I work in a large IT company. Everyone is professional and generally acts as much. Guy I work with in the next aisle over, a nice guy, sometimes my Tichu partner for whatever fucktard reason in his head feels the need to snap his bubble gum OVER AND OVER AND FUCKING OVER AGAIN! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Yes, I confronted him about it. He apologized and said he would stop. That worked for about a day, then he would snap his gum and announce over the cubicle walls ‘I’m sorry’. IF YOU WERE SORRY YOU WOULDN"T FUCKING SNAP YOUR GUM.
After those few days were up, he continued (and continues) to do it without apology, not that those helped. MAKE IT FUCKING STOP!
I have the headphones turned up extra loud to drown out the sound with new wave hits from RadioIO80s, but I can still hear it. I’m going to have to start farting in his cube and see if he gets the hint. Otherwise, I’ll request my cube be moved to the other side of the building. FUCK! HE JUST FUCKING DID IT AGAIN, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, CURSE YOU EARDRUMS.
Eww. I hate gum-chewing as a rule, and gum-snappers are the worst.
I can’t stand the ones who chomp away like cows. It’s just disgusting.
I have an aquaintance who prides herself on not chewing her gum like a cow, and has this awful “dainty” chew instead. In reality all your hear is salivia sloshing around.
Yuck. When I take over the world, gum will be outlawed.
You’re describing me. I’m so ashamed. I at least recognize I have this problem and, if I must chew gum–namely for breath-freshening reasons, I will dispose of it before I have to interact with people.
I’m very anal about keeping breath mints in my purse. Right now I’ve got FOUR tins and one pack of Dentyne Ice. I’ve got a lot of mints to go through before I get to the gum.
Who the hell invented gum anyway? What an utterly stupid product! If your breath stinks, brush your teeth or use a mint. It is impossible to chew gum without looking like a moron. The oral fixation stage is supposed to end around age 2. As fun as it might be, you wouldn’t sit in your cubicle sticking things in your ass, so don’t play with things in your mouth either.
Oh please don’t. I work with a bunch of pseudo adult males. Most are in the late 20s to late 30s. We work in a fairly professional building, most here have college degrees. The guys in this department go around farting in each other’s cube. Those of us around them get the “over spray” and it’s sickening. There have been threats of going to personnel if the guys don’t knock it off.
I would say it reminds me of 6 year olds but I think even a 6 year old acts more grown up than that.
And now I’m ashamed. I didn’t mean to rag on you personally, sweetie, I just hate that constant “chomp, chomp, chomp” sound when gum-chewers are around others.
And the gum-snapping is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
I am a compulsive gum-chewer. I really, really try not to snap it when there’s other people around but sometimes I just do it without even thinking. It’s a habit I haven’t been able to break.
This will probably sound rather silly, but I don’t know how to snap gum, and I would like to. Not that I want to annoy everyone to death, I’m just curious. I promise not to abuse the power if someone would care to enlighten me.
As far as I’m concerned, the thread title could easily be “You’re An Adult, Don’t Chew Fucking Gum!”
The noise is maddening, it’s ugly to look at, and it fucking stinks.
There’s nothing worse than being obliged to share a confined space with a couple of bi-pedal cows reeking of fucking puke-inducing Juicy-Fruit or Hubba Bubba. The only thing missing is for someone to piss their pants to complete the impression that you’re somehow being held in a filthy fucking nursery.
I realize your question is rhetorical, but flavored chicle-based chewing gum as a commercial product goes back to the mid 19th century, and a guy named Thomas Adams. The practice of chewing various tree resins goes back into antiquity - American Indians and the ancient Greeks both chewed tree resins. In fact, the Greeks utilized the mastic tree, named for the greek root word from which we get “masticate”. Oral fixation has been with us for a good long time, and is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
Preparation H is probably missing a bet on not promoting the social acceptance of anal fixation. Flavored suppositories from the candy machine? The mind boggles.
You flatten it between your tongue and the roof of your mouth, then push your tongue into the sheet of gum to form a little pocket. You blow a little air into the pocket and seal it off with your tongue or teeth. Then when you bite or smash down on the air pocket, it pops, making a snapping noise. It’s like blowing a bubble with bubble gum, except it’s just a tiny bubble. How someone could do all this subconciously is pretty amazing to me.
This is why I now have a firm “no gum-chewing in the office” rule. I really like gum (not to mention gum, and spogga), but inevitably, I will start to snap it, play with it, blow bubbles, and otherwise make a nuisance of myself. So gum is now strictly a weekend pleasure for me.
Uhh - pretty sure I do.
I use a different system. Flatten gum, and then suck air in to make a little bubble which then snaps.
Try not to do it around people, but sometimes I’m sure it happens.
Thank you The Lady and Blowero - I too have always wanted to know how to do it. When I was young we lived in Tehran and most of the other foreigners were American - I was so impressed with the gum chewing, bubble blowing and gum cracking - had much fun with the bubble blowing but it was always a mystery as to how to do the cracking.
I promise not to practice around others.
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