Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:21 pm  

There is only one tiny grain of truth in the original post but its not related to spitting, or immigration really.

23 years ago our <1 year old child developed a growth on her spine and during a two week spell in hospital we were all tested for TB, blood tests, x-rays etc - at that time TB had been eradicated in the UK for a generation at least (my father had it just after the war), when I expressed this to the consultant in charge of my daughter he explained that the human form of TB, in its several forms, was making a comeback in the UK and the explanation accepted by medical practitioners was not the influx of immigrants as such, but the second and third generations of immigrants from the Indian continent who were going to their parents and grandparents country's of origin for holidays and bringing it back with them - they of course being British citizens.

And the daughters condition cleared up nicely thank you without ever being diagnosed as anything other than a viral infection.

Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:29 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

He has but he swallowed

Now that seems like deriding the boy for maybe having homosexual tendencies. From one of the doyens of gay rights, transgender this and that, etc that sounds terribly non-PC if not closet homophobia.

You are a disgrace. Everyone to their own I say.

Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:29 pm  

Dally wrote:

Now that seems like deriding the boy for maybe having homosexual tendencies. From one of the doyens of gay rights, transgender this and that, etc that sounds terribly non-PC if not closet homophobia.

You are a disgrace. Everyone to their own I say.

you've missed the point, Cod'ead is a spitter, not a homophobe!

Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:41 pm  

Maple Leaf wrote:

Isn't it about time that spitting was deemed to be a criminal offence rather than a civil offence?

Immigrants from countries where TB is still widespread do bring it into the UK which is why it is now rising again. It is spread through sneezing and coughing as this creates a fine mist which other people can breathe in.

If you now look at the TB hot spots, they all have 1 thing in common, high population of immigrants, who spit on the floor non stop.

This is a public health hazard - if you defecate or urinate in public it is a criminal offence. Why not apply the same criteria to spitting?

Let's start with the opening statement . Why not go and spit at a copper and see if its a "civil" matter or assault and if you end up being charged with assaulting a police officer and rightly so.

The rest of your post all I can suggest is you must of done some rigorous testing to have the balls to come on a site like this and spout such bile. I'm not doubting you have conducted the test but going round inhaling sneeze mucus or licking doorhandles after an infected poorly person as used a door is really the kind of science I would expect from a character off Monty python's flying circus.

But the very fact that you isolate your findings to one group frightens me and I'm sure other right minded people. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?

What next , ever since the euro tunnel was built and farting French men were allowed in southern England you have had CJD . you sir are a prize (****©)

Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:08 pm  

the cal train wrote:

you've missed the point, Cod'ead is a spitter, not a homophobe!

I must apologise to him.

Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:13 pm  

muttley cat wrote:

....... and spout such bile.

I think that's a bit over the top. Spitting and sanctions for it have been in the news this week. TB has become an issue in the UK again - and primarily among immigrant communities (although they also tend to live in poverty and poor conditions). The only thing that I found odd / objectionable was the assertion that immigrants spit "non-stop."

Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:32 pm  

Have a look at the number of countries where people have to have a TB test and prove they're clear before they get a visa to come to the UK and then tell me its just "immigrants". If indeed TB is increasing at all, Nick.

Re: TB and spitting : Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:57 pm  

the cal train wrote:

you've missed the point, Cod'ead is a spitter,

depends on the circumstance

Re: TB and spitting : Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:18 am  

Sometimes you need to see your G.P. for a T.B. jab if you are out having a few beverages going from pub to pub and then just as you carnt hold the fancy cocktail with with fruits and fancy umbrellas anymore you end with a prick breaking skin and making you bleed .

Now im not sure any of the above applies to maple leaf. Hes a big man whom drinks beer from his doc martins and can take the pricks all day long without bleeding.

Oh so im told by Gay Gordan my uncle

Re: TB and spitting : Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:34 am  

Maple Leaf wrote:

... If you now look at the TB hot spots, they all have 1 thing in common, high population of immigrants, who spit on the floor non stop...

Funny: I live in Hackney, which is one of the 'hotspots' and not far from Tower Hamlets, which is another. I've lived here for more than two decades and have yet to see any of the immigrant communities "spit on the floor non stop".

Which of these hotspots do you personally know and where have you witnessed this?