the link was posted in a comment here:
https://lemmy.ca/comment/20493193
and it brought back a memory or two.
Others believe that lighting three or more cigarettes on the same match will bring on bad luck.
This started in World War I as a basic safety precaution. Some soldiers sitting in the dark on either side of the front decide to have a smoke. When the first one lights his cigarette, the enemy across the field sees the match light. While the second man lights his smoke, the enemy grabs their rifle and takes aim. When the third man lights his, the enemy fires.
What if the first soldier has all three cigarettes in his mouth and lights them all at the same time? Haha checkmate, Athiests!
Fascinating. Thanks for the share. Lessons in everything.
Wouldn’t he aim and shoot the second (or first) one he can see. Instead of following the match to where the third is? The third could be either side of the first or second.
I can’t speak to the mindset of people who are superstitious. I’m just repeating what the alleged basis for the superstition was.
The belief was that when the first soldier lit his cigarette, the enemy would see the light; when the second soldier lit his cigarette from the same match, the enemy would take aim at the target; and when the third soldier lit his cigarette from the match, the enemy would fire, and that soldier would be shot.
I could be missing something, but not getting shot sounds to me more like good than bad luck.
It’s being the third person on the match who gets shot, thus why three on a match is bad luck.
I’ll save you a read, nobody knows. a theory that connects it to the 27 club (various celebrity musicians who died at the age of 27) is debunked. it’s proposed that a white lighter could be more easily stained by cannabis resin, and thus be a giveaway
27 club is the “woah dude trippy” version, the white corner being stained green by using it to pack down your bowl is the actual reason.
Thing is the bottom is always white and your caught if you smoke jazz cigarettes
My stoner friends back in high school wouldn’t let anyone get in their car with a white lighter for fear of being pulled over and caught with weed
that’s so dumb. I bet anyone worried about that is super obvious for multiple other reasons too.
That’s just the marijuana eating away at their brains and making them paranoid junkie zombies.
marijuana
junkie
🙃
😂 is this your festive holiday account? Or are you someone else who just ripped off Cumfart?
ripped off Cumfart?
Excuse me but what the fuck are you asking here?
What a beautifully festive homage
I can only assume he’s got you confused with this guy. @[email protected]
Confusion is in the mind of the beholder.
What does a beholder have to do with anything?
My brains
I have never heard of this, ever.
Huh, wouldnt have guessed that. My theory was that people thought they might be older lighters that had printed wraps that weren’t selling, so they were peeled off and relabeled for sale again, meaning they had lost some fluid over time.
