How do you light yours?

the_syco · 03-12-2010 12:00pm #1

So, how do you light yours, and what do you smoke? Personally I smoke rollies, and use a zippo. Have a "backup" lighter for those days that the zippo runs out of fuel, but aside from that, always the zippo.

BeerNut · 03-12-2010 12:07pm

Other (please specify)

Pipe lighter for the pipe; cigar matches for the cigars.

OldGoat · 03-12-2010 12:40pm

Zippo petrol pipe lighter for the pipe and for lighting other peoples smokes.
Zippo 'Blu' gas for cigars.
A book of cigar matches in my pocket for flint/fuel emergencies.

reverenddave · 05-12-2010 12:20am

Matches

i stopped using my zippo as
i got more addicted to the smell of the fuel then the cigarette itself

so now i just use either the mini bic lighter or whatever is handy

Rockery Woman · 05-12-2010 3:37am

Matches

With a lighter.

And I use the lighter in the car a good bit too - does anyone else use that?

the_syco · 05-12-2010 9:22pm

Matches

Rockery Woman wrote: »

And I use the lighter in the car a good bit too - does anyone else use that?

I find the zippo (left under the handbrake leaver) to be easier to use than the lighter in the car, as if stopped at a junction, by the time the car lighter pops, the lights have changed. Zippo is instant.

miltonkrest · 06-12-2010 12:13pm

Lighter

i'm a cigar smoker and i have a zippo, a ronson varaflame, a colibri and a couple of table lighters all collected over many years - i use extra long matches too

_blank_ · 06-12-2010 5:59pm

Other (please specify)

I try to always use a zippo, but sometimes I don't have one fuelled up, I'm just too damn lazy, when that happens I use whatever lighter I find lying around.

I like matches too.

OldGoat wrote: »

Zippo 'Blu'

I'd love one of these.

OldGoat · 06-12-2010 6:04pm

Des wrote: »

I'd love one of these.

I find it a tad under-powered. It does the job but you'll not cook a créme brulée with it however I love that I can still 'snap' a zippo to light my cigars.

CrowdedHouse · 06-12-2010 7:42pm

Lighter

Zippo for me

Have a Zippo Pipe lighter too

I found the Zippo Blu very unreliable, I had a sore thumb from striking it !...I left it aside on a table...I randomly pick it up every so often and most times it works......

Hande hoche! · 07-12-2010 11:49pm

IMCO lighter,used to have a zippo but some scumbag robbed it.

the_syco · 08-12-2010 2:37am

Matches

Hande hoche! wrote: »

IMCO lighter

Had to google that one. Looks cool.

OldGoat · 08-12-2010 9:44am

Slightly OT but the IMCO reminded me of the little rubber bladders of fuel you could buy for filling them. I used to pierce a tiny hole in the tip of them and then squeeze a thin stream through a lit match making a flame thrower for melting toy soldiers in horrific battle scenes - complete with the voice overs of the dying tortured screams. Fun times. :cool:

miltonkrest · 08-12-2010 12:14pm

Lighter

available in p & p barry newsagents, stephens green - every old lad who smoked used to have one of these years ago !

miltonkrest · 08-12-2010 12:16pm

Lighter

OldGoat wrote: »

Slightly OT but the IMCO reminded me of the little rubber bladders of fuel you could buy for filling them. I used to pierce a tiny hole in the tip of them and then squeeze a thin stream through a lit match making a flame thrower for melting toy soldiers in horrific battle scenes - complete with the voice overs of the dying tortured screams. Fun times. :cool:

hello therapy !

Elbow · 08-12-2010 12:24pm

Lighter

I'm a zippo man, Got my first for my 18th birthday and have one in my pocket since.

Keep a book of matches in my wallet for flint/fuel emergencies dough!

CrowdedHouse · 08-12-2010 2:58pm

Lighter

You should have your emergency flint & fuel supply....:)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Zippo-Aluminum-Fuel-Canister-Key-Ring-Refill-Anywhere-/120645962768?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c170f4c10

lord lucan · 14-12-2010 10:42am

Lighter

Zippo all the way. Been using Zippo's for about 15 years now,hate having to buy disposable lighters.

Ferrise · 20-12-2010 8:31am

Matches

I always use to light my cigarettes with the lighter..When ever my friend ask me for the lighter i always said him to give me back after lighting you cigarette.

gondorff · 20-12-2010 11:39pm

I just rub a coupla trees together.

BigBenRoeth · 23-12-2010 4:53pm

Matches

A normal lighter most of the time,occasionally use the fancy zippo though when i can be bothered to get fuel for it

amacachi · 23-12-2010 4:59pm

Cheap lighter. Sometimes I'll use some of the 10-for-€2 ones or I'll plump 1.50 for a bic that'll last 3-5 months.

Steve · 23-12-2010 10:28pm

Matches

Cheapest lighter I can find. I'm always losing the bloody things!

OldGoat · 23-12-2010 11:13pm

I found that the cure to that was to buy an expensive lighter. I'm so tight-fisted that I make sure I know where the lighter is at all times.

Steve · 23-12-2010 11:19pm

Matches

I've had loads of expensive ones, mostly presents over the years.

It hasn't stopped me losing them - mainly due to being drunk I might add

I do like the refillable disposables though, great idea. The electronic spark goes after a while but It's so so bad having to bin them. At least I feel I got value.

Molloys Clondalkin · 25-12-2010 10:39pm

Matches

Ceder wood for my Romeo number 2's
After that just a normal clipper for my Silk cuts.

Ferrise · 27-12-2010 5:28am

Matches

I always use to light my cigarettes with the lighter..When ever my friend ask me for the lighter i always said him to give me back after lighting you cigarette.

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byte · 01-01-2011 11:21pm

Matches

BiC disposable lighters mostly. They seem the longest lasting of the disposables.

lord lucan · 01-01-2011 11:33pm

Lighter

OldGoat wrote: »

I found that the cure to that was to buy an expensive lighter. I'm so tight-fisted that I make sure I know where the lighter is at all times.

Or use what i use,one of these:

dr.fuzzenstein · 02-01-2011 10:56pm

Lighter

Ancient Zippo, had it nearly 20 years, even sent it off once to see if they really do that (lid had broken) and they do!
Fixed lid and put completely new insides into it.
Then flew over to Germany and those German swine would not let me fly with my Zippo!
No one in Shannon complained!
I was told I could open it, dump all the petrol on the floor, light it and Boom! fireball in the sky and airplane raining down in a million flaming pieces.
Told him he should lay off the glue, but no good.
So went back out into airport, bought envelope and stamp and posted Zippo to myself.
Got it back a few days later, no problem.
Since then have replaced innards once or twice more, but still going strong.
So, advise for the weary traveller: Don't take your Zippo.

CrowdedHouse · 02-01-2011 11:22pm

Lighter

LOL the ironic thing is that European Zippos are repaired in Germany now.

(Not knowing this I sent mine, a 20 year+ old one too, to the US to be repaired.Rather than just repairing it and sending it back,they actually sent it on to Germany.It was then sent from there via the wasters called GLS and only for the honesty of one of the neighbours a who found it on the side their doorstep, in the rain,I never would have seen it again)

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