Piping Pet Peeves

[rushx9]

Everybody's got at least a few. Here's a place to air it out! Keep it pipe related, please!
I'll start with a couple minor ones that just dig at me.
People pronouncing Lovat "Low-Vot" instead of "Luv-It".
Another is when folks say "Ho-Garth" instead of "Ha-Girth" (or "Hog-Erth"?.

What irks you the most in the wide world of piping?

 

[bullet08]

hard to have pet peeve when i'm smoking by myself.

 

[groovediggerdan]

So it's not "luh-VAT"?

Um, asking for a friend...

 

[BROBS]

Everybody's got at least a few. Here's a place to air it out! Keep it pipe related, please!
I'll start with a couple minor ones that just dig at me.
People pronouncing Lovat "Low-Vot" instead of "Luv-It".
Another is when folks say "Ho-Garth" instead of "Ha-Girth" (or "Hog-Erth"?.

What irks you the most in the wide world of piping?

haha that's how I say both

 

[upnorth1]

Lunting. You're just walking with a pipe in your mouth. Also calling tobacco baccy.

 

[trubka2]

No Smoking signs.

 

[condorlover1]

Heavens I could name so many. The use of the phrase 'Lunting' always makes me chuckle since it should similar to 'Punting' which is a slang term from where I came from for a lady of easy virtue. The extreme seriousness of people who are forever telling me about the deep nuances of the tobacco. Its something you set on fire and then stick in your mouth. Not being a particularly sophisticated smoker all I ask is that the tobacco delivers the maximum amount of sublingual nicotine commensurate with the size of my cravings. Don't even get me started on those Falcon pipes smoked by people wearing socks and sandals whilst on holiday in Blackpool with their inevitable wife whose name is usually Doris!

 

[rushx9]

Not being a particularly sophisticated smoker all I ask is that the tobacco delivers the maximum amount of sublingual nicotine commensurate with the size of my cravings.

I don't buy it! Anyone that can appreciate Condor as much as you has to be a true aficionado of fine flavors! Even if those flavors hit like a Mack truck!

 

[peregrinus]

Tobacco shortages, real, manufactured or imagined, that then led to rationing, subsequent hoarding and inflated prices.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Lowering pipe smoking to piping or a pipe smoker to piper. One is a cake decoration and the other is a woodwind musician.

 

[BROBS]

Lowering pipe smoking to piping or a pipe smoker to piper. One is a cake decoration and the other is a woodwind musician.

Hey now there can be piping in clothing as well.

 

[Chasing Embers]

The extreme seriousness of people who are forever telling me about the deep nuances of the tobacco. Its something you set on fire and then stick in your mouth. Not being a particularly sophisticated smoker all I ask is that the tobacco delivers the maximum amount of sublingual nicotine

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[whsergent]

Low quality, quickly oxidizing vulcanite.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Hey now there can be piping in clothing as well.

But named after icing lines. It can also be found in knitting.

 

[BROBS]

I think it might be the other way around.
Piping on clothing was originally to reinforce the high stress areas (seams).

I believe the cake decoration is named after this practice. It’s called piping because the fabric is made into a pipe along the bias line. (Strongest angle)

 

[BROBS]

Anyways. My pet peeve is a tobacco that has a great tin or pouch note but tastes like mothballs or dirty liquor when your smoke it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I think it might be the other way around.
Piping on clothing was originally to reinforce the high stress areas (seams).

I believe the cake decoration is named after this practice. It’s called piping because the fabric is made into a pipe along the bias line. (Strongest angle)

Looks like cake piping originated in the 17th century while clothing piping was in the 19th. One named for the application technique, the other for the shape. Very interesting read on both.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Anyways. My pet peeve is a tobacco that has a great tin or pouch note but tastes like mothballs or dirty liquor when your smoke it.

Haven't ran into that one yet.

 

[prndl]

Shaky-cams. I vote we execute the arsehole who invented this "exciting film innovation".

Yea, I know, it ain't got a damn thing to do with pipe smoking but, I just had to put it out there somewhere.

 

[BROBS]

Looks like cake piping originated in the 17th century while clothing piping was in the 19th. One named for the application technique, the other for the shape. Very interesting read on both.

Chicken or the egg?!

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