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  1. MisterBadger

    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    Here in the market square in Ludlow is a captured Russian cannon, taken from the siege of Sevastopol - one of hundreds, but I often wonder if it might have been one commanded by the young Lieutenant Lev Nikolaievich Tolstoy (I often have to resist the temptation to tell tourists that it is). :)...
  2. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    And what do you make of it? I found it rather like Hal O' The Wynd's rather shy kid brother, with not a lot to say for himself.
  3. MisterBadger

    Religious discussion: Why there are so many denominations

    The Disciple by Rudyard Kipling He that hath a Gospel To loose upon Mankind, Though he serve it utterly— Body, soul and mind— Though he go to Calvary Daily for its gain— It is His Disciple Shall make his labour vain. He that hath a Gospel For all earth to...
  4. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang

    Not a lover of aromatics myself, but I may blend it with a relatively low nicotine, well-behaved Virginia.
  5. MisterBadger

    Do You Associate Pipe Smoking with a Sense of Spirituality?

    @rakovsky - I looked up the English lyrics while listening to the song on YouTube. It made the hairs on my arms stand up. I'm fond of war poetry (when I'm in a certain mood), and this one certainly hits the spot. Thank you. If anyone's interested, you can hear the song and follow the words in...
  6. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang

    :eek: In that case, I recommend that you don't set fire to the Thuoc Lao, but chew it instead :-) You barbarian :ROFLMAO:
  7. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang

    As Nietzsche said: "What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." :ROFLMAO: As a nicotine addict for most of my life, I now seriously wonder if this were the only tobacco left in the world, would I smoke it? I really don't know. Next time, I may try it with a rum topping: I think the...
  8. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    The shortest day of the year... doing the last of the Christmas shopping (please God) and flowers and a card for Mrs Badger's birthday. Town rammed again. In the market square, the Mennonite Brethren huddled together singing Christmas carols, while just over the way in the Castle Square car...
  9. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang

    Hmmm... just how well done do you like your duck?
  10. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    "(She), The Faithful One", if my Turkish is up to the mark? Lovely name for a lovely-looking pipe. Good to see it's not just me and Carl Jung who name their pipes - I was beginning to worry :-)
  11. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang

    Hmm. Maybe I should have gotten some betel nut along with the weed, to take away the godawful taste :-/
  12. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang

    I'll be very interested to see what you make of the stuff. And I recommend a small bowled pipe.
  13. MisterBadger

    Do You Like Snow?

    This is not strictly true. In some parts of UK, people are used to snow in winter. I used to work on the south coast, and you could often tell where your colleagues came from, by whether they managed to get in to work or not. An inch of snow, and two thirds of the workforce would either arrive...
  14. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Please don't take anything I say here too seriously, either. Like @mawnansmiff, I come from a Northern subculture where you insult people you like. You know, many (if not most) Brits from the South can't follow Rab C Nesbitt (if you haven't seen that show I recommend you have a hunt on YouTube...
  15. MisterBadger

    Haunted Bookshop and Pirate Kake first timer

    You might do a lot worse than try MacBaren's HH Burley Flake, or their Old Dark Fired.
  16. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Today is what we call 'Frantic Friday' over here, when as many as can, take to the highway to extend their Christmas Holiday visits to the maximum, while others keep shopping as if stocking up for the Apocalypse, realising that their Christmas won't be perfect without some quail's eggs or larks'...
  17. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I am wholly with you regarding the absurd, recent fashion for latter-day heads of this or that organisation making (or being required to make) global public apology (sometimes, even on our behalf) for awful things done by their (or our) predecessors centuries ago - if not to actually make...
  18. MisterBadger

    Questions for Leonardw

    Leonard, I would like to echo the thanks of those here who have already done so, for the time and trouble you've been taking to clarify the situation and offer a cautious prognisis for the future, to the best of your knowlege and ability. However, your comments thus seem to have (understandably)...
  19. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Yes... nontheless the Anglican Communion still professes belief in 'The Holy Catholic Church" in the Creeds. The worshipper can of course interpret that privately as meaning the universal Church... Bavaria, I think, was officially Catholic until is subsumation into the German Reich in 1871...
  20. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    And - to save you the trouble of calling it to mind and mentioning it - 'Christmas Time' by Cliff Richard. But then, there's Mariah Carey... not to mention Katherine Kennicott Davis, who wrote 'The Little Drummer Boy'... "Aw, look - the poor lady's fagged out after giving birth, and her baby's...
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