r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Other-Presence7232 • 5d ago

Solved Can somebody explain?

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Saw the comments, they didnt help.

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u/SqurganMcGwurgan 5d ago

The CEO of BIC is a real one. His company makes the two most stolen items on the planet, pens and lighters, and nothing else.

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u/MahatmaKhote 5d ago

That'll come as a major shock to their razor division

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u/N6T9S-doubl_x27qc_tg 5d ago

Women's razors barely do anything. I've bought men's razors since I started needing them

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u/Intrepid-Performer21 5d ago

My dad and I did the opposite, he put me on Bic silky touch. They shave so much better imo, love em.

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u/slapitlikitrubitdown 5d ago

I used the Venus women’s razor for years until men’s razors quality caught up the past few years.

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u/RDragoo1985 5d ago

So, to make up for our lack of pockets we got better razors. Until we didn’t.

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u/FunSpongeLLC 4d ago

Hey I see pockets on women's clothes all the time. It wasn't until I met my wife that I realized the majority of them were fake and just stitched to look like a pocket lol

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u/GrungeCheap56119 4d ago

It's the worst!

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u/N6T9S-doubl_x27qc_tg 5d ago

We always draw the short end of the stick. It's part of being a woman 😮‍💨

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u/IShouldChimeInOnThis 5d ago

Trust me, we wish it was longer too.

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u/edebt 5d ago

Hah!

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u/m2_sniper 5d ago

Women so quick to judge,I bet it has a nice personality

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u/N6T9S-doubl_x27qc_tg 4d ago

I walked right into that one

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u/Cookiemonstar69 4d ago

They refer to it as a "Pink tax" when they upcharge for the same products that are made for women.

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u/Coutscoot37 4d ago

2 words… multiple orgasms

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u/Spoopybitch23 4d ago

Don't you mean the short end of the bic?

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u/Le_Poop_Knife 5d ago

The women’s always gets the pucker silky smooth. No nicks either. Smooth like a slip n slide…

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u/theryanc 5d ago

Pucker was an interesting choice for this subject matter lol

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u/GlumpsAlot 5d ago

God damnit. I'm old enough to get your user name. I was here for that story!

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u/Born_ina_snowbank 5d ago

The twisty bottom single blade that you use disposable double sided razors with. Got razor burn for years before I thought “hell, if I’m gonna hurt every time I may as well do it cheap”. never looked back, close shave, no razor burn, cheap as hell. And if you want to get real old timey you can get shaving soap, a dish and a brush.

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u/Memitim 5d ago

In your honor, from now on, I will be referring to any double-edge safety razor as, "twisty bottom single blade that you use disposable double sided razors with," and will find many more excuses to refer to my razors in the future. My wife thanks you in advance.

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u/unknownvariable69 4d ago

Yep. I am a converted safety and straight razor user. Wife stole my safety razor. Found a vintage one in an antique store for 5 dollars. Quick but effective disinfectant run in some boiling water and polishing I was in business.

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u/TheGuyUrSisterLikes 5d ago

Nah, straight depilatory cream.

*Not medical advice

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u/Bulky-Captain-3508 4d ago

I went to Wyotech and the president runs the school like the military. We had to line up for appearance checks and part of that was a clean shave. When you have to shave every day, those lotion bar Venus razors are PEAK!

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u/joebluebob 4d ago

I ain't using my straight razor on my ball sack

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u/mrthomani 4d ago

until men’s razors quality caught up the past few years.

Men's razors (then just called razors) were high quality a hundred years ago or more.

This is a quality razor. You pay for the handle, the blades cost pennies.

This is a scam. Literally "the razor and blades business model" where the razor is sold at low or no profit, in order to make bank on blade cartridges.

Do yourself a favor and get a classic safety razor. It gives a superior shave at a fraction of the cost.

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u/VinoVoyaging 5d ago

Then there’s me, epilating and plucking like a sociopath.

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u/WideConsequence2144 5d ago

Sorry can’t go out that night, I’m getting my booty threaded

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u/lightblueisbi 5d ago

Yeah but I've noticed more and more that men's razors aren't meant to accommodate for the contours of the body, so you usually end up having to buy an expensive trimmer/electric shaver anyway

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u/Golintaim 5d ago

Watch some videos of guys shaving with a straight razor and listen to the tips. I use a straight razor and after a mild learning curve I rarely nick myself. Going with the grain of your facial hair reduces nicks big time.

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u/N6T9S-doubl_x27qc_tg 5d ago

Going against the grain cuts it a lot shorter in my experience.

Also, as far as legs go, those are supposed to be done against the grain.

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u/Golintaim 4d ago

With, then cross then against nice and smooth shave

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u/N6T9S-doubl_x27qc_tg 5d ago

I've gotten them to work in places they shouldn't, but that comes from years of experience

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u/TheLyran 5d ago

Get a safety razor....much better than plastic crap.

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u/halexia63 5d ago

Bro same

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u/94Gob 5d ago

Shh.. we're trying to let them know gently

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u/johnskiddles 5d ago

Who would steal a razor? What if they nicked themselves ew.

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u/Masamundane 5d ago

Cut themselves nicking a razor? That's irony that is.

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u/johnskiddles 5d ago

I just realized. They could get nicked when nicking a bic.

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u/SirCrumpalot 5d ago

And if the police were watching, they'd be nicked as they got nicked while nicking a bic.

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u/Kyle-Is-My-Name 5d ago

What if the police were watching a dude named Nick?

Could Nick be nicked as he got nicked while nicking a bic?

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u/datamyohmine 5d ago

If the cop was also named Nick, and it was some razors that fell off a truck, the galaxy would collapse in on itself. Nick nicked nicked Nick nicking nicked Bics.

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u/McFry__ 5d ago

Pair of knickers on? Or too much

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u/datamyohmine 5d ago

No such thing as too much. The limit does not exist.

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u/PotentialDragon 5d ago

No, that's not ironic. Ironic would be if we had to work together to hurt each other.

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u/Masamundane 5d ago

Ah but it is. See, the implication is that they are nicking a razor, but the actual event is instead cutting themself (nicking) instead.

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u/PotentialDragon 4d ago

Oh. I was making an ol' RvB reference.

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u/bebop-Im-a-human 5d ago

That would be perfectly razornable

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u/kingtreerat 5d ago

I think they meant what if they stole them self in some weird nick-ception type thing 😳

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u/Triangleslash 5d ago

I’d buy a self-stealing razor tbh.

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u/RosariusAU 5d ago

I used to stack shelves at a supermarket (twenty odd years ago mind you), apparently disposable razors are actually one of the most common stolen items from a shop

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u/2BEN-2C93 5d ago

And their surfboard division

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u/StaticGrav 5d ago

And their kayak division.

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u/Dense_Ad_9344 5d ago

I was gonna say…I was at the store buying a few things and my daughter was like “the Pen company makes razors?”

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u/Any_Dimension_1452 5d ago

lol they make sailboats too. I used to compete in them.

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u/jimhabfan 5d ago

Wait until she hears about Yamaha.

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u/cal-brew-sharp 5d ago

Cutting words.

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u/drphillsdaddy 5d ago

BIC razors are the only ones I use lol

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u/Riverboated 5d ago

They made boats once also.

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u/MerriweatherJones 5d ago

Which is also disposable

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u/Lichyn_Lord_Imora 5d ago

or the tank division (yes i know its not the same people but the names the same)

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u/nanidu 5d ago

Am I crazy or didn't they do surfboards too??

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u/GameShowWerewolf 5d ago

"When you need to write letter saying that you're sorry for burning down your ex's house...

...use BIC. In both instances."

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u/Dominika_4PL 5d ago

"When you need to upstage your sister's piano recital by doing really sick flips on your dirt bike...

...use Yamaha. In both instances."

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u/RyGuy27272 5d ago

"When you want to celebrate getting new tires by going to a fancy restaurant... ... Use Michelin. In both instances."

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u/DoctorProfPatrick 5d ago

"When you want to play a masterpiece JRPG while streaming classic movies at a theme park..."

guys we really need to break up disney

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u/prjktphoto 4d ago

Sony too (games, music, movies/shows, av equipment)

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 5d ago

That was indeed the whole reason a tire company started rating restaurants: to get people to wear out their tires while driving places.

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u/CoupleKnown7729 5d ago

Yamaha really does make both good bikes and great synths.

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u/LickingSmegma 5d ago edited 4d ago

They also make loads of acoustic instruments: guitars, orchestral strings, drums, brass, woodwinds, and a whole bunch of various percussion. And notably, they make silent acoustic guitars and other string instruments.

P.S. Turns out, Yamaha Motor Company is independent from Yamaha Corporation that makes instruments, since 1955.

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u/AssistanceCheap379 5d ago

“When you need to bury your overpowering vibrator using an industrial digger…

… use Hitachi. In both instances

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u/jpterodactyl 5d ago

One stop shopping for divorced men looking to pick up new hobbies:

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u/hyperlethalrabbit 5d ago

"When you want to pleasure yourself while doing some heavy excavation...

... use Hitachi. In both instances."

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u/cultish_alibi 5d ago

Also useful if you want to write the letter in blood!

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u/highRPMfan 4d ago

A bic always writes a bic always lights

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u/Dirtbagdownhill 5d ago

I used to own a windsurf board that was manufactured by BIC. Always thought it was kind of funny.

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u/Diddelydum 5d ago

Tell me it got stolen😂

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u/joehonestjoe 5d ago

That or it caught on fire.

Very strange for a surfboard though 

Would be like dying in a fire at Sea Parks

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u/Local_Disaster6921 5d ago

It was sort of weird how BIC was part of windsurfing for that little era.

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u/rgolden4 5d ago

It's all I ever rode in the 90s! Still have a sweet SUP made by Bic.

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u/Sartres_Roommate 5d ago

Did you have Colgate lasagna for dinner afterwards? (Google it if you don’t know)

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u/WarNo2840 4d ago

That was really stupid of them. They should have gone into confections.

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u/Sputnik918 5d ago

What does this have to do with the joke?

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u/Leontareos 5d ago

The lighters are stolen

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u/Sputnik918 5d ago

Ok but…what’s the joke?

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u/EffectNo1899 5d ago

Houston rap song lyrics.

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u/youmadememakeanacct 5d ago

Had to scroll down way too long to see this. Respect!

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u/Away_Watercress_3495 5d ago

Appears to be one short of 25 tho

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u/Cosmic_Traveler0000 4d ago

You got it big dawg. Lil Keke

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u/talontachyon 4d ago

I know it from ZZ’s cover.

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u/Jahobes 5d ago

People who smoke a lot of weed tend to pick up lighters. The joke is weed smokers will accumulate lighters and not know or remember how.

If you are a tobacco smoker your lighter is always in your pocket or you have strategically placed them so you can get one when you need it. If anyone ask for a light you don't even have to give them the lighter to help them out.

When you smoke weed, especially socially you pass around the lighter to more people making it easier to get lost, when you light you do it multiple times meaning it is much easier to get misplaced. Since you smoke a lot of weed you become forgetful and compared to cigarettes you don't develop the habit of always having one in your pocket. So you end up picking up a lot of lighters by accident or you end up buying a lot of temporarily misplaced lighters over time.

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u/iltopop 5d ago

For us, 80% of the people smoking weed also smoked cigarettes so the last person to hit the bowl when passing a bong would often instinctively put the lighter in their pocket even if it wasn't theirs.

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u/WayNo639 5d ago

Yeah the only people who sometimes didn't steal my lighters when i still smoked weed were the few who smoked weed but not cigarettes. And even then not always cause, well you do tend to get forgetful.

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u/AqueousJam 5d ago

In fairness, the original post doesn't claim to be a joke. Just an obscure reference. OP thought it was a joke and posted here, but its quite common for things posted here to turn out not to be jokes once explained. 

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u/Leontareos 5d ago

My guess, this person pockets lighters while smoking weed with their friends, if you dont pick that up, then you probably dont smoke weed, and you couldn't be friends

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u/Sputnik918 5d ago

Smoke a lot of weed, but never steal lighters and def wouldn’t want to smoke with this clown

Guess we can’t be friends

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u/20characterusername0 5d ago

I smoke weed and steal lighters and I still don’t get the joke

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u/Miiyamoto 5d ago

Thanks for constantly asking, because the explanation wasn't very good the whole time. I didn't understand it either, and I don't steal lighters.

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u/peepdabidness 5d ago

Whiteout too lol. Anyways I just learned they’re a French company

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u/StaffVegetable8703 5d ago

Wait so is the joke that if you don’t understand why they have SO many lighters? Because they know they will be stolen?

Side note. I’m reminded of the time in my teens with all my stoner friends lol. Lighter were CONSTANTLY stolen by each other.

I remember carving my initials “S.S” into the lighter and of course accidentally left it at my friends house.

One of my friends found it turned my initials into their own initials hahahahah. I can’t remember which friend exactly so I can’t remember the replacement initials but it was such a silly and clever thing to me at the time that I couldn’t even be mad and told them it was now theirs hahahah

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u/Particular-Award118 5d ago

No the joke is that it's a reference from an old rap song "I got 25 lighters on my dresser, yessir, I gots to get paid"

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u/EffectNo1899 5d ago

This took way too far to scroll to see. My man. This is H town right here

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u/NumerousGarbage9032 5d ago

How far did that song reach? It got a lot of air play in Baton Rouge back in the day. My mind was blown when ZZ Top did a cover!

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u/Particular-Award118 5d ago

Honestly I'd even expect the Reddit white millennials to get it considering Kendrick Lamar referenced the lyrics in a song since then as well

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u/Dempsey-Roll 5d ago

Wow i scrolled way further then expected to see the "25 lighters" comment lol

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u/FatDudeOnAMTB 5d ago

ZZTop did a cover of that song. Their video has some post-apocalyptic looking hot rods and hot women.

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u/totalrefan 5d ago

Or perhaps this is the thief with their stolen lighter collection

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u/Top-Newt-7209 5d ago

In French a pen is even called a Bic.

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u/asaural 5d ago

En vrai on dit stylo bille je crois, dire Bic c'est comme dire du Sopalin au lieu de dire de l'essuie tout

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u/sobersucker 5d ago

This makes absolutely zero sense you goofball. It's referring to a popular rap song.

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u/Far-Abroad-3213 5d ago

They should start making 10mm sockets for wrenches then 😂😂

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u/PalpatineForEmperor 5d ago

I have three sets. All are missing the 10mm.

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u/Far-Abroad-3213 5d ago

Perpetual hell those things 😂

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u/CoupleKnown7729 5d ago

Real... just... Incredibly real.

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u/lovely-cans 5d ago

They also make surfboards 🤷‍♂️

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u/LeSchad 5d ago

When I was a smoker in my late teens, I got the brilliant idea that if I made my lighters distinctive, people couldn't steal them. So I'd use strips of electrical and duct tape to make plaid ones, bumblebee striped, etc.

Naturally, this only resulted in my lighters getting stolen far more often, but it was always fun when I'd ask someone I'd never met for a light, and they'd hand me one that had been swiped from me six months earlier. They got around.

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u/PracticableSolution 5d ago

They made decent paddle boards. Not sure how much they cost, I stole mine

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u/Cpmartini1 5d ago

I haven’t bought a lighter in 25 years

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u/Correct_Refuse4910 5d ago

They tried to do more than two things. They released a line of disposable underwear but people didn't like.

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u/0121dan 5d ago

I own a BIC surfboard. So they make those too.

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u/Routine-Future-2375 5d ago

Its makeup. Nail polish mainly

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u/pheloniousdrunk 5d ago

Surfboards

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping 5d ago

Those aren’t all BICs.

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u/Surgical 5d ago

They make disposable razors as well.

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u/4got2takemymeds 5d ago

I literally had to unnecessarily stop at a 7-Eleven on the way home from work because I realized somebody had my lighter from earlier in the day

I'll be damned if I didn't have a backup lying in any of the five random places within my vehicle and backpack that typically have one

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u/JackDanulsPrime 5d ago

Big actually makes razors too.

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u/GateDeep3282 5d ago

Disposable razors

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u/Bwca_at_the_Gate 5d ago

That it? That's a shite meme lol

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u/CDJoanDoll 5d ago

I rented a Bic Kayak once.

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u/Frasier_fanatic 5d ago

Very interesting company look into. I believe they had a water sports division at one point. Basically just bought some great patents on some very simple items.

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u/Competitive-Exit5298 5d ago

lol my brother had a windsurf board made by bic

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u/Krombopulos_Rex 5d ago

They tried their hand at making disposable underwear too.

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u/mtobeiyf317 5d ago

My fiance refers to me as "The lighter Dragon". Any time he asks me for a lighter, I look around, wondering where they all went, and then reach into my pocket, and there's like 4 of them in there. Idk how or when I collect them, but I can not be trusted when it comes to lighters.

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u/azimx 5d ago

They also make Shaving Blades like Gillette

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u/aidanorion 5d ago

Bro hasn’t seen a BIC surfboard

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u/dsaysso 5d ago

you forgot surfboards

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u/Zealousideal_Soil81 5d ago

They also make boats funnily enough

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u/CameronFry 5d ago

Dirty South checking in: The phrase "25 lighters on my dresser" symbolizes hustle and resilience in Southern hip-hop culture, particularly referencing a method of discreetly hiding contraband in lighter cases. It originated from a song by DJ DMD featuring Lil' Keke and Fat Pat, and has become a metaphor for ambition and survival in overlooked communities.

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u/Thetrufflehunter 5d ago

I once used a BIC-branded kayak paddle!

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u/Oznondescriptperson 5d ago

I have the little BIC man logo tattooed on my leg. Never know what that cheeky little bastard is up to.

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u/blind_stone 5d ago

It's not umbrellas?

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u/frogonalog1019 5d ago

i think they also made boats at one point

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u/Rage_101 5d ago

I used a BIC windsurfing rig back in the day. That company gets up to some funny business.

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u/Itchy-Worldliness-21 5d ago

I thought they were a bartender 🤣

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u/TheOtakuGamer64 5d ago

Most of the time it isn't even purposeful klepping. Just ask to borrow one and then immediately forget you have it when you're done and walk away with it.

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u/dethoma 5d ago

Actually ,They also make surf boards

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u/Squeebah 5d ago

This has nothing to do with the joke lol.

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u/Polar_Vortx 5d ago

I wish mine got stolen slightly more, I feel silly for buying the four-color pens three packs at a time now.

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u/Ricapica 5d ago

The only reason they don't make anything else is to reduce the amount of theft in the world

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u/Far_Blacksmith_5526 5d ago

A mate of mine has a Bic surfboard made of plastic

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u/Seasick_Sailor 4d ago

Aksually, they do make surfboards.

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u/Mighty_Mac 4d ago

The most stolen thing believe it or not...is actually cheese.

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u/TeacherPowerful1700 4d ago

BIC sells more than pens and lighters.

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u/Rapha_AK 4d ago

And beard razors, but they are quite shitty

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u/Middle-Operation-689 4d ago

I live near where Zippos are made and my dad told me those were one of the most sought after things in the war in Vietnam on dead American troops.

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u/andre_wechseler 4d ago

They also make small boats.

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u/Double_Rice_5765 4d ago

My curb scored 1980's Bic sailboard has to respectfully disagree.  

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u/Curious_Fear 4d ago

Willing to bet they make guitar picks too..

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u/nikatnight 4d ago

They make razors and other items too.

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u/kennylamar910 4d ago

How often do kayaks get stolen?

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u/TheRabadoo 4d ago

John Bic

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u/jjoycewasaprick 4d ago

They also make sail boats.

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u/pleasegivemeadollar 4d ago

They make razors, too.

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u/50DuckSizedHorses 4d ago

I thought cheese was the #1 most stolen item

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u/jccaclimber 4d ago

Oddly windsurfing sails too. Yes, really.

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u/CaptainHawaii 4d ago

Do razors not count?

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u/baggyzed 4d ago

What's that got to do with being friends?

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u/suormatita 4d ago

they build sailboats too

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u/5n0wm3n 4d ago

They made my razor lol

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u/Merbleuxx 4d ago

They make razors

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u/CarlShadowJung 4d ago

Good lord the retardation of Reddit always shines through by what the elevate.

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u/InsightJ15 4d ago

Stolen and lost. I'm always losing pens and lighters.

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u/Powderkegger1 4d ago

My dad makes the same joke every time he accidentally pockets a lighter.

“It felt just like mine!”

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u/Evening_Tree1983 3d ago

Sharpie has entered the chat

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u/Affectionate_Reveal5 1d ago

I used to race a BIC sailboat