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Today I was playing a computer game called Counter-Strike, and these two guys were talking about chilling later and smoking some bud. But, they had a limited supply so I was like, when I'm low on weed, I take a few bong rips and get baked as hell. Bongs are definatly the way to go.

So then this other guy was like, No way, WATER BONGS are the way to go! I was like WTF a bong implies water...whats the point of a bong without water??? Then he goes on to tell me that he has heard of it before and so had his friend.

So I of course ask where he and his friend are from and he tells me Kentucky. So I poke fun about backwater southern country bumpkins, etc and they get all pissed off at me or whatever and leave.

So, my question to all of you is, have you ever heard of smoking a bong without water (I mean, if there is no water and it is all you have then yeah but I mean as a normal case to just smoke a bong without water)?

Also, if you do smoke a bong without water, please tell me what the point is. Why not just use a pipe or whatever.

P.S. No offense to any Kentuckyians, I was just joking at them.

imported_feble

my friends say they prefer it..i have no clue why..i think its stupid tho because it takes the point out of a bong...its just like a big pipe..

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WNB

They were probably a couple twelve year olds who didn't know what they are talking about. You can smoke a bong without water if you really want, but no one does it, and no one calls a bong with water a water bong-it's just a bong.

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Genoi

you can get bigger hits without water.


now if you are gristled enough to clear that binger out, you've earned 2 "golded" stars.


wow golded, I've really outsmoked myself this time>!~

Shmo

my mom always says water bong when she talks about long ago, i think they may have also called pipes bongs maybe? i dunno im dumb

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theDeBaucher(Y)

they probably were new smokers.

we never kept water in the bong when i first started because bong water STINKS for days and you can smell it much longer than stale smoke in the house.

but now i have no worries, i have an ice tray where the cubes are for bong only!.

SmasheR

I've smoked a bong without water before because it got dropped and was cracked so you had to hold your hand over the crack while smoking. It's kind pointless it is basically a big pipe. But it's not like it doesn't work.

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imported_Resin

My friend smoked a bong without water once and started choking. It was funny.

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Mr Haze

Can you guys clear something up for me.


I have a 6" blue straight up plastic Bong with a metal bowl.


Don't you need a certain type of bowl before you put water in there?

i thought bongs with the slider piece and no "thumb hole" are the ones made for water.

So you can use any bong with water? or you still need that slider piece?

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skidoo

Sure. I'm new here, but not new to smokin. :-)

Do what? Nah, the metal bowl is fine. But, er, make sure you pour the water through the mouthpiece, not through the bowl. :-)

A bong is a type of water pipe. Period. Whether you actually put water in it is incidental.

Personally, I find the whole "water cools the smoke" claim dubious. For me, the real benefits of a bong are the following:

1. A large chamber to hold smoke. Fire it up, draw smoke into the chamber, cover the mouthpiece with your hand, take a few breaths, and then shotgun the smoke from the chamber.
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2. Ash catcher. The water traps ash and particles, but still lets through potent concentrations of smoke.
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3. Cools the smoke. But not because of the water. I think this has more to do with the distance from the bowl to your lungs and the fact that if hit properly the smoke is pre-cached in the chamber. With smaller pipes and joints, the flame is only a few linear inches from your mouth and has to be sucked directly into your lungs.

So what I like to do is put just enough water in the bong to cover the bottom of the stem. If you put in too much water, you reduce the volume of the chamber and consequently the amount of smoke you can suck down in a single hit. If you don't put in any water, you lose some of the pipe's effectiveness as an ash catcher.

Like others have said, the most important thing to do is experiment and figure out what you like best.