Are whit lighters bad luck?

are you really that superstitious about something as silly as white lighters. I believe if your hair is gonna catch on fire or your gonna get busted by the cops its meant to happen not because you used a white lighter.

 

lol please keep this one away from referring to white lighters as nazis/hitler

 

^^^ okay, but all I'm saying is that many scholars have drawn the connection between white lighters and hitler.....

 

why the hell would u light a joint with a zippo? that butane tastes disgusting

 

Usually when lighting a joint you light it then pull it away from the lighter before inhaling.

 

^^yep thats the plan. plus the wind usually doesnt blow out a zippo so i dont have to keep fooling around with a joint in public, you know i dont want help lighting my joint ( "here let me help you light that... uh whats that your smoking?" )

 

This whole thread is a big old wive's tale. How can a lighter be lucky or unlucky?????


For the record, round here white Clippers are like hen's teeth; the junkheads prefer them 'cos it's easy to see when you are almost out of gas.

 

Like this one time, I got really stoned and like we were using a white lighter and like I totally forgot where I put all my weed so I was like fuck and yeah white lighters are like so cursed cuz they're like lacking color and they kinda resemble ghosts so maybe they're ghost lighters like omgwtfbbq.

 

Superstition is one of my favorite things about humanity. Y'see we're all borne with a sense of correlation/causation (this isn't uniquely human, see pavlov), so we look for patterns everywhere.
Now, because if we remembered everything that happened to us we'd go nuts we only retain a small amount of information, which we usually deem 'significant' (you remember losing your virginity, but not your keys).
All these good luck/bad luck items are is a way of helping you screen what you retain, applying signifacnce where there wasn't any. Basically, all the bad things that happen with said item are a result of the 'bad luck', when really you are just screening out all the good stuff that happened, or any other info that doesn't meet your prediction.
If you gave two people two lighters, and told one it was good luck, and the other it was bad, both would probably tell you that you were right. The person who believes it is good luck with ignore all the petty slights, and exagerate the good things that happen, while the 'bad luck' person will exagerate all the problems they encounter and ignore the good things that happen.

It's really delusional thinking, but because it's so common it's socially accepted, and in some cases, encouraged (lookit the supersitions associated with acting and sailing if you want some long-standing traditions)....


soooo.... in conclusion.....

MACBETH!

 

i never carry white lighters, we got busted at a school yard shooting off fireworks last summer, and the only two people carrying lighters, were carrying white lighters.

 

^^^ exactly

 

lmfao dam i didn think this would actually go this long lol

 

My thoughts exactly. It's like when you're single all you see are couples, then when you are in a relationship all you see are hookers.