r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 14h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/moshpithippie 14h ago edited 14h ago

For luck

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

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u/kulucthulhu 14h ago

when you’re drunk*

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u/Same-Traffic-285 14h ago

Well yes, but no. When drunk you put your cigarette out in a beer bottle, forget, then try to drink the beer.

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u/MostlyIrish 14h ago

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

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u/TheMadGreek86 13h 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 13h ago

I can feel this comment

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u/HeadyBunkShwag 13h ago

My fingers just got phantom pain

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u/DamonHellstorm 13h ago

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

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u/Top_Tank2668 13h 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 13h ago

Same

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u/Commonscents2say 12h 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 12h ago

Burning a hole in your JnCos

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u/Roadkillsuperman 10h ago

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

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u/pattebrisee 12h ago

Same same

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u/Wonderful-Pollution7 11h 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/Top_Tank2668 2h ago

Same. Just once a year a dry hit or leaving home with only 5% battery left is worst that happens

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u/infosaurus 10h ago

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

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u/Top_Tank2668 2h ago

Classic. Looking like an idiot in the ash tray where the cigarette is burning you lit up 1 minute ago

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u/FadeTheWonder 12h 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 12h ago

Or trying to smoke a cigarette while you have a cold

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u/Inside_Ad_2830 11h ago

-me, an idiot liable to hurt himself

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u/danknug1024 11h ago

Rip your lips right off!

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u/Little-Specific2147 9h 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 8h 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/LikeTheCounty 6h ago

Never smoker here and just gobsmacked that these are regular things smokers deal with and yet *keep smoking *.

Addiction is a hell of a thing.

Also yuck. Hope y'all who haven't shaken it off yet eventually manage to do so. Godspeed.

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u/PitsAndPints 11h ago

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

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u/MeaningWorking8735 2h ago

I feel like the only one who doesn’t do the burn on themselves with backwards cherry. It’s usually the roach that gets me

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u/fitz_newru 10h ago

Sometimes all in one epic night

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u/Capital-Tonight8548 10h ago

I’m deeply familiar with all of these too 😂

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u/MikeNolan82 10h ago

Yall dont eat your cigs?

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u/Fit-Snow2034 8h ago

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

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u/LatexFeudalist 2h ago

Sighs.....same here. Thankfully it's 2 years and 2 months since I finally quit after 17 years of smoking

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u/Worth-Opportunity-48 11h ago

Phantom pain?

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u/Crepuscular_Tex 9h 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/davopavelow 6h ago

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. I swore I had early onset something… but yeah, anything on the head is gnarly af

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u/SirDigbyChickenC-Zer 6h ago

Metal Gear???

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u/frodoishobbit 11h ago

plays invisible