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Do you chew gum? If so, which type(s)?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to, now I use those 24/7 mint things in the plastic box which look like Es.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

No, never.

I'm pretty much anti-chewing gum.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd be interested to know why, Jel. There are a couple of reasons I can think of: that ppl sound rude when they talk and chew gum at the same time, or that discarded chewing gum sticks to the soles of shoes and to your clothes and is a pain to remove unless you have a ready supply of ice cubes or the appropriate Stain Devil.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I started a thread about the chewing gum streets of West London. The hardened blobs of gum that 'decorate' the pavements 'round here just really really depress me.

And I'm not especially fond of the smell of chewing gum.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

China declares chemical war on chewing gum

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't get me started on what a revolting habit chewing gum is. I think we did this before already anyway..

― Emma, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

TS: strips or pellets? I'm a pellet woman myself. But chewing gum stuck all over the street = dud dud dud.

Yesterday seemed to be chewing gum removal day in Brighton. Every few months it happens - teams of men work the streets with exciting vans and power hose/weird gas attachments. They are called, imaginatively, The Chewing Gum Removal Company. It's odd to think that their job wouldn't exist if people weren't twats...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Whose would?

Ha nayone had the new exciting transparent ones? Or met their parents-in-law on a tropical island and discovered them to be tribesman?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham I tried one at a party. My mate offered it to me and without thinking I accepted. It was unbelieveably GOPPING. Just say no, kids, ignore the peer pressure.

― Emma, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Woohoo - who has tried those whacky new Airwave style thin strips? I can't remember what they're called now - gah! They are very bizarre. You put them on your tongue and they "melt" away with a very STRANGE fuzzy yet sharp sensation that will make you create some extremely strange sounds. I am not sure if I would recommend trying one in public. If a friend has some, and you are in a safe area, try one. You will never know you could make such noises!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh cross-posting. Emma is right they are gopping. I think they should be given to world leaders.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i chew airwaves gum

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

They are gopping indeed, and don't even have the attraction of James Lance being crap and gay in the adverts. Now he's in The Book Group he thinks he's TOO GOOD for Wrigleys. Bah.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

yesterday there was a girl who was eating bubble gum and the smell was really good. this comment is so banal that i shouldnt press submit.

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the banal.

It is good to pass out gum when you are f-ed up with your friends. At 3 a.m. when you are all wasted and it's like "Who wants gum???" Woohoo!!! My friend told me I am the Laura San Giacomo character in Pretty Woman ("You clean up nice") when I chew.

My favorite gum is Dentyne ICE, spearmint. It has very wasteful packaging but it ROXX U R ALL GAY.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I chew Orbit, any flavor. It aids digestion and promotes fresh breath. Bad breath seems to now be a societal gaffe tantamount to elevator farting, considering the amount of products being pushed to eradicate it. It's like sneezing in Japan.

That Dentyne Ice is potent stuff, especially the black/silver one. Clears out the sinuses.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Those extra thin strips are the Confield of chewing gum. Fucking weird. Quite disgusting the first time you try them. But something compels me to keep getting them and WANTING to like them. At the moment I am in a nonplussed mood about them and I can see the advantage that it's less disgusting for other people than having a gob full of sticky smelly goo in your mouth and it makes you feel like you've just brushed your teeth. Confield is not polite and it doesn't make your breath smell better, but this is trivial.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

the Mexican chiclets-style gum that comes in cute 4-tablets-to-a-packet prewrapped cellophane (often under the name "Canel" I think) is the BEST GUM IN THE WHOLE WORLD and its scarcity in the midwest is a crime

Bubble Blox is great toxic-waste acid-rain gum

and leave us not forget the delicious Japanese gum that comes packaged in a little flat of individually wrapped packages -- grape, melon, sour apple, peach, all amazingly flavored

best U.S. gum manufacturer = Adams

chewing gum as replacement fixation when quitting smoking = nowhere near as effective as shelling & eating peanuts

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Wrigley's Extra sugar free gum - Winterfresh flavor. I always throw it away when I'm finished, I hate littered gum everywhere.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

It makes my teeth hurt just to think about gum.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Next time you're in Glasgow, look carefully at the pavement and you might find a chewing gum heart Now and again I chew that Ice White stuff in the vain hope it will remove the tea stains from my gnashers. Thing is, the bits of my teeth I use to chew gum aren't the bits I want to get clean, so I don't think it's very effective.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I like to chew gum very rarely any more. It makes my jaw hurt. It pops out of place and then gets sore for a long time.

― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Gum-chewing, part of my wayward youth. Once tried to chew twenty Care-Free sticks at once. Mistake.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen an ad for one of those air-wave mint strip dooflatchies but it's a new brand and their tagline is "the breath strip that tastes GOOD!" which seems a bit defensive

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Bubble Tape anyone?
Pure genius to have gum that lost its flavor as soon as it hits your tongue, just so you'd have to consume 6 feet of it w/in an hour.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone else ever had chewing gum ice cream? When I was in elementary school my family went out for ice cream as a reward because I got good grades, and I got bubble gum ice cream: bright pink gum-flavored ice cream with bubble gum balls in it. By the end of the bowl, I had a fist-sized piece of gum in my mouth (DP to thread). It was the happiest moment of my childhood. This story could also relate to bubble tape or Big League Chew (massive amounts of gum + little restraint).

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

It's great when you can't brush after eating.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

f u c k i n g h e l l
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Exploding-Chewing-Gum-Ukraine-Man-Killed-In-Konotop-After-Dipping-Gum-In-Unknown-Substance---Report/Article/200912215496442?lpos=World_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15496442_Exploding_Chewing_Gum%3A_Ukraine_Man_Killed_In_Konotop_After_Dipping_Gum_In_Unknown_Substance_-_Report

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

Glee gum is the best gum

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 14 February 2014 20:08 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

So I might have to redirect this thread's intent but I've been watching the Michaela Coel TV series of this name with my girlfriend and OMG, hilariously brilliant. (Halfway through the first season at this point.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:19 (nine years ago)

I would strongly recommend against chewing bazooka gum for too long - it literally turns into dust.

― Ross, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:33 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

redirect!
what would be the grossest possible combo of gums and chips? i'm leaning towards cinnamon and doritos.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 18:49 (six years ago)

three years pass...

Love

― calstars, Sunday, 27 November 2022 02:15 (three years ago)

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