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Ye s habits do change over

Douglas Stocks

16 Oct 201221:33

Ye s habits do change over time. Wenow have mobile phones and ipods and the such like.

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Jane McDermott

13 Oct 201212:24

Bad habits are many, I think everyone must have a bad habit of some form.

I agree with Johnathan's comments some bad habits come and go, old ones disappear and new one's arise.

I agree through education, public awareness, bad habits can be changed, through making a private/public issue like smoking, the seemingly private issue of someone wanting to smoke in a public place, now not as allowable by eating places stopping this being allowed to help as a public issue - as not everyone wants to smoke and does not want others bad habits affecting there day.

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Jane McDermott

13 Oct 201212:23

Bad habits are many, I think everyone must have a bad habit of some form.

I agree with Johnathan's comments some bad habits come and go, old ones disappear and new one's arise.

i agree that bad habit come

Manjinder Kaur

24 Oct 201214:42

i agree that bad habit come and go, where new one's arise and old ones disapear. they do so by what society or a social group see and accept as appropriate behaviour and there are deviant groups who would break the norm and values which are seen and accepted as appropriate behaviour. some of the bad habit can cause health issues and problems like dirty and smellyiness, saliva, blood, urinating, and faeces can have a contagious diseases or problems.

Sptting

Victor Dykes-Fa...

01 Oct 201221:29

It seems to be the norm for professional footballers to spit on the pitch, some goalkeepers spit into their gloves. I wonder what that is all about. Yuk!!!

spitting

Andy Manning

03 Oct 201209:36

The fact that sportsmen be they footballers, rugby players or any of the others spit is due to a build up of mucus, which after running fast over a short distance is hard to get rid of, therefore spitting is the natural and easiest way to remove it. As for goalkeepers well they will claim it helps the grip however they are also known to be a breed apart and not quite the full quota in the grey matter department.

The problem we have is not the spitting (although this is as far as I am concerned offensive), it is the television directors need to give the viewer close ups of them clearing their throat and nasal cavities. If there is any question here it is 'why is this action broadcast' all it does is perpetuate the idea that spitting is the norm rather than a 'bad habit', all the while this is broadcast, like film stars getting drunk and smoking then those of a more impressionable disposition will copy 'its the fashion'.

Spitting

James Kane

03 Oct 201213:22

It does however seem that it is acceptable in certain sports to broadcast spitting bad language and otherwise less socially acceptable behaviour (i am with Andy on this one it is offensive). Other sports such as golf do take a very different view and approach to these types of behaviour an example of this is when golfer Keegan Bradley was criticised for spitting during his pre shot routine he publicly apologised.

Spitting

Jean Thompson

05 Oct 201213:01

Yet if we went depict a country bumpkin type person on TV, we would probably not find it so offensive to see them spitting a part of their character.

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David Ngeresa Oluoch

12 Oct 201211:02

It is very common for people who sniff snaff to spit anyhowly without having that extra sense of being offensive to others. To them, its considered acceptable, where that dark saliva falls is none of their business. Secondly, there are those who drink and each time they drink, it doesn't go without vomitting. Some of them don't even have the strength to clean the mess or to remember what happened.

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