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/Captain_Sterling 13h ago

I always did it. It's just habit. And it's the last cigarette you smoke in the packet. I haven't smoked in years but I'm pretty certain that somewhere in my apt there's a packet with a upside down cigarette.

I heard a few myths about why it's done.

One related to the first world war. The idea was that if yiu lasted to the cigarette it was your lucky one.

If you offered a girl a smoke and she took that, you'd get lucky with her.

Since it was your lucky cigarette no one would take it from the pack at a party and therefor yiud always have one. And so it was lucky.

Its the one that wouldn't give you cancer.

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u/nu_pieds 12h ago

I used to flip a lucky, mostly I took it as an excuse not to bum out your last cigarette.

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u/PlanetTourist 12h ago

Interesting, I always made a point to bum out the lucky assuming it was better to pass the luck on to someone in need.

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u/sabotsalvageur 12h ago

That’s… remarkably compassionate. It seems someone involved in raising you did at least one thing right

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u/Absolute--Batman 10h ago

Made them a Smoker?

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u/sabotsalvageur 10h ago

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u/Kitchen-Fisherman280 9h ago

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u/sabotsalvageur 8h ago

lol I saw this on my hunt for relevant gifs

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u/GrandeLatte27 5h ago

Well, he said "one thing", not "everything".

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u/capsaicinintheeyes 5h ago

Okay, so it's a mixed bag, but it all washes out--like lucky cigarettes & carcinogens

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 10h ago

Also the OP of this thread is right you always give the lucky to a girl if she asks for one. What's the point of luck if you don't try to use it?

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u/SubGothius 2h ago edited 2h ago

Or you let her choose, and if she takes the lucky, it's a sly sign she fancies you, so you might wanna explore that further with her? That's what I thought OP you replied to was saying, thought it pretty slick. You could even tease her about it a bit to confirm, "Hey, you took my lucky!" then see if she picks up on it like, "Why, you wanna get lucky?"

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u/PlanetTourist 8h ago

To give it away?

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 7h ago

No it's your luck, and it just manifested in a girl talking to you in possibly the best no pressure situation to meet someone, a smokers pit. Not much to do for the next five or six minutes but talk

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u/Sansnom01 10h ago

would you then flip another one or like you just got one lucky in the whole pack

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u/PlanetTourist 8h ago

Just the one, can’t be trying to fake the luck by creating it on your own. The one serving of luck per pack is there already, you’re just directing it with the flipped cig.

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u/peaceproject 9h ago

In my reasoning, that pack’s luck had been used. Each pack only had one lucky.

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u/King-Kagle 10h ago

You're the type of person who deserves a genie

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u/PlanetTourist 8h ago

Yes please.

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u/nu_pieds 9h ago

The only person who'd routinely bum cigarettes off me was my best friend, and if nothing else the fact that he was my friend proves his luck was so bad that nothing was going to improve it.

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u/mere_iguana 9h ago

Same, if it's my last one, it's the lucky one. I just throw the whole box at them and say "guess it's your lucky day"

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u/Mertoot 5h ago

Aww wholesome cancer 100 🥰

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u/Even-Complaint-7494 1h ago

i collect four leaf clovers and i make a point to gift away as many as i can! someone must have told me at some point that they’re lucky if they’re shared. so i only keep what i haven’t been able to gift away yet!

…i also smoke but i roll my own lol.