Blimey you're really grinding this one out!neilbob wrote:ok.
lets take a step back then. Oiginally it was "head stamped on vs spit in the face". "it then became "face full of phlegm vs lifetime of brain damage".
But the thing is a stamp on the head may not mean a lifetime of brain damage. It might, as Laffers points out (I looked after a bloke who ended up with a brain injury after his dog tripped him up by pulling the lead sharply), but in the majority of cases it won't.
so to summarise:
spit in face = face full of phlegm
stamp on head does not equal life time of brain damage (although it might in some cases)
You're completely right. The point I was making: I would rather be spat on than have my head stamped on. The danger of a brain/face injury of a stamp far outweighs the belittlement and disgust of being spat on.