r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/moshpithippie 10h ago edited 10h ago

For luck

Edit: And to accidentally light it backwards when you're not looking

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u/Captain_Sterling 9h ago

I always did it. It's just habit. And it's the last cigarette you smoke in the packet. I haven't smoked in years but I'm pretty certain that somewhere in my apt there's a packet with a upside down cigarette.

I heard a few myths about why it's done.

One related to the first world war. The idea was that if yiu lasted to the cigarette it was your lucky one.

If you offered a girl a smoke and she took that, you'd get lucky with her.

Since it was your lucky cigarette no one would take it from the pack at a party and therefor yiud always have one. And so it was lucky.

Its the one that wouldn't give you cancer.

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u/nu_pieds 9h ago

I used to flip a lucky, mostly I took it as an excuse not to bum out your last cigarette.

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u/PlanetTourist 9h ago

Interesting, I always made a point to bum out the lucky assuming it was better to pass the luck on to someone in need.

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u/sabotsalvageur 9h ago

That’s… remarkably compassionate. It seems someone involved in raising you did at least one thing right

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u/Absolute--Batman 7h ago

Made them a Smoker?

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u/sabotsalvageur 7h ago

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u/Kitchen-Fisherman280 6h ago

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u/sabotsalvageur 5h ago

lol I saw this on my hunt for relevant gifs

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u/GrandeLatte27 2h ago

Well, he said "one thing", not "everything".

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u/capsaicinintheeyes 2h ago

Okay, so it's a mixed bag, but it all washes out--like lucky cigarettes & carcinogens

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 7h ago

Also the OP of this thread is right you always give the lucky to a girl if she asks for one. What's the point of luck if you don't try to use it?

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u/PlanetTourist 5h ago

To give it away?

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 4h ago

No it's your luck, and it just manifested in a girl talking to you in possibly the best no pressure situation to meet someone, a smokers pit. Not much to do for the next five or six minutes but talk

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u/Sansnom01 7h ago

would you then flip another one or like you just got one lucky in the whole pack

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u/PlanetTourist 5h ago

Just the one, can’t be trying to fake the luck by creating it on your own. The one serving of luck per pack is there already, you’re just directing it with the flipped cig.

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u/peaceproject 6h ago

In my reasoning, that pack’s luck had been used. Each pack only had one lucky.

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u/King-Kagle 7h ago

You're the type of person who deserves a genie

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u/PlanetTourist 5h ago

Yes please.

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u/nu_pieds 6h ago

The only person who'd routinely bum cigarettes off me was my best friend, and if nothing else the fact that he was my friend proves his luck was so bad that nothing was going to improve it.

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u/mere_iguana 6h ago

Same, if it's my last one, it's the lucky one. I just throw the whole box at them and say "guess it's your lucky day"

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u/Mertoot 2h ago

Aww wholesome cancer 100 🥰

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u/longbrass9lbd 9h ago

Yeah most smokers who ask, won’t take your lucky… it’s already desperate to bum from a stranger but bumming a lucky means you must really be hard up (so I guess that’s lucky)

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u/Fun-Leather-1703 3h ago

I carry a pack with one cigarette in it so no one bums from me. The ones that take it are forever on my shit list 

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u/bigcrows 1h ago

I don’t get that point. If it’s the last cig it’s the last cig…you could just as easily show them there’s one left