SFist: Blocker: 1100 Stockton

Cement Brunette

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:39:07 -0800

Right, but if I have phlegm, I don't make a big deal about it and a lot of noise and launch one onto the sidewalk. I grab a tissue or napkin, delicately hack into it, and politely dispose of it. Of course, I am gay (and no, it's phlegm and not semen--jerks)

icbalaam

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:52:18 -0800

I've been told spitting is done for health reasons. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, phlegm is regarded as something the body is rejecting and so it must be spat out. Ingesting it would throw off a persons yin and yang balance. Someone once told me some Chinese call this kind of spit: mouth devils. I don't know if that's true but all the spitting is rather hellacious.

bluecanary

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:50:58 -0800

I used to bitch about the spitting, too. I remember a NY Times article in which the hacking was referred to as "the Chinese national anthem." but I'll take that over the smelly old man who is constantly shitting on the sidewalk in my neighborhood. For shame, why doesn't he use the bushes in the park, like everyone else?

katerose26

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:22:54 -0800

I think I just got food poisoning from looking at these photos.

citi_zen

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:40:56 -0800

Cement Brunette - why not ask the oh-so-effective city councilman for Chinatown!!!! I'm sure he'll have a press conference about it!

Cement Brunette

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:19:09 -0800

Could someone PLEASE explain the spitting? I need something more than "oh, it's a cultural thing" to explain why I have to put up with all the hacking and looging and spitting on the sidewalk.

bluecanary

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:57:29 -0800

Seems to me someone would have passed some kind of law re those fish, live and flopping around, slowly asphyxiating. It's the cruelest thing I've ever seen outside a PETA investigative video.