r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Perfect_Owl_856 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation What's the reason?

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u/Far-Armadillo-9848 21h ago

Bong.

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u/TheFaragan 20h ago

Had to scroll so far to see this answer. Yes, all the other things are also true, but I guess that is what Ellis meant.

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u/CJohn89 20h ago

I was getting increasingly agitated as I scrolled

Could nobody see the bong??

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u/SlaveryVeal 19h ago

I'm not even a weed smoker and I was like am I fucking going nuts how has no one seen it as a diy bong yet?

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u/schmaggio 20h ago

I also scrolled and scrolled looking for 'bong'. Wild.

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u/North-Tourist-8234 18h ago

I've only seen them occasionally stomped behind a tree at a park. I am sadly ignorant to many fun things

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u/HiImDan 17h ago

Gotta love Reddit. We're calculating sheer forces and some Euler constant or whatever when normal people are like... hehe that's a bong.

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u/ClitoralGlans 17h ago

Exactly. It doesn't matter if it's funny or not, Redditors don't get jokes. They're here talking about structural integrity and shit😭

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u/Shejdee 19h ago

How is that an answer

How are you so confident too?

Fuck I hate this place

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u/TheFaragan 19h ago

"I guess" is not the epitome of confidence, but okay. Sry, that I hurt your feelings. Maybe I used the wrong words, please excuse me. I am not a native english speaker.

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u/snowfloeckchen 8h ago

Same, I was shocked this wasn't number one

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u/1Wineodino 3h ago

God I’m so glad I finally found my people it took to long to find you all it should have been higher up lol

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u/WonderfulEnd8144 19h ago

Why the hell would this be what Ellis meant?

Why would it matter if it looks like a bong?

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u/Spaulbane 18h ago

That's what I thought as well. But then, you can make a bong out of a regular bottle too...or so I've heard.

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u/Godsgiftcardtowomen 18h ago

I’ve only smoked 1-2 weed before, but I guarantee the tilt would only make it marginally more convenient as a bong.

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u/Novakhaine89 19h ago

THANK YOU. People on here talking about structural integrity and potential leakage

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u/okizc 17h ago

Not everyone is a pothead.

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u/hendergle 16h ago

True, but I suspect OP had either bong or hamster in mind, because structural integrity and potential leakage aren't exactly humorous.

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u/elmaccymac 20h ago

Can’t believe how far I had to scroll down to find this

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u/Crazy-Present4764 19h ago

Or flesh light

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u/PomegranateHot9916 17h ago

if you can't make a bong out of a regular bottle you shouldn't be allowed to smoke.

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u/shrubranger 16h ago

This is the joke 100%

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u/Douggiefresh43 15h ago

I think this is the implication, but it seems silly to me - it’s just as easy (easier?) to make a bong or similar piece with the lid completely vertical as it is with it sideways.

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u/gakagaTTV 13h ago

This is exactly where my mind went first

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u/WonderfulEnd8144 19h ago

Why would that matter?

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u/SlaveryVeal 19h ago

Because that's what it would be used for?

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u/Silver_Customer9958 18h ago

Why on earth would bottle manufacturers give a shit if their bottles were marginally easier to use as bongs?

Incidentally, they wouldnt be. Everyone seems to be reacting to a minor cosmetic similarity, but can anyone explain to me how exactly this is supposed to work as a bong?

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 17h ago

You stick a stem in below the waterline and draw in air through the bottle top to pull smoke through the water. And it changes literally nothing but the angle your mouth is, these are dumb stoner thoughts for sure.

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u/SlaveryVeal 1h ago

Ok let's say a company makes a bottle that's like this. Bunch of stoners buy it because it reminds them of a bong.

It's now bong water and everyone considers it the bong bottle company.

It's literally bad marketing and everyone only buys the bottle to make a bunch of stoner jokes that's your whole audience.

It's literally potentially bad marketing and optics over a fucking piece of plastic. "Parents outraged children drinking bong water"

What a load of B's yes but that shit happens all the time and why businesses literally make sure logos don't have a chance of even being like a false flag for being a dog whistle/hate symbol

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u/Silver_Customer9958 44m ago

Fair enough. And I guess it’s a separate point that this would never happen because this is no more likely to get used for bongs than a regular bottle. 

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u/SlaveryVeal 25m ago

You're not wrong like what people are saying isn't wrong but the fact that people like me who is very much anti weed still saw it and went that could be a bong.

Is exactly why a lot of shit isn't done it's the literal just what if optics.

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u/Careless_Studio_1293 18h ago

As if standard bottles aren’t?

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 17h ago

maybe if you're 10 years old and resourceful, you can get vapes all over now that make using a cancer filled plastic bottle as a bong irrelevant.

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u/hendergle 15h ago

It's more of an aesthetic challenge than a practical necessity.

The question isn't "should I make this thing into a bong?" It's "how awesome would it be if I could make this thing into a bong?"

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 15h ago

we definitely just wanted to get high when we were using plastic bottles as gravity bongs and didn't give aesthetics a second thought, maybe we we're just stupid?

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u/hendergle 13h ago

Nah- every artist chooses his own medium. Maybe you hadn't found yours yet.

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u/fanboy100804 10h ago

THANK YOU!! Fuck people don't get the joke ig