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BIC lighters are more of a first resort than a last resort.
by dole 1y ago
BIC lighters are more of a first resort than a last resort.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoIn the same sense their vacuums, if they made them, wouldn't suck.
- tshaddox 1y agoAre you suggesting their lighters are bad? That’s certainly not my experience. I have a Bic mini that has been packed inside my camping stove kit (a small titanium pot containing an iso-propane canister, stove, and rag) for nearly 15 years. Since I use barely any of its fuel, it hasn’t run out yet, and I suspect it could continue to work as a striker whenever the fuel does run out.
- squigz 1y agoYeah, I'm a bit confused if GP is saying their lighters are bad. Every single person I know who uses a lighter many times a day generally uses a Bic[0] - if they're not, it's one of these cheap plastic ones[1], very similar to the pens GP is referring to. A few of them have Zippos, but those are relatively rare among people I know, at least for everyday use. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BIC_lighter_2008-12-31.jpg/1200px-BIC_lighter_2008-12-31.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BI... [1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61TNMUaoFrL.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61TNMUaoFrL.jpg
- 0xffff2 1y agoYeah, when I was a smoker (thankfully many years in the past now), I really only ever used bics. I went through phases with Zippos or butane lighters, but they were always maintenance heavy, unreliable and too expensive for something so comonly shared with others. On the flip side, no-name gas station lighters didn't last and were generally unreliable. Bics hit a huge sweet spot of being long lasting, reliable, _and_ cheap enough to be treated as disposable even though they weren't in practice.
- tshaddox 1y agoThose cheap transparent ones in your second picture are infamously unreliable. I swear I’ve had ones that quit after a dozen strikes.
- parliament32 1y agoBack when I smoked, yes, Bic was the one true path. The "cheap plastic" second one you mentioned were the dollar-store lighters, they generally fell apart pretty quickly. Zippos were neat but too much of a pain in the ass to keep refilling and remembering when you last refilled. But the fat Bics were indestructible and lasted forever.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoI don't know; a) I haven't seen a good lighter in my life (other than on TV, i.e. whatever it was that Admiral Adama carried in BSG, because that was, by definition, a good lighter); and b) in context of the whole subthread, I assumed the parent was being sarcastic.
- quickthrowman 1y agoBIC lighters are extremely reliable, when I smoked I went thru hundreds and the fuel always ran out before the flint did.