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.
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
The one saving grace of Facebook, everyone using their real names so you can find them.
But in the end, not worth it - the younger generations have made the wise sacrifice by not using it and just guessing everyone's names lol
Are you a living episode of Seinfeld? This sounds like a scenario George Costanza would get himself into.
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.
Its really interesting how wirgleys fucked up the marketing on that one even though they had something great out of the gate
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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.
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?
You'd probably mind if your ice cream had lead in it. Microplastics will be the lead poisoning of the new century. They're carcinogens and endocrine disruptors and we don't even know the full extent of the effects they have.
A good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don't see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?
FYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it's not a double equivalence.
So do I, for the Xylitol to keep my teeth healthy.
Hard to find decent gum now as many switched to Sorbitol as it's cheaper but not as good for teeth.
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, too, I just do it in private where no one can see, like any other decent human being.
Well I guess when there's a species of giant people eating gum-chewers we really should have expected a decline in its popularity
Wait - if the ones who chew gum are also the ones who eat people, shouldn't we see MORE gum chewers, since they'd be a proportionally larger part of the population the more they eat?
Exactly. [The] people-who-eat-people chew gum.
I think you have a couple typos though, autocorrect can be really frustrating, right?
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.
I bet you could crack open a jawbreaker with one bite with those jaw muscles.
That's interesting though, have you noticed any changes from that amount of gum?
No, but it's only been a couple of months.
Plus I'm single right now, if you catch my drift.
I went to school with a girl who chewed gum everyday, she ended up in hospital with a stomach ulcer.
When you chew, your brain sends signals to your stomach to produce acid to break down the food that is incoming, but if you don't actually consume food, the acid will just continually build until there's a problem.
Basically just saying be careful, though I'm not sure if there is any warning signs you can watch for.
Sugar alcohol isn't digested by bacteria on your teeth, preventing cavity growth from it, but it's a laxative
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 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.
So this is far from scientific, but I was at a shopping center I used to go to a lot as a kid recently and I noticed that the sidewalks were free of gum. As a kid I remember it always being covered in discharged gum, i used to talk about it with my mom, the sidewalk was practically polka-dotted back then.
Of course there's a lot of possible explanations besides people just not chewing gum anymore. Could be that people have gotten better about disposing of gum properly, newer gum formulations could be easier to clean up, or we've gotten better at it how we clean it, or there's the fact that teenagers used to just kind of hang around outside of stores and don't/can't really do that so much anymore so there's less people loitering around and spitting their gum out.
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.