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

[jpmcwjr]

I tried "Lunt" with a c, and spike choker didn't change it, but it capped "lunt"

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Maybe I’ll expect Smoke Affectionato

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I tried "Lunt" with a c, and spike choker didn't change it, but it capped "lunt"

Let’s not get into body parts

 

[Jimmy_Jack]

Don’t care

 

[jpmcwjr]

Great Darwin quote. Another:

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence; consequently he is occasionally subjected to a severe struggle for existence, and natural selection will have effected whatever lies within its scope.
~ Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man, 1871

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Great Darwin quote. Another:

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence; consequently he is occasionally subjected to a severe struggle for existence, and natural selection will have effected whatever lies within its scope.
~ Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man, 1871

Maybe, maybe not .

 

[karam]

Piping is something you do in the kitchen, over a cake, it can also be a very hot dish, as in piping hot. A piper is a musician or maybe a plumber. We are pipe smokers. Hobbyists even

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

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

Lololol! From probably age 4 I heard it as “foot feet” and just thought that was it without any thought about it. Thanks! Just Googled as well and “feed” makes sense, of course. Kids those days …….

 

[Streeper541]

My aim is to be Morale Officer on the Black Frigate.

 

[Duck]

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.

I'll take a punt on the hunt to solve your cryptic clue. I believe the hunt is taking place in Berkshire.

 

[troutface]

I consider myself a left handed smoke shifter.

 

[Chasing Embers]

these days everyone is a hipster. It's just a fact.

Yeah.....no.

 

[daveinlax]

I don’t know why but Piper and Lunting are like nails on a chalkboard for me. I wish it wasn’t so but it is.

 

[Chasing Embers]

My aim is to be Morale Officer on the Black Frigate.

Always room for one more though we're so high on cleaning fluid since Anthony got us drunk on it were usually very happy.

 

[anotherbob]

Yeah.....no.

yeah it's pretty much everyone. No one wants to accept that fact, but that doesn't change that it's how it is.

 

[shanez]

I don't know about piper or pipe smoker or what but I get called a jackass fairly often. Does that count?

I'm only posting here so I can put IATL because when else will I get the opportunity?

 

[lochinvar]

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.

Hey!!!They don't fall off......most of the time.

 

[Duck]

Hey!!!They don't fall off......most of the time.

Mine do. It's a duck thing. We she'd them after the mating season, and grow a new one each year.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

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?

I prefer recreational pipe abuser.

 

[perdurabo]

Pipe smoker gets me tons of strange looks.