America V'S Britain or E.U. rolling contest

I been reading about how Americans always use bongs and pipes and the like. I wanted to know if u Americans can actually ROLL!! so mabey the two could send pics of joints and faces of the aftermath of them

 

Oh hell yes I can roll you just wait until tonight and you'll see my artwork. That's like a slap in face, if you're an american Show off your Rolling Skills.

 

does that joint have a roach? id say it wud be so much easier rolling without a roach...

 

yanks don't put roaches in their joints normally. most canadians don't either, as far as i know. "roach" to us is the fowl smelling butt of a joint or blunt, filled with heavily resonated marijuana...just throw it in a bowl later...

i have rolled with the bits of rolled up card before, and its kind of cool, but you still can't smoke it ALL without having to taste the nasty cardboard burning, so i end up putting them out with some unburned roach weed anyway...so i just don't bother putting them in

lots of people here don't roll because good marijuana here is very expensive and not to be wasted in joints when you get almost 100% of the smoke in your lungs if you smoke out of a bowl. joints and blunts are only rolled with cheap, low quality weed (compared to the quality of marijuana available in much of canada and europe)

all things considered, i think the european folks probably are much more skilled rollers on the whole, but mostly because you roll in a different manner and most people here just find it easier to avoid it all together. i know a ton of people that can't roll smokable blunts and even more people who can't roll joints. but anyone can pack up a bowl...


another thought though is that due to a lower quality of product in the US, more people have taken to smoking blunts rather than joints or bowls, whereas to my knowledge people outside of north america very rarely, if ever, roll blunts. it can be damn tricky, and its a different kind of process entirely. i've seen blunts be split and then wrapped around an entire 3.5 to 4g of marijuana before. thats quite a feat, and it comes out nearly the original thickness of the cigar.

 

here in australia, we use cardbaord roaches, to have somehting to hold on to, and sorta act as an end to suck through. i put it out with half a centimetre or so until the roach, and so i still have some to put in the bong. it makes it harder to roll thought because the roach is an actual object, as opposed to freemoving particles.

 

Here in Hong Kong we use roaches as well. I can't actually think how a J would work without one. Wouldn't your stuff just get pulled through into your mouth when you dragged?

 

Here in America my friends and i started to use the cardboard roach it does work much better then one without.

I have never had that happen. The bud is packed enough to hold through the drag.

 

Are you putting the roach in before you roll?

I've never actually rolled, but I've watched people rolling. The trick is to roll *without* putting the roach in...then once the joint is rolled, twist the piece of card into the a tight roach. You should be able to get it tight enough to poke into the end of the joint, then it'll loosen itself against the rolling paper and stay secure

 

Wat i do to,
with a roach it makes the end of the joint less "bogged" up so its more passable between mates and makes it easier to drag out of.

 

it looks like amerika won the rolling contest...as there was only one entry

 

well, yeh we lost because of lazyness dam looks like u Americans can handle ur shit better then us too

 

here's a picture from the British
(now bear in mind the perspective and that the spliff was far longer than it looks here. Two feet long. We called it the 'quarter-staff' because it had a quarter of grass in it {and some hash} was very smooth.)
We hung it from the ceiling for people to take turns toking. Looks like a the 'Ja-sword of damocles'! Was very smooth.

It was rolled by ONE PERSON (although other people had to hold each end at the start) using rips for skins and no mats.

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LOL! I think we have taken the lead then by several feet! Wat happened wen it got to the first string tho?

 

There's no way americans can roll better than europeans!! Bowls & bongs appears to be ur speciality. Rolling J's is mine!!!


Although traditionally people used to roll and put the roach in afterwards, more and more people now pre-roach, which clearly makes more sense as you're then rolling the paper round the roach and it has to be a snug fit, why try and make the roach fit the hole? Its a pain especially when caned!

So no weed is wasted I only but tobacco in about the last 1/2 cm before the roach (obviously this isnt an option if ur smoking blunts with no baccy)

The joint smokes 10 x more smoothly with a roach with better air flow, especially if you build cones as ur going from a wide end to a narrow roach.

I'll try and and sort you out a picture of one of my patented 'party spliffs' which can vary from 6-12 inches in length depending how many people are partaking. Any bigger and it gets a bit harsh towards the end.

 

Impressive stuff man, especially if it smoked all the way down smooth!

I'll see if i can post a pic of one of me fat/phat cones!

 

Yeh, holy shit the skin towards the end must have been soaked in resin *drools*

 

the strings were on a movable slipknot ofcourse

i differ on this. i put the roach in afterwards and expand the spiral of card by putting a pokey thing in against the central tip of the spiral and twisting till it is tensioned out and fits perfectly with the surrounding paper.


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yea but if you think about it that aint logical cos ur having to make the roach fit the hole which is a bit fiddly especially when stoned.

If you pre-roach then the paper cant possibly be loose cos ur rolling directly around the roach. Also the roach acts as a rolling aid (although it doesnt appear that you especially need one) and cen be the foundation for the spliff, once the roach is in position the rest of the spliff practically rolls itself cos you've got a good firm base to hold on too.

I guess its whatever suits but i'm seeing more and more people converting in and around manchester and in A'dam thats all I ever see anyone doing.

Promise you'll try it a few times andd see what you think and if you still prefer post roll roaching fair comment.

Let me know how you go on!!

 

i've tried it pre-roll and find that its difficult to judge the size since the mix is of a variable volume. if the roach is bigger than the mix you get a short joint, if its smaller you get a long pencil. but i suppose thats all relative anyway.
habits die hard, i'm a post-roll roacher

Manchester? I lived there for six years. That picture was taken in a tower block in Salford.
Manchester kicks ass!!!

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Ive always found roaching afterwards just messes up the natural way the spliff goes the roach somtimes wen i do that basically rips the joint open and its much harder to judge pre rolled as u havnt really rolled it yet...