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Seattle's gum wall, which has even been contributed to by some of our very own, is getting steamed away. A million pieces be damned.

http://time.com/4098666/seattle-gum-wall-cleaned/

Gum wall 2 coming soon though

 

[Obliterator]

That place looks like the quickest way imaginable to catch a disease

 

[devilhawk]

One of my favorite bars is in the alley. Good pizza too.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

replace it with a cum wall

 

[Dennis]

gross

 

[TheFNEffecT]

I visited Seattle earlier this year....it's as nasty as you can imagine.

 

[neogaffer1]

i mean, it looks cool, but that thing is disgusting and probably all kinds of dangerous for health.

 

[Dixon's Jet]

Another national treasure is lost.

 

[Ran rp]

Why


And are people writing out words with the gum?


WHY

 

[TsunamiOfSwagger]

and not a thing was lost. That is vile.

 

[Persona7]

i hope they bleach the fuck out of that alley

 

[Enthus]

Chewed gum is disgusting. Singapore has the right idea concerning gum.

 

[Auctopus]

That's rank.

 

[Orkidea]

What! Aww man, well at least they're continuing the tradition and letting a new one form

 

[Gintamen]

Ewww. About time?

 

[Reverend Funk]

Cool now I have the perfect location to start my used condom wall.

 

[Fantomas]

Out of curiosity I searched YouTube for "gum wall lick." There's plenty of videos.

 

[Jobbs]

Looking at it makes me ill. If it were my building I'd have nuked that shit a long long time ago.

 

[KarmaCow]

These weird communal things over nothing are always interesting and I wish they were left alone, though yea I can't imagine it's sanitary at all.

 

[akira28]

i mean, it looks cool, but that thing is disgusting and probably all kinds of dangerous for health.

it doesn't even do that.
I'm all for community and art but this is hahaha grosse

 

[meijiko]

Aw, my gum. I usually take friends there when they come to visit. Not gonna lie, it's gross as hell, and I usually don't breathe too deeply when I go down there. But it's pretty iconic, and I'll be sad to see it clean. I'm sure people will waste no time filling it up again, though.

Also OP 20 years would be 1995 not 1985.

 

[Ferrio]

I thought it was pretty cool in person, *shrug*

 

[DOWN]

Aw, my gum. I usually take friends there when they come to visit. Not gonna lie, it's gross as hell, and I usually don't breathe too deeply when I go down there. But it's pretty iconic, and I'll be sad to see it clean. I'm sure people will waste no time filling it up again, though.

Also OP 20 years would be 1995 not 1985.

Yeah typo, I had to type the thread twice and I assure you I attributed it to 90s grunge the moment I read it

 

[Kevtones]

Can you imagine getting this gum in your hair? What a nightmare!

 

[ZiZ]

I'm not a guy that grosses easily, I've eaten cooked bugs, I've been elbow deep inside an a dead animal's guts.

however I have an unexplainable phobia of gum.

I find it disgusting, and not just old gum stuck to stuff, I mean people blowing bubble gum bubbles too. hell, I won't even chew a normal stick of gum, which is weird since I used to have no problems with it when I was a kid.

that wall is a thing of nightmares.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Disgust

 

[arab]

i took a picture here and someone molded a penis out of their gum

 

[sakuori]

It looks nice... until you notice they're gums.

Eww.

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

That wall looks straight out of a Junji Ito panel.

 

[so1337]

 

[PapaJustify]

What a shame.
Glad that I have been there.

 

[The Real Abed]

This reminds me of that bridge in Paris that people would put locks on as a sign of their unbreaking love bonds that they had to forcibly remove a few months ago because it was literally weighing the bridge down.

They're replacing it with plexiglass to prevent people from doing it anymore.

Except that locks are less prone to being full of diseases. They're just heavier.

 

[Devil's advocate]

I thought this was going to be about a GAF member named gum wall that died at age 20 in Seattle.
I am pleasantly surprised.

 

[Yaphett Kotto]

Wonder how that got started.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

After the cleaning is over, people will be allowed to keep the tradition going by adding more gum.

“We’re not saying it can’t come back,” Emily Crawford, a spokeswoman for the Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority, told the Seattle Times. “We need to wipe the canvas clean and keep fresh.”

It looks like it will come back. Good. The gum wall is awesome. It's just incredibly fascinating to look at.

 

[jerry1594]

That's disgusting
I need to know how staring at a wall covered in chewed gum is fascinating

 

[toweringinferno]

That's nasty. People should put their gums in bins.

 

[StompThaNutz]

https://youtu.be/40lnDleet8s

 

[jfoul]

I'm not a guy that grosses easily, I've eaten cooked bugs, I've been elbow deep inside an a dead animal's guts.

however I have an unexplainable phobia of gum.

I find it disgusting, and not just old gum stuck to stuff, I mean people blowing bubble gum bubbles too. hell, I won't even chew a normal stick of gum, which is weird since I used to have no problems with it when I was a kid.

that wall is a thing of nightmares.

My name is Mike Rowe, and this is Dirty Jobs.

 

[Spiritwalker]

imagine licking it all

 

[Carl]

That looks awesome. I'm not grossed out by it at all. Sounds like it is cleaned regularly

 

[Pila]

Dude, I'm catching some shit just looking at the pics. Total ewwww.

 

[djSyndrome]

Ten million other problems around Pike and they choose to nuke the gum wall.

How about we nuke all of the junkies, "parking attendants" and other vagrants first?

 

[soco]

Ten million other problems around Pike and they choose to nuke the gum wall.

How about we nuke all of the junkies, "parking attendants" and other vagrants first?

That would require effort.

 

[andrerobot]

I love the wall! It was so impressively disgusting and incredible at the same time!

The great news is that I hope there will be plenty of space for me to put a piece of gum :=)

 

[Diabelli]

Not nearly as impressive but I saw this in New York recently when on a bus tour.

 

[Ryaaan14]

replace it with a cum wall

This guy has a point

 

[HazySaiyan]

Probably for the best that it's gone.

 

[OléGunner]

Well I liked the gum wall recreation in Infamous Second Son.

It will live on there forever.

 

[B.O.O.M]

Man gum wall is fucking awesome! It's just weird and beautiful at the same time. Good shit..


I badly miss the Northwest sometimes.