[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Please enlighten me as to what makes you hate the actual gum chewers themselves. I have heard people talk about not liking inconsiderate gum chewers who chew the gum like a cow chews cud, but what beef (no pun intended) do you have with respectful gum chewers?

I think hating the person who chews gum is a bit over the top...

[pbmaltzman]

My mother hated gum chewing too. She was dumb enough to marry my father, who basically neither liked nor respected women. He would chew gum loudly on purpose, and roll the piece of shit around on his tongue. My twin sister learned to do that too. They delighted in tormenting my mother and me.

We'd get into the car to go some place, packed in like sardines, and then my bastard father and my twin would get out the gum, stuff their mouths with it, and proceed to be as obnoxious as possible.

The result is that I cannot stomach the sight, the sound, or the look of gum chewing,

I have noticed that many gum chewers, if you make yourself vulnerable enough to ask them to tone it down, instaed ramp up their efforts to be obnoxious.

For this reason I refuse to take any sort of public transpoirtation such as bus or plane. invariably the biggest pig of a gum chewer will sit next to me and proceed to do their thing.

I have noticed that some blacks specialize in really loud gum chewing, including cracking noises, and that if a white person asks them not to make so much noise, they redouble their efforts to be pigs.

I also do medical transcription for a living, and sometimes the GD dictators chew, smack, slurp or otherwise make themsevles obnoxious while dictating reports. I hate them.

If I ever won a lottery prize, it'd take me about 20 seconds to quit this occupation and never pick up a pair of headphones again.

Their loss, not mine. I'm pretty good at what I do, and a lot of the dictators sound pretty stupid.

So.... I really don't give a GD how weird all this sounds to you or anyone else. My experience tells me to avoid gum chwere whenever possible. Also people who suck their teeth and slurp their food.

Tough shit!

[pbmaltzman]

Part of the reason is that, in my experience, there are *very few* if any "respectful" gum chewers. That is, people who chew with their mouth closed and avoid making noise, etc.

When I was attempting to date off the internet, I put in my profile that I wouldn't date alkies, drug addicts, or gum chewers. Yes, I got some crappy responses. But I didn't want to meet those guys anyway.

Their loss. I don't need people like them in my life.