• PP_GIRL_OP
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        354 months ago

        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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          34 months ago

          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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        194 months ago

        Are you a living episode of Seinfeld? This sounds like a scenario George Costanza would get himself into.

  • @[email protected]
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    394 months ago

    Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones

  • Teon
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    324 months ago

    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.

  • guyrocket
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    254 months ago

    Doesn’t help anything that most “gum base” has PLASTIC in it.

  • HobbitFoot
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    214 months ago

    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.

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      74 months ago

      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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        54 months ago

        On today’s episode of: Is This Somebody’s Fetish or Just an Anime I Haven’t Watched Yet

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        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?

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            14 months ago

            Exactly. [The] people-who-eat-people chew gum.

            I think you have a couple typos though, autocorrect can be really frustrating, right?

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    144 months ago

    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.

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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      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?

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        14 months ago

        No, but it’s only been a couple of months.

        Plus I’m single right now, if you catch my drift.

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      14 months ago

      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.

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    114 months ago

    Im not big on chewing literal microplastics… I used to love chewing gum before I learned that though