The only thing I can do is buy. And buy lots. I've allotted most of my extra fun money to tobacco for the foreseeable future. I take the leaving of Dunhill as the beginning of the end. I only smoke a couple of the blends, but I am anticipating other companies following suit. I need 600 pounds to last my lifetime. I will get there. And hopefully something changes for the future. I really hate to see these companies being forced out.
End of Dunhill Tobaccos
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Things are changing. The great oppressive Nanny State is getting pushed back, and I do not mean this in a political sense; it is in a cultural sense. People are tiring of having someone else tell them what to do in areas where it does not matter.
In my view, tobacco and alcohol regulation and taxes should be abolished entirely. Let the average person enjoy life as much as possible. If they die slightly earlier, maybe that is a blessing too. Having watched a number of people age to dementia and dying as invalids I have to think that an earlier death, possibly aided by an overdose of morphine once the prognosis is inescapable, as a blessing.
I am hoarding as much Royal Yacht as I can find. I admit still being in shock at the thought of it being gone, because nothing pleases me more than a sunny Saturday where I can wander down to the B&M, pick up a tin and wander around the rest of the day enjoying it.
But I will carry on nonetheless. Following the advice of misterlowercase, I am preparing my own production and will at some point be able to make tasty Virginias like Royal Yacht, although never as cool as the real thing, of course.
The future may be that we give up on this whole modern Ponzi scheme and go back to having our own farms and small businesses, and growing our own tobacco and swapping it for things among ourselves. I have swapped tobacco (made from mixing ingredients from SP, for now) for homemade beer, computer equipment, ammo, and home-cooked cat food. This is the future, as the past crumbles around us.
In my view, tobacco and alcohol regulation and taxes should be abolished entirely. Let the average person enjoy life as much as possible. If they die slightly earlier, maybe that is a blessing too. Having watched a number of people age to dementia and dying as invalids I have to think that an earlier death, possibly aided by an overdose of morphine once the prognosis is inescapable, as a blessing.
I am hoarding as much Royal Yacht as I can find. I admit still being in shock at the thought of it being gone, because nothing pleases me more than a sunny Saturday where I can wander down to the B&M, pick up a tin and wander around the rest of the day enjoying it.
But I will carry on nonetheless. Following the advice of misterlowercase, I am preparing my own production and will at some point be able to make tasty Virginias like Royal Yacht, although never as cool as the real thing, of course.
The future may be that we give up on this whole modern Ponzi scheme and go back to having our own farms and small businesses, and growing our own tobacco and swapping it for things among ourselves. I have swapped tobacco (made from mixing ingredients from SP, for now) for homemade beer, computer equipment, ammo, and home-cooked cat food. This is the future, as the past crumbles around us.
I am worried. No more 965 and NC. And what then ? I am in Europe. You guys, being Americans got nothing to worry about. You got Tons of blends. But here ? Special Latakia Flake is always out of stock. All that is left is SG Squadron and Commonwealth- pricier !! Not good.
Guys. Grow a pair. Nothing has disappeared yet. Smoke something else similar, or buy some while you can and try mixing your own to make your own match blend. Time was when if you wanted a pipe, you carved it yourself. If you needed a chair, you cut down a tree and made it. If you were cold you stoked the fireplace. If you needed food, you grew it. If you wanted to tell somebody something, you got on your horse and rode to them. If you wanted a drink, you dug a well. And if you wanted a smoke, you grew and rolled it.
Now you whine that when you surf the web, the pipe you wanted is out of stock. The supermarket raised the price of Cheerios. You have a weak signal on your cell phone. Somebody hasn't returned your email. You need to replace the jug on the Polar Water machine. You have to walk across the room to turn up the thermostat or get the TV remote. And your favorite English blend MIGHT go out of business or MIGHT change hands?
Now you whine that when you surf the web, the pipe you wanted is out of stock. The supermarket raised the price of Cheerios. You have a weak signal on your cell phone. Somebody hasn't returned your email. You need to replace the jug on the Polar Water machine. You have to walk across the room to turn up the thermostat or get the TV remote. And your favorite English blend MIGHT go out of business or MIGHT change hands?
Except this IS the place to bitch and moan about bad things happening in the pipe tobacco world.
But I also agree, the sky is not falling, and the Chicken Littles of the world can find alternatives. I hope.
But I also agree, the sky is not falling, and the Chicken Littles of the world can find alternatives. I hope.
It also makes sense to bitch and moan when things are at the "might" stage in a hope of avoiding the "certain" stage.
In the meantime, I went down to the local bazaar and hooked myself up with a dozen false identities, which I have been using to order copious amounts of Royal Yacht using multiple coupons. There is no longer any room to move in the office because of the vast piles of tins.
Sometimes, when I feel indulgent, I lounge on them in the nude while listening to Bach and drinking absinthe.
In the meantime, I went down to the local bazaar and hooked myself up with a dozen false identities, which I have been using to order copious amounts of Royal Yacht using multiple coupons. There is no longer any room to move in the office because of the vast piles of tins.
Sometimes, when I feel indulgent, I lounge on them in the nude while listening to Bach and drinking absinthe.
I thought that was an everyday thing with you! Indulgent would be on a regal yacht in the Caribbean, with lithesome ladies also lounging around with you....
Actually that is what I do every day. I like to break it up sometimes with a little insanity. The ladies say hello to you and that the water is great and the Royal Yacht has never been more flavorful...
"Dunhill tobaccos will end before this thread does."~Jesse
I just popped open a 2 year old tin of Baby's Bottom last night. This stuff is good when it's fresh but I really enjoyed it with a little age.
Anyone have the latest verdict on BB1938? I've been hoarding it but I may have to step it up a notch before it's gone. I won't be gouging prices when it's extinct. I'll be smoking all mine. It's in my top 5 blends. Only Charing Cross has the upper hand for now.
I just popped open a 2 year old tin of Baby's Bottom last night. This stuff is good when it's fresh but I really enjoyed it with a little age.
Anyone have the latest verdict on BB1938? I've been hoarding it but I may have to step it up a notch before it's gone. I won't be gouging prices when it's extinct. I'll be smoking all mine. It's in my top 5 blends. Only Charing Cross has the upper hand for now.
I love BB1938, I need to start packing some away. I've been hoarding 965 bulk and Elizabethan Mixture mainly, some Nightcap too.
As far as BB1938 goes, it is really good, one of my favorites. I just bought some Peterson 1865 mixture that I need to try, I'm hoping it is a BB1938 clone.
Dunhill sells in quantity; any like these blends, It makes a profit. Why then hasn't Orlik or MacBaren or Dan or CD bought the recipes and the production rights. BAT, I think, is stepping away because they don't make enough profit, but can you imagine the revenue that an internationally known brand of tobaccos yields? Dunhill blends sell themselves.
I don' get it.
I don' get it.
I have confidence that some company like Mac Baren will buy the rights to produce these blends. Like they have done for other iconic tobaccoes. I dont se how they couldn't. These are huge sellers at least on this side of the pond. I have found myself a substitute for EMP in Presbyterian. No matches for 965, London or Nightcap so far. The comment that American manufacturers produce equal or even superior blends to Dunhills comes up on every discussion on this topic. Name me a GLP, SPC, Mc. Clelland or H&H that comes close to 965 and I'm a happy man.
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