Comments on: Hitching a Ride with the Chinese Olympic Spitting Team https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/ Travel That Cares for Our Planet and Its People Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-4335 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:02:03 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-4335 @DK: I’m sorry…and I got a chuckle at the possibility of you joining in. Cultural sensitivity is really important to us, but we had a very difficult time maintaining perspective, particularly when people were spitting on the floor at restaurants while we were having lunch.

]]> By: DK https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-4334 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:46:52 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-4334 I’m new to China and still disgusted by it… Maybe someday I’ll join in.

]]> By: matt https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-2577 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:59 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-2577 Ok so this is kinda weird but I have a strong memorie of a movie in the early to mid 90’s about a few american fellas trying to quilfy for the usa spitting team and for the last 15 years I have been dieing to see this movie again if any one knows the name email me @ gjti8ger@aol.com !!!

]]> By: Mike Licht https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1521 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:18:16 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1521 Great minds think alike.

See http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/new-olympic-demonstration-sport/

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1523 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:11:17 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1523 @Mike: I feel a movement coming on…an Olympic movement. Time to start circulating the petitions to the IOC (International Olympic Committee). I hear they are very flexible with Olympic requirements these days.

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1502 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:58:40 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1502 Chip: And the silver goes to…Montana? Unexpected entry into the contest. Regarding the throat singer, a new event: Yoik and Dredge.

Nicole: Thank you. In the bathtub? Flag on the play. Glad you able to re-direct his payload elsewhere.

Suzanne: We debated that second paragraph, but decided it was true to the story. I’m sure we’ve driven away our share of readers…for good. I’m not sure I understand the relationship between water hazards and spitting. I’m also not certain I want to.

Adolat: I commend you for your perseverance in reading the piece. I’m glad that it paid off. By the way, Audrey and I have suffered much worse than this.

Jonathan: Excellent. Now we’re really turning this into a truly international competition!

]]> By: Jonathan Campion https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1480 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:34 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1480 Expect Ukraine to pick up silver, Russia taking bronze just a short hock behind. The national preference is style rather than distance; it may ultimately cost them the Duck and Drop gold, but I have high hopes for the members of the academy in my neighbourhood.

]]> By: Adolat https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1473 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:32:55 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1473 My initial instinct was also disgust, but once I overcame it, it became really funny and entertaining to read the rest of the story. I am sorry for what you and Audrey had to suffer.

]]> By: Suzanne https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1472 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:46:17 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1472 I really wish I could read this. Unfortunately, my gag reflex kicked in after reading the oh-so-descriptive second paragraph. Which unfortunately led to a flood of loogie-related memories. For some reason they mostly involve golf courses – as in, my ball rolling into an unusually thick water hazard…

thanks, man.

]]> By: Nicole https://uncorneredmarket.com/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1471 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:39:19 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2008/07/hitching-a-ride-with-the-chinese-olympic-spitting-team/#comment-1471 Awesome.

My Chinese spitting story was that my flatmate in grad school was a very nice Chinese man. Unfortunately, he also practiced his Olympic event in our bathtub, leaving the…um…payload for me to find when I went to get clean each morning. It took me several days of shuddering and retching my way through my morning ablutions to get up the courage to ask him to find a new practice venue.

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