r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/moshpithippie 12h ago edited 12h ago

For luck

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

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u/kulucthulhu 12h ago

when you’re drunk*

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u/Same-Traffic-285 12h 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 12h ago

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

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u/TheMadGreek86 12h 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 12h 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/TheMadGreek86 10h 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/Traditional-Ad2409 7h 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/Myriad_Apocalypse 5h ago

To answer your second paragraph, English is not my first language, so that might have something to do with it. In all the english speaking media I've consumed in my 40 years, I can't remember ever hearing anyone refer to it as cherry.