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Ah, memories...

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen a very similar picture of this a few years back. Happy to see it wasn't removed but no fucking way I'm smoking out of that ...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When you're a teenager, you take what options you can get.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pop can, apple, toilet paper roll wrapped in tinfoil, using tap aerator as pipe screen, hot knives on the stove, bottle tokes off the end of a burning cigarette, etc. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

hot knives on the stove,

That first time you get a hash ball and completely waste it because you don't know how to hot knife.. Good times. I mean bad times at the time, but good times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think I'm the only one in my extended group in highschool that didn't burn my lower lip. Ouch!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some time ago when visiting my parents i took a knive from the drawer and it was the one i remember quite well from my teenage years cause it has a permanent burn mark on it.

My mom saw me looking at it and said, yeah that one just suddenly turned up like that, i still have no idea what happend to it.

Sorry mom..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The pop can was my go-to in a pinch in my teenage years. Wonder if it left any lasting effects.. I also recall using someone's homemade bong made out of a Gatorade bottle and socket, pretty sure the original creator never cleaned it. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure I'm going to have cancer from the soda can print fumes in 10 years

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's burning the plastic the coats the inside that causes cancer, cans aren't just metal and ink

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a good point, I literally just died

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I cleaned it occasionally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pop cans have a plastic liner to stop the super acidic contents (Pepsi/coke) from corroding the aluminum

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh trust, I know. Plus the paint! The hits were the worst.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can see you aren't a stupid teenager who was just handed a small bud that's probably ditch weed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pen + water bottle until they replaced the metal tip with chrome plated plastic onesa

Apples always worked too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah no way that isn't filled with dried piss or worse. Nowadays gas stations sell glass pipes, but even if you're desperate an apple or soda can will do the trick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apple pipe is elite, I'm a grown man and I still smoke an apple pipe sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've seen this exact picture in memes from half a decade ago! Same angle and everything.

https://Lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ee7a71c-1ab1-4ca0-9c71-28208942f5c0.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha. It really is from the park where I grew up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Send a photo from a different angle and we'll believe you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I don't possess the necessary time machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I saw it reposted a lot on r/trees over the years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I swear it was from People's Park in Bloomington, Indiana. I could even tell you who carved it if I wanted to doxx them, which I don't.

Edit: This is the only photo of it I can find before they renovated it in the 2000s without pictures of friends in it. You can see the bricks are the same even though you can't see that table.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't mean anything by this, Flying Squid, but are you a bot or something? I see you post in like every single thread on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe just someone with a lot of free time.

I don't mean that in an insulting way either. A lot of people frame it that way, but a life privileged by free time is better than a life lived in servitude of excessive work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometimes that's how seeding content goes. Most content in the beginning, is recycled and posted in mass. Even though it's been out there, you've consolidated/ curated the content. That then draws in new users. Eventually, the goal is that they post their own content.

We're all just trying to get the ball rolling without spamming.

If someone puts care into collecting/ curating their content, there's is a good chance they're using an automated posting script (usually python). I wouldn't hold it against them, though. Even if you're making you're own content, you can build a cache of content and then automate the posts. You just have to worry about topical/ current events.

I used to make content based on Planetside 2 (for ps4) that was semi successful. I never wanted to make money, and I spent a lot of my own. I even caused the old sub reddit to flourish (I even made charts, they're on /r/ps4planetside2).

Long story short, though, it's people who want to create a community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Very true, and I appreciate the efforts. I only follow a few active subs so they do tend to dominate my feed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like something you would see at a disc golf course

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe, but the park was sort of converted from a vacant lot, so it was tiny. No disc golf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pipes should be provided as a municipal service

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I knew ours wasn’t the only town to have one of these