Family Insults

[jb235]

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Original: MY family say the pipe smoking is for old man

Hey folks, how would you react for such speeches ? I think people just think stereotypes rule the world, nothing more.

 

[jb235]

But I have to mention I never lived in Western part of world and my family .

 

[DanWil84]

I light my pipe and puff away. Being a curmudgeon isn't reserved for old people, people under 40 can be to *ahem*.

Excuse my misunderstanding of your questions and my natural born blundness, but seeing those questions do you doubt your own decision to venture into this hobby/way of taking nicotine in? If so, contemplate what your motives are to do smoke a pipe or just don't care about what others will say or do and enjoy your pipe.

 

[anotherbob]

always stick with being 80 years old. Tell them you look great for your years and it's all cause of the pipe.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I'd tell them that a pipe turned sideways is uncomfortable in bodily openings.

 

[SBC]

Those old men weren't old men when they started smoking pipes.

 

[jb235]

I light my pipe and puff away. Being a curmudgeon isn't reserved for old people, people under 40 can be to *ahem*.

Excuse my misunderstanding of your questions and my natural born blundness, but seeing those questions do you doubt your own decision to venture into this hobby/way of taking nicotine in? If so, contemplate what your motives are to do smoke a pipe or just don't care about what others will say or do and enjoy your pipe.

Hi, your answer is little bit rusty, but it's ok. I just want to get better how people react of people who smokes pipes around the world.

 

[jb235]

Some time ago smoking pipes were only for rich people, not everyone could smoke it. Also I heard some pipes were made of pumpkin heh

 

[bullet08]

What's wrong with being old? Chicks did old men.

 

[mso489]

There's fact and there's stereotyping in the presumption that pipe smoking is for old men. Guys over sixty remember when pipe smoking was common in the population and may have smoked for a long time or long ago, and grown up with adults who did. So there's that.

On the other hand, as Forums illustrates, pipe smokers can be from their teens on up in age. We have a few teens and plenty of members in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties, none of whom are old men from my point of view.

In wealthier countries with large middle classes, people remain engaged and active into their seventies and eighties, and sometime beyond, as do a few of the fortunate in less wealthy countries, so what constitutes a old man varies widely too.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I've been told I remind people of their grandpas or dads ever since I took up the pipe in college. In most cases, I assumed it was a favorable comparison, so I thanked them.

Otherwise, it's human nature to tease people who are different from the crowd. I wear that as a badge of honor, too.

 

[SBC]

I just want to get better how people react of people who smokes pipes around the world.

In the parts of the USA where I've lived in, the public has found my pipe smoking to be fascinating -- a really cool blast-from-the-past, so to speak.

I've only ever gotten or sensed positive feedback ... except from my parents and siblings, who will always be persuaded that tobacco is a Very Great Evil.

My wife and kids adore my pipe smoking.

 

[jpmcwjr]

What's wrong with being old? Chicks did old men.

Yes, but usually for an exchange of some value or other.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Some time ago smoking pipes were only for rich people, not everyone could smoke it. << Snipped bits out >>

I don't believe that is/was true in the US.

 

[Chalaw87]

I see pipe smoking making a small come back, mostly due to younger pipe smokers. Stereotypes can change. Also the vast majority of pipe smoking old guys are cool and have more knowledge and wisdom than facebook and twitter combined.

 

[mso489]

Tobacco used to be an expensive luxury, so pipe smoking among working people was a once-a-day or less sort of thing, maybe one bowl at the pub in the evening. As was tea. Wooden boxes that held tea, called tea caddies, had little locks to prevent pilfering.

 

[brian64]

Be sure to bring your pipe to Festivus dinner.

 

[jb235]

Tobacco used to be an expensive luxury, so pipe smoking among working people was a once-a-day or less sort of thing, maybe one bowl at the pub in the evening. As was tea. Wooden boxes that held tea, called tea caddies, had little locks to prevent pilfering.

Your thoughts are always very interesting and informative !

 

[UB 40]

I don't believe that is/was true in the US.

Neither in Europe. A hundredth years ago everyone smoked pipes.

 

[UB 40]

Neither in Europe. A hundredth years ago everyone smoked pipes.

I think also working class found their way to tobacco and even drinking their beer, wine etc. My grand uncle planted his own tobacco in the yard.