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!
What. The. Fuck.
They try to hide it so well in the name.
Chewing plastic
I mean I’m 100% not above chewing literal plastic if I’m bored enough.
I’d actually prefer to chew plastic over gum. Not that I do, but I would.
I’ve got bad news, dude… Micro plastics are in everything.
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.
Did you ever figure out her name? I hope it was Linda.
Caitlin, actually
I was hoping for Dolores
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Yes, but this was also the name of Seinfeld’s girl.
Oh god it was! I just remember her as Mulva!
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.
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Mulva
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
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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.
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.
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.
All out. Time to kick ass.
I’m gonna rip off your head and shit down your neck.
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?
Turns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons
I’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol
Paging NileRed, can we make gum flavor from plastic spoons?
Well your bowl of ice cream has carbon in it. Does it matter? No
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.
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.
Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.
It’s me. I’m singlehandedly keeping the gum industry alive.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.
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.
Not me, I’m a fucking degenerate.
Don’t sell yourself short, you sound like a fartist
Well, it’s in their mouth, duh.
So, actually what’s happened is people have stopped blowing bubbles.
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?
No you have it all wrong, there are people who eat people who chew gum
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This seems like a case of “I don’t see it, so others don’t either”
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.
It takes skill
I know they must be though because I find used gum stuck to shit all the time.
Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones
Its really interesting how wirgleys fucked up the marketing on that one even though they had something great out of the gate
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.
The (very old) Jucyfruit jingle will always and forever be burned into my memory.
I hope i’ll never get as far as missing a commercial