Honest Question: Why do we Care what a Smoker calls Himself?

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I think the issue perhaps is a preference for having to write one word rather than two. So, we could all agree that PS is Pipe Smoker. CS is cigarette smoker, CGS is a cigar smoker. A pipe smoker who has a large cellar and collection of pipe a PSCP...LOL!!

 

[jpmcwjr]

What? You lost me. Did It overreact? ?‍

No; it wasn't you.
And I can't say I left it open on purpose, but glad I did. It's taken a nice turn.

So, everyone was IBTL, and carry on.

 

[Philosopiper]

“piper” sounds to me like something a person who likes to be silly would say. I don’t like silliness, generally, but my profession makes my name too perfect to pass up.

 

[Elric]

Call me pauper if I don’t stop buying pipes and tobacco!

This!

 

[sleepy57]

We all have our little quirks. I am quite annoyed by the words "dawdle," "cattywompus/cattywampus" and the phrase "kitty corner" so don't think I am trying to pick on anyone's personal irritations...we all have them.

However, it seems that some are outwardly irritated by what a pipe smoker calls themselves. "Piper" gets some of us rather upset while "pipester" made some of us have an absolute fit, even though we got over it. "Puffer" gets a small amount of irritation and "addict" tends to make many of us mildly perturbed.

Why do we actually care about what we are called based on our pipe smoking? Personally, It's one of those things where I pick the hill I want to die on. When someone calls me a shortened version of my name, no worries. I usually prefer my full first name unless you are my wife or a friend of some sort but won't make a big deal if someone uses Dave instead of David.

So, no judgement here (see my first statement) but what makes you have an irritation reaction big enough to speak out against what you are called as a pipe smoker? On the other hand, what makes you the other way where you may be irritated by an epithet based on your pipe smoking but have no reaction to it?

giving ones self a rank really pisses me off!

 

[jpmcwjr]

“piper” sounds to me like something a person who likes to be silly would say. I don’t like silliness, generally, but my profession makes my name too perfect to pass up.

Some fine folks have used that term, no harm, no foul.

What is your profession, and where do you hang your hat?

Please put your location in your Profile, as people are forgetful.
Why:
That will save questions in the future as to where you live when you later mention local stores, weather, tobacco prices, availability, regulations, location of photos, wildfires, air quality, etc. In many instances that saves time for those who read your posts. It cuts down on posts or PMs asking where you are.
How:
Under your avatar, (top right, left most of three symbols) you choose "Account Details", which brings up "My Account". "My Location" is halfway down. Whatever you're comfortable with- town, city, county, state. province, etc.

 

[Elric]

Please put your location in your Profile, as people are forgetful.

Are you suggesting that some of us are, "of a certain age"? Wait, erm, what were we talking about?

 

[OlJawBone]

I dont care what you call yourself but im a smoker

 

[mso489]

Corny idioms are like dad jokes. Best not to dwell on them.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Forget about pipsters - my Grandpa called the gas pedal a “footfeet” - grew up thinking that’s what it was and to this day have no idea where it came from.

 

[Rustamgtx]

Kiseru man... it's cool I think. Japanese ?

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

“piper” sounds to me like something a person who likes to be silly would say. I don’t like silliness, generally, but my profession makes my name too perfect to pass up.

What a silly post. ?

 

[solideogloria86]

I prefer ember management specialist, or if I'm among common folk, coal tender.

 

[warren]

gas pedal a “footfeet”

Foot feed? That's a term I heard often in my youth.

 

[lawdawg]

"Hi, I'm a piper who is new to the hobby."

I think we tend to dislike "piper" for the same reason we dislike "hobby." It's a similar issue to the thread the other day about pipe smoking in conversation as being the focus of the conversation, or just something men do during conversations about other things. "Piper" and the pipe smoking "hobby" just imply a bit too much navel gazing about the whole pipe smoking thing. A pipe smoker is a guy who smokes a pipe. Saying you're a "piper" is more like wearing pipe smoking as an identity. It starts to get a little hipstery and too self-conscious.

I get that the dislike of "piper" and "hobby" is a bit ironic given that we are all here as members of a forum specifically to discuss pipes and tobacco, but nevertheless, I dislike the terms.

 

[mso489]

Pure surmise (guessing) that foot feed might date back to when the accelerator on some automobiles was on the steering column, so when it was a novelty to have it put in a pedal on the floor, that might have been a foot feed, feeding the fuel by foot. My grandmother called children's tricycles velocipedes, which was an established word in her younger years.

 

[HopHand]

All that comes to mind is my grandfather saying
" Call me what ever you like just don't call me late for lunch"
And my great grandfather saying "Calling me whatever you like as I've been called worse by better"

 

[wyfbane]

1. You can callme anything you like, just don't call me late to dinner...

2. Re: "Pipers". They play an instrument, and should be allowed to retain their title imho.

3. JPMCWJR's pet peeve is people not keeping their locations updated or not having one. I know this from personal experience when I didn't update my location to Tennessee in a timely manner.

4. Many of you who are a tad more persnickety when it comes to fringe terms would likely be annoyed by me in person (if not on here already). I use lots of 'out there' terms. I used ginormous before it was in the dictionary. I use dodad, thingie, thingiemabob, because my ADHD moves my brain too fast to think of the exact name so it has 'catchall' terms when i am rolling with an idea. I use the term hiv (pronouced as a word, not an acronym) when I am really sick. "Don't come near me, I have the hiv!" Army people got it. My first year teaching the students were like, 'HE'S GOT AIDS!' lol Took some adjustment.

5. First time I've ever been in after the lock! Wheeeeeeee!!!

 

[sablebrush52]

Anyhoo- (just to irritate someone!) this has been an unusual thread, and already one bloke has overreacted. Sadly, somewhat, I am closing it. But not before I say I dislike the term "lunting" in all forms- I Lunt, you Lunt, we Lunt, etc.. But not enough to have ever said so. Nor have an aneurysm over it; just hoping another term is accepted.

I lunt all the time. Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt Lunt! Just make sure you use the L when typing.

Pipe smoker is clumsy. Piper brings up images of hale bearded fellows wearing skirts and leaving their jewels exposed to freeze and fall off in the cold. Pipester is a bit close to hipster.

In short, they're equally sucky, so I just accept them all to the same mixed extent.

 

[briarbuck]

As my father said...

"you can call me anything you like, just don't call me late for breakfast".