More Pipes or More Tobaccos??

[olkofri]

This is pretty much what I've got in my years (on and off for about 5 years) of pipe smoking. These are mostly estates, I feel it's more practical to purchase.View attachment 10566

That photo just about settles the initial question!

 

[anotherbob]

As a citizen of a country that has just made mail orders of tobacco illegal without a license (Australia), I can only recommend buying as much tobacco as you are comfortable spending money on. It surely is a sign of things to come in other countries.

only if the right factors come into play. Which would be a population that smokes a little more then average and mad taxes and regulations. Combined with a very big grey or black market for home grown tobacco. If all those thing come together then strict mail order is going to be an issue. Ironically though one of the biggest factors in a country behaving in such a way seems to be how the population is distributed. Seriously the percentage of the countries with stricter laws with ordering seem to have populations that are very concentrated geographically. Probably just makes it easier and more feasible to monitor the mail. Just think about how many packages going just on the north east of America go through one big hub in New York City (Queens specifically).

 

[anotherbob]

Because no one has yet cried, "Save the children!" from a cup 'o joe.

well and their not losing out on that sweet coffee taxes unlike booze or smokes.

 

[anotherbob]

Prioritize tobacco, but you'll probably feel the urge to round out your pipe collection with more chamber shapes & sizes.

I got an interview this week. If I get the job I am celebrating by buying myself a style of pipe that is missing from my collection. Getting a little tiny blow fish bowl that's perfect for breaks and smoking Semois which doesn't smoke good in my big bowls (too strong).

 

[olkofri]

Seriously the percentage of the countries with stricter laws with ordering seem to have populations that are very concentrated geographically. Probably just makes it easier and more feasible to monitor the mail.

Interesting observation. Fitting with the current initiatives to cram as many people as possible in 'compact cities'. Intensification, it's the term.

 

[anotherbob]

Interesting observation. Fitting with the current initiatives to cram as many people as possible in 'compact cities'. Intensification, it's the term.

one of the things that is really cool about the increasing urbanization is it's easier to coordinate and takes less resources to supply a person in a city then out in the country. But the sad part is it makes it easier to enforce regulations on things like the mail.
P.S. I've never lived in a city and am the kind of person that gets annoyed by having neighbors.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

For me it's definitely tobacco although I still buy the odd pipe just nothing expensive.
These days anytime I'm looking at a new pipe and maybe considering buying it some new story or news of regulation/law changes comes into view and reminds me that sooner or later they're gonna ban internet/mail order sales.
This is fine for anything UK based as I can go to a b&m but the news out of the US isn't looking too hopeful and what with BREXIT happening (possibly) that could affect purchasing from Germany.
So at the moment I'm trying to pad my cellar out with US & German blends.
I recently ordered 4 large (for me) shipments from Germany of mainly HU Tobaccos and also I'm waiting on a smaller order from Watch City.
The really frightening thing is this possible ban on flavourings in pipe tobacco, hopefully sense will prevail and they'll leave that particular idea alone.
I won't hold my breath though.

Chris.

 

[jpmcwjr]

A coffee shop. The more business you do, the more money you lose. The less business you do, the less money you take in.

Could you do some 'splainin' please? I thought that turnover for coffee shops and restaurants was "a good thing". Here, though, a cuppa will set you back $3.00 plus, and that's regular drip. Maybe that's the difference.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Could you do some 'splainin' please?

Yes, the design for making money is people in and people out, but what attracts people to coffee shops is their unique quaintness, to set and fall into your free WIFI. People spend $3 and hang out for an hour or so. So, the more people you have hanging out, the less people want to stay, or wait in line... a room full of deadbeats. It's the worst business model ever. Starbucks has it down though, but you can't compete with Starbucks, by being Starbucks, you HAVE to offer the thing that kills you... free space.

 

[Casual]

Yes, the design for making money is people in and people out, but what attracts people to coffee shops is their unique quaintness […]

That is cultural. In small towns of the frozen North, we obediently line up twice a day to throw our toonies through the drive-thru window of a Tim Horton‘s and move on. You couldn’t make more money from a half acre of land unless it was the mouth of a diamond mine.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

That is cultural. In small towns of the frozen North, we obediently line up twice a day to throw our toonies through the drive-thru window of a Tim Horton‘s and move on. You couldn’t make more money from a half acre of land unless it was the mouth of a diamond mine.

I'm not from the north, but Ive been to many a Timmy Hortons... that stuff is like Crack....I wish we had one here.. the closest one is Ashland Kentucky (if its still there)

 

[olkofri]

I hate Tim Hortons. Guess I'm one of those weird Canadians.

I don't like hockey either.