r/whatisit • u/AmoebaSuccessful3393 • 6h ago

New, what is it? What are these little plastic things i have found in my sons room

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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/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.
I didn't do well in school.

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u/NonStopGravyTrain 5h 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/skydriver13 4h ago

Arguably, intelligence and college degrees are not causally related, either. One of the dumbest people I know is an engineer. Ive met some less-than-stellar doctors and lawyers, too. The people earning a degree with a 2.0 GPA have the same title as the people with a 4.0 GPA.

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u/-Wicked- 4h ago

I agree and it's a good thing you didn't properly dispose of those cigarette butts. Now some of them are out there saving lives and building a better future...

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u/Tyrannofelis 3h ago

Or they are dumb doctors and engineers.

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u/Fantastic_Arrival_82 3h ago

Unfortunately sense is anything but common

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u/Exact_Ad5777 5h ago

Im cracking up imagining the slow reveal of all the butts day by day lmao

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u/Burd3l 3h ago

This is too great