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  1. WhiteCrown

    Supporting Local Shops

    If you enjoy buying lots of tins without regard for the cost, that's perfectly fine (it's your money) and I completely understand it. I do that with watches, which are definitely more expensive, but the value isn't arbitrarily inflated for the dealer to make more money. And watch dealers in...
  2. WhiteCrown

    Supporting Local Shops

    I hear you, and to some extent quite agree. This is a little different though, its often times the same tin of of something like GLP domestically produced from a domestic company online, versus paying 3x that price for "taxes" at a local shop. Last time I ordered from P&C they charged me the...
  3. WhiteCrown

    Supporting Local Shops

    You have some good points, and for anything else I'd just take my wallet elsewhere, but I will probably visit this B&M again. It didn't have a smoking area or free coffee, but it was the kind of store with such a selection that I could forget about ordering online, as long as the cost was only...
  4. WhiteCrown

    Supporting Local Shops

    Yeah me neither.
  5. WhiteCrown

    Supporting Local Shops

    You are right about shipping to WA. I'm not a WA resident so I can still order online to my house, I just travel a lot. I was suspecting some local WA shops are taking advantage of the shipping constraint. I guess maybe it works for them because the locals have no other choice. 95% is high...
  6. WhiteCrown

    Barrel/Basket Pipe Prices

    I'd agree with $50 tops, and in that case nothing should be melted. It seems a lot of B&M's have been raising prices to make more money... how much profit did they make on that $70 pipe that you did NOT buy? It's like they forgot that we all have the internet and credit cards.
  7. WhiteCrown

    Supporting Local Shops

    I visited a B&M yesterday in Washington State. It was a pleasant experience and the owner was very personable, and I really wanted to spend some money there, but I just couldn't bring myself to pay 3x for something that I could have at my doorstep in a week. However I want to support these...
  8. WhiteCrown

    Tell Me about Sutliff Match Victorian

    I have a half pound that's been jarred for a year, yesterday I opened the first one... tremendously more enjoyable to me than when it was fresh, more dark fruity taste and less edginess to the spice for me. For me it went from just ok, to really good, it's time to order more and get the cellar...
  9. WhiteCrown

    Briarville Repair

    I swear those pictures looked good on my little phone screen before I posted them... It's a good thing I don't try to make a living via photography. As for how long it took, I think it was a few weeks, but not sure. I had them shipped to my hose with my family while I was away for work, I...
  10. WhiteCrown

    Briarville Repair

    I just received my repair from Briarville. It was an Italian basket pipe gift with a tenon snapped. There's a little gap and the bend is ever-so-slightly off... But for $40+shipping I'm very happy with it. I've seen several of you receive new factory and handmade pipes much worse for far more...
  11. WhiteCrown

    Food & Drink in South Korea - What to Try?

    I was just in Busan a few months ago, Mom's Touch is a good fried chicken chain there. This place was my favorite though: Lol. Also their family restaurants were really good, as well as their sushi. And the steak houses. I ate a LOT haha, explore and you wont go hungry.
  12. WhiteCrown

    Who Owns a Pet With a Bit of an Attitude?

    This guy needs walks outside, at least three hours out of his cage daily so you he can poop on your shirt, carpet, etc. and he better get his bath every day, and he'll still get grumpy on occasion and bite you, it doesn't matter that your "feathers" are made of puncturable skin. Dogs are easy...
  13. WhiteCrown

    Oh Goody... The USPS is Now Dealing with "Inside Job" Theft Gangs

    Briar Lee, I understand the small town life, I own a house I am retiring to in two years in a town of 700. There are three workers at the post office, they are known by all more than just by name. I'm sure I won't have these problems with my local post office. Kansas City like the OP and...
  14. WhiteCrown

    Oh Goody... The USPS is Now Dealing with "Inside Job" Theft Gangs

    I would not be surprised. When I called to report my stolen items it was someone in an international call center, far removed from having a reason to care. They didn't seem to care either way about solving it, just focused on checking the box of filing an insurance claim so they could move on...
  15. WhiteCrown

    Good Coffee & Good Inexpensive Machines?

    I agree with you, but it's a bit of a rabbit hole. I researched it years ago and I had to go way deeper into it scientifically than I wanted to in order to achieve anything convincing for myself. To explain it to a convincing manner is probably far too many words than should be in a forum...
  16. WhiteCrown

    Oh Goody... The USPS is Now Dealing with "Inside Job" Theft Gangs

    I recently had an $8000 package from Benchmade Knives "damaged" and repackaged... $2100 worth of knives were mysteriously missing. It clearly happened in their custody in Chicago as indicated by labelling and relabelling package weights. Will not be using USPS for anything valuable again. Yes...
  17. WhiteCrown

    Good Coffee & Good Inexpensive Machines?

    Try your French press without the press, cowboy style! Lol I've never understood why people squirm about a little bit of grounds in their coffee, but then buy the whole beans covered in chocolate and pop them like Skittles.
  18. WhiteCrown

    Good Coffee & Good Inexpensive Machines?

    The last time I was in Italy (for about six months) I learned what I real macchiato was, not that sugary bucket of Starbucks crap. I bought a Bialetti moka pot and an Bialetti stovetop hand-pump milk frother. Brew some Kimbo canned espresso grounds, heat and froth some milk, and dump the froth...
  19. WhiteCrown

    Dad Advice

    Don't forget to put your wife first before the kiddos (just be ready for number two), because somebody has to take care of her as well... and she almost certainly will forget to put anything before her baby. Also to echo what warren said, remember that you aren't raising a child, if you try...
  20. WhiteCrown

    Best Way to Clean a New Pipe?

    I've only done this regularly a couple years and occasional reaming and haven't needed anything more on any of my pipes. It's like seasoned cast iron: Don't even think about touching one drop of soap on my skillet. My wife knows this... now. You shouldn't try to remove your stem until after...
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