I read somewhere there’s a reason for that. The smoke actually does follow you around. I get it at my house burning incense. I even keep a fan to push smoke offof me but it still finds me.
That explains why when you’re alone by the fire, but it doesn’t explain why there’s always one unlucky bastard when it’s a large group. There’s plenty of bodies so it’s not just air pressure pulling the smoke. It’s fate that someone must be the sacrificial smoked lamb.
Decades ago I was at the Visitors Center for the Western band of Cherokee and this woman was giving a talk next to a campfire, and the wind kept shifting. She kept moving and finally coughed and then apologized for the smoke blowing in everyone’s faces.
There was another guy there who was clearly hitting on her, and he said, “they say smoke follows beauty.” With comedic timing the wind shifted and blew the smoke towards him, and she, quick as lightning, said, “Smoke follows wind.”
(And in case you don’t know, in American English when someone is “windy” they talk a lot and don’t say much)
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Me when a friend smokes near me:
Ha. I have glasses
This is the way of the fire.
I read somewhere there’s a reason for that. The smoke actually does follow you around. I get it at my house burning incense. I even keep a fan to push smoke offof me but it still finds me.
I just now found a lot of links explaining it. Here’s one. https://anenglishmanoutdoors.com/2021/11/why-does-campfire-smoke-follow-you/
That explains why when you’re alone by the fire, but it doesn’t explain why there’s always one unlucky bastard when it’s a large group. There’s plenty of bodies so it’s not just air pressure pulling the smoke. It’s fate that someone must be the sacrificial smoked lamb.
The nature selection or so I am told when I do something stupid and end up hurting myself.
SciShow has a video explaining the physics behind this. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgxO7vhlF7A
Slpt - Burn two fires a few feet away from each other and sit in the middle.
mosquitoes HATE this simple trick!
Thank you for reminding me. 😛 I’m camping this weekend.
We have a saying in Finland “savu seuraa lampaannussijaa” which roughly translates “The smoke follows the one that fucks sheep.”
Decades ago I was at the Visitors Center for the Western band of Cherokee and this woman was giving a talk next to a campfire, and the wind kept shifting. She kept moving and finally coughed and then apologized for the smoke blowing in everyone’s faces.
There was another guy there who was clearly hitting on her, and he said, “they say smoke follows beauty.” With comedic timing the wind shifted and blew the smoke towards him, and she, quick as lightning, said, “Smoke follows wind.”
(And in case you don’t know, in American English when someone is “windy” they talk a lot and don’t say much)
I can relate to this. Every time.
It do be like tht
Y’all are killing it. Kudos for making me laugh everyday 😂