POLL: How do lighters usually fail for you?

[BecomingJulie]

[Inspired by this]:

How do your lighters usually fail on you? Do they usually run out of gas, or flint? Does the gas trigger soften or break, preventing the release of any more gas, while the gas tank is still over half-full of liquid? Does the striker wheel fall to bits on you? Maybe you had one of those lighters with a built-in flashlight, and the batteries died before the lighter did. Are you lucky enough for your lighter to remain as reliable as it was the day it left the factory, right up to the moment you are unlucky enough to lose it? Or something else?

 

[foolsgold]

i end up melting them normally from vaping

 

[lurching]

Overwhelming poll I expected only two options..

[ ] Physics
[ ] Ghosts

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Overwhelming poll I expected only two options..

[ ] Physics
[ ] Ghosts

There was never any chance of that. Julie is afraid of the ghosts consensus we have going here.

In fact, Julie is afraid of the ghosts.

 

[felix]

What about lighters with built in fleshlights?

In my experience, lighters don't usually "fail"; they just run out of consumable stuff like flints or fuel. Any self respecting smoker should have a supply of them.

Or the hinge pins on Zippos go missing. I fucking hate when that happens.

Anyway, this is an important issue and I look forward to seeing the results of this poll.

 

[Sadie]

you forgot losing them which seems to be the theme of my life as of late since the great race to the bus station debacle leaving of the zippo.

 

[BecomingJulie]

What about lighters with built in fleshlights?

In my experience, lighters don't usually "fail"; they just run out of consumable stuff like flints or fuel. Any self respecting smoker should have a supply of them.

Ah, you must have some non-peasant lighters, then. Even Clippers seem eventually to succumb to the striker wheels falling apart (though I generally have at least one candle on the go anyway, so that is less of a problem).

you forgot losing them which seems to be the theme of my life as of late since the great race to the bus station debacle leaving of the zippo.

Option six? Or do you carry a big bag of faulty lighters around for the express purpose of losing them, on the (unfortunately fellatious) basis that you are more likely to lose a dead one than your good one? (Except that it doesn't work that way, because it's the good one you're always getting out and using. Just like taking your own bomb onto a plane doesn't make it any less likely that anyone else has a bomb, and makes it fractionally more likely that the plane will be blown up if your bomb goes off by accident.)

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Fellatious? What's this got to do with blow-jobs?

 

[Sadie]

Hahahaha shm!

 

[koneko]

you forgot losing them which seems to be the theme of my life as of late since the great race to the bus station debacle leaving of the zippo.

Losing them or getting them STOLEN!

 

[Sadie]

Losing them or getting them STOLEN!

There is an evil in you girl that most don't see. But I do. SUS!

 

[koneko]

there is an evil in you girl that most don't see. But i do. Sus!

EVIL like the hand that makes fur bowls that swallows Zippo lighters 8(

NSFW:

 

[felix]

Ah, you must have some non-peasant lighters, then.

Hah. We do have a handful of clippers in general use, but my personal one is my father's old 1960s-era Ronson Typhoon.

(My father, who smoked himself to death... hmmm....)

 

[Sadie]

Kate, I already said, That's no longer cat fur bowl, That's Sadies Cat fur Fez!!! Zis is mine now woman!

I also want Felixs lighter for constant mindless clicking. That lighter has the best snap. It's hypnotic!

 

[felix]

Hah, no chance.

If I ever get mugged at knifepoint, I'll be like: "Here's my phone, here's my wallet, and you can pry my lighter from my cold, dead, hands.

 

[koneko]

I'm going to make a cat felted fur spoon next 8)

yup :D

So bowl tis is missus

 

[Sadie]

Kate, I will wear cat hair FEZ but nooooo chance of you getting me to eat from cat hair spoon! Even cats yak that shit up! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!


And it's a Fez now, not a bowl!

 

[Don Luigi]

Usually just run out of gas, thankfully.

As I'm no longer a teen, wandering aimlessly outside until it's time to roll another brown joint in the wind, this doesn't happen nearly as often anymore.

My lighters also very rarely get stolen anymore, but people are always leaving them at my house. The flint is rarely a problem as I mostly use electronic lighters. I don't like zippo style lighters as I can taste the petrol.

 

[felix]

I don't like zippo style lighters as I can taste the petrol.

You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like . . . victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

Apocalypse Now. :D

On that subject, coincidentally, here's something I've only just noticed. My can of Swan lighter fluid has a raised triangle on it:

http://www.ablt.com/braille-tactile-labels/

Tactile Triangle Hazard Warning Labels

The triangle tactile warning label was created to inform the visually impaired of products that could be considered hazardous if not used in the way they were intended.

The symbol consists of a raised equilateral triangle and is normally made of a clear plastic with permanent adhesive. EU countries require that toxic, flammable, or dangerous products carry this mark. These tactile labels comply with BS EN ISO 11683: 1997.

Because these labels are embossed, the tactile triangle mark will not crack and fall off during application like some others do.

Today I noticed and learned something new. Heh.

 

[Don Luigi]

I thought that an observant, curious fellow, such as yourself, would have noticed that before.

I only really noticed because I sell the stuff.

We only sell clipper and this non-brand stuff:

You and your triangles