Question About People Who Spit A Lot

[bluefortress]

Obviously part of the reason is (dirty) habit behaviour but do some people just produce more saliva than others?

Only reason I ask is if I wanted to start spitting as an habit, I couldn't. I just don't produce that much saliva that I could keep expelling it. 

[davebro3]

What an odd question - apart from some sportsmen on TV where do you see people spitting?

When I was a kid my mum used to get a bit embarassed when I read out aloud the notices on the bus "SPITTING IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED".😁

[sandyRoe]

I think it was once thought to spread TB.  

Busses in Belfast had the sign davebro3 mentioned with another line: Penalty 40/-.

[douglas9401]

Now that makes me wonder if any research has been done into badgers spitting around cows.

[sandyRoe]

Then there's the habit of chewing khat.  In London you can see footpaths stained with the red coloured byproduct of this filthy habit.

[douglas9401]

We've strayed into the cultural differences zone now, beware of deletions.

[sandyRoe]

Ah, yes.  How remiss of me.

I hope the mods miss it.

[maggiebee]

Had to Google Khat as I've never heard of it before.  Live and learn - every day's a school day.

[-SharonA-]

People with chest infections spit a lot. Build up of mucus. Frogs in throat.

[hellywelly4]

My father used to spit in the street  in the 40s and 50s. It was awful. I don't know why he did it unless it was how he was brought up. He had a very responsible managerial job.

[bluefortress]

Davebro- it is an odd question but I find it even odder that you have never seen anyone spitting in the street. 

[dave50]

Its usually arrogant rough looking young men, spitting every few yards on the floor as they are walking along. Think they think it makes them look hard.

[davebro3]

Maybe I live in a low spitting zone - can't recall when I last saw any arrogant rough looking young men either.

[Smowball]

I personally think that seeing anyone spitting is disgusting but genuinely don't recally seeing it anywhere really apart from on football pitches.

[barry1010]

I rarely see people spitting these days but smokers often spat after hawking up their lungs. A lot of spitting went on when chewing tobacco was a thing.  I recall tobacco pouches that were put inside the cheek were briefly popular in the mid 1980s.  Can't remember what they were called but they caused spitting too.

I used to succumb to chest infections which made me spit but also made me too ill to go outdoors.

Some people do suffer from nasal polyps and postnasal drip, both can cause a distressing amount of mucous to almost continuously trickle down to the throat.

Spitting did used to be a swagger thing.

TB was very common until fairly recently and that caused dreadful coughing and spitting spasms

[Smowball]

Just cannot comprehend anyone who think that spitting looks 'cool' or is a swagger thing. V odd lol

[sandyRoe]

When football stars are doing it on the pitch there will be some mimicking them.

[barry1010]

I remember the tv series They Think It's All Over - they had a segment ripping off Spot the Ball, substituting the ball for a footballer's spittle. 

[barry1010]

That was when TV was worth watching 😂

[Smowball]

Charming lol! 

[douglas9401]

Maybe it's to do with being phlegmatic.