r/whatisit • u/AmoebaSuccessful3393 • 6h ago
New, what is it? What are these little plastic things i have found in my sons room
I have found a few of these little plastic things scattered around my 15 year old sons room, and was wondering what they are?
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u/MurphyBeans 6h ago
10% of this sub is vape evidence. Is r/ismykidvaping a thing yet?
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u/ThrowAwayIGotHack3d 6h ago
It is a thing surprisingly
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u/LJBrooker 6h ago
I suspect it became a thing about 2 minutes ago.
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u/DeliriousBlues 5h ago
The birth of a sub Reddit, how special.
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u/BeerForThought 5h ago
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u/PlanktonLess2648 5h ago
It has 1 post from 4 mins ago, so I think you are right
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u/NectmarPowerhand 5h ago
Can confirm: 8 mins ago, the first post was placed.
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u/SufficientSinger6645 5h ago
I’m seeing the first post was placed 22 minutes ago. Confirmed
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u/Downtown_Pack7822 5h ago
Im seeing discrepancies in how long ago it was posted, there is no reasonable explanation. Banned
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u/Inside-Example-7010 4h ago
I created that sub as a way to discuss the current Mongolian throat singing champion that is Ismyki Dvaping
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u/marinalindsey 6h ago
I may be wrong, but they look like the little silicone piece that comes in the box with a new disposable nicotine vape.
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u/Consistent_Claim5217 6h ago
And weed vapes
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u/_high_sniffy 6h ago
Yep. Literally I think every vape imaginable comes with the little thingy. Could be weed, HHC, nic, anything really
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u/FujiKilledTheDSLR 3h ago
I use 510-thread cartridges and have never seen one of these in my life.
Is it only the disposable vapes?
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u/TheCeaselessWheel 5h ago
Weed vapes definitely have them but I will say that I've never seen this particular shaped one in a weed vape. Thats just my experience though.
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u/Heisenberg11725 6h ago
Press F to pay respect in the chat for the teen about to have his world rocked.
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u/much_longer_username 6h ago
I love how there's always a couple people like 'STOP NARCING' as if this was the single piece of evidence convicting the kid (a minor unrelated to us...), or that the suspicion came from nowhere.
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u/Chimkimnuggets 4h ago
God forbid the internet full of adults tell another adult their kid is sucking down battery packs of nicotine and probably formaldehyde
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u/DiscontentDonut 3h ago
Wholly agree. Not to mention a parent who pays attention to their child and wants to know what they're doing for their well being is infinitely better than an absent parent who doesn't care.
I'll narc on kids all day long.
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u/aRabbitwithaHatchet 5h ago
Bro they are just joking. Throwing a little humor on the situation. Lighten up and enjoy the ride, man. ✌️ love, peace, and fish grease, gang.
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u/TennisStriker 4h ago
One of the replies to the top comments says they hope this dude’s family dies for “snitching”. Lots of teens (and probably some adults) actually mad.
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u/Necessary-Still9 4h ago
That escalated from “just joking” to actual death threats pretty damn fast. Reddit never disappoints.
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u/DrJohnDorian998 4h ago
People are dumb. My teen is an addict (coming up on a year sober though) so I do have a little experience in this area. How mom handles this will define their trust and relationship for the next several years or more.
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u/Macvombat 4h ago
I hope he sticks to it. I got started at 13 and thankfully got to rehab at 19. Wrecked me pretty good but I managed to get an education and have definitely given me a better life so far than I ever had in my teens.
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u/FourLetterWording 4h ago
idk, I mean the kid is definitely going to reap what they sowed, BUT, it's not unreasonable in some cases to err on the other side. Growing up I had a friend who would get severely beaten by his parents for doing any stupid teenager shit (like getting caught smoking). Like have to go to the hospital kind of shit. It was horrible.
Just want to add some perspective on why some people may have strong opinions about stuff like this, not that this is always the case, it is for some people.
OP - don't beat your kid if you do! If you don't, good job!
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u/_fuck_you_gumby_ 6h ago
Rocking someone’s world meant something different back in my day
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u/InnerEntertainer4357 5h ago
To be fair, it had a very flexible meaning in my day. Could be blowing your mind or getting your head knocked in.
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u/StrobeLightRomance 4h ago
Sex, getting punched in the head, watching a live band, an asteroid hitting Earth.. all valid ways to rock your world.
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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 4h ago
He deserves it tbh for his own sake. 15 years old and smoking vapes? Buddy at least let your lungs grow fully first damn
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u/Antelope_Academic 6h ago
The plastic tip in a new vape, kid couldn’t even get rid of the evidence. Rookie
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u/AmoebaSuccessful3393 6h ago
oh, I will be talking to him about this, thank you so much👍
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u/mrjowei 6h ago
Make sure he knows we snitched on him
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u/2muchroom 6h ago
Kids these days don’t stand a chance do they
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u/parallelogramm3r 6h ago
His AI didn’t tell him to discard the evidence. Not his fault, really.
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u/Zealousideal-Cash205 5h ago
Poor bastard used Sonnet. RIP
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u/Megatippa 5h ago
Hey hey whoa. Sonnet is a great help with all of my life decisions. My marshmallow vodka ribeye with maple broccoli last night was delicious.
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u/MouseTheGiant 5h ago
Im sorry, your what?
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u/Successful-Clock-224 4h ago
What’s wrong? Do you not consume the normal human food? Ingest every day at sun up, mid day, and dusk.
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u/-Panda-cake- 4h ago
We call it hiiiigh nooooon.
Well....not this kid, cause he got caught. 😂
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u/h3lium-balloon 3h ago
Humans like flavors and textures and they also like when flavors and textures are combined, what’s the problem?
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u/Jaconian 4h ago
Their marshmallow vodka ribeye with maple broccoli. It was delicious.
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u/New-Tale4197 4h ago
Marshmallow vodka ribeye with maple broccoli.
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u/Zealousideal-Cash205 5h ago
Sonnet did me dirty on what was supposed to be a diy plumbing project last week. Followed its instructions and disassembled a valve connected to my sink, only to learn that, actually, I needed a dremel to cut something called a ferrule (or else purchase some tailor made tool called a ferrule puller), which it had completely failed to account for in its instructions.
Shoulda just gone with YouTube from the start 😞
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u/MrCeeMoney420 4h ago
Theres a plumber out there reading this and laughing out loud
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u/Efficient_Let686 4h ago
Yes, yes there is, and I think he’s the guy that fixed my sink last year. After we tried all the DYI and kept making it worse. Laughing all the way to the bank.
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u/Ok_Drag5089 5h ago
You should always use ::insert your favorite clanker here:: and YouTube in tandem.
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u/Potentially_Corrupt 4h ago
you don’t have to have a ferrule puller just slap a new valve on it and reuse the old ferrule and nut. put some pipe dope on the threads and ferrule and you’ll be good!
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u/Lagneaux 6h ago
I mean, throw away your evidence bro. Kid had plenty of chance
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u/Bflo_ 5h ago
When I was 17 and started dipping I kept all of the tins I used.
I don’t get the logic behind what made me do it, but it’s gotta be the same reason serial killers keep trophies.
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u/DangerousDisk7273 5h ago
When I was 17 and smoking cigarettes, I had the genius idea of hiding my cigarette butts in the snow in the driveway. Not surprisingly, once the snow melted, all the cigartette butts for the past month were just laying there.
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u/NonStopGravyTrain 4h ago
My house was the hangout house in high school and we did the same thing, so come warm weather you had about a dozen kids cigarette butts popping out of the melting snow banks like fresh spring daisies.
And some of them went on to be doctors and engineers! Just shows intelligence and common sense are not at all related.
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u/Wendy_bard 5h ago
When I was 17 and smoking I just collected a bunch of empty cigarette packs in my glove box until my mom borrowed my car and inevitably found them.
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u/oh_Rip 5h ago
Hell, when i was younger i for a while kept all the empty packs of swishers i bought in the side door pocket of my truck for a while. It was in the hundreds of packa after a lil while. All the flavors. Limited editions and all lolol. I dont know why. But now i have a bunch of boxes full of cool rocks that i found.
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u/Wendy_bard 5h ago
I also have a bunch of cool rocks I found so… you’re not wrong
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u/Turbulent-Shopping43 5h ago
Omg our crows get peanuts in the regular so the bring us bits of glass 🤦♀️ which would be super awesome except we have a four year-old who likes to run around LMAO
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u/WillURemember 4h ago
I would take the cigarettes out and place em neatly in my PS2 game cases 🤣 never got found
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u/ChampionshipDeep5104 5h ago
I mean, if she borrowed your car the smell probably tipped her off before the glove box haha
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u/the2nddoctor111 5h ago
I was incredibly lucky in that i was living in an apartment building when I started smoking, so I would just toss them in the dumpster. I was only caught because my brother-in-law was a fucking snitch.
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u/p3canj0y363 5h ago
The other day I found the "hidden" pocket of my son's varsity bowling bag- full of old used up vapes. He's 21 now, so probably 4-5 years old. He was so slick 🙄
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u/Bflo_ 5h ago
Your son is just an environmentalist and was keeping all of his used vapes to try and figure out a way to recycle them!
Seriously though my mom found like 20 tins like a year later after she dumped an Arizona can out halfway full of dip spit that was in my room. I’ll never forget her screaming at me on the phone and making me come home from work to clean the sink.
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u/tigm2161130 5h ago
Nah, it’s just addict behavior. When my sister had a drinking problem my mom would find stashes of empty bottles all over her room/bathroom despite the fact that no one would have ever noticed them if she just threw them in the trash.
Obviously dip isn’t the same level of seriousness but the behavior is the same.
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u/Mysterious-Day-7535 5h ago
I did that too…. Built a pyramid of empty Copenhagen and Skoal tins. I’d hide weed in them sometimes and forget which one.
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u/epicbrewtality 5h ago
I threw all my porn evidence away when I was kid. Right in the computers recycle bin… which I forgot I needed to empty…. I may never recover from the shame of my mother getting to see allllll of the weird shit 15 year old brain was lookin up.
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u/Lagneaux 5h ago
I kept mine on floppy disc. Yes, I'm that old.
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u/Publius_Rizz 5h ago
You think you’re old? My porn was pictures that I cut out of a penthouse magazine that I found in my uncles hunting trailer. We didn’t have home computers back then.
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u/DasDuckHead 4h ago
You think you're old? I jerked it to cave paintings hiding behind my woolly mammoth
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u/snuffy_smith_ 3h ago
Eh youngins….
I was jerking off waiting around for the next amoeba to progress enough to grow some kind erotic tissue to gaze upon
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u/ChampionshipDeep5104 4h ago
Hell yeah Vanna White issue of Playboy that we found hidden in the woods and my friends and i split it up by cutting out our favorite pictures
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u/take0nthethrone 5h ago
Same, which I downloaded at the library because I was convinced my mother was a prolific hacker in 2002
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u/Tim_the_geek 4h ago
I remember the dial up days.. when you would finish before the image was, (finished downloading).
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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 3h ago
I don't know how many times I spent like 4 hours secretly downloading a 2 minute video before my mom decided she just needed to make a phone call in the living room and decimated all that effort
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u/Yota8883 4h ago
I looked at the lingerie section of the JC Penny catalog because there was no such thing as a floppy disc or a PC to put it. I'm that old. And to tell my buddy Dad's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue has arrived, I had to open the bedroom window and yell over to my buddy's open bedroom window that it arrived because we didn't know texting yet.
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u/Dukeronomy 5h ago
Dude my buddy has a 16 year old. They cannot help but to film themselves doing everything. They create all the evidence you need
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u/birdsy-purplefish 4h ago
That’s the real way that technology is ruining kids these days!
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u/Dukeronomy 3h ago
They’re doin it to themselves. My mindset was always to hide the evidence, not create it. But they have to show off to their friends. Pics or it didn’t count
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u/Top-Ad-5527 3h ago
For real. They live stream from the keg party. They don’t understand that the first rule is ALWAYS, Don’t Get Caught.
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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 4h ago
I can't wait until my friends' kids are teenagers so I get these stories lol
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u/iKnowRobbie 5h ago
My parents kicked me out because they found a metal bowl to smoke pot and called a week later when they took it to the sheriff and was told it was for marijuana. When I asked why they didn't ask me they told me they thought it was a crank pipe and crackheads lie! ╮(╯▽╰)╭ Reddit would have helped.
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u/floppydude81 4h ago
I smoked pipe tobacco once and had an old pipe. Hid it in the closet. Also had rubber gloves for no reason other than I thought they might be cool in the same closet. I never used the gloves for anything. Cop friend of my moms told her that I was using the gloves to put lsd on the tobacco and smoking acid. I told her that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. But I still got treated like a drug dealer.
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u/0OOOOOO0 3h ago
I wonder where he came up with that. Guess he just wanted to look cool so he could bang your mom.
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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 3h ago
My dad found a mesh filter in my room and was convinced I was smoking crack. He had my mom talk to me because he was so furious he couldn't do it. I don't think two parents have ever been so relieved to hear, "What? No, I'm just smoking weed!"
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u/whydidyoutakemysoup 3h ago
Tshhh I would have asked how they would know 😇
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u/Diligent_Whereas3134 3h ago
Funny you should mention that. Mom said dad thought it was for a crack pipe, and the first question I had was why would he assume that?
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u/redditcreditcardz 6h ago
I heard snitches get riches
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u/Simba_Rah 6h ago
Is that why I keep getting stabbed? So they can put money in my wounds like a piggy bank?
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u/OogaBBooga27 6h ago
My 18 year old cousin just recovered from a collapsed lung that the doctors told her was a result of "blebs" in her lung lining, which were caused by years of vaping as a teen! It was the first I'd ever heard of it. Thankfully she's doing ok now and has quit vaping.
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u/DIRTYDOGG-1 6h ago
Ok....so i went and did the research on what the heck is a "Bleb".....: "Pulmonary blebs are small, thin-walled, air-filled sacs that form on the outer surface of the lungs, typically in the upper lobes. They are usually asymptomatic until one ruptures, which allows air to leak into the chest cavity and causes a collapsed lung (pneumothorax) resulting in sudden chest pain and shortness of breath"... .HOLY HELL ! ...
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u/throw7694728 6h ago
It says they're often found in healthy young people but also linked to vaping and smoking. You can get them anyway
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u/TheVadonkey 5h ago
Well sure but what are the statistics behind each? I can get lung cancer by doing nothing but smoking is still going to increase that risk, so a dumb idea regardless.
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u/gotuptooearly 5h ago
I wonder what actually causes them. I vaped nicotine for about 6 years that it took me to quit smoking/nic and I've been vaping weed since 2014ish. Doctors say they can't tell I ever smoked at all and my lungs look amazing now.
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u/throw7694728 5h ago
It says there's no known cause but tall, young and thin men/teenagers are at higher risk
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u/_nananan 5h ago
This article says rapid growing when you’re a teen can cause them, and then the vaping can cause them to get punctured: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/what-does-vaping-do-to-your-lungs
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u/ClassicGlass4313 5h ago
"Also linked to vaping and smoking"
Is that catch all, "this happens anyway. But we can use it here so we will."
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u/Koala-Available 5h ago
Myself, my son and my brother have had 5 collapsed lungs and 5 pleurodesis operations as a result of what we know assume is a genetic propensity to such blebs
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u/the_baberuthless 4h ago
Im really sorry they gave such a serious condition an incredibly silly name
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u/DanishDennis 5h ago
This happened to me. Wasn't a fun time. Pretty much only happens to men, and it's somewhat genetic. (Happened to my dad in his 20's)
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u/No_Royal8268 6h ago
A friend's son in college put a hole in his lung from vaping. So many people think it's harmless.
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u/islobojono 5h ago
What are these kids vaping? Youngins always collapse their lungs.
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u/gkhayne 5h ago
I know this sounds weird, but you should try smelling that cap and see if there is a distinctive flavor you can pin. I would totally drag this one out and make him sweat. Keep mentioning the flavor/smell in random conversations. Mention how you saw some kids his age vaping the other day and say how you can’t believe people would do that.
You have the upper hand now… use it.
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u/chris-goodwin 4h ago
"Is anyone hoarding cotton candy? I keep thinking I'm smelling cotton candy."
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u/Zestyclose_Car_4971 6h ago
https://reddit.com/link/oz2l6a1/video/ptfk349f7seh1/player
I call it the vape’s little buttplug
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u/Steeltoelion 6h ago
Now that you have a pretty definite answer you gotta fuck with him and tell him you asked AI what it was and make him think you’re gonna take him to rehab for Opioids!
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u/TwiggNBerryz 5h ago
Dude you have to throw away the rubber bits so mom and dad dont find them SMH
SOURCE: former teenager
Edit: all jokes aside quitting nicotine is hard and hes young so definitely not going to want to let alone listen to you. All i can say is after highschool I suddenly had the desire to quit and picked up Alan Carrs "how to quit smoking" and I quit cold turkey after finishing the last word of the last page.
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u/Beginning-Trash-6048 6h ago
Literally went thru this w my nephews when they were about that age lmao. But they would just tell me what I wanted to hear and got better at hiding it. They're approaching 17,18, and 19 now and still little rascals 😅
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u/Glittering-Rip6810 6h ago
These comments aren't wrong. I literally just got a vape with this exact plug. Worse things kids can be doing but still not something to let slide.
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u/Sadomghussin 6h ago
Really is a Rookie move. You have to dispose all the evidence such as wrappers and this piece somewhere other than your house lol.
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u/IcyIntroduction5678 6h ago
Snitch. 😆 jk.
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u/DeapVally 6h ago
Kid fucked himself. He'll learn a lesson about properly disposing of incriminating evidence now though.
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u/CommentFightJudge 4h ago
This is how I caught my kid last year. He told me it was mine then blamed his sister before confessing.
I told him I've been smoking long enough and my brand has a different rubber tip. He wasn't even going to get in big trouble (I get experimentation) until he ratted on his sister under zero pressure and flipped it on me. Snitches get stitches.
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u/unbearified 5h ago
Kids don’t care at all about hiding evidence anymore. I’m nine years older than my little sister. She is 18 now and literally she will not even hide entire bottles of liquor in her room. It’s like pathetic. She can’t even turn off her location so when she sneaks out at 2 AM, my parents are getting a notification about her leaving the house. It drives me insane.
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u/You-Asked-Me 6h ago
Why cant they just smoke weed, and get the occasional bottle of Boon's Farm, like we did?
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u/Alarming_Whole9139 6h ago
Mini Pogosticks ... They're kinda like the new needoohs but for teenagers, pretty harmless if you don't use the vape that comes with them
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u/xtheid10tx 4h ago
I was mid slurp on my can of Dr Pepper as I read this. Now I got Dr Pepper in my nose. 10/10
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u/Haggard_Blaggard 6h ago
I can't believe how much progress we made towards eliminating smoking. Only to have it completely undone over a couple years by pink lemonade flavored lung juice.
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u/SweetSprinkles8 4h ago
Smoking progress is coming undone too. Millennials did a great job not getting addicted to nicotine. Now Gen Z is not only hardcore vaping, they thing smoking is cool too.
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u/FACE_MEAT 3h ago
The rise in nicotine vaping is largely responsible for the decline in combustible tobacco use. That’s wonderful news for public health and awful news for tobacco companies and governments / NGOs beholden to tobacco tax income.
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u/semajolis267 6h ago
Show him the Chris griffin vape picture. Tell him he looks like that.
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u/avsecgirl 6h ago
Mom smoked her adult life and is now battling just to breathe. So so important to dismiss the feeling you are young etc and won't happen to you. The bill will come due. And you will pay. The Keith Richards of the world fool you into thinking its cool and you won't have to worry about breathing through an oxygen tank. My own family had a great grandfather who smoked, chewed tobacco, ate his pancakes covered in bacon grease. You couldn't kill him with a rock. Died at 105. Dont roll the dice with free radicals. That's my only take on this. Genetics plays a big part, but smoking is just mind numbingly stupid.
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u/Extra-Eggplant-4230 6h ago
Does he vape? It almost looks like the plastic inserts that come in the mouthpiece of disposables
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u/fade_away11 5h ago
Thats exactly what it is i think its the one from the crystal 600 puff brand
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u/FantasticPast2579 5h ago
Crystals are grey and opaque this looks like a lost Mary one (I dabble in flavoured air)
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u/igotnothineither 5h ago
We use to have to get creative to hide skunky weed kids these days can’t even get rid of plastic.
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u/ParrishThePoet 5h ago
I know it has been answered but depending on what kind of vape it is, you may need to have a super serious talk with your son.
The 7oh set and other stuff like it is really not good news. Have him go over to /r/addiction and see how many people are tying abd failing to get off that stuff.
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u/Sudden_Duck_4176 6h ago
I’m sorry to break it to you but your son’s IUD fell out. I honestly thought that’s what it was for a second before I zoomed in lol.
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