There are some Youtube Pipe smoker channels I hate and some I would love to smack upside the head (no names mentioned but one of them uses a torch to light his tobacco.) I do dearly miss Aristocob.
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That said I would like to suggest some guys I like to watch as no one has listed them as of yet.
London Calling With Simon.
CaneRod Piper
Hobbiton Piper
There are others but I wanted to mention these guys. All seem to do it for the joy of doing it and do it at a great level.
London Calling With Simon.
CaneRod Piper
Hobbiton Piper
There are others but I wanted to mention these guys. All seem to do it for the joy of doing it and do it at a great level.
I watch the Carolina Pipe Cottage guy just for this reason sometimes. This is a rather rare thing for me to hear this variation on Southern American English. Although I'm from the southern part of Georgia, I don't sound like this, and I don't know anyone who does. We have more of a rednecky twang with lots of built-in grammatical disasters that everyone uses and understands perfectly going on around here whereas he has the more aristocratic, proper, or genteel way of speaking that is heard more in the coastal Carolinas or Virginia. I don't know exactly where he is from, but he mentioned something about being in Kentucky recently.
Haven't met many pipe smokers in real life TBH but I fall somewhere between laborer, business man and psychopathic biker.
Makes you think he loves the taste of scorched tobacco and briar lol. This is the quintessential flaw in the internet though isn't it? Anyone can make content for the masses to consume, whether they know what they are talking about or not.
I like watching the ones that are more of a vlog - just a piper talking about the thoughts tumbling in his head (NW piper) or guys like Simon & J Mouton, who let you peak into the world of pipemaking along with their thoughts.
I've thought of doing a pipe channel and instead of doing a channel about "pipe smoking" I was going to do one about how I go about smoking. Here is how I pack a pipe. Here is how I do this or that. A little bit of the things that just aren't going to be different for different people (this is called a stummel, and I have no idea what that word is about). But then I realized it would be a lot of work for something three people would probably really like and two of them only because they ran out of sleeping pills and need to nap.
I'm from Kentucky not far from him and I've never heard a more fake accent.
Hes living in KY so do I and I've never heard a more fake accent.
Never heard anyone from Mississippi or South Carolina speak like that.
Sounds like he adopted the affectation of a civil war general. He's kind of preachy.
He's from SC Charleston area I think. I grew up with people who talk exactly like that as my family has been here in the Carolinas and Virginias as far back as late 1700's. It hasn't been until recent decades this dialect has been lost. For more humorous example you can listen to Andy Griffith and his stand ups. Also Jerry Clower. My grandfather also had a very similar way of talking.
Yep. We call that the Old Money Charleston accent
This has been an interesting thread.
There are a good number of YT pipe related channels. Some are very good, some so so, and some painful to watch. The same may be said about forums. All forms of social media have their upside and downside.
If you get a "connection" with a person and their personality on any platform it can be great fun and you might end up creating a good friendship. At the same time, putting yourself out there, means you better develop thick skin.
As far as interacting with presenters / posters, yes forums do have that advantage to some degree. On YT the interactions on Live Streams or on Zoom meetings, is in real time. Thus you can get a better "feel" for participants, if that makes sense. It's also much easier, on YT, to see if someone is trying to be funny or just a dumb ass. As sablebrush stated there is also loads of misinformation. YT is a venue that does require some time to figure out which presenter is offering decent information or ankle high, head first, full of it.
I enjoy YT and forums and find both informative and some of the funniest stuff I've seen / read.
YMMV
Mike
There are a good number of YT pipe related channels. Some are very good, some so so, and some painful to watch. The same may be said about forums. All forms of social media have their upside and downside.
If you get a "connection" with a person and their personality on any platform it can be great fun and you might end up creating a good friendship. At the same time, putting yourself out there, means you better develop thick skin.
As far as interacting with presenters / posters, yes forums do have that advantage to some degree. On YT the interactions on Live Streams or on Zoom meetings, is in real time. Thus you can get a better "feel" for participants, if that makes sense. It's also much easier, on YT, to see if someone is trying to be funny or just a dumb ass. As sablebrush stated there is also loads of misinformation. YT is a venue that does require some time to figure out which presenter is offering decent information or ankle high, head first, full of it.
I enjoy YT and forums and find both informative and some of the funniest stuff I've seen / read.
YMMV
Mike
I almost always prefer YouTube, but follow nobody for pipe smoking.
These forums were where all my beginner questions were answered. The answers usually came in the form of forum members disagreeing with each other, then a bunch mentioning YMMV. Eventually I noticed the trend of “if you keep doing it and you’ll eventually try everything, or figure it out, or quit”.
Can’t find that kind of sanity on YouTube.
I do watch a couple of guys that happen to smoke a pipe, but nobody gets a sub because of their “pipe content”.
These forums were where all my beginner questions were answered. The answers usually came in the form of forum members disagreeing with each other, then a bunch mentioning YMMV. Eventually I noticed the trend of “if you keep doing it and you’ll eventually try everything, or figure it out, or quit”.
Can’t find that kind of sanity on YouTube.
I do watch a couple of guys that happen to smoke a pipe, but nobody gets a sub because of their “pipe content”.
I don't have the attention span to sit and watch someone smoke a pipe or talk about smoking a pipe for 30 mins or so...
Oh weird. That’s what my family has always called pacifiers. I think chooch in Italian means “a nothing”.