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Chainsmokers can accomplish this. Seen it too often.
It's not nearly as hard as some think. If you're being sort of steady and not tapping it, the ash can grow very long, absolutely.
I remember as a teenager having competitions to see who could make their ash the longest without falling off
Then there was the one guy who put a needle in the cigarette to keep the ash stable while it burns down to the filter.
Martin Short did that on SNL
Might be apocryphal, but Churchill was said to do this to his cigars during meetings to distract people.
Called em cowboy ashes… even better if you can let it happen in your lips without taking it out… good times
Dude I work with smokes a pack a day just while at work. He’s 71 and tends to either tell rambling stories or just kinda space out and drift for awhile. Have legit seen his cigs go about 70% ash while he’s just gapped out forgetting to smoke or ash or move lol.
Where do you live that people are still allowed to smoke at work?
If it's not in an office and not in a state that bans it, probably a machine shop or other industrial setting
Anything that has to do with construction, any kind of trade work. You can do alot more then smoke cigs on most job sites believe me..
Probably a trade.
Northwest Indiana, baby! Come on down!
Anywhere thats not an office or a public service.
Well, it does say "hours of fun."
Some don't even need to be steady. When my dad was taking us to school he would have ashes even longer than this while he was driving and changing gears. I never once saw it fall off before he tapped it in the tray.
I knew someone who loved pulling this prank back when I was younger. He’d push a straight piece of wire down the centre of the cig, and the ash would stick until he put it out. He liked doing it for concerts when he was playing guitar.
According to legend, lawyer Clarence Darrow would distract the jury by inserting an unfolded paperclip into his cigar and allowing a baffling amount of ash to build up.
(Seems there's no solid evidence of it happening, though)
Churchill was known to do this as well.
Used to be a lot more common before the government started requiring cigarette makers to redesign the rolling paper, causing it to extinguish itself if not actively being smoked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_safe_cigarette
Before then you could light one and then fold it into a paper matchbook. Leave them somewhere and when it burned down to the matches they would ignite.
A bit of delayed fuse arson...
There's an 90s movie where one of the heroes does that near a smoke alarm as a time delayed distraction so his friend can sneak past some guards. I think it was Sean Astin in [Toy Soldiers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Soldiers_(1991_film)).
They actually did that to extend the fuse lenght on Vemork in norway under ww2 to blow up a deuterium laboratory that the germans had control over!
We used to joke about how my grandma's cigarettes were used like incense. She would have one lit and only take a few puffs here and there. Once it was done immediately spark another.
My nana did this constantly
It's a Kubrick film, you've got to wonder if there was a pin stuck down the middle to support it.
More like he makes her sit there until she gets it legitimately.
Yeah...he strangely hated her. He was so abusive to her.
He didn't hate her, it wasn't personal. He manipulated her to cause her legitimate distress so her torment would look better on camera.
Kubrick isn't a psychopath. A psychopath would get off on the wrong foot and use that as an excuse to make her entire time on set hell.
Kubrick's a sociopath. Her suffering is irrelevant as long as he gets the shot.
"Acting!"
A back in the day front page superstar lawyer, I want to say William Jennings Bryan, back when smoking was allowed in the courtroom, in his closing arguments to the jury, would put a wire in his cigarette so a very long ash was supported. The idea was that the jury would be in rapt attention waiting for that ash to fall, and would be awake and focused on his arguments.
It’s attributed to Clarence Darrow (who famously argued against Bryan in the trial on evolution).
Thank you for that clarification.
Why would there friends and I used to do this all time with joints and cigs no pin needed, just don’t ash and it stays
Tidbit of the day: sadly Shelly Duvall was nominated for a Razzie for this movie back then. The Shining and The Thing were both panned by critics on release.
Kubrick (intentionally?) treated Shelly poorly to try and make her the most emotionally unstable. So her performance could be a more natural response with how much crap she was taking from Kubrick.
I recall an old making of video of her yelling at Duvall while she was holding the prop knife feeling down :(
They rescinded the Razzie!
That is good news
There's behind the scenes footage of Shelly Duvall having clumps of her hair just falling out from stress. Really fucked up.
Oh God...Yes! I remember anticipating the ashes tumbling down!
This was meant to represent her nervousness at being questioned by the social worker. I believe in an interpretation of this film that Jack is sexually abusing Danny, and Wendy has a psychological defense mechanism to lie to herself and deny it. In this scene Danny is for some reason stripped to his briefs underpants and he is covering his genitals with both his hands. Wendy's cigarette has a long ash because she is so stressed from the situation she forgets to ash.
Further evidence for the theory, Rob Ager on youtube pointed out many of the different times Danny is associated with bears. There is a close up of his face in this scene and his head is resting on a huge bear pillow. And the owner points out Danny's bed with a picture of a bear over it and Jack responds "Perfect for a boy". Well the shocking scene when Wendy sees a man in a bear suit with his buttflap opened giving oral sex to an older man is a surreal depiction of Wendy's defense mechanism breaking down and she is realizing what Jack has been doing to Danny.
Holy fuck..... I've watched The Shining once. That movie fucked me up, but that scene with the dude in the bear suit, absolutely tripped me out. It was so random. I hated it. It haunts me to this day.
I'm 55, saw the movie in the 80s on HBO.... Fuck that movie.
In the book he was dressed as a dog man
Thanks, but that doesn't help. 😎
Oh, thank heavens, he’s not a bear
Almost 50 and saw it in the theaters the first weekend it came out (with the alternate ending before Kubrick cut it. It was in the hospital is all I remember)
Local movie theater has it every couple of years during the Halloween season. It's awesome to see on the big screen (although my youngest didn't like it because it wasn't a bloody slasher movie).
Really? I love The Shining, it’s one of my favorite movies to fall asleep to actually 😁
i saw that scene when i was younger and was horrified. couldn’t get it out of my head. still freaks me out to think about :(
Same bro.
Whoa.
Holy shit. Really? Is that just the Stanley Kubrick version?
I read the book when I was in high school, and I kind of forget it now. Was there any indication he was sexually assaulting him in the book?
No the book and movie are very different. Kubrick did his own thing
One of the more interesting bits of trivia was that while this was strongly insinuated about the molestation, the Playboy Jack is reading in the beginning is real and in it was an article on incest. Fun detail from the director pointing in this direction.
Contents: One(1) alarmingly long ash tip.
I love that detail.
I'm sorry for hating Shelly Duvall. She's been through a tough time I criticized you too much and I apologize and I hope you are doing well now
“Hours of fun”?
It better be. All work and no play.........
Also: Sixteen Candles
Any several early episodes of Married With Children.
Linda Hamilton in T2 Judgment Day would like a word
Ripley may have her beat in Aliens by just a hair in ash length.
Looked for this comment specifically. Ripley's cigarette was full length but only filter and ash.
This seems like an Obvious Plant
That’s what I thought too!
Yes, very
I love how it says, hours of fun…just like the real Thing
Just read the book. Movie is much better.
Lol amazing
wtf? Shelley Duvall was made for that role. whoever said she was awful is a complete fucking retard
She was good in it, but she was MADE to play Olive Oyl.
also true. just a bunch of haters or something who never actually watched The Shining. Hatimg on her. she had me sold with her acting in it. she seemed genuinely scared. anybody who says she did poorly in The Shining clearly doesnt watch good movies.
I haven't really seen it, but I think she was really scared. I hear the director really fucked with her until her mental state changed into the role he wanted her to portray.
haven't seen it yet has he says she says. Jesus.
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Selma and Patty?
This was when she was simply talking to a therapist about how her son's shoulder was hurt by dad pulling on it too hard when he was drunk a few months earlier.
...
You've seen the Shining... right?
EDIT: Of all the scenes in the shining... LOL. Absolutely zero issues with the downvotes.
They're referring to the ash on the cig.
And that is literally the funny thing, OP satirically saying it's the most unsettling thing.
Must be american.
It's hyperbole. Obviously this isn't actually the most unsettling thing from the Shining. They're referring to the tension of wondering if/when the ash will fall.
I was agreeing with you lol
She was so awful in that role.
She was actually absolutely brilliant
Yeeeep
I always wonder how many of such a product would they have to sell to break even?
Oh, shit! I thought that was the girl from that shitcom who fucked her daddy!
Movie is horrifying.
They dumb as shit
love it!
That certainly was a bit of an unsettling detail. But honestly, if anyone hasn’t seen this classic yet, it’s one of the best romantic comedies ever.
"Hours of fun"