# I hate the person who invented gum.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-person-who-invented-gum/611007>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 28, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-person-who-invented-gum/611007 "2012-01-28T18:34:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-person-who-invented-gum/611007/21 "2012-01-31T16:54:23Z")

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You can chew your damned cud, but please, for the love of all that is light and right and holy in this universe, _please_ do it with your goddamned mouth closed. And no cracking or snapping either. That _will_ cause me to consider ripping your jaw right off your face.

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-person-who-invented-gum/611007/22 "2012-02-01T03:58:37Z")

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> [@Dogzilla](#):
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> You can chew your damned cud, but please, for the love of all that is light and right and holy in this universe, _please_ do it with your goddamned mouth closed. And no cracking or snapping either. That _will_ cause me to consider ripping your jaw right off your face.

I never crack or snap my gum, unless I am trying to get on the nerves of the idiot who hates gum but clips his fingernails as I am eating my lunch. 😃

Seriously though, I never learned how to crack or snap gum. Anybody want to teach me how?

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**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-person-who-invented-gum/611007/23 "2012-02-01T04:31:05Z")

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If you hate chewing gum, there’s a country made just for you: [Singapore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_ban_in_Singapore)

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