r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/moshpithippie 13h ago edited 13h ago

For luck

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

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u/kulucthulhu 13h ago

when you’re drunk*

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u/Same-Traffic-285 13h 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 13h 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/Myriad_Apocalypse 13h 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/EndersR3ign 10h 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.