Do you spit while cycling (a no-smut thread) :-)

[Fnaar]

Does anyone else call it flob?

We used to, as kids, many moons ago
Hence the Bill and Ben 'joke'
Why is Little Weed green?
Because Bill and Ben flobalot

 

[robjh]

We used to, as kids, many moons ago

Yes it was mainly a teenage thing with me too, but it stuck (if you see what I mean....)

 

[byegad]

I spit, how much rather depends on my Asthma at the time. If I'm a bit tight in the chest at the start of a ride I tend to bring up rather a lot of phlegm, swallowing it is a more acceptable alternative, but as I ride on my own most of the time I tend to get rid of it. On a 'good Asthma' day I don't spit.

 

[jefmcg]

It seems odd people think that something that's fallen out of an horsehole is cleaner than something that's been projected from someone's mouth.

Because it probably is. Most diseases are horse might have would not be transmittable to humans (with some very notable exceptions like rabies and hendra virus), while those in a human mouth would all be transmittable.

City streets 150 years ago were - apparently - disgusting; inches deep in horse manure. Parts of China, where both spitting and TB are common, are probably equally disgusting, but also a lot more likely to make you ill.

 

[slowmotion]

My wife was bitten by a dog quite badly and went to the GP for a tetanus jab. The doc said "You usually don't have to worry about infections from a dog bite. It's the human ones that turn nasty."

 

[robjh]

My wife was bitten by a dog quite badly and went to the GP for a tetanus jab. The doc said "You usually don't have to worry about infections from a dog bite. It's the human ones that turn nasty."

I've seen many cyclists spitting, but biting each other is quite rare (at least around Cambridge, I can't speak for everywhere...)

 

[jefmcg]

Thank you, internet!

 

[mybike]

City streets 150 years ago were - apparently - disgusting; inches deep in horse manure. Parts of China, where both spitting and TB are common, are probably equally disgusting, but also a lot more likely to make you ill.

Apparently horse dung was a major health problem in New York's summer as it dried & was blown about. Cars were looked on as much more healthy.