I've never fancied gum, apart from, you know, no, I think this is worthy of discussion.

It just doesn't, there's something so viabeless about gum, unless you're like, you know, on, on, you know, drugs, in which case gum is a kind of necessity.

But in day-to-day life, gum people fascinate me. I'm like, it's like something you would give to a dog.

There you go.

Distract your mouth with the sensation of chewing.

It's something quite American too.

Like, you can't chew gum without thinking, I'm not cool enough.

And I live in too shit of a country to just be like chewing gum on the street.

It's a bit like wearing sunglasses, you know?

Yeah. Singapore have realized this.

They're like, no Singaporean will ever be cool enough for chew gum.

So we're just going to make it illegal.

Sometimes it's nice to have a little like minty refresh, you know, minty refreshment from time to time.

But you couldn't have a mint.

And so, yeah, but.

Socratic Alencus, this is like the lost platonic dialogue.

Barely, Socrates, I could have a min.

I cannot say why I prefer gum to mint.

I can defeat Socrates on this one with the criterion of embarrassment, right?

Because if you eat too many sugar-free mints, which are the only kind of mince you can get, and they don't tell you that they're sugar-free. There will be a little thing on the back of the package that's like, oh, hey, if you eat too many of these in one sitting and too many is like, I don't know, three, you will like shit horribly.

Like, instantly.

Yeah, that's true.

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