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  1. badbeard

    Ruminations on the Individuality of Pipes

    Has anyone else noticed that very few other methods of tobacco consumption seem to induce the various neuroses that briar pipes do? Briar is psychotropic - that's the only plausible explanation for it. Other side effects may include: Feeling more contemplative, using twenty random words when two...
  2. badbeard

    Down With Tin Note!

    Quit worrying about what other people do and do what you do.
  3. badbeard

    Nice To See Smokingpipes Showing Some Love To Brigham

    I tend towards this attitude too; however, one thing I discovered about the rock maple inserts is that it greatly simplifies keeping the shank area clean, as it all gets trapped in the insert. You pretty much don't need to worry about tar and funk collecting in there since the insert end seals...
  4. badbeard

    Cigar Leaf: Does it belong in Pipe Tobacco?

    It belongs if you like it. Personal preference, I like cigars, and I like pipe tobacco.. but I don't mix the two in either method of consumption. I've yet to come across a cigar with pipe leaf, or a pipe blend with cigar leaf that does either justice. Sort of a "Trying to be two things at once...
  5. badbeard

    Is Meat Eating Going the Way of Tobacco Smoking?

    Coronal mass ejection.. we need one. Like a modern day Carrington Event. Lets see these folks survive for a couple months without their morning star farms, mass produced, vitamin enriched boxed meat substitutes. If outright starvation doesn't get them it will be a lack of bioavailable B12. I am...
  6. badbeard

    What are Your Hobbies?

    To all you "pipe smoking isn't a hobby" folks. I pondered this at length. I even looked up the definition in Webster's Dictionary just to be sure.. "an activity outside of one's regular occupation that is engaged in primarily for pleasure" I then asked my wife, based on that definition, what...
  7. badbeard

    Nice To See Smokingpipes Showing Some Love To Brigham

    Brigham pipes are awesome. Pretty much the only filter pipe that I personally found actually makes a significant difference without impeding any aspect of the smoking experience. My only beef with them is the two I have had(admittedly their cheaper ones), seem to be pretty weighty. I wonder, are...
  8. badbeard

    How do You Decide on New Pipe Purchases?

    If it's under 75 bucks, I will pretty much impulse buy whatever tickles the pickle.. No requirements, I am way to moody for that. Higher $$ than that, I have to go find the keeper of the box where my balls reside and shower her with compliments and flattery. Sometimes she gives me the key to the...
  9. badbeard

    Your Cellar Size

    We just bought a house, and while moving I set two big totes of stuff on the gate of the moving truck. My wife, bless her heart, in an effort to be organized wrote in giant billboard sized words, "TOBACCO/CIGARS" on the sides of the totes. Apparently it was a really effective advertisement...
  10. badbeard

    Erik Nording Hunter Series

    I have not owned the Hunter series, but I have owned two Valhallas, a Classic, and a Compass. All were well made. The Valhallas and Classic were both on the hefty side for their size(particularly bowl heavy), so if you are a clencher you may not care for that. Finishes, drilling, and stems were...
  11. badbeard

    Interesting Quote

    Hmm... I think it would more effectively communicate the dead-horse point they were trying to make if they said, "like calling a drug dealer a pharmacist". Not exactly what I call mastery of satire, even if I do agree with it.
  12. badbeard

    Does Tea reduce the risks of tabacco pipe smoking?

    Humans have become so obsessed with cheating death, neurotically evaluating every potential future danger. How much life, lived this way, is wasted reading medical studies that are conjecture, or torturing yourself with the latest wave of health fads. Avoiding dangerous life. You end up possibly...
  13. badbeard

    Covid /Palate Fatigue/Palate Cleansing

    Had the same covid taste / anxiety it wouldn't return, thing happen to me. In my case, my sense of taste and smell just vanished overnight. One day I was on my front porch enjoying the hell out of a Parodi Ammezzati, and then the next morning I lit one up and it was just warm air. The only...
  14. badbeard

    Falcon Negatives?

    I have had six of them with a variety of bowls. They absolutely do have a metallic taste at first. The OP asked specifically about potential negatives, so don't be surprised when people aren't shooting rainbows from their backsides about them. If you like it, smoke it.
  15. badbeard

    Pipes With Thin Or Narrow Mouthpieces?

    Also Charatan pipes have the "Double Comfort" stem, which is stepped down quite thin.