Pogo
1661
Yeap. The nastiness comes with cleaning it. Bongwater that has been used more than several times, or that sits and gets funky, will make the smoke taste like complete ass. So, bongs have to be cleaned. But bongs, especially large bongs, are extremely unwieldy and breakable. So you have a stoned son of a bitch being told by everyone to clean his bong, he’s in a rush, gets to the kitchen sink and doesn’t want to crack his $100 thick glass multicolored smoking device, fumbling around trying to angle it so that the bongwater doesn’t spill. If he pours it out of the main tube, he’s then getting nasty funkwater right on the mouthpiece from which his friends, who are hooting and hollering wondering what the fuck is taking so long when it’s only been like 30 god damn seconds, are going to smoke.
He could pour it out from where you insert the glass slide that holds the bowl (which holds the weed), but that requires removing a slide from a funky piece of thick rubber which provides a seal for the slide. If he cracks the slide, it’s game over, his friends are going home and he’s going to have some peace and quiet for the night, and that shit can’t happen.
You also have the possibility of some amateur, perhaps a girl who nobody knows but someone invited over because “it’s totally cool guys she smokes all the time” can’t handle the 100 cubic inches of smoke she just inhaled and proceeds to exhale right into the god damn mouthpiece without breaking suction by lifting her mouth off of it. This forces the water straight up the slide, soaking your $60/gram seedless dank buds with water (at best) or disgusting particulate-filled yellowish bongwater (at worst), and most definitely spewing water over your couch, carpet, coffee table, and maybe the pizza (but hey fuck it, Fred will still eat it, it’s still good guys, no really).
Sounds like you’ve never had any problems with bongs.
Yes, and all that shit is in there because you burned the fuck out of it instead of vaporizing or something. So you’re taking a bad thing (having tar/etc in the smoke) and making it worse, by creating a pool of horrid liquid in a tall, skinny, amazingly tippable device.
Wow. Never smoked from a bong… don’t want to now.
(and to anybody googling my name: Yes, I inhaled)
Pogo
1665
It’s the best way to do it, it’s just unwieldy and disgusting to maintain. Of course, tar in the lungs is pretty disgusting as well, but easier out of sight/mind.
Kalle
1666
You’ll never be president of the US now!
Lets just see about that. Schwarzenegger is foreign and inhaled, and he might still get it. And it’s not like I’ll be too old at 70, so there’s still time to change my name and fake my birth certificate.
RickH
1668
pssst . . . . dude . . . . something about . . . . um, constitution . . . . (cough)
Risk/reward. I get the highest out of smoking out of bongs (compared to all the ways that I’ve tried) with the least amount of weed. I’m also not a klutz (Stops the situation Pogo spoke of earlier), and also I am smart enough to clean the bong BEFORE you start ripping it, so as to avoid any high-jinks.
Vaporizing is a-okay, don’t get me wrong. I just personally don’t like the high I get from vaporizing, which is slow acting and then a slam of highness that puts me to sleep. With a bong I get high relatively quickly, but it’s generally not a tired high (though this also depends much on the type of weed being smoked).
This has suddenly become the most educational thread ever.
Bah. If you guys so easily fall from an obvious fake birth certificate, then we can also fake your so called constitution.
“It haz alwayz been zis way, yes?!”
C-Word claimed the lives of several in the FOX News thread in P&R, apparently.
Might not be an issue if Republicans somehow contrived to win a significant enough majority to get an amendment passed. Believe it or not, there’s a significant subset of them that kind of wish they could run Ahnold for president. He might be the most marketable Republican they’ve got right now.
Wait…wrong sub-forum.
Yeah, I wondered if they were playing with fire there, even if it did seem to be a very appropriate word for the situation. I’m guessing they’ll all be back in a week or two.
Doh. I was kinda wondering whether anything would come of that. Guess it did. Definitely seemed a rather unwise word choice.
nlanza
1677
It’s not like The Entity has been unclear on its stance there, though.
Kind of a stupid move for them to make; there are plenty of other ways to talk about how terrible FOX is.
Pogo
1678
I don’t see what any of this has to do with bongs.
Honestly guys, stop derailing our pot thread.
Hilarious!
I guess all the smot pokers I’ve known had their shit together enough to clean their gear ahead of time, while they were sober. Well, that, or they just smoked it in a joint or from a hookah.
[Edit] Hmmm, now that I think about it, make that most of the smot pokers I’ve known.
Are hookahs less prone to accident?
