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Chewing gum
Posted by adze thuggery on 7 July 2009 - 7:01am.
Horrible stuff. All over the pavement etc etc. But when did chewing it move into general acceptability? In the recent past I've been greeted by the doctor's receptionist chewing, by the lady in the chemists chewing while taking my prescription and by the very smart lady on the checkout in Marks and Spencers chewing as she took my money. Is this now the norm or do I live in a chewing gum blackspot?
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Hell in a handcart etc.
No, it's not just you - chewing gum (along with tattoos and facial piercings) is now becoming the norm, sad to say... and I might be getting into dodgy territory by suggesting I'm seeing far too many GROWN MEN wearing shorts and flip-flops as standard uniform these days...
Tattoos
Sailors & ex-cons, sailors and ex-cons...and individuals.
Hopefully
only during the heatwave.....and what's wrong with a shirt? I've worn one for quite a few years now, although I tend to accessorise mine with something to fit that large pink gap between the bottom of the shirt and the top of the flip-flop.
Which type of shirt is it you object to? Dress shirt and flippies, I agree, would look ridiculous. Garishly coloured, Hawaiian type shirt and flippies, less so.
Sorry, I meant shOrts, since edited...
... I happen to enjoy the odd Hawaiian [insert joke here]
aahhhh
now that makes much more sense, although as I have to wear a suit all day at work the first thing I do when I get home ir rip off my pants and replace them with something shorter and baggier.
As for chewing gum, piercings, tattoos etc - the first is annoying and makes the individual look bovine, the latter two are simply the masses trying to highlight their individuality.
When I was a lad you tended to do that by listening to different music, growing your hair a bit (or cutting it very short), being intelligent and witty etc, not making yourself look like Banksy's practice wall or attacking yourself with a nailgun.
AS with most things, a small subtle tattoo or an individual pirecing can look fine, but what are these multicoloured, porous freaks going to look like when they finally grow up and/or get old?
when I finally grow up...
I'll be a saggy, multicoloured freak. I can't wait. If I'm going to be saggy and wrinkled (as we all are) I might as well add a bit of colour to it. Beer guts, combovers, bingo wings, varicose veins, ahead of us all, what's that going to look like?
I love what they mean to me (I generally keep them to myself) and I prefer to live in the here and now because who knows what's ahead?
As to chewing gum. It's a repulsive habit and I'm constantly telling my mother to not do it.
I'm with you
Revolting habit.
I used to tell my dad off for chewing gum (!) everywhere, including one time, loudly and inappropriately, through a funeral.
A mystery for our age
Why, during the Wimbledon men's final, did Sir Alex Ferguson cede all his gum-chewing rights in Russell Crowe's favour?
I've always thought that Ferguson's masticatory manners were reprehensible on the simple grounds that you don't chew gum when you're wearing a suit and tie. Did Matt Busby chew gum? No, he did not. And even Bill Shankly - despite not overly worrying Peter Wyngarde's status as the nation's style icon - used to limit his gum-chewing to the occasions when he was wearing a terrycloth track suit. As one does.
AND...
...he throws it out onto the pitch at the end of the game (and presumably throughout). Bet the groundstaff love that.
In fairness to Sralex, he comes from an era of chewing-gum-chewing players who chewed while playing. In these post-Wenger times, that's not on.
He throws it away
because it loses its flavour on his bedpost overnight.
Not a problem here....
being as chewing gum is still not generally available in Singapore (you can now get it for "medical" reasons). Still amuses me that people actually stock up on the stuff when going over to Malaysia - more because its not allowed than any real desire to chew gum.
I with you on it being a filthy habit and quite happy for the ban to continue here.
reading this early
i was none committal but having just been "served" by ticket seller at the station who not only was chewing choddy but also talking on her phone to friend which ser processed my ticket. this would be fine if I hadn't got the other end to find she hadn't topped up my oyster and I have now to investigate if I 've paid twice or not so yes birch the lot of them!
and relax....
Insider information
"Chicza - the world's first certified organic chewing gum has now arrived in the UK!
Manufactured in the Mexican rainforests, Chicza breaks down to dust within weeks of disposal - a great improvement over standard petrol-based chewing gums which cause such a costly, environmental nuisance in public places."
One teeny problem - it tastes like bat vomit. With the consistency of gristle. They didn't put that in the press release though.
and also - 'petrol based'? Really?
Blame the dentists
We in the trade have been handing the stuff out to our punters for years. It is very good at increasing slivary flow rates and, hence, reducing the incidence of tooth decay, particularly when it is sweetened with one of the polyols like Xylitol.
Still a revolting habit, though. Symptomatic of the collapse of civilization, etc, © Daily Mail 1800-present day
ways to increase salvia rates you say...
the smell of bacon/onions/donutd, the ashes starting tomorrow, a row of boxsets in their cellophane, various hi-fi magazine, most of the female cast of the west wing . Delete where applicable and no sticky mess afterwards.....
No wanting to lower the tone but.....
... I could still envisage a sticky mess with the female cast option......
I chew
- started when I quit smoking which was five years after I quit drinking - so it's my only vice. Well, apart from the badger baiting. Nicotinell at first now just Black Mint. I dispose of it responsibly, so who cares?
Ok so...
I chew a bit of gum now and then...
psst - got any "Extra"? Spearmint, mind. No fruit flavours - and certainly not that Dentyne bollocks
Dentyne Bollocks
Definitely won't be chewing on any Dentyne bollocks - fruit flavoured or otherwise
Sir Arthur Dentyne-Bollcks
Regius Professor of Mastication at Wrigley.U
I had onions at lunch...
...can I be excused?
I don't like it - it makes my jaw ache
But going back to shorts, I'm really not a shorts person. Only on holiday, but never out and about. And flip flops and mandals are out too. The worst offenders are those awful three-quarter length trousers that make men look like they've got really short legs.