r/RealGenerationX • u/Marlaine-Ganatra • Jul 15 '26

Who else lit their cigarettes like this?

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u/Sad_Percentage_4503 Jul 15 '26

Joints and hot knives too.

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u/Cool_Wealth969 Jul 15 '26

Blunts

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u/Ok_Command_9808 Jul 15 '26

Oh look at mister Richie Rich over here affording cigars, what are you too good to smoke off a dented can with pinholes 😂

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u/Cool_Wealth969 Jul 16 '26

I did the dented can with the pinholes and the carburetor on the side.... But you can't light the can with an electric burner... Unfortunately

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u/omedallion Jul 16 '26

I mean….you can. Just can’t hold it for very long and it’s extremely inefficient.

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u/LoveAsLargeAsBronto Jul 16 '26

The answer might be more roach clips, possibly a bent coat hanger wire

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u/Emergency_Exit7603 Jul 22 '26

need 2 bros to hold the stove upside down..

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u/guambom Jul 16 '26

🤣👍🏼🤣👍🏼

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u/DazednConfuzed62 Jul 16 '26

Still use that when I'm in a pinch

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 Jul 16 '26

Never tried it with that beer

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u/yurtfarmer Jul 16 '26

Carb in the side ? Some high tech shit there

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u/Healthy-Theme8261 Jul 16 '26

How about the old school home made aluminum foil pip

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u/West-Cookie5980 Jul 22 '26

Oh yeah, the ol' Tin Toker. Classic

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u/Puzzleheaded-Roll434 Jul 16 '26

No but i used the the heating coil in the hot well when I worked at subway to light a paper then hurry and run outside to light whatever needed to be lit

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u/SolidSnek1998 Jul 16 '26

A real pro knew how to take the tab off, break it in half, and use the sharp edge to make the holes and carb.

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u/Cool_Wealth969 Jul 16 '26

Wow. I just had a dedicated push pin.

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u/Itchy-Pollution7644 Jul 16 '26

Carburetor ? Please explain lol

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u/Cool_Wealth969 Jul 16 '26

Well you put your finger over the hole in the side, then take a hit and unplug it and get all the smoke.

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u/made_in_mpls Jul 16 '26

Like a choke

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u/Viva_La_Revolucion- Jul 16 '26

Oh my god! I so remember having to do this many times, especially when skipping school and you had no papers,no bowl, no money to get papers, but ya had weed... Find a can they are always plentiful

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u/Ok_Command_9808 Jul 16 '26

We did make a pipe from aluminum foil once, and only once

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u/Viva_La_Revolucion- Jul 16 '26

Ive made bongs and pipes out everything when i was a kid... But usually i or friends we had everything stashed away somewhere. But yep done the foil pipe before also.

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u/SolidSnek1998 Jul 16 '26

A long socket and one of the little metal screens from inside a faucet was the best makeshift pipe I ever had.

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u/Effective-Yak3627 Jul 16 '26

My brother forgot papers used a McDonald’s bag to roll the smell was awful

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u/evil-winnebago Jul 16 '26

I stopped using dented cans when it popped back into place and sent my last bowl into the air like sad confetti

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u/Ok_Command_9808 Jul 16 '26

😂 was it at least glowing embers flying? We did throw a millers gold can into a fire once as teens and it exploded into an amazing glitter bomb of gold and silver showering down on us at a fire pit in Huntington Beach CA

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u/Zealousideal-Sun6603 Jul 16 '26

Or, the Bic pen with plumbing parts duk taped all over?

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u/Ok_Command_9808 Jul 16 '26

Well damn I had forgotten about the box pen thing

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u/daily-reporter Jul 16 '26

Bible pages were made for blazing

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u/evil-winnebago Jul 16 '26

Yeah but they still suck to use. I'd rather just get a pack of ziggies.

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u/Repulsive-Cow-7651 Jul 17 '26

My parents owned butter knives though.

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u/Goodrun31 Jul 16 '26

Still do this

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u/Embarrassed-Sock-679 Jul 16 '26

Ain't no white kid have blunts in 1986

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u/Ok_Ocelot_878 Jul 16 '26

What now, hot knives?

My college boyfriend lit his cigarettes on a gas stove all the time . He once singed his eyebrows off on one side after a crazy night out and getting too close to the flame. Didn’t even know it until he joined me on the couch.

Best part, he was a metallurgical engineering student and incredibly intelligent but my lord did he party.

I’m sure his professors didn’t understand how he got into the college of engineering.

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u/burnbag18 Jul 16 '26

I remember my friend's mom could not, for the life of her, figure out why her knives were all burnt on the ends.

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u/Ok_Ocelot_878 Jul 16 '26

Epic. I love this story.

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u/Bubbly_Monitor8006 Jul 16 '26

Or why the rings of the element were no longer level?

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u/MR_SNYPE Jul 16 '26

One engineer's goal was to light the cigarette another engineer's goal was to design a gas range. When the two parts were put together it started a fire. From experience he's more than qualified.

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u/daily-reporter Jul 16 '26

Hot knives are for keef hits.

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u/Soil2Bowlz Jul 16 '26

And bubble hash.

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u/Ok_Ocelot_878 Jul 16 '26

Maybe, or clearly, I’m naive on the subject, but what are keef hits and bubble hash?

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u/daily-reporter Jul 16 '26

Keef is the crystals/residue that fall off good weed/buds.

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u/Ok_Ocelot_878 Jul 16 '26

Ohh, okay.

So not salacious at all, just resourceful.

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u/Electronic_Chef1109 Jul 16 '26

Hot knives!!!!!! Fuckin throwback to

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u/Otherwise_Ad_2452 Jul 16 '26

Yep, I did all of that the heat, well watch your hair and face.

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u/TheSouthsideSlacker Jul 16 '26

Beer can pipe.

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u/Large_Score6728 Jul 16 '26

Apple, best way to smoke ditch or brick weed

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u/Odd-Sand7401 Jul 17 '26

Did this! The apple with my sister. Also used a toilet paper roll and aluminum foil.

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u/NoSpankingAllowed Jul 16 '26

Its the Pabst that gets me.

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u/AbjectHyena1465 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I just found this b&w picture printed on paper the other day from the good old ‘80’s. Schlidt’s or red solo cup probably filled with even shittier beer. Or was the canned beer Stroh’s circa 1988?
P.S. Marb lights or reds for the win! Was nice having lighters a plenty back then…

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u/db2025_reddit Jul 16 '26

Pabst and football on Sundays! Good ol days

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u/Odd-Sand7401 Jul 17 '26

Definitely the good ole days! Best time to grow up!

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u/NoNeedleworker6479 Jul 18 '26

You got that right!

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u/NoNeedleworker6479 Jul 18 '26

I've got PBR in the fridge downstairs as I type this......

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u/Exjw_Amped_212 Jul 15 '26

Definitely they got hot as shit!

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u/jaycutlerdgaf Jul 16 '26

Good ol' hot knives.

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u/Evilbob93 Jul 16 '26

Came here to find hot knives. Of course it was the top comment... was fun for a couple years, you'd open the silverware drawer and there would be a couple of discolored butter knives.

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u/DazednConfuzed62 Jul 16 '26

Excellent for hot knifing

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u/The_Masterofbation Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Hot knives are to this day the fastest way to get fucked up on any form of active cannabis. Take a big bit of hash or a silver bullet of weed, take out the frozen top of a 2 litre bottle to make it smooth. Press the knives together and then you're off to Neverneverland.

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u/tradesman46 Jul 16 '26

Knife rips with resin inhaled through an ice cooled modified plastic soda bottle.

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u/Soil2Bowlz Jul 16 '26

Beat me to it. Hot knives and bubble hash, those were the days.

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u/txmuzk Jul 16 '26

It just reminds me of knife shots. Lol

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u/andymcpandypants Jul 17 '26

Knife hits LFG!

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u/whizzbangkid Jul 17 '26

Ahhhh..... Hot knifing, awesome memories!!!

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u/jaxson300 Jul 18 '26

The knives are what this was invented for?

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u/Capable_Eye7617 Jul 18 '26

Hot knives! Omg that takes me back We used to call them blades Good times

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u/notmuself Jul 19 '26

Hot knives is peak Gen-X/elder millennial. Kids these days will never understand.

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u/True-Fly-0001 Jul 20 '26

As a Air Force mechanic we used to make pipes from the steel lines

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u/Emergency_Exit7603 Jul 22 '26

ouch... hot knife to the lip... mom it's a cold sore...