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  1. Douglas

    Conflicting Pipe Smoking Advice!

    I know filters are anathema to a lot of folks but I have found balsa filters help and in my experience don’t impact the tobacco. They do affect the draw but not significantly in my experience.
  2. Douglas

    TAD Acquisitions 2024

    Gotta love the 5 Bros.
  3. Douglas

    Good and Bad Experiences Smoking in Public

    Yes, you are right. It is very simple in your understanding. I see no need to pursue our discussion further. Thank you for the exchange of ideas.
  4. Douglas

    Good and Bad Experiences Smoking in Public

    the key word there is ‘otherwise’. Yes, you might choose the other option if it didn’t violate your commitment to your oaths. That’s why I said ‘at the moment of choosing’. In your scenario, at the moment of choosing, those ’otherwise’ options aren’t on the table. However, your oath commitments...
  5. Douglas

    Good and Bad Experiences Smoking in Public

    The choice was not stay home from work and relax or go to work as expected. The choice was to do the correct thing or not. You may have really really wanted to stay home and really really not want to go to work but that was not the choice you faced. The choice faced was ‘do the right thing or...
  6. Douglas

    Good and Bad Experiences Smoking in Public

    Ah, but therein lies the rub. When you make the choice of what is correct it is precisely because what you wanted most at that moment was the correct thing.
  7. Douglas

    Good and Bad Experiences Smoking in Public

    Pipe smoking is selfish? Very few things, if any at all, are truly selfless. At the moment of choosing, within the confines of the choice to be made, we always choose what we want the most. The very definition of selfishness maybe? How’s that for overthinking it to death?!
  8. Douglas

    Show Us Your Knife (And Pipe)

    Sundays can be a little sketchy sometimes. Really like those blades.
  9. Douglas

    TAD Acquisitions 2024

    I’ve been down the cigar leaf blend rabbit hole. 1. 1/2 pound Billy Budd 2. Tin of Key Largo 3. Tin of Robusto 4. 4 oz. Chopped Cigar leaf to play around with
  10. Douglas

    Show Us Your Knife (And Pipe)

    Not sure if the Buck 110 or the Case Sodbuster will get the nod today. Probably the latter. Shown here with the Pete 302 spigot.
  11. Douglas

    Man, I love Burley. What's Your Favorite?

    I agree with an earlier poster. I don’t smoke burleys often but when I do it almost always Five Brothers. @Sobrbiker
  12. Douglas

    Traditional English Blends?

    Arango Balkan Supreme. Available in bulk. As good as any bulk or tin English out there, better than most.
  13. Douglas

    Your Own "Best" Tobacco

    Loved “spooked myself”. I can relate to that.
  14. Douglas

    Your Own "Best" Tobacco

    Arango’s Balkan Supreme but lately I have really been enjoying Billy Budd.
  15. Douglas

    What Are You Drinking? July 2024

    Coffee in the Van Gogh mug, Billy Budd in the Chacom Rustic 235, Jo Stafford’s greatest hits on Spotify via the Soundcore mini speaker.