So just out of curiosity, I bought a $20 or so little bubbler. I got it and it took me a full ten minutes before I realized the thing was uncleanable (one piece), and that it just has a little sphere on the top with a hole in its North Pole area where, apparently, you stick a doobie.
BZZZZT! What a waste of smoke!! You gotta stick a doobie in the top hole to draw the smoke through a tablespoon of water. I will never waste weed like that.
It looks like an analogue of this -- with these differences: It does NOT come apart. There are NO rubber stoppers like in this pic. It is ONE little piece (palm of hand) unlike the example shown which comprises three pieces.
Just squoosh in the wide bottom to a cylinder a thumb-width same as the upper area.
The bottom (water reservoir) is
tiny, not like the Ehrlenmeyer flask style bottom shown. Clever glass blowing, I guess, but it reduced the thing to uselessness.
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I decided to see the thing function (without wasting precious grass), so I held the angled mouth pipe under a faucet. HAH! Dumped out 90%. Found I could not draw the gentlest bit without getting a mouthful of water.
Kept on lowering the amount of water until I got to a tablespoon or so. Then, if I drew carefully on the angled pipe, it worked. It bubbled. Meh.
So I dumped the water out. No I didn't -- no matter how I jiggled, shook and tapped, some water stayed trapped in the thing. Jeez.