Skillful gum bubble blower

Amy Crehore found this video of a girl blowing a gum bubble in a bubble in a bubble in a bubble.

[#1 posted by darkbeanie , December 15, 2008 10:19 AM]

I don't know what sort of malleable polymer concoction she has in her mouth, but it's certainly not the bubble gum I'm familiar with.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , December 15, 2008 10:19 AM]

Am I the only one who's a little turned on by this?

[#3 posted by Anonymous , December 15, 2008 10:20 AM]

Now . . . there is something a bit sexy about that skill in a young lady!

[#4 posted by jahknow , December 15, 2008 10:20 AM]

ITS A TARP

[#5 posted by Anonymous , December 15, 2008 10:21 AM]

I used to blow bubbles within bubbles when I was a kid, but they were never that large!

[#6 posted by Anonymous , December 15, 2008 10:22 AM]

If anyone knows what kind of gum can blow such enormous bubbles, do tell!

[#7 posted by jaypee , December 15, 2008 10:23 AM]

Never mind all that, does anyone else find the whole thing vaguely creepy? I can't help but feel like I'm being tricked into watching some sort of fetish video.

[#8 posted by Lea Hernandez , December 15, 2008 10:24 AM]

It's not just me that feels like they're looking at a cute-harmless fetish video, is it?

[#9 posted by Longboxes , December 15, 2008 10:26 AM]

FAKE! (I've always wanted to say that online!)

[#10 posted by zuzu , December 15, 2008 10:29 AM]

Never mind all that, does anyone else find the whole thing vaguely creepy?

That tingling sensation in your bathing suit area is a normal healthy response.

[#11 posted by nehpetsE , December 15, 2008 10:29 AM]

on youtube you will find 98 percent of the comments on this video are lewd.

[#12 posted by phlavor , December 15, 2008 10:30 AM]

Surprisingly, some of the comments on You Tube are sexual in nature.

[#13 posted by IWood , December 15, 2008 10:30 AM]

This is, of course, a fake. Real multiple bubble-blowers vanish from our space-time continuum upon completion of the fourth bubble.

[#14 posted by Joel Johnson , December 15, 2008 10:31 AM]

Oh, well, hello.

[#15 posted by Lea Hernandez , December 15, 2008 10:32 AM]

Jaypee: It's the pose and the makeup that make it look fetishy, which I think it's meant to be.

[#16 posted by Earth Man , December 15, 2008 10:32 AM]

To my great surprise, I am so turned on right now.

[#17 posted by zuzu , December 15, 2008 10:33 AM]

The Internet has always had loud dumb people, but I've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos.

-- xkcd

[#18 posted by Sekino , December 15, 2008 10:36 AM]

Can you imagine when the outer bubble blows up? It would cover her entire head!

They didn't show that :/

[#19 posted by OM , December 15, 2008 10:41 AM]

...The real surprise so far is that this hasn't degenerated into an innuendo contest. That must make Teresa's job a lot easier for once :-)

...That being said, if she really wants to impress *and* stimulate me, then she needs to tie a cherry stem into a knot and have it appear in the middle bubble.

[#20 posted by Usimian , December 15, 2008 10:45 AM]

My God! That was incredibly erotic.

[#21 posted by Anonymous , December 15, 2008 10:49 AM]

Thats deinitely fake...the world record holder can only do a double bubble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkoGFznw8U

[#22 posted by JZwoopwoop , December 15, 2008 10:50 AM]

I would feel SO much better about watching this video at work if the girl looked like anything except an *exact* replica of Lolita.

[#23 posted by buddy66 , December 15, 2008 10:53 AM]

"I've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos."

The average YouTube commenter is a jack jolly young male of an as yet unclassified species.

[#24 posted by Cunning , December 15, 2008 10:58 AM]

The outer bubble should grow when the inner bubbles expand inside, but they do not. Something ain't right in sexy bubble physics land...

[#25 posted by Mark Rowan , December 15, 2008 11:01 AM]

http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=L40E_DM_bWg

[#26 posted by Cunning , December 15, 2008 11:02 AM]

Strike that. Upon further examination, the outer bubble appears to grow proportionately. All is well in sexy bubble physics land. Go about your business.

[#27 posted by Akheloios , December 15, 2008 11:07 AM]

My God, it's full of air.

[#28 posted by igpajo , December 15, 2008 11:22 AM]

When I was 10 I did that sort of thing but managed to get 5 bubbles. The outer bubble wasn't near as big as that one and the fifth bubble was only a couple inches across. I think it took 3 pieces of Bubble Yum. Didn't have digital cameras or youtube back then so I have no proof.

[#29 posted by technogeek , December 15, 2008 11:36 AM]

Given that I never managed to figure out how to blow gum bubbles at all, I'm suitably impressed.

And, yeah, there's something sensual about the whole thing, but of course that's part of the appeal of gum generally. The short skirt and the hand along the flank take the video over into slightly suggestive, though I'm not sure that was intended. And on the Internet, lewd comments will be made at any opportunity... so I'm not surprised by the reported responses.

(Let's be honest; most male humans over the age of puberty are going to be somewhat turned on by the sight of a reasonably attractive young lady breathing heavily/carefully, and some will respond to a young lady doing just about anything. Basic ape instincts. Luckily, most of us also have the common sense to just sit back and appreciate.)

[#30 posted by Anonymous , December 15, 2008 11:38 AM]

I like to think of all the lewd and crass comments on the internet as coming from Gary Larson-esque matrons with horn-rimmed glasses and beehive hair.

[#31 posted by philoponia , December 15, 2008 11:43 AM]

She only looks young because of the bubble gum. That and, she's like 14. But mostly, the gum.

[#32 posted by sbarnes2 , December 15, 2008 11:44 AM]

#17: I'm glad I'm not the only one whose brain went to Lolita, lol!

[#33 posted by Bill Simmon , December 15, 2008 12:53 PM]

I am not aroused by this video at all (though I am quite impressed!) and yet even I immediately thought to myself "with skills like those it should be easy for her to get a blowjob." I am a bad, bad person.

[#34 posted by jahknow , December 15, 2008 12:57 PM]

BRB FBI

[#35 posted by dan winckler , December 15, 2008 1:02 PM]

Is it strange that I'm almost disappointed that it didn't turn out to also be reflecto-pr0n?

[#36 posted by Gilbert Wham , December 15, 2008 1:16 PM]

"All is well in sexy bubble physics land." This sentence makes me inexplicably happy.

[#37 posted by Parkingtigers , December 15, 2008 1:20 PM]

Wait, was this porn? I think it was porn. It sure looked like porn to me. No, that can't be right, BoingBoing wouldn't direct me towards porn. It can't have been porn. But sure felt like porn ...

(It was porn.)

[#38 posted by KinetiQ , December 15, 2008 1:25 PM]

Yo dawg I know how you like gum so we put a bubble in your bubble so you can blow bubbles while you blow bubbles

[#39 posted by Justin Ried , December 15, 2008 1:58 PM]

Where's the explosion at the end? How anti-climactic!

[#40 posted by Powerphail , December 15, 2008 2:44 PM]

"All is well in sexy bubble physics land. Go about your business."

Oh, thank goodness for that.

[#41 posted by Lonin , December 15, 2008 4:30 PM]

#39: I don't know about you, but it was certainly climactic enough for me...

[#42 posted by jessemoya , December 15, 2008 4:35 PM]

My first thought was Cheech's line from the beginning of Up in Smoke, "Hey, Double Bubble! Hop in baby, I'll give you a ride!"

Then, as she kept blowing, I just thought, "whoa! the more the merri- wait, why am I aroused right now??"

[#43 posted by Shelby Davis , December 15, 2008 5:02 PM]

Whoa... on the second time I played this (yes, I played it more than once, darnit!) the video lagged and then suddenly went through in double time for a few seconds... suddenly got a whole lot more erotic.

@ 27 Akheloios: +5 internets for you, sir!

[#44 posted by dr80085 , December 15, 2008 7:17 PM]

I'm so sad we may soon be missing out on this sort of thing in Australia.

[#45 posted by El Mariachi , December 16, 2008 3:11 AM]

Get the hell off the good sofa if you're doing that!

God, I'm old.

[#46 posted by Pantograph , December 16, 2008 3:35 AM]

Some things in life are worth the sacrifice of a good sofa.

[#47 posted by DaveMc , December 16, 2008 9:04 AM]

"...The real surprise so far is that this hasn't degenerated into an innuendo contest. That must make Teresa's job a lot easier for once :-)"

Yes, indeed, I am impressed with the restraint shown by the commenters, here.

Now, if anyone needs me, I'll be in my bunk.

[#48 posted by technogeek , December 16, 2008 9:47 PM]

Remember Groucho's observation that "Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo."

And, yeah, I've gotta admit my second thought was "About three seconds after the end of that vid, she's going to have to remove gum from some combination of face, hair, clothing, couch, and/or camera..."

My third thought was "OK, what are the odds this is a nice bit of video magic?" I'll believe nested bubbles, but I'm having trouble believing she isn't having more trouble with gravity. Unless she's inflating them with a heliox mixture, or they're one heck of a lot thinner and/or carry one heck of a lot more surface tension than any gum bubbles I've seen...

[#49 posted by Dayv , December 18, 2008 4:43 AM]

I'm torn.  The girl might be cute behind there, but I can't tell because there's a thoroughly chewed bolus slowly being ejected from her face.  Is this some kind of bizarre threat display?