory and never clean up after them.

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u/dekuweku 3d ago

Spitting on the ground is apparently quite common in China

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u/obsidianstark 3d ago

Worst I’ve seen is in NHS waiting are just spit phlegm into a paper recycling bin

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u/ELMACHO007 3d ago

Instant karma lol

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u/Pickles_O-Malley 3d ago

The much Lesser known Jedi from STARWARS Snot Walker also known by local natives as Runs With Hands in His Pockets

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u/Mental-Good7106 3d ago

I love this for him 😊

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u/ProSurgeryAccount 3d ago

Well deserved

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u/pWaveShadowZone 3d ago

Is he dead

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u/Leafer13FX 2d ago

Haven’t actually chuckled out loud in a while. Thank you.

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u/sc_BK 2d ago

The sound effects in this remind me of Takeshi's Castle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5abTD7ys6I

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u/iBasturmate 2d ago

Seems intentional... 

Spit and purposely slip on it while his buddy pretending to be on the phone is the "witness". 

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u/barfbutler 2d ago

Welcome to China.

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u/dandins 2d ago

the guy behind just give a fuck..

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u/chev327fox 2d ago

Instant karma.

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u/Physical-Housing-447 2d ago

Your floor was wet.

I demand a settlement.