This seems like a case of "I don't see it, so others don't either"
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Been thinking on this lately and I get OP. People used to chew gun in the 80's and 90's, a lot. Now it would be weird to see someone doing so.
It was weird to see people chew guns then too its an accident waiting to happen.
I think most people who chew gun know what they're aiming for. But yeah, it can go wrong.
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Do you want to see me chewing gum? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I can never see that face the same again ever since I was in a 9 month relationship with a girl whose snapchat name was the lenny face and eventually I forgot her name, was too embarrassed to ask her to remind me (because it had been like four months), so I spent the next ~5 months of my life with a psychoromantic connection to that fucking emoticon.
I forgot her name, was too embarrassed to ask her to remind me (because it had been like four months), so I spent the next ~5 months of my life with a psychoromantic connection to that fucking emoticon.
That's hilarious. What a time to be alive
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Are you a living episode of Seinfeld? This sounds like a scenario George Costanza would get himself into.
My whole life I thought I was Costanza... turns out... I'm Kramer.
Nightcall by Kavinsky (Bineural Remix) plays
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Did you ever figure out her name? I hope it was Linda.
Caitlin, actually
I was hoping for Dolores
Fellow Disco Elysium enjoyer?
Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones
I smoked one of my buddies out on DMT and when he came back to reality I said "that's how it feels to chew 5 gum" and it was pretty funny.
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I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
Not only is the plastic gross, but the artificial sweeteners are nasty.
Some of us don't taste sweetness, we taste the chemical.
Gum stopped being fun.
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Doesn't help anything that most "gum base" has PLASTIC in it.
Yea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.
Really? I am not entirely surprised but did the study say how the plastic was getting in there?
Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.
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I feel like the consumption of gum has shifted from just chewing it to being a more glorified mint/on the go way to brush your teeth.
I chew gum
I can't see you. The theory checks out.
I chew gum, too, I just do it in private where no one can see, like any other decent human being.
Well, it's in their mouth, duh.
Well I guess when there's a species of giant people eating gum-chewers we really should have expected a decline in its popularity
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I got offered some gum on the a plane ride the other day and it really made me to stop and think how I went from doing that every time to not doing it for years.
I smoked for about 10 years and replaced that with vaping. Then I replaced vaping with chewing gum in January.
I chew 2 pieces of Extra 6-7 times a day and Blockheads multivitamin gum twice a day.
I also carry strips of foil I can spit into if I'm at my desk or not near a bin.
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They're probably vaping instead.
It's me. I'm singlehandedly keeping the gum industry alive.
Im not big on chewing literal microplastics… I used to love chewing gum before I learned that though
Oh my! I thought it was made from some kind of tree sap! Apparently those do exist, but all of the ones you find in stores are platic based!
I mean I'm 100% not above chewing literal plastic if I'm bored enough.
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You don't know what I see and don't see. How dare you.
I see it occasionally. I wonder if it dropped in popularity when cigarettes did. And everyone has their heads up their phones. So they are less observant of what's going on around them, and maybe there's less demand for walking-around-diversions like gum.
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If I see a balding, shorter guy with a buzz cut and a tan line on his face from his wrap around sunglasses, I expect him to be chewing gum.
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