Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"Enfield is to become the first place in England to make spitting a criminal offence www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23429849 So, micro-social engineering, then. Funny, that. I watch a lot of Premiership and European and world football, and so far as I can see, the average player can't move more than 3 or 4 paces without a good gob. Punctuated by regular pinched nose snot-evacuations. Are they going to station the police around every football field, with snatch squads to whip the offenders into detention? '" Some football players must be almost dehydrated by halftime with the amount of spitting they do. My brother coaches junior RU and one of his pet hates is spitting on the field of play - its almost time for their season to start with a new age group for him to take and on the first training session he is guaranteed to call them all together at the first gob full sprogged out onto the field, point to it, and then ask for any volunteers to roll around in it, followed up by "...because thats what you're all going to be doing when we kick off, rolling about in someone else's phlegm", they tend not to do it so often after that.

Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"Enfield is to become the first place in England to make spitting a criminal offence www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23429849 So, micro-social engineering, then. Funny, that. I watch a lot of Premiership and European and world football, and so far as I can see, the average player can't move more than 3 or 4 paces without a good gob. Punctuated by regular pinched nose snot-evacuations. Are they going to station the police around every football field, with snatch squads to whip the offenders into detention? '" Some football players must be almost dehydrated by halftime with the amount of spitting they do. My brother coaches junior RU and one of his pet hates is spitting on the field of play - its almost time for their season to start with a new age group for him to take and on the first training session he is guaranteed to call them all together at the first gob full sprogged out onto the field, point to it, and then ask for any volunteers to roll around in it, followed up by "...because thats what you're all going to be doing when we kick off, rolling about in someone else's phlegm", they tend not to do it so often after that.

Ok, but do you ever go out?

Yes. On a daily basis.

Now perhaps you can attempt to answer the question.

Have any of the kids decided to quit because his chat has made them realise just how gross rolling around with a bunch of sweatie boys is?

Does he branch out and try and cure the teen pregnancy problem by telling them how many germs they'll be swapping if they get to kiss a girl?

Do they still have communal baths in sports nowadays???

Illness

Don't be harsh on your bro. He just doesn't like spitting, that's all.

A few months prior to being paralysed the infection that caused the paralysis was initially diagnosed as TB around the spine and then a subsequent test proved negative. Later in the spinal unit the consultant, from Pakistan, explained how the Asian community suffered greatly with TB. According to the consultant there is a rise in the number of incidents of TB here in the UK mainly in immigrants from Asian countries. The infection can lie dormant in the body for decades. he never mentioned spitting.

On a spitting point I was at an event for beer and wine tasters in London many years ago and was introduced to a couple of women I shocked the group by asking did they spit or swallow?
Wine tasters "spit" out after tasting, beer tasters "swallow" the sample for further tasting. Luckily they understood the joke.

When I saw the thread title I thought tb had beaten her up for spitting!

You seem to be rather precious and make wild assumptions about someone being a racist.
Please read the OP and point out where a racist comment is made.
I take exception to your insinuations.

You didn't make a racist comment.

You tried to make a racist point and hide it behind a concern for public health.

To call it a spectacular fail is a massive understatement.

How on earth do you know what I tried or meant to say?

I know you were trying to be subtle, but you kind of gave yourself away.

HTH

I don't do subtle - the facts speak for themselves

I'm still waiting for an answer.

They may, and I'm sure that you are about to enlighten us as to why we should believe you know better than Dr Val Curtis, director of the Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

....and? Facts!

God, you're thick

I'll spell it out if you need me to?


1. You are assuming (as you haven't posted any facts) that "TB is rising due to immigrants bringing it in to the UK.
2. No mention of the indiginous population of "spitting on the floor non stop" - according to you just immigrants "spit on the floor non stop."

You are a racist albeit a disguised or closeted one.

You tried to do subtle. You couldn't manage it.

I spit on his facts.

I plan to do so, when he finally gets around to posting them.

My fart will migrate in his general direction.

Hasn't Maple Leaf answered my simple, direct question yet?

And if he'd read my post, he might have understood that a country where TB is "rife" is now listed as such and therefore anyone who applies for a visa from there must produce evidence that they are free of TB. If not they don't get a visa and don't come here. One of the main purposes of immigration control....

Maybe not a racist post, but an uninformed one certainly

Maybe the OP could try reading this - [url=http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/07/without-immigrants-our-country-wouldnt-function-so-lets-give-it-goA day without immigrants[/url