My Prediction Of Our Future.

[TimeKiller]

Cigars, a world where you spend $10 on a dime's worth of tobacco.

Well said. Exactly why I switched to pipes and have no regrets at all about it.

As for the future, I didn't see anyone mention the main vector via which it will be attacked: the argument that aromatics are for children. With the current voting base allowing their heartstrings to be played like a violin, it will be a trivial agenda.

This is how they went after cigarettes, after all. They will certainly say that cherry and vanilla and butterscotch is proof positive that pipe tobacco is designed to get 5 year olds hooked on pipes. I can already see the ads with poor pipe smoking cancer kids.

 

[TimeKiller]

I'm getting really sick of "they."

I completely agree with this, and IRL I try not to use the all encompassing, anonymous, Illuminati "they" when talking about things, especially policy. "They" have names and affiliations and agendas, yes indeed. "They" also do often hide behind their little bought and paid for public creatures to devise and frame friendly narratives, yes.

But if you don't have a "they" for sake these discussions, then the discussion goes into politics immediately, and you start violating all kinds of rules, or worse, ruffling feathers, God forbid!

 

[saltedplug]

You don't sell blood over here, they expect you to just give it to them for free. I do believe they give you a cup of tea and a biscuit though.

You've got a point there! When I've given blood they gave me OJ.

Say, I've been meaning to ask about smudgers' leg. Still missing? If you found it would you give it back?

 

[telescopes]

I completely agree with this, and IRL I try not to use the all encompassing, anonymous, Illuminati "they" when talking about things, especially policy. "They" have names and affiliations and agendas, yes indeed. "They" also do often hide behind their little bought and paid for public creatures to devise and frame friendly narratives, yes.

But if you don't have a "they" for sake these discussions, then the discussion goes into politics immediately, and you start violating all kinds of rules, or worse, ruffling feathers, God forbid!

They is now “woke” language for gender identities that are not “cis”. Cis? When did a man stop being referred to as man? That’s not politics, that 10,000 years of known language agreement. Stand back as I blow you a smoke ring if you get the drift.

 

[Worknman]

FUTURE PREDICTION: There be geezers croaking out over the next few years and decades worth of cellaring being liquidated.

I got dibs on hoosier's, cosmic's, and ember's.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I got dibs on hoosier's, cosmic's, and ember's.

Sorry, my wife has strict instructions to put my tobacco into the canoe with me when they set me alight. However, it does drive me nuts when I keep waking up in the canoe covered in tobacco.

 

[fightnhampster]

I'm getting really sick of "they."

"they" make the rules unfortunately. I am glad I have had time to prepare though.

 

[brian64]

a much better man than LBJ.

But that required no effort.

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

That's the spirit. . .sell blood!, and bring it back to buying more pipes. I love it!

Pipes are permanent, tobacco is transient. Spoken by one who has plenty of tobacco cellared. Though I still buy more. Just not as much. I got demoted by Smoking Pipes from silver to bronze because I didn’t spend enough in 2020.

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

You don't sell blood over here, they expect you to just give it to them for free. I do believe they give you a cup of tea and a biscuit though.

You can still sell blood here. I have been disappointed, though, that there isn’t a market for the extra kidney I have.

 

[Casual]

I got demoted by Smoking Pipes from silver to bronze because I didn’t spend enough in 2020.

This is my goal in 2021. My goal in 2022 is to get one of those emails asking if I’m okay, and would I accept this coupon code to come back.

 

[Chasing Embers]

But its a legal product

So far, but it's still regulated. They could raise the smoking age to 99 like Hawaii tried to do.

 

[JB00]

It’s hard to hide your pipe rack and all those ball jars from your mom and dad.

Hey, when I started smoking a pipe at 18 in a very staunchly anti tobacco family, this was my reality. One day when I was at work, my mother did a raid and I lost about a dozen tins. What a sad day that was.

 

[JOHN72]

Hasta ahora, pero todavía está regulado. Podrían elevar la edad para fumar a 99 como lo intentó Hawai.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Maybe someone we know and love here would smoke menthol tobacco out of a 50's Dunhill!

Thank goodness I don't collect Dunhills.

 

[Reggie]

Dumb question but a legit one. Aside from all the cliche , How does one predict the amount of tobacco needed for a 55 year old healthy male at 1-2 bowls a day. I understand that you can’t have too much. It can be barter , if nothing else. But do I just buy as much as I can? I have a seller of about 30 lbs. now.

 

[sablebrush52]

Dumb question but a legit one. Aside from all the cliche , How does one predict the amount of tobacco needed for a 55 year old healthy male at 1-2 bowls a day. I understand that you can’t have too much. It can be barter , if nothing else. But do I just buy as much as I can? I have a seller of about 30 lbs. now.

Start with a 3gram estimate per bowl and do the multiplication.

 

[jguss]

Dumb question but a legit one. Aside from all the cliche , How does one predict the amount of tobacco needed for a 55 year old healthy male at 1-2 bowls a day. I understand that you can’t have too much. It can be barter , if nothing else. But do I just buy as much as I can? I have a seller of about 30 lbs. now.

You're going through about four pounds of tobacco each year (I assumed 5 grams per day). If you expect to live and be smoking another thirty years you’ll burn through about 120 pounds.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

They is now “woke” language for gender identities that are not “cis”. Cis? When did a man stop being referred to as man? That’s not politics, that 10,000 years of known language agreement. Stand back as I blow you a smoke ring if you get the drift.

I'd give this comment a "Like" but if anyone associates my online presence with any kind of dissenting remarks then a Twitter mob is likely to harass all financial institutions into closing my accounts and preventing me from ever doing business in any official capacity ever again.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Dumb question but a legit one. Aside from all the cliche , How does one predict the amount of tobacco needed for a 55 year old healthy male at 1-2 bowls a day. I understand that you can’t have too much. It can be barter , if nothing else. But do I just buy as much as I can? I have a seller of about 30 lbs. now.

Say you averaged 1.5 bowls per day x 3 grams per bowl = 4.5 gr per day. 4.5 gr x 365 days per year = 1.643 kgr per year = 3.6 pounds per year. If you want to estimated based on 2 bowls per day, go with 4.8 pounds per year. If you want to protect yourself in case you live to 95, you need 192 pounds. I'd round up to 200 lbs to account for some spoilage.

You better get busy.