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  1. karam

    What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5

    Finished it yesterday, 3/5 from me, 5/5 from the wife. Really crisp and tight photography indeed, quite funny situations/quotes. Ok 4/5 ;)
  2. karam

    A DTM/Orlik Question for Those in the Know

    I'd agree that there is something fishy somewhere in tobacco. Cigars seem overpriced to me (and I can't help but wonder if it's the Cuban government massively jacking up margins and the rest of the cigar industry happily hoping on the ride) and at times I wonder if pipe tobacco is very...
  3. karam

    My Recent Trip to Latvia and Smoking.

    Dunno much about Latvia, I am guessing it's a fairly poor country with probably very nice people, young population (whoever hasn't left as it's happened across Eastern Europe and Balkans) and positive economic outlook. If it doesn't specifically have to be Latvia, would you look at other...
  4. karam

    Zippo Fuel Lighter - Taste?

    Zippos look great, feel great and sound great. I have many ones as I seem to be getting them for birthday presents over many years but never use them because I too am sensitive to the fluid taste. That said, I am a pleb who exclusively uses Bic lighters, and stand by the idea that they are the...
  5. karam

    Tobacco Smoke "Taste" - Taste/flavour or Aroma?

    Alcohol, tobacco, the first contact with either of them as a kid was a miserable experience, I remember thinking WHY ON EARTH DO PEOPLE DO THIS, but they have drugs in them which helped along ;)
  6. karam

    Want to Buy an Experience: McClelland Dark Star/St James Woods

    Cheers, I am not sure there's much of a conversation to go on though, I am in contact with a few members who reached out :)
  7. karam

    Estervals and UPS

    $25 is about what P&P costs from Germany to Switzerland! Plus there is a tax-free import limit of 250g of tobacco/adult/day which means stonking big - as @sablebrush52 had put it - orders are not a good idea for me... Which sucks because there're a few things stocked by Estervals which I really...
  8. karam

    Estervals and UPS

    Whoah, that package looks enormous, I think these could fit in a box half as big? Good luck with that Celtic Talisman, I tried a sample once and found it vile.
  9. karam

    Cigars to Pipes...No Looking Back

    Very true, that's what's keeping me from buying any appreciable number of cigars - it's expensive! A pipe bowl may cost $1-2 so chucking it is no big deal. Re OP: it's not, or it doesn't have to be either/or, both are good.
  10. karam

    What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5

    Watching Ripley, after a slowish start it’s become captivating. Very well made too.
  11. karam

    Red Virginias

    HU Janneman Flake is outstanding for my taste.
  12. karam

    Want to Buy an Experience: McClelland Dark Star/St James Woods

    Alright, I've contemplated making this post for a long time. I want to treat myself to an experience, a one-time thing. I am aware the offer price is ~15-30% lower than 4noggins prices today, so please don't point it out. Not intending to flip, trade or save. I'd like to buy a tin (50g) each...
  13. karam

    UK Tobacco Ban On The Way

    I thought you Scandies are excited about and crave more taxes ;)
  14. karam

    Current Latakia Production

    Last thing I'd read was that essentially there's no Latakia tobacco produced in Cyprus for many years. What's done, apparently, is the tobacco is grown in Cyprus, then shipped to Turkey to get turned into Latakia, then shipped back to Cyprus to be packaged and exported as Cyprus Latakia. One...
  15. karam

    What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5

    Finished “Fool me once”. Not bad, not great, 3-5. Very convoluted story which, again, gets resolved very fast in the end. Some less than plausible sequences.
  16. karam

    I'm Bloody Livid: Amazon Refuse to Sell Me a Set of Kitchen Knives.

    I am not a knife buff, but I know and like to keep knives sharp. One of the best knives we have at home was bought in a Sainsbury's in Birmingham ~25 years ago, and another was bought in IKEA again around Birmingham, ~20 years ago. These knives I took with me from the UK to Greece and now...
  17. karam

    I'm Bloody Livid: Amazon Refuse to Sell Me a Set of Kitchen Knives.

    True, but still light years better than the rest of the planet.
  18. karam

    Does Smoking Change Taste of Food?

    Not sure about piping because I am not a piper, when my nose pipes are blocked I certainly lose the sense of taste. Smoking a pipe has probably blunted my sense of taste over time, but nothing like cigarettes did.
  19. karam

    What are You Watching? [2024] Please Rate 1-5

    Hah, sharp!
  20. karam

    Aging and Cellaring Tobacco

    As @sablebrush52 has said about a thousand times, ageing doesn't improve tobaccos, it changes them. I have had sublime aged tobacco, and others which were 10 times better right out the tin.
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