Rules and Regulations: Bong and Pipe Etiquette

[crankndapot]

i agree with all of them so far.
heres mine
1. if u are sick or getting sick, dont hit the piece
2. dont roast the bowl
3. no slobber please
4. you twist it/pack it you get to spark it, and owner of ganj gets deuces
5. dont camp on a bowl and talk for 30 min
6. dont smoke roaches out of a piece w/o owners permission.. bowls tasty kinda nasty after u smoke roaches out of it.. gotta clean to fix
7. dont pass a cashed bowl
8. defintenly dont tap my glass bowl on the ashtray

 

[Mr. Tony]

I hate it when people uses pics, they just roast the whole bowl of headies, but with a hakko it's very easy to precisely corner a bowl.



I think I just got sick from smoking a bong with a group of friend and one was sick....very lame.

 

[g0dzilla]

the golden rule in my place is dont torch the bowl... corner hit it.. I dont want to see you swirling around the lighter in a circle to get the damn thing lit.. its disrespectful especially if I give you greens..

 

[Stoner4Life]

in my crib I give you a bong hit & you do the whole thing,
everyone gets a fresh hit in turn & no camping (ala Cargill above)
do the hit & pass it back to me to load for the next toker.......​

 

[JamieShoes]

I had a guy cough out a fresh lit chillum of cream charis of mine one time (not even taking into consideration that another friend of mine had arse bagged it from india for me)... the poor guy he looked devistated... he kindly refilled the chillum with his soap bar but we both knew what a boo boo he'd made...lol


if it'd been the last I mighta been a bit miffed, but as it was there was a fair bit more... my other mate seems to have something of a cavern.



EDIT - LOL @ the memory, fookin hot rocks everywhere. it was back when we had "tape collections"... mine was in an open drawer next to him and subsequently all had pit mark in the cases... lol character I guess :smile:

 

[dontstepongrass]

Scraping - the act of getting the resin build up out of your pipe to smoke it when times are rough. I don't know about you guys but my friends just don't give a fuck... so when I get to scraping when their is no green, they have no qualms.

i was following u until this post.

a. that is disgusting
b. scraping is bad for your glass, try strong (91%+) isopropyl alcohol, salt, and hot water

 

[Mr. Tony]

people who let their pipes build up resin fucking disgust me. you don't let you plates gets all fucking crusty from using it multiple times with messy food and never clean them do you?

 

[Stoner4Life]

Rule #1: Leave your radioactive ass HOME!


We're passing around a spliff one night and it's about 3/4 fried when
Tom starts telling us how horny he is because he can't kiss or even
touch his old lady, curious we all want to know why. "Well I went to
the doctors office and he gave me some radioactive medicines and told
me I had to stay away from my wife for at least 10 days." We all had
that shocked look on our faces realizing first the risk of radiation & then
secondly that Tom drools on all joints/spliffs etc.......

No lie four of us started pounding Tom with punches and then kicks when
he finally fell to the ground, everyone wiping their lips and spitting their mouths
dry, fuck Tom, asshole, even stoners have a limit & it was reached that night.



​

 

[Che]

Pretty much just an echo of whats been said in this thread so far..
If you come to my place, you'll enjoy:

1. Clean water and glass. Ice cubes too, where appropriate.

2. Unburnt weed in the bowl. Cornered, or fresh packed, I won't ever pass a cached piece.

3. An empty, clean tube. Nothing worse than having to clear the chamber from the guy before you. If I have to, I'll remove the bowl and blow through the bong to clear it, but most of the time guests will respect this rule if made aware of it.

4. Don't put anything but weed in my bowls. I don't mix with tobacco, and I don't smoke resin. Please respect my glass!!

5. Good weed. If I'm passing you a bowl, it's not going to be schwag. Please, don't bother passing your lows to me!

As long as these rules are applied, I'm generally happy. I'll have several pieces out for a session, so "camping" isn't as big a deal these days as it might have been in College.
I'm not a pot snob either, rule 5 just means that if it's not decent, I'm not interested. I'll smoke a bowl of mids anyday, just not going to harsh my lungs on some bunk lows that won't do shit for me... high tolerance you know.. smokers lungs too..


Now when I go to a friends house, I'll rummage through the cupboards and bathroom (with consent of course) for the salt and ISO I need to clean their bongs. It's generally appreciated, as the following session is much better!!

 

[Budsmith]

Rule #1: Leave your radioactive ass HOME!


We're passing around a spliff one night and it's about 3/4 fried when
Tom starts telling us how horny he is because he can't kiss or even
touch his old lady, curious we all want to know why. "Well I went to
the doctors office and he gave me some radioactive medicines and told
me I had to stay away from my wife for at least 10 days." We all had
that shocked look on our faces realizing first the risk of radiation & then
secondly that Tom drools on all joints/spliffs etc.......

No lie four of us started pounding Tom with punches and then kicks when
he finally fell to the ground, everyone wiping their lips and spitting their mouths
dry, fuck Tom, asshole, even stoners have a limit & it was reached that night.



​

I literally laughed out loud reading this story

 

[Budsmith]

Dontstep and Mr. Tony

I obviously do not scrape my glass pieces man... this is only for use of acrylic/plastic bongs

 

[kmk420kali]

I don't have a lot of Rules...I would just forget them anyways--lol

1- Don't bang my piece on the ashtray!!

2- I am not a Nazi, if you break one of my pieces on accident, I will prolly load another one and say don't trip-- But if you are fucking around, and you break it...you bought it--

3- If you have a gaping oozing cold-sore...CARRY YOUR OWN PIECE!!!!!

That's about it...except....when smoking anything, at least TRY and blow your smoke away from ppl!! I hate getting someones hit in my face--

 

[g0dzilla]

lol gaping cold sore... just nasty.. that should be a universal rule.. thought of a different one.. anyone ever see somebody drule down the tube while they were taking a hit cause they are trying to inhale so hard... no druling on my pieces..

 

[Linenoise]

Just want to echo the finish your bong hit rule. I've always (20+ yrs) had this rule in effect, dunno if there are people out there that do not use this rule but I always wonder about it when I smoke with someone for the first time and they hand me a bong and I clear the bowl.

Another rule I use, and it is more of a playful asshole rule between me and my friends, but when there are three people smoking in a room (usually when watching TV or playing games) and the middle man gets caught in a situation where has has to taxi the joint/bowl/whatever between the other two people he is allowed a "middleman toke". The cost of him riding bitch, as it were, is an extra toke. I think that rule started ages ago when me and two other people had to ride someplace in a truck. I got stuck in the middle (often called riding bitch) and my friends teased me about it. So when it was time to light up I took an extra hit each round for spite. I told em if I was gonna ride bitch I was gonna be a bitch, and thus a tradition was started.

 

[Che]

^^Thats the passers fee!!

 

[g0dzilla]

lol i dont use a passers fee.. one at a time.. riding bitch is just that.. haha

 

[dopeshow]

Most you guys touched on the basics...

I've never heard/done the "passers fee" but that actually sounds pretty cool haha I can accept that reasoning

What it comes down to is, it's different everywhere. I smoke blunts occasionally with a dude and his girl and every time I take two drags and go to pass he's like "Dude, there is plenty there, hit that shit" so I end up taking 3-4 good hits before passing..and after the second or third time hearing him say it, I know if I'm burning with him then it is well within bounds to enjoy it for a minute and pass it. And really if you're smoking good burning herb in a blunt, it's going to last for a good bit anyway... so this style works out real well. 1 Rotation and I'm lifted, 2 rotations and I'm gone... any more than that is a bonus haha

With bongs, I don't give two shits if a buddy leaves some smoke in the chamber... I just say "thanks dude" clear it, and then take my puff. I mean it's only sitting there for a couple seconds, like if they're going in a coughing fit the first thing they want to do is get the bong out of their hands so they pass it right away... there's just a bit left... hell, clear it. It's not going to hurt you. I like to think of it as a free half-rip.

I'm pretty laid back when smoking, I don't really care about much... but my one and only pet pieve is when someone holds onto it in rotation forever while they're running their mouth. That bugs the living hell out of me when smoking a joint or a blunt and they're talking talking talking while the herb is burning burning burning. That is wasteful. If it's a bong I don't give two shits, as long as it's snuffed... but just about everyone I smoke with knows how to light it and snuff it as they're clearing, so I haven't had that problem in a while. But you know how you get when you're on cloud 9... sometimes you forget... so everyone needs a reminder once in a blue moon...

 

[Ryu]

glass gauze, metal gauze or no gauze?

does it matter?

 

[iGro4Me]

ha, "politely"

stop chief'n and pass that shit!

I think you summed up the rules with the first two. Everything else seems to be clickish "rules" which varies a great deal.

Yeah man....Don't Bogart that joint...

 

[hoosierdaddy]

I agree, linenoise...I will take my second hit on the way of the pass.

And don't let a joint go out and pass it. Light it up for the next person...not by hitting it again, but torching the end and passing. Be courteous.
Dut or blow off the ashes for the next man too.

I have found that the style of a smoker often reflects their style in life.