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Your current lighter!*

  • 15-01-2006 11:06PM
    #1
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,210 Mod ✭✭✭✭
    byte


    So, what lighter do you currently use to light your ciggies? Maybe it's a fancy Zippo, or maybe it's one of those "7 for a euro" lighters? Or perhaps, you just prefer a box of Cara, the friendly matches! :)

    Me currently, I use "BiC electronic" lighter! IMHO, they're the best of the disposables!

    *Yes, another crap thread! :|


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,227 ✭✭✭20 Times 20 Times


    I have always been meaning to get myself a good lighter that i will look after and not lose , but i can't really see that happening. So what i use instead is what ever is in my pocket , I have no idea where i get these lighters from and it makes me laugh that everytime i go out i end up home with either NO lighter or someone else's ! I am a lighter thief :)


  • Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I am so proud of the fact my little sister bought me a fancy dan Zippo xmas '04 and I still have it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    I'm a terror for losing lighters so at the moment it's just one of your basic Spar jobbies. I've got a nice Zippo but I just never seem to find the time to go and buy flints and fuel for them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,227 ✭✭✭20 Times 20 Times


    alleepally wrote:
    I'm a terror for losing lighters so at the moment it's just one of your basic Spar jobbies. I've got a nice Zippo but I just never seem to find the time to go and buy flints and fuel for them.


    belive me you dont lose them , people take them it how the lighter circle works :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Sarge wrote:
    belive me you dont lose them , people take them it how the lighter circle works :)

    Ah yes, forgot about that, I'm guilty of inadvertently pocketing someones lighter and then forgetting who I borrowed it off


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,020 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    I'm using a disposable electric 'clicky' lighter with an icey/water droplet picture wrapped around it.

    Actually I fogot all about zippo lighters! I really miss that smell of lighter fluid, but after nearly setting my bedroom carpet on fire a few years ago; I'm finished with 'em tbh. :eek:

    Mmmm, actually I'd love a box of matches right about now... aah that unmistakable smell of a freshly struck match! :D
    It'd certainly make my ashtray look a little more interesting aswell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Dimitri


    I generally use about three to four lighters at one time. On my table at the moment are two bics and three half used boxes of matches. In My pocket is a texaco clicky one complete with eye brow cingeing flame! Someday when i'm rich and famous i'll buy a zippo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Dimitri wrote:
    I generally use about three to four lighters at one time. On my table at the moment are two bics and three half used boxes of matches. In My pocket is a texaco clicky one complete with eye brow cingeing flame! Someday when i'm rich and famous i'll buy a zippo.

    Jaysus, what are ye like :-) Afraid you'll wake up in the middle of the night dying for a smoke and won't have a light? :D

    You definitely need to get yourself a zippo pronto and make it a good one as you'll never forget your first zippo!


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    i'm a matches man, 14c and youcant go wrong....


    however i am partical to the lighter circle....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,227 ✭✭✭20 Times 20 Times


    I think when i get paid ill treat myself to a zippo , if the price is right or hit at the GF to get me one for valentines day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭Dimitri


    alleepally wrote:
    Jaysus, what are ye like :-) Afraid you'll wake up in the middle of the night dying for a smoke and won't have a light? :D
    Agh god no you make me sound like an addict!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    Dimitri wrote:
    Agh god no you make me sound like an addict!

    Don't worry, I'm an addict too but only need the one lighter!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭Lafortezza


    Always have more than one way of lighting a smoke. Nothing worse than shaking an empty lighter while the cigarette hangs from your mouth. Makes you look like an addict or something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,020 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,213 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Currently using a 50 year old zippo with vietnam inscriptions on it - sister picked it up in saigon - thought it was fake until a i checked up a bit on it - she spent much more than i would've liked her to but great christmas pressie :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭WexCan


    I have a Zippo currently in pieces - need to get new flints for it. Using one of those Djeep yokeys from Spar.


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    also have a Djeep, Mine has a Dog on it.....


    Have No idea where i got it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭WexCan


    also have a Djeep, Mine has a Dog on it.....


    Have No idea where i got it
    I have one at the moment with a cat on it. It's pink. God I shouyld have asked for a different one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    bic_lighters.jpg
    Can't go wrong with one of these. Best disposable EVAR!


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  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,210 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Yup, using one at the moment. They definitely are the best disposables by a long shot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    Have a lurvly little engraved zippo that the UCD boardsies got me when I stopped moderating.

    It's really nice. Not too big, quite girly really. Can't beat a lifetime guarantee. :D


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Have one of the new Safety Lighters That You need to Push in then down atm

    Dont worry, i'll have lost it by tomorrow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    i'm on Zippo #2 at the moment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    i'm on Zippo #2 at the moment

    :confused:

    I collect Zippos, and I've never lost one.

    I have a Matt Black one, like this

    A shiney chrome one, like this

    A brass one, with the "Solid Brass" engraving, like this

    A "spectrum" one, like this

    An Iron Stone one, like this

    I'm very picky about the ones I buy or ask for.

    I don't like the raised additions to the lighters or the kind of sticker type things that can wear off with use. I don't like the word "Zippo" to appear anywhere but on the base of the lighter

    I'd love a copper one, a black ice one, a sapphire one, a red matt one

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    i had my first one for nearly 2 years when i left it down and a few min later i realised i had to get a bus so i left the place forgetting i'd left it down, thus losing it. my current one is an uber shiny chrome one, kind of mirrored.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭Krieg


    "Let there be light..."

    2lx9efn.jpg

    I got this not long after I started smoking 6 years ago and still use it to this day.
    I did buy a second one at one stage that had a 3d pistol design on it which looked quite cool, but I dropped it while out one night and it ceased to make the satisfying 'click' noise when closing it, so I put it aside

    I find the zippo very handy. Its on my list of items before I go out the door
    Keys *check*
    Fags *check*
    Mobile *check*
    oh and Zippo *check*

    Anytime I was using standard lighters, I would often forget them and end up buying one when I got out. Like many others, I have massed a collection of bic lighters.

    I have also gained a sixth sense on when to fill it. The flame size never changes despite fuel amount. When the fuel is almost out, it usually just dies. So when I pick it up and its low, something clicks in my head telling me to refill. Odd but true

    [(edit: My apologies Des. Done now)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Krieg, please post in the stickies before posting again.

    Thanks.

    Des


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Have a Zippo_Lighters_Purple_Shimmer_Zippo_Lighter.jpg but want a 4850_s.jpg


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,107 Mod ✭✭✭✭BeerNut


    Bog standard pipe lighter from Petersen's. Gotta have that sideways flame. Fairly lashes through the gas though.


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