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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
The kids are spitting these days. What's up with that?
I first noticed this about six months ago. Kids stand around talking to each other, and spit every minute or two. And they don't spit in the bushes. They just tilt their heads over and let a wad of spit drop down close to their feet. Now that it's winter, the spit (expectorate, for you civilized folk) congeals a bit and doesn't go away. Today, as I was walking into town, I passed a school. On the sidewalk just outside the school--where the kids go off to sneak a smoke--I had to step over collections of little frozen spittle spots. I'm talking fifty or sixty or even a hundred wads of spit, just frozen there until Spring. What's up with that? I don't want to offend anybody, but the truth is that MOST THINGS TEENAGERS DO originates in America. Is it a hip hop thing? Is it cool to spit these days? I'm not exaggerating this, by the way. It's a noticeable phenomenon here. The sidewalks are covered with spit. It's so incredibly disgusting that I want to carry around a bullwhip with me to punish offenders when I see them. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
You mean there really is an advantage to snow? I don't see any spit this time of year...
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Ain't no snow on the ground right now. Global warming and all.
Just a lot of spit. |
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abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
I thought you lived in Taiwan.
A few weeks back I picked up two dogs (puppies) that someone dumped because of the economy. After being unable to find a home for them we kept one (in our apartment and a completely new routine for me) and my friend took one. I take the dog to the park everyday for exercise (new routine) and on one of these outings, it was pointed out to me that the sign at the gate says (no animals (they mean dogs). The guy was quite friendly. A few meters away there was a guy hacking up his TB every thirty seconds while practicing Tai Chi. I responded, "Oh I know that but I thought they changed the rules because they are now allowing pigs in the park" Never got bothered again, still take my dog to the park and still hate spitting. |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Abc, indeed I did live in Taiwan, and spent several months in Hong Kong as well.
My parents (who still live in Hong Kong) still like to tell the story about the SARS epidemic. Everyone was wearing masks...which they raised when they needed to spit. The Chinese are big spitters and probably have been for five thousand years. It's a tradition. A disgusting tradition, but a tradition just the same. The reason I asked is that this is definitely a NEW trend among teenagers. I'm talking the sub 18 crowd--you know, the ones who determine the nature of popular culture. I've seen boys do it, I've seen girls do it. I've walked past kids who have thirty or forty wads of spittle at their own feet. Something is going on. There they stand, the girls with their jeans tucked into their boots, the tops of their butt cracks showing over their fat white go go dancer belts, their hair plastered to their heads with pink and white girly hair clasps, and they SPIT every thirty seconds. It makes me want to imitate Dirty Harry. |
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
I recall kids doing it when I was in school, too. (Exactly as you described.) So I don't believe it's new.
If you ask me, though, it's an outward expression of something nasty, filthy, DISRESPECTFUL that lives in these kids soul. Think about it! Spitting has always been an outward expression of utter CONTEMPT. No? It shows contempt for others, it obviously shows contempt for property and the earth. So I would conclude that it is an outward expression of inner rebellion. Kids have always had ways of expressing their rebellion..myriad ways, I should add. Add spitting to the list. The worst part is the obvious unsanitaryness of the act. Where I work, they are very strict about employees health..and spitting is anathema. (such as into trash cans and such.) But as far as the kids go, I would venture that the problem goes deep.
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
When your average adult smoker (particularly when driving) figures out that the street/sidewalk isn't an ashtray, I'll worry about kids spitting.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Lobo, did I forget to mention that MOST of these kids are smoking? I think I'll take my camera out tomorrow and make a picture of where these kids spend their recess time. We're talking HUNDREDS of cigarette butts and liters of spit.
You see, when the state of Lower Saxony decided to ban smoking from school yards, they also removed the ash trays. I do not think for one minute that the twisted little smoking spitting teenies would USE the ash trays, but at least putting a big one just inside every entrance to the school yard would give them a chance to not pollute the neighborhood. I'm serious about taking a picture. If I get a chance I'll do it. |
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Rotten Special user 829 Posts |
I smoke therefore I spit. You think it smells bad you should taste it sometime.
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
I think I'll pass on that...
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
I also think it is related to smoking, maybe partying? When you stand around drinking beer outside, you might spit every once and awhile., certainly while smoking. With the same people... Maybe?
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2008-12-17 12:56, stoneunhinged wrote: I don't suppose the ones spitting could be chewing tobacco?
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michaelmystic2003 Inner circle 3062 Posts |
It's DISGUSTING. I see it all the time and just do not understand it... is it kids trying to look tough? I just don't know...
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Pro athletes also spit a lot. I have no idea why the hockey cameraman spends so much time on the faces of the players on the bench. YUCK!!
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Vandy Grift Inner circle Milwaukee 3504 Posts |
Maybe they have overactive salivary glands.
"Get a life dude." -some guy in a magic forum
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Stanyon Inner circle Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago 3433 Posts |
Take the kids to a tobacconist and get them a pouch of "Beechnut" or "Redman" chewing tobacco. If they have to spit they might as well be men about it...even the girls!
JMHO
Stanyon
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ElectricBlue New user 90 Posts |
I Don't know. I'm pretty sure I have seen just as many if not more adults spiting on the street than I have kids.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
I think you people just don't get it, which means that I was wrong about it probably being prevalent in north America.
I'm not talking about "occasional" spitting. I'm talking about people spitting every thirty seconds for ten or fifteen minutes while standing and talking to their friends. Every thirty seconds. I'm not exaggerating. When I say that they will have thirty to forty wads of spit around their feet, I am not exaggerating. I'm talking obsessive and constant expectoration as some kind of lifestyle choice, and this is NOTHING I have ever seen any adult do--not even in Taiwan or Hong Kong--and it is nothing I saw kids do until a bit less than a year ago. This is something new, and it means something, and Michael Mystic may be able to confirm it. The rest of you are somehow dissing me by implying that what I have been seeing is normal and not new and not unusual and not anything that adults don't do. Stop dissing me. This is serious. Civilization might be at stake. |
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
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On 2008-12-17 11:49, daffydoug wrote: I was thinking the same thing, Double D. Almost word for word!
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evolve629 Inner circle A stack of 3838 Posts |
Perhaps they all have some forms of eating disorder!
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