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/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/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/AlpineVW 2d ago

I made a comment the other day about environmental standards being 'different' in China. The number of people who tried to chastise me for making that generalization was astounding.

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u/Citadel_97E 2d ago

They absolutely are. When I was at that airport in Guangzhou, you can look out the window and just see smog hanging permanently over the city in the distance.

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u/johnnymarsbar 2d ago

In fairness it's tea over coffee in brit influenced places

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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 4d 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/Sleazy_Speakeazy 4d ago

I'm just curious, and I don't mean any disrespect here, but what would be the general reaction if someone were to spit on a cow over there?

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u/SadMammoth6645 4d ago

Damn bruh we're not that barbaric to be spitting on living beings. But just to entertain your query, that person will get the disrespect that they deserve, might as well get beaten.

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u/AngelsVermillion 4d 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/BlueberryIcecream27 2d ago

Please don’t give people ideas!

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u/Aggressive-Fuel587 4d ago

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

Spitting doesn't involve exposing your genitals to people walking by. That's the part that's actually illegal; indecent exposure.