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What Are You Listening To - March, 2025
There are definitely some people who way over-use the "they don't make them like they used to" phrase but man is it true here. The 70's/disco era was a definite high-water mark for production value of baseline pop-music. Between the liberal use of string and brass ensembles and the technology...- NookersTheCat
- Post #49
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Listening To - March, 2025
This was the exact video that (coinciding with my own guitar-learning journey) made me realize just how talented/underappreciated Prince actually was.. before this performance catalyzed me doing a dive into his other lesser-known material I literally thought he was just another Michael Jackson...- NookersTheCat
- Post #48
- Forum: General Discussion
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Glocks are as Generic as a 1911
No it's true there are a few other legacy designs that are technically DA/SA... I have a S&W 5906 too, but I should have specified, I'm more talking about something with a decocker that's a reasonable concealed carry size. Add in a polymer frame and hammerless and you basically get the P99 or...- NookersTheCat
- Post #101
- Forum: General Discussion
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Are we Really Losing That Much With the Closures of Mac Baren and Sutliff?
I missed out on Black House :/ I think I have at least one crusty old partial tin of it laying around somewhere... I would have loved to have gotten a half dozen just for variety but my main indulgence is Magnum Opus with second being Bengal Slices so... between my 36 tins of the former and 18...- NookersTheCat
- Post #244
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Are we Really Losing That Much With the Closures of Mac Baren and Sutliff?
As a Balkan lover myself idt people still realize how much of a loss this is. I think that area was his undisputed kingdom- NookersTheCat
- Post #239
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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More Disruption
Altria Just an FYI, We'll see what this means if anything...- NookersTheCat
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- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Glocks are as Generic as a 1911
This (and the previous debate here) is again why I (personally) believe the DA/SA to be THE superior pistol action type. It literally solves every single problem/tradeoff debated here and on every other gun forum ad infinitum lol. I carry round chambered, double action. No safeties, no...- NookersTheCat
- Post #95
- Forum: General Discussion
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What are You Watching? [2025] Please Rate 1-5
Wow! I had no idea Sheridan was involved in all that, I thought he was just some actor! Completely agree though I love pretty much everything he does.. Wind River was excellent at showing the modern plight of the Native Americans without pandering or guilt-shaming and ofc Renner and his...- NookersTheCat
- Post #86
- Forum: General Discussion
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What are You Watching? [2025] Please Rate 1-5
Amazing show for both, I've told my girlfriend we need to start it as well. The women enjoy the relationship drama part ofc but it's definitely by no means a soap-opera... the costumes, set design, and tertiary world-building make it probably the most compelling and historically accurate...- NookersTheCat
- Post #85
- Forum: General Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
Moonshine Deviled Egg... Jarring up some of my cellar before it starts getting crispy and channeling my inner KC, just in the PA Northwoods rather than the WV southwoods... I left my ole model '73 and Blackhawk in the safe.... but don't think that don't mean I can't grab 'em quick enough if any...- NookersTheCat
- Post #3,467
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Carl Jung and The Importance of Pipe Smoking
There's actually a pretty interesting movie on Netflix rn that pertains perfectly to this thread... didn't see if it was already mentioned... Freud's Last Session. It stars Anthony Hopkins and centers around a discussion/debate he and C.S. Lewis had when they met each other, coincidentally...- NookersTheCat
- Post #105
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Are Balkan Blends Actually Balkan?
Yeah again, we tend to get into highly subjective areas with this kinda thing but my understanding based off blending components is essentially a Balkan as being "An English blend with more Latakia and Orientals than Virginia" (at least in flavor profile) I'm sure it came about simply as a...- NookersTheCat
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Kapitanskiy: Captain's rum from Leningrad
Super interesting find! This also brings up another interesting question I've wondered before... are Balkan blends actually Balkan? lol I mean if we had gone to that area of the world would the people who live and smoke there actually be smoking this type of tobacco? Probably not if I had to...- NookersTheCat
- Post #4
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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What are You Watching? [2025] Please Rate 1-5
Rewatching this one again as we speak. I'd give it a solid 3.5 I love the cinematography, action, and historical matter but the main characters/plot-line are just so annoying to me lol. My favorite characters are definitely the 2 pipers, ofc haha. Jim Bridger and the army captain. To me...- NookersTheCat
- Post #80
- Forum: General Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
🎶 I owe, I owe, so off to work I go! 🎶 Time to pay for that panic-packed cellar 🙃 lol- NookersTheCat
- Post #3,279
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
Try Gentlemen Caller as well, another great Tongue blend!- NookersTheCat
- Post #3,272
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Carl Jung and The Importance of Pipe Smoking
This^ as far as I'm concerned. One of the greatest insights I'd ever heard was in my "Drugs, Alcohol, & Society" elective I took in college where we had a group of AA members talk to us about their experiences. One of the members said something to the effect of "I always had an issue in the...- NookersTheCat
- Post #97
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Glocks are as Generic as a 1911
Personally I'm really getting sick of all these glock clones myself. Sure, Glock is a legendary revolutionary firearm design. But the flooding of the market with every single company making every single pistol exactly the same except for some milling cuts is getting old fast. Personally I'm a...- NookersTheCat
- Post #37
- Forum: General Discussion
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Bone Dry Tobacco
You guys definitely have a great microclimate as far as that's concerned. I'm in the Northeast part of PA (to the west of the beginning part of northern Appalachia) in a valley. Up here we have the benefit in that our hotter summers AND colder winters give us a pretty great growing climate as...- NookersTheCat
- Post #59
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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How to Smoke a Full Bowl Without Altering the Taste?
Good to know I'm not just the only completely inept pipe smoker on earth... after over a decade now I figured I'd never be able to learn this fabled 'only correct way' of smoking lol Guess I'm gonna have to keep with my heathen methods of using a sacrificial RYO-grade "filter" layer in the...- NookersTheCat
- Post #34
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions