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Welcome! Sounds like your TAD is outpacing your PAD. We can help get that PAD to flare up, no problem!
Welcome from Indiana. There is no cure for PAD or TAD. We can only get relief now and again with every purchase.Soooo I just posted a big wall of text without properly introducing myself. Knew I should've introduced myself a while back. Here's my backstory.
After college, I enlisted in the Marines and during my first deployment to Iraq (2005), I had this company first sergeant who always had a red bull in one hand and a pipe in the other. We always wondered how the heck the man got pipe tobacco in country like that. (In hindsight, my guess is he was somehow getting codger blend pouches secretly mailed to him by his wife!) Anyway, that man was inspiring as hell, always checking in on us while we stood post or had just finished doing a sweeping house-to-house op, and to see him rallying the boys with a pipe clenched in his mouth.
I got medically retired due to injuries from an IED in 2012 in Afghanistan (I blame the dog!) and had to cut cigarette and dip out of my life since, you know, I knew I couldn't do much cardio for the rest of my life. I've always loved tobacco but for some reason, it took me 12 years before I finally got around to considering pipe smoking. So I went on Amazon, found a purdy pipe from some Chinese company called Muxiang, and tried some crusty blend that smelled good from my local B&M. I had no idea what I was doing so that weekend, I went on YouTube and came across Muttnchop Piper's videos. Needless to say, like many of us newbies, I ended up watching hundreds of videos from him and others on everything I could get my hands on. Loved the pipe smoking community since then and found forums like this to get more info.
Mostly find myself lurking in the Market section cus I'm in love with the art/craft of pipe smoking, not just the tobacco. But well aware of the rules, so I just look longingly. And uh... PAD and TAD are real, much to my wife's and wallet's dismay. In two and a half months, I've acquired 9 Savinellis, 1 Peterson, 4 cobs, and 55 tobaccos
Thanks for the warm welcome despite my lack of posts! Can't promise I'll interact often, but I'm definitely here daily!
Well, there's hope. After boxing up and moving my mass of pipes and tobacco, I've lost interest in acquiring more!
Welcome! Nice art selection for your avatar!
I've gotten several Muxiang pipes online and they still smoke better than many more expensive pipes I own!
I've gotten several Muxiang pipes online and they still smoke better than many more expensive pipes I own!
Welcome from Maryland! It's always great to welcome a fellow veteran. Not Marines, Army, but I did get to play with some of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children in the desert right before I got out.
Good job finding cobs to scratch that PAD itch! Great work pipes, truck pipes, fishing pipes, shop pipes, and testing pipes.
Good job finding cobs to scratch that PAD itch! Great work pipes, truck pipes, fishing pipes, shop pipes, and testing pipes.
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