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Swallowed some grimey crap from my hose


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My hose has not been cleaned for a while, and today i set up the hookah and took my first puff and a bunch of crap went into my mouth. I spat most of it out but i accidently swallowed some.

I'm not sure what it was but it looked like burnt coal ashes or something.

Now i am just worried that it was toxic or something. Any advice?
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you have the case of the never cleaned hose/hookah.... clean your hose out or if you have the 10 bucks buy a new hose and start from scratch cleaning it after every few uses ... try getting a mya hose too so you know youll get something that will last a while
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Don't worry about it, boss. I sometimes use a 10 yr old Syrian with original hose that has been passed down through family liniage and as you could imagine from time to time I get a bit of 10-year-old hose muck in my mouth. It tastes like poop when that happens, but to me it's worth it in order to pay regular respects to the legendary pipe.
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[quote name='The Dude Abides']Don't worry about it, boss.  I sometimes use a 10 yr old Syrian with original hose that has been passed down through family liniage and as you could imagine from time to time I get a bit of 10-year-old hose muck in my mouth.  It tastes like poop when that happens, but to me it's worth it in order to pay regular respects to the legendary pipe.[/quote]

Wait a minute Dude, don't you have a chronic cough? ;) I mean that humorously but I really wonder about it after thinking about it?
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[quote="Scalliwag"][quote=The Dude Abides]

Wait a minute Dude, don't you have a chronic cough? ;) I mean that humorously but I really wonder about it after thinking about it?[/quote]

Well, by "regular" payings of respect I'm talking about once every 3-4 months, usually during a formal social gathering that requires the most prestigious of pipe. It's been about 6 months now, as I didn't bring it with me on my move from Seattle to NYC.
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"so i was sucking this old thing, and got some gunk in my mouth, tried to spit it out but swallowed some "

hmmm that sounds like so many stories ive heard before :P but yea you should be fine and dandy, just get a new hose.
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[quote name='EvansLight'][quote name='ioannisds']You are going to die.[/quote]

lol kinda pesemistic there aint we iaon XD oh and while your here, you get any word on that hookah you won?[/quote]

No, I still haven't received it yet :cry: . It has been nearly two months now. I e-mailed Bilal yesterday to find out what was up, and this time he told me he was in Egypt at the moment, and his partner was supposed to have shipped it out to me. He asked me for my address again, and said he'd get her right on it. To be honest, I'm not holding my breath. It's gone from being one week or so to get made and sent out (right after the contest), to a promise of it being shipped out right after the Arab festival (which ended on the 10th), to this latest information. You guys will be the first to know if I do in fact receive it.
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get a mya washable hose. The technique i learned for cleaning a hose that works 100 percent of the time is the smacking method. Someone posted it on this forum a while back, i apologize if you are not credited and are reading this. You grab your hose by the head and the plug, and choke up your grip so you are holding both ends of the hose on the HOSE part not the wood parts. Then take your hose and smack it violently on the ground a number of times, this shakes up all the particles- then wash it out with water, and make sure the water goes in the mouth end and out the stem end otherwise youll get shit on your first puff. Cheers! hope this works
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[quote name='skimo']yeah thats what i do, i always wondered if it was bad for your hose[/quote]

not if you hold it like i described. If you hold it by the stem and head it will break it, but if you hold it by the hose parts only it will work fine. Make sure that the head and stem never hit the ground. I broke one hose doing that :(
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