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The Value of Handling Tobacco?
I guess if we want to go back to life expectancy of 40-50 years old, we can continue with the idea that the human body, and our choices, are greater than the natural adversaries out there. We make this political, but it isn't. I see pasteurization is the new political football. How ridiculous...- Zeno Marx
- Post #75
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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The Value of Handling Tobacco?
Mark Twain had a great quote about the essence of this: "Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." I grew up in a very small farm town to barely high school educated parents. I was exposed to...- Zeno Marx
- Post #67
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff
If you think inflation is a problem here, you literally wouldn't want to live anywhere else on the planet (going by this lone metric).- Zeno Marx
- Post #508
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff
Yell it for the crowd in the back. The only guarantee is change, and even if the gallery says it is for the better, it might not be the case for you.- Zeno Marx
- Post #441
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Losing My Taste For Tobacco
if it is C-19 related, and if you have the means/incredible insurance, they do have procedures that help bring back taste. there's an outpatient surgery/shot in the neck area into a gland that is said to help those longhauler C-19 people who lost all their taste. maybe heard about this on 60...- Zeno Marx
- Post #27
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Losing My Taste For Tobacco
when I was growing up, a family friend developed an allergy to dust, or dust mites, and they lost their taste and smell. there was little they could do about it, because dust is difficult to remove entirely. I've wondered if I not only have allergies to pollen, but also now dust. or something...- Zeno Marx
- Post #23
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Losing My Taste For Tobacco
allergies? Between C-19 2 or 3 times, and allergies developing before the pandemic, I've lost a lot of taste. I've considered moving to another part of the country. have you tried pre-smoking preparation? as in, food or drink, to prepare your taste buds. Traditional compliments, like...- Zeno Marx
- Post #6
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What Are You Listening To? - November, 2024
I like to take notes as I listen to music, and I listen to music a lot. Else Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard - Svævninger 2013 - if you've ever been interested in minimalism, but have had little success getting into it, maybe try this album. This is tonal minimalism, while most often you'll run...- Zeno Marx
- Post #129
- Forum: General Discussion
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Plastic for Storing Tobacco?
Plastic seepage is real. I've lost heritage flours to plastic containers, before I knew better. Food, tobacco...ingestables...keep away from plastic. A couple months is one thing, but beyond that, no-no. Glass is the gold standard as far as I'm concerned.- Zeno Marx
- Post #8
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Refreshing Pipes Unauthorized Use of my Name on eBay
I know a lot of people have problems with the ebay platform, but the problem is the people. in this instance, hate the player, not the game. I don't like to begrudge people who are trying to make a buck, but there's a lot of saddening behavior happening with the pipe sellers on ebay these days...- Zeno Marx
- Post #34
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Dedicated Pipes
I've only dedicated pipes these days for heavy ghosters, ie a cob that I only smoke with Big N' Burley and Picayune. And I wouldn't have done it, but those tobaccos demanded it. I could smoke paper shavings out of that cob, and they would taste like those two tobaccos. When I first started...- Zeno Marx
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Less is More
I think labeling it as "work" is not really useful or accurate. It's more about a type of dissonance, or maybe an unnecessary noise related to too many options. It's not as if it is unusual. Children offered too many options often show signs of frustration, irritation, and being overwhelmed...- Zeno Marx
- Post #36
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Less is More
Minimalism is the anti contemporary. For some, it isn't about being contrary. I haven't been able to put a finger on it for myself. Brain chemistry? Socialization reaction? Ethics? Economic trauma or necessity? I know when I watched Jeff Goldblum have three of the same suits in The Fly...- Zeno Marx
- Post #33
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Didn't Worry About Packing and Guess What?
Yep. We had a customer who smoked 1LB of Lane HGL every 10 days or so, and he one-handedly packed his bowls out of his pouch in seconds while inevitably doing something else with the other hand. There was no technique. Repetition and feel. I can remember a particular instance when he was...- Zeno Marx
- Post #32
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Didn't Worry About Packing and Guess What?
One of the modern trends in tobacco...and really, every hobby now...is the overthinking and "please hold my hand" trepidation. There's no figuring out anything on your own. From how do you hold it to how do you look at it to how do you buy it to how do you x, y, and z it. For a hobby that is so...- Zeno Marx
- Post #20
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Removing Ghosts
I should have included in my first post about using a tube brush, Dawn, and warm running water...that in preparation for the wash, I cut the cake like normal, which isn't quite sanding, but it's nearly bare wood. and then use a Scotch scrub pad to wash the inside of the bowl while I'm tube...- Zeno Marx
- Post #45
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Removing Ghosts
I believe most of a ghost is in the shank (upwards of 90%, if I was guessing). 3 rounds of tube brush, Dawn dishwashing soap, and warm running water will likely do the trick in a total of less than 10 minutes. At least 48 hours drying time. Don't fear the water. Briar is tough stuff. The only...- Zeno Marx
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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What Pipe Brand Don’t You Own But Want To?
In the earlyish/mid 90s, I sold off 90% my pipe collection, as I stopped smoking a pipe. I miss two of them and would love to have them back. Two different makers, neither of which I have represented in my collection now. One of them came up for auction on ebay a few years ago, and I wasn't in...- Zeno Marx
- Post #96
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Meerschaum - Don't Touch?
I believe it was CAO or SMS (leaning more towards CAO) that marketed a line of meerschaums that were coated so you could handle them like any other pipe. I've only seen a couple of them, and they were VERY shiny. anyone remember those? My 4th or 5th pipe was a meerschaum, and my mentor, the...- Zeno Marx
- Post #49
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Pipes With a Restrictive Draw
The more I think about that quote, the more I wonder if he just didn't like to have to fiddle with pipe cleaners. To want a pipe cleaner to go through with almost no resistance is sort of a head scratcher in a way. It IS the downside of the narrower airways, but the brightside to that is that...- Zeno Marx
- Post #50
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion