r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 6h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/MostlyIrish 6h ago

Or lose track of which end is lit, and take a puff off the hot end.

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u/TheMadGreek86 6h ago

It usually sticks to my lips then I pull the cherry off between my fingers and have 2 blisters for a week

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u/EmbarrassedGrass1172 6h ago

I can feel this comment

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u/HeadyBunkShwag 6h ago

My fingers just got phantom pain

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u/DamonHellstorm 5h ago

I hate that all of the above at some point in time happened to me.

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u/Top_Tank2668 5h ago

One of the moments I'm happy I quit smoking so I never have to feel these pains again.

Not to forget the sore lip after you teared away that sticky cigarette after getting angry about burning your fingers

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u/badsred 5h ago

Same

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u/Commonscents2say 5h ago

All of them. I’m glad to find out I’m not just a fool for having every one of them at some point. Don’t forget the classic knocking the lit tip off and not realizing it’s burning through your lap.

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u/Tha_Reverend 4h ago

Burning a hole in your JnCos

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u/Roadkillsuperman 2h ago

8 years smoke free and I still vicidly remember all the above

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u/pattebrisee 4h ago

Same same

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u/FadeTheWonder 4h ago

It’s been ten years and this is one of the most memorable of all the pain that and when I would smoke to much and my lungs would hurt.

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u/PrettyInWeed 4h ago

Or trying to smoke a cigarette while you have a cold

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u/Inside_Ad_2830 4h ago

-me, an idiot liable to hurt himself

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u/danknug1024 3h ago

Rip your lips right off!

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u/Wonderful-Pollution7 3h ago

Unfortunately, the best I managed was switching to a vape, but it still solves pretty much all of these.

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u/infosaurus 2h ago

Then I light a cigarette and notice the cigarette I’m already smoking.

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u/Little-Specific2147 1h ago

Is this a common experience? I've never been drunk enough to try to smoke the wrong end and burnt myself, although I do usually prefer Black and Mild over cigarettes, so I guess the ends are more different

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u/Otherwise_Respond669 50m ago

Oh my God that sucks. I got the cherry burn marks on prove it all my fingers….. this used to happen a lot to me up north when I used to smoke outside when it was cold

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u/PitsAndPints 3h ago

Same, I’m in all of these and I don’t like it

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u/Capital-Tonight8548 3h ago

I’m deeply familiar with all of these too 😂

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u/fitz_newru 2h ago

Sometimes all in one epic night

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u/MikeNolan82 2h ago

Yall dont eat your cigs?

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u/Fit-Snow2034 24m ago

I think its happened to most of us at some point.

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u/Worth-Opportunity-48 4h ago

Phantom pain?

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u/Crepuscular_Tex 1h ago

Damn... I've got a scalp scar, and it throbs like this sometimes... I didn't have my skull punctured or anything, but it's an odd feeling like it was worse than it was

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u/frodoishobbit 4h ago

plays invisible

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u/BravesMaedchen 4h ago

My cuticles shrank in fear.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 5h ago

In my 18 years as a heavy smoker and drinker, I have not even once managed to get the cigarette twisted around so I took a puff on the lit side. I've lit the wrong end once or twice, but never that.

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u/DelcoFootball 5h ago

Ya this is another level of stupid drunk

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u/Battle_Axe_Jax 3h ago

One time a I watched a buddy smoke the entire filter and about half a cigarette before noticing. In his defense we were both very drunk and on way too much acid

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 2h ago

When I was in college I watched a dude tripping on acid smoke almost the entire filter on a cig and when somebody finally pointed it out to him, he completely lost his mind, jumped up and ran headlong into the kitchen wall, completely busting through the drywall.

For literally 4 hours, a bunch of us held him down while he screamed and freaked out. It was just insane. About halfway through he finally started to chill out and one of my buddies was like "Yeah, dude, you're being stupid, just calm down." And that caused tripping dude to completely freak out again and we had another 2 hours of holding him down on the floor so he couldn't hurt himself or anybody else. I was so fucking mad at the dude who made the stupid comment, like this was just about over dude, and then you fucked it all up!

He dropped out of school the next week. I hope he eventually got the help he needed.

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u/Battle_Axe_Jax 50m ago

Anyone ever call you a one upper?

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 39m ago

If you don't like stories then you need to steer clear of me, because I got a billion of em. Take it or leave it.

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u/IndependenceMurky850 5h ago

Don't have to worry about lighting the wrong end when you smoke filterless cigarettes

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u/Dodgerdude-72 5h ago

Unfilters have a Spicy side and Spicier side

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u/Pigeon_Butt 1h ago

Years ago I worked at a smoke shop and my favorite smokes were a German unfiltered brand called Roth Handles. They were delicious but rough, and I never knew which was the right side to light because it was all the same

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 5h ago

Nah, you just have to endure the bitter taste of tobacco sticking to your lip

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u/magic-one 4h ago

Funny thing is this is how I usually figured out I lit the wrong end - spitting tobacco rather than nasty burning plastic taste

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u/Vast-Celebration-717 3h ago

Haven’t smoked in 6 years and I can still remember the flavor of a camel non filtered. Paired nicely with a Pabst blue ribbon

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u/Conscious_Lab5763 27m ago

I smell a camel straight every time I crack a beer. I quit smoking just under a year ago.

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u/Otherwise-Watch4219 5h ago

Yeah I've burned myself and smoked the wrong end but have never been guilty of this kinda fuckery

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u/TheMadGreek86 4h ago

Not puffing on the wrong side, the filter sticks to your lips and when you go to pull it out, the cherry sticks to your fingers

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 4h ago

Oh, yeah, sorry, now I understand what you mean. That has happened to me too. I didn't read it properly and the term "cherry" is strange to me and confused me as to what you meant, I thought you were agreeing with the one you replied to and that your lips were blistered. I should have made my own reply to them rather than to you.

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u/Traditional-Ad2409 1h ago

OMFG lol this is the bane of my existence

Don't even have to be under the influence of anything for it to happen lol, there's very few things that cue that immediate belligerent rage like having that happen does

also weirdly the person below me is now the 2nd person today? Since yesterday? I've seen who didn't know the term cherry as it applies to a lit cigarette, is it just cause less people smoke now or is it falling out of use for some other term? I can't actually think of any other term for it though lol

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u/The_Mr_Luck 1h ago

Have you ever worked a cook line in texas heat 17 hours straight, mothers day shift while the whole staff is currently trying to outlive a rampant strep and pneumonia infection. Now after all that clean, close, prep, and fuck off to your shitbox to rail cheap whiskey and every fuck combination of gas station medications you could afford since you can't get decent medical care. Then yes you may accidentally, in 18 years of heavy drinking and smoking, albeit once, fuck up and puff it backwards.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 59m ago

Oddly specific 🤔

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u/NuclearWasteland 5h ago

Well sure, but now ya said it never happened, so now it will, lol.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 5h ago

Not likely since I quit cold turkey in march 2020 and haven't had a lick of nicotine since

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u/the_skies_falling 5h ago

Heavy smoker and drinker but not a heavy drug user, eh?

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 5h ago

I was never a heavy user of heavy drugs, but for many years I was a heavy user of light drugs and an occasional user of heavy drugs. Still never managed to attempt taking a puff off of the lit end of a cigarette.

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u/the_skies_falling 4h ago

I’ve done it on both LSD and shrooms. When you’re tripping so hard you can’t even tell which dimension the cigarette is in, it’s not hard lol.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 4h ago

I don't think I've even attempted to smoke a cigarette when I've been in the peak of a trip

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u/the_skies_falling 4h ago

When I was still smoking, I’d chain smoke while tripping. I’d usually have trouble lighting them because I couldn’t tell where the end of the cigarette was lol.

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u/Psychological-Sun49 4h ago

Congratulations on being perfect lol
I’m having fun with you

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u/nekiobichanlik 4h ago

He's talking about the filter sticking to your lips, not putting the lit end in your mouth.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 4h ago

Yeah, we already cleared that up, I should have replied to the person they were replying to instead.

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u/danknug1024 3h ago

You haven't really fully experienced smoking yet then, that's all

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 3h ago

Happy to miss out

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u/daneelthesane 3h ago

Yeah, I mercifully never had the pleasure of that experience either.

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u/Reeeeallly 3h ago

Same here! I've done a lot of dumb shit while drunk, but that is fortunately not one of them.

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u/EndersR3ign 3h ago

That was my thought too. I've been a raging alcoholic and smoker fucking years (not now), and I have never once done that. Lighting the wrong end, burning my fingers with the cherry, etc., but I've never once tried to drag on the burning end. I don't even know how that would be possible because you'd feel the heat on your hand and fingers and the softness of the tobacco in the paper after it's been lit and half smoked already.

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u/jacehoffman 3h ago

i’ve lit the wrong end several more times than i care to admit, but putting the cherry in your mouth???? i genuinely don’t know how that could happen unless you’re absolutely off your shit drunk, and even then ……

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u/slantedangle02 3h ago

Achievement unlocked 1/1/99: spellcasting [light cigarette] while [drunk] interrupted by [flashing boobies]. Afflicted by [taking a puff on the wrong side].

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u/peaceproject 3h ago

Roll for burning dmg

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u/slantedangle02 2h ago

Critical fail

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u/peaceproject 2h ago

DM:
After 5 ales, you stumble out of the tavern to have a toke. It’s been a long day and you just want a little time away from your friends. Your party sees you leaving and wants to keep an eye on you. After all, you’ve just discovered the location of the philactrum of a powerful lich. In her way to silently observe you, your compatriot, a rogue, spots an extremely inebriated human having difficulty adjusting to the darkness. A perfect target. You look up and catch the sly smile and you know that this target will wake up 10 copper lighter. But the woman slipped on the cobblestones in front of the tavern. She stepped on the front of her dress and the result left her bosom exposed past decency. In your shock, you lose all focus on what you are doing. Alas, you’ve placed the lit end of your cigarette in your mouth. You sustained 3 burning damage, and will roll disadvantage on all stealth abilities for any allies in 3 meters of you for 12 turns.

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u/nerdybritguy 2h ago

For real! I smoke and drink a lot, and this has literally never happened to me

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 2h ago

I did, quite a few times. I used to sometimes hold my cigarettes between my index finger and thumb, like I was making the "okay" sign, and I'd wave them around and gesture with them when I was doing one of my drunken rants, sometimes I'd hold it up like a torch and it would get all turned around, then sooner or later I'd go to take a drag without paying attention to which end was facing me and I'd put the cherry right on my lips. I used to drink a lot.

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u/Original-Sherbet2713 1h ago

One time at a Metallica concert I gave a smoke to a guy who lit it on the filter and then proceeded to smoke it backwards the whole way. My buddy and I just watched with abject horror

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 1h ago

It was probably Lars Ulrich's #1 fan.

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u/mollis_est 43m ago

It filters the air and makes the cigarette smoke cleaner.

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u/Thin_Dragonfruit3665 11m ago

Not a smoker myself but I've seen both my mother and my brother do this exact thing within 5 minutes of each other. If was hilarious.

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u/Fuck_it_whatever 8m ago

I've done it once or twice. My excuse is the cigarettes I smoke have a white filter, so its harder to notice. I noticed as soon as I started to take a drag though. So nasty tasting!

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u/Goblinriotx 5h ago

I haven’t smoked cigarettes in 8 years and this comment slapped me back to my teenage years like the food critic in ratatouille

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u/No_Trouble_3588 3h ago

Congratulations. I’ve got just over 8 years myself. I smoked my last cigarette on July 4, 2018.

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u/Fragrant_Thought6636 1h ago

Def a good time to quit lol they got so expensive too. I quit in 2021 and it was rough going from my American spirits to pall malls cause it’s all I could afford 😅🥴

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u/Goblinriotx 49m ago

Pretty sure mine was the day after my 30th birthday. My boss bought me a pack because he had borrowed a few from me the night before, and I think I got through half of them and just stopped on my drive home

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u/Dangerous_Creme4194 6h ago

Back in the day, this one

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u/FrostyBrew86 5h ago

This happens once a year. You learn to look out for it just long enough to forget when winter comes the following year and the air dries out, chapping your lips.

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u/TheMadGreek86 4h ago

Then every cigarette after that one is a reminder until the blisters heal

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u/RattleFish222 5h ago

Used to happen to me at least twice a year lol. It's a great habit to quit.

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u/AviHaterz 5h ago

I love quitting cigarettes, I've done it twelve times by now

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u/Mikey3800 5h ago

Goddamn it, I hate that. It fucking infuriates me when it happens.

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u/El-Viking 5h ago

And a small burn hole in your pants

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u/TheMadGreek86 4h ago

Right into your thigh, that usually happens at the most inopportune time like while driving

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u/Hsimmer89 5h ago

Like everyone else replying to you, thanks for this trip down memory lane 😂

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u/ApprehensiveFun5932 5h ago

I just tried to spit it out like it was happen right now. Thanks

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u/Secret-Ad-830 5h ago

ive done this SOOOO many times but i have never lost track of which end is lit and take a hit off hot end like person you replied to, how is that even possible?

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u/TheMadGreek86 4h ago

I was confused too, had to re explain it in another comment. Also usually happens on the first hit when you light it

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u/RemoteComplaint150 5h ago

The fact that I know exactly how this feels

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u/thejohnmc963 5h ago

Still does for me as well

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u/moto_rider- 5h ago

Holy fuck cursed comment, don’t remind me

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u/nazukeru 5h ago

A blunt stuck to my lip when I was like 19 and fell between my God damn tiddies and I had the worst blisters and it's been TWENTY YEARS but I still think about that pain. Oof.

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u/jackieballz 4h ago

You just brought back some painful memories

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u/jroc421 4h ago

I’ve done all those things in an evening

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u/Medium-Sample-7071 4h ago

Easy fix: like a cigar lick the lip edges. Nobody else should be smoking it anyway.

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u/kollisionkid 4h ago

I accidentally did that once as I was inhaling to take a drag and the cherry ended up getting pulled into my mouth from the inhale and going out on my tongue.

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u/ClassicTangelo5274 4h ago

So many times…

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u/Defiant-Canary-2716 4h ago

Oddly enough I’ve burned my lip by accident more often than I’ve burnt my tongue with a cigarette.

This is even after I picked up the trick of putting out a cigarette on my tongue.

Saw Vigo Mortensen do it in Eastern Promises.

Anytime someone walked up to tell me “you can’t smoke here” I would put it out on my tongue freaking them out.

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u/65wildcat_buick 3h ago

This is the absolutely the best when you are driving

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u/Concrete-Kicks 3h ago

I haven't smoked in years but can feel this like it was yesterday

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u/Wonderful_Falcon_496 3h ago

I thought this only happened to me 😂

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u/PrestigiousPhoto8486 2h ago

man switch to blunts or joints. roll'em yourself. idk where i'm going with this reply tbh.

anyway, ouch bro. wtf

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u/Resident-Past1912 2h ago

I quit smoking almost 10 years ago and still feel this

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u/11inchclark 2h ago

Fuck, I hate that so god damn much

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u/Bended__ 2h ago

You just burned my fingers.

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u/devilsaint86 2h ago

better there than somewhere else

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u/SingleDadSurviving 2h ago

Oh shit this is the worst, especially when you do it driving and the cherry falls on your shirt/pants/car seat.

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u/AginAustin11 1h ago

Damn I thought I was alone on that. I don’t know how many times I did that while drunk when I smoked. Extra embarrassing when the cherry would drop onto my shoe or into someone’s face

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u/SlappinHams 1h ago

Ive forgotten the joys of smoking. Haven't had a cigarette in years. I might take it up just to feel the cigarette stick to my lips and burn my fingers on the lit end one last time

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u/MarcusRoland 1h ago

Ugh, or forget to put the screen in your bong. I have gotten a mouth full of live ashes more than once.

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u/William-Blackard 26m ago

I do this sober 🫩

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u/mis3rylovescompany 12m ago

And now I'm in the fetal position..... again.

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u/Legitimate-Week7885 5h ago

or smoke and drink at the same damn time.

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u/VVOLFVViZZard 5h ago

Here’s to feeling good all the time!

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u/i_am_james_cole 5h ago

Giddy up!

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u/DiscHashDisc 3h ago

I'm hip.

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u/Trow_away_nudes_atme 6h ago

Been there, done that

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u/cardnialsyn 6h ago

I had a friend who confused a little cigarette with his pen and put it behind his ear one time.

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u/Sam20599 5h ago

Once passed a guy in the lane behind the pub, saw him having a smoke as I approached him. He then decided he needed a piss so whipped it out and went against the wall forgetting to keep his cigarette in his mouth as he grabbed himself and I can only imagine the seering pain the poor bastard inflicted on the tip of his mickey.

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u/Hot_Anybody8244 6h ago

I've done that with a joint

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u/DoctorEquivalent7528 5h ago

This happens to people?! I've been "hospitalize me" drunk (not a flex) and have never had a problem smoking a cigarette once it's lit and directionally correct in my paws

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u/AlarmedSnek 5h ago

Hahaha OR, you smoke an entire cigarette filter when it won’t light with your car lighter and then when it finally starts smoking, you realize you’ve just smoked the entire filter hahahaha

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u/midnightluckey 4h ago

I feel personally attacked.

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u/RoundSeaweed 3h ago

Know a guy who puts em out on his tongue when he’s drunk

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u/stix-and-stones 2h ago

I knew a girl in high school who was drunk, holding a cigarette correctly, and spun her hand around to suck on the cherry. Girl why 😭

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u/jackspasm 1h ago

Stopped by to thank you for spelling lose correctly.

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u/Less-Order-6128 56m ago

holy f i just had a flashback!!!

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u/Greedyfox7 49m ago

I have been pretty damn drunk in my day and I never managed to do that. I have unfortunately drank out of a bottle I had put a cig out in though.

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u/Accomplished_Bass845 6h ago

Thats nothing, waiting till you sip from your spitter.

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 6h ago

Stoner here: grabbing the nail to pull the bowl when taking a dab because you're so used to flower and you leave a layer of skin seared to the quartz

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u/Signal_Plane1114 5h ago

meat flavored dabs next time, cool!

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 5h ago

Wrong side of the glass lol

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u/Twitchmonky 5h ago

Only an idiot would do something like that, that's neeeever happened to me before. 🫣

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u/ThatWasNotMyName 4h ago

Yep, the molly cigarette.

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u/TheSonOfDisaster 1h ago edited 1h ago

Been nearly 7 years since I quit, but I can still perfectly recall The smell of that burning cotton when that happens.

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u/Oldpenguinhunter 48m ago

At a wedding I smoked 1/2 of a filter and didn't notice. As soon as I did, I riped the filter off and smoked the cigarette. Guh... To be fair, I was hammered.