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Yuck.
Some people...
Maybe we need a more direct public health campaign. I quite liked this one in Toronto last year.
martin | Homepage | 03.09.10 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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I sympathise with you.
I have the same thoughts when I am affronted in a bus or train by a person sneezing openly. I try, if I am standing, to move to a crack in the door seal and inhale some air from there.
I think the situation is made worse by the air conditioning in some trains.
Another disgusting old practice which seems to be returning is spitting phlegm into the street.
John | 03.09.10 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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and that is how i got my cold last week... and no amount of glaring was going to encourage the sneezer to cover their face... sad...
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The DG public health campaign continues!
I remember your post on spitting in the street... You may be interested to know that the Stratford City building site has multi-lingual signage reminding people not to spit and to use a tissue. Not sure if it's working though...
Eskimo Pie | 03.09.10 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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If I am going to sneeze in a public place I pinch my nose closed.
Actually quite a painful way to sneeze and I have hurt my ribs before, but you can guarantee nothing comes out!
I did once hand a tissue to a woman who was sniffing loudly and repeatedly on the tube. She seemed quite surprised that her actions were even an issue to be addressed.
Sigh.
IanVisits | Homepage | 03.09.10 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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Is this a fictionalised persona you're writing in? I didn't have you down as such a bizarre jacket snob.
But no, uncontained sneezing, bad form, obviously.
pj | 03.09.10 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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I find handing out a tissue (without eye contact or words of course) after the first instance tends to get the message across.
Although I am forever amazed at the number of mums who go "oh no thanks he is fine" if you hand them a tissue while looking in the direction of their snotty nosed toddler/child. He may be fine but I don't want to watch him lick green snot off his upper lip thank you very much.
stroppycow | 03.09.10 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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pj - like DG i'm sure i would have nothing against whatever someone is wearing, within reason, but once they've starting extremely annoying / anti-social behaviour i will find any reason to dislike anything about them, and backdate that if necessary.
tim | 03.09.10 - 2:02 p.m. | #
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Something worse than that happened to me when I was walking down the steps from the station platform. I got something resembling glandular fever as a result. (I shall spare you the details as the memory of it is foul enough for me not to want to recall it - although stories like yours always remind me.)
B | 03.09.10 - 3:37 p.m. | #
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I really wanted to describe the woman's coat as an "old grey waterproof, probably from a market somewhere, evidently never previously dry-cleaned", but I decided that "non-designer jacket" was less prejudicial.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.09.10 - 6:19 p.m. | #
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28 days later...
Matt | 03.09.10 - 7:00 p.m. | #
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How absolutely disgusting. Even if you don't have time to grab for a tissue, you always have time to get part of your anatomy near your nose. I mean if she'd sneezed but was at least half way towards trying to cover it up (and lets face it sometimes they do come out fast) I'd have a little sympathy. But not to move at all...
who brings these people up?!
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 03.09.10 - 7:31 p.m. | #
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Are you sure you haven't talked yourself into this cold ?
andrew waddington | 03.09.10 - 8:19 p.m. | #
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The blast zone. It's been like that on the Piccadilly Line all week. Coughing, spluttering and sneezing.
And every time some germ infested baggage casts their germs into the carriage without even attempting to contain it with a hand or tissue-I think bastard.
Glad I am not the only one.
Amused | 03.09.10 - 9:52 p.m. | #
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There has been a lot of people sneezing in the last week as the Fungal spore counts have been high. A lot of people are allergic to these spores.
John | 04.09.10 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Perhaps you should wear a face-mask on the tube in future. Handing out tissues seems like a good idea also.
TinafromSurrey | 05.09.10 - 9:50 p.m. | #
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