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Post by Crouton on May 9, 2014 18:39:32 GMT -6
Rant section? Why not!
A message to people who stick chewing gum under tables: Fuck you all immensely. Seriously, you are the worst type of people.
Now, I know this may come as a shock to the small-minded (eg, gum chewers) but some people in the world have long legs. Yes, surprising isn't it. And when these people are sitting at a table and decide to cross their legs, or even bend them slightly their knee's usually touch the bottom of the table. It's a very common thing, and is usually not an issue. But now, due to the idiotic and disgusting gum chewers of the world us long-legged people are no longer safe.
6 TIMES. I repeat, SIX times I have gotten chewing gum stuck to the knees of my jeans. At Uni, at restaurants even and several other places. This is getting REALLY annoying. Not only is it very hard to wash off, but sometimes I even need to freeze it off. My only crime? Having long legs and being stupid enough to think I can sit at a table and be safe. There is a special hell for people who put chewing gum under tables. And it's the same place where smokers go who smoke in busy streets while their second hand toxic shit is blowing into everyone else's faces.
Oh and for the record? There's no one on Earth who can chew gum and not look and sound disgusting. So unless you only do it alone and in private, then it's gross. REALLY gross. Sounds like a dog licking their genitals. And if I have one more conversation with someone, where they think it's okay to chew gum while talking to me I think I will just punch them square in the face.
True fact: chewing gum is banned in Singapore. The only way you can get it is the black market. I want to live there.
Phew, well, this is the ranting section.
NOTE: Sorry if I offended anyone. But if you chew gum your gross, and if you stick chewed gum under tables you should burn in the fiery pits of hell.
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Post by Midnattblod on May 9, 2014 23:20:53 GMT -6
I chew gum from time to time when I'm gaming cause it's something to occupy my mouth and I usually don't have anything to eat besides or if my breath stinks but I NEVER stick it under tables. I find that to be disgusting as well. and unfortunately I do also smoke but I have the manners to not blow smoke towards other people and hopefully I can quite soon. I don't even know why I smoke. it tastes like shit and I always end up hacking for a good half hour in the morning. but yea. don't think badly of me please.
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Post by Crouton on May 9, 2014 23:27:32 GMT -6
As long as you don't chew gum while talking to people, don't stick it under tables and don't have your smoke blowing into peoples faces then I don't think badly of you. I can't walk down the main street in my city without taking up smoking. I inhale so much smoke from careless and self absorbed smokers who don't care where their smoke blows. Every single day I see it blowing into everyones faces, including into the faces of children, and even into prams with babies! And they don't care because it happens behind them so they don't see it and don't think it's happening.
It's just another thing that drives me crazy. Some smokers don't seem to understand how air and wind work. They seem to think that their smoke vanishes the instant it leaves their cigarette. Either that or as I suspect they are just selfish and don't care how many other people they poison.
Wow that almost turned into rant number 2 haha. I have a lot of built up anger about these things.
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 10, 2014 2:07:27 GMT -6
Let it all out, Crouton Just wait until I'm in a bad mood, the rant section will probably be flooded with hundreds of threads in a 1 hour span >_< I'm not outright against people chewing gum, as long as they can keep their mouths closed while doing it. My ex used to chew it and I swear to god he turned into a cow every time a piece of gum when into his mouth. And he would swallow it. It was so disgusting. I've chewed gum from time to time. I did it a lot in high school because I would get hungry before lunch and if I didn't chew gum the hunger was just too much to handle and I'd not be able to pay attention in class (read: fall asleep lol). It is absolutely revolting when people stick their gum under tables/seats/on things. Though, if people did that and would stop pissing on the subway, I'd take it -.-
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Post by Crouton on May 10, 2014 2:15:42 GMT -6
Haha, the ranting section was a great idea.
I find that even when people do chew gum with their mouth closed they still sound disgusting. There's just something about gum, like it was designed to make the worst and most vomit-inducing sounds in the world.
Liv, people pee on the subway where you live? Like, in the actual trains?
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 10, 2014 2:19:55 GMT -6
Yep. Sometimes you have to stand because someone has pissed on the seat and it's soaked into the cloth. People have actually taken craps on the subway too. Chicago, man.
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Post by Crouton on May 10, 2014 2:22:30 GMT -6
Damn, and I thought our trains were bad. I've heard some bad things from here but not of people actually using the seats as a toilet.
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Post by Firiath on May 10, 2014 6:37:01 GMT -6
When I still went to school I never realised why we weren't allowed to chew gum in class. I did realise, however, how disgusting it is to touch the lower side of your table (for whatever reason) and feel a chewing gum down there, no matter whether it was still fresh or had been there for ages. Now I understand both. I personally don't think chewing gum is gross, but the way many people do it is. I don't think it's necessary to point out how disgusting it is when people chew with their mouths open, even worse when you can hear them chew (unbearable!), and even worse when you can see what they're chewing, no matter whether it's a piece of gum or who knows what. I've had gum under my shoes several times, and I remember when I worked in retail and had to vacuum-clean the store in the evening I found a piece of gum sticking on the carpet. You can imagine my rage. I hope I'm not drifting too far off topic when I add how much I hate littering. You mentioned people blowing their smoke around, Crouton, and that reminded me of how much I hate it when smokers throw their cigarette buds onto the ground. Almost every smoker does that and nobody bothers, because it's probably considered to be a perfectly natural thing to do, but it's not and I loathe it. If people had to pay fines for littering (I think over here it can be fined, but never is) the state would be so much cleaner and wealthier. Same with spitting. People who spit onto the ground. GAH. I'm not going there. Sorry for the OT rant.
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Post by Crouton on May 10, 2014 6:54:49 GMT -6
Oh man gum sticking on the carpet would be the worst! It's the worst thing ever, just like plastic-y glue type stuff, I don't know why anyone would eat it. It'd be like trying to digest plastic.
I'm with you on littering 100%! I get annoyed when people litter anyway, but I HATE it when they litter right next to a bin! Or like, within close walking distance of a bin. Who does that? Cigarette butts are one of the worst because birds think they are food and often eat them and die. Many smokers don't seem to care about this, judging by the millions of cigarette butts lining the streets.
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Post by Midnattblod on May 10, 2014 7:38:12 GMT -6
I hate littering as well. I hate going somewhere and seeing garbage all around the trash cans or cigarette butts right next to the ashtrays and whatnot.
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 10, 2014 8:16:02 GMT -6
I hope I'm not drifting too far off topic when I add how much I hate littering. You mentioned people blowing their smoke around, Crouton, and that reminded me of how much I hate it when smokers throw their cigarette buds onto the ground. Almost every smoker does that and nobody bothers, because it's probably considered to be a perfectly natural thing to do, but it's not and I loathe it. If people had to pay fines for littering (I think over here it can be fined, but never is) the state would be so much cleaner and wealthier. I have to admit that when I was a smoker, I'd throw my cigarette butts on the ground often, or out of car windows because newer cars are made without ashtrays. More often than not though, I would shove the butts into my pockets and wait until I was near a garbage can to throw them out. I'm thankful that I discovered e-cigs so I can be more environmentally conscious.
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Post by Crouton on May 10, 2014 8:23:01 GMT -6
I hope I'm not drifting too far off topic when I add how much I hate littering. You mentioned people blowing their smoke around, Crouton, and that reminded me of how much I hate it when smokers throw their cigarette buds onto the ground. Almost every smoker does that and nobody bothers, because it's probably considered to be a perfectly natural thing to do, but it's not and I loathe it. If people had to pay fines for littering (I think over here it can be fined, but never is) the state would be so much cleaner and wealthier. I have to admit that when I was a smoker, I'd throw my cigarette butts on the ground often, or out of car windows because newer cars are made without ashtrays. More often than not though, I would shove the butts into my pockets and wait until I was near a garbage can to throw them out. I'm thankful that I discovered e-cigs so I can be more environmentally conscious. Just out of curiosity, when you did this did you see it as harmless, or did you know about the environmental impacts? Such as the amount of animals that die from this etc. When I see so many people just throwing their butts on the ground I can't help but wonder if maybe they just don't know. A lack of education has made them think that this type of action is harmless, when it really isn't. Or is it more of a case of people knowing and just not caring? Or do you think it's more a mix of both?
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Post by Liv the Librarian on May 10, 2014 8:36:25 GMT -6
I knew, I just saw no way around it at times. Any time I was able to pocket the butts or keep them in a car (my own or another smoker's who had an ashtray in the car), I would. If I was outside and had a drink and there was no bin, I'd even put the butts in my cup (obviously not continue drinking it lol).
I think what it is to most people is a lack of caring. A lot of people have the mentality that if they're the only one being conscious about the environment, it's not going to matter anyway.
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Post by Taliesin on May 10, 2014 9:20:27 GMT -6
I've sat in gum three times in my life. How in the holy hell I didn't see it there every single time I did still bothers me to this day. It's an absolute nightmare to get off the bum of your pants, and it makes me want to kill kill kill!
The last time it happened, I had been walking around with it plastered to my arse for who knows how long before someone finally tapped me on the shoulder and let me know. I was seriously torn between making a meeting I was late for or taking a 30 minute bus ride back home to change my pants. A bus ride where I'd have to avoid sitting on my bum, standing instead with chewing gum splatted where the sun don't normally shine!
Yes, there's a hell for people who stick it anywhere but in a bin. I want every last one of them in it right now! Someone make it happen.
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Post by Crouton on May 10, 2014 17:40:07 GMT -6
Ah Eph, I'm not the only victim of the heartless gum chewer I see. I still haven't managed to get the last bit of gum off the knee of my jeans! I wonder if these people would stop if they knew how much trouble they cause for us, or if they would just laugh and do it more. I think probably laugh (I don't think a lot of gum chewers haha, I've had nothing but bad experiences).
And yeah Liv I understand that mentality, of "being the only one so it won't matter". It's a shame but I think most people think that way.
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