you know it just occurred to me, that its an ice CATCHER not an ice HOLDER! maybe hes right and were oing shit wrong, and that pinch is only there to prevcent ice from accidentally falling into your bong water. like in the event of some sort of weird ice cube storm. it would be all "look out! falling ice! dontget it in the bong water or were gonna get holes in our throat!" and then you could be like "no p[roblem, ive gotn an ice catcher". that woudl look alot coller than like the same thing and you saying"i cant do shit, my bong is straight!". and then you could be trapped among the ice(stormed down previously), with a bong you cant smoke and no one to save you. but more importantly youd have pot and no way of smoking it, unless someone had papers or something(but we dont have a thread to find out how ice affects papers yet now do we?).

yeah...you should post a pic of your bong, that would be like the ultimate thread ender.