Piping Pet Peeves

[condorlover1]

@mingc : My life has been dedicated to trying to understand the appeal of a pipe composed of a length brake piping and a hollowed out wooden door knob mounted in an aluminum cradle made from melted down ring pulls from a trash can full of Colt 45 Malt Liquor cans!

 

[subsalac]

Smoking pounds of Lakeland in a pipe that won't get thrown into the fireplace but get put up on ebay one day is my pet peeve. Please burn your lakeland pipes before they leave your hands, thank you kindly.

I write this as I presently wrestle with a demonic presence that has an identical character to Dove hand soap. To court controversy, I will unapologetically say it: Lakeland can't possibly be what God intended, and every time we ruin good tobacco with perfumes we stray further from divinity...

Of all the universes I get thrown into... I could have existed in the Pipe Tobacco dimension where the whole world lives like tobacco connoisseur hobbits, with prized cellars of carefully aged primo leaf of myriads of varietals and blends and processes... cellars started by fathers passed down to sons, none of it befouled by laundry detergent...

Yet here I am, planet Earth.

 

[condorlover1]

@subsalac On the planet Gallifrey the essence of Lakeland is everywhere and is worn by Time Lords to stimulate the opposite sex and repel Daleks I'll have you know.

 

[Bowie]

I'll pull an Elaine and admit that I have several unopened tins because I don't want to bother with finding a jar, transferring the contents to the jar, labelling the jar yada yada yada. I also have a few opened tins and plastic bags of tobacco for the same reason, in a state I proudly call "pre-drying."

 

[Chasing Embers]

@subsalac On the planet Gallifrey the essence of Lakeland is everywhere and is worn by Time Lords to stimulate the opposite sex and repel Daleks I'll have you know.

 

[mingc]

@mingc : My life has been dedicated to trying to understand the appeal of a pipe composed of a length brake piping and a hollowed out wooden door knob mounted in an aluminum cradle made from melted down ring pulls from a trash can full of Colt 45 Malt Liquor cans!

Pictures! Pictures! Otherwise, it's all just a figment of your imagination!

 

[condorlover1]

@mingc : Just going off topic for a second. I love that pipe in your avatar. Do you own it and what is it since it is fabulous in a very non 'cutty' sort of way.

 

[mingc]

@mingc : Just going off topic for a second. I love that pipe in your avatar. Do you own it and what is it since it is fabulous in a very non 'cutty' sort of way.

I do own it. It's one of my more unusual acquisitions. I started a thread about it here.

 

[anotherbob]

Ditto. Like, 'throw that damn filter away!'

I hate filters but I don't care if anyone else gets more enjoyment out of a pipe. O.k. confession time. I'll sometimes use the filter if I am doing something while smoking that might take some focus off of the cadence. Like if I am getting my drink on.

 

[maulragoth]

Smoking pounds of Lakeland in a pipe that won't get thrown into the fireplace but get put up on ebay one day is my pet peeve. Please burn your lakeland pipes before they leave your hands, thank you kindly.

I write this as I presently wrestle with a demonic presence that has an identical character to Dove hand soap. To court controversy, I will unapologetically say it: Lakeland can't possibly be what God intended, and every time we ruin good tobacco with perfumes we stray further from divinity...

Of all the universes I get thrown into... I could have existed in the Pipe Tobacco dimension where the whole world lives like tobacco connoisseur hobbits, with prized cellars of carefully aged primo leaf of myriads of varietals and blends and processes... cellars started by fathers passed down to sons, none of it befouled by laundry detergent...

Yet here I am, planet Earth.

Funny, after I finally tried Gawith & Hoggarth Best Brown #2 at the push from a friend, I had to finally stop and dump it before finishing the bowl. I got sick to my stomach as the "old ladies perfume" just became more and more nausiating. Apparently BB2 is supposed to have less Lakeland. Why in God's green earth woudl I try Enerdale Flake? I do not recall why, but I did it. And I liked it. I only do it once or twice a year out of curiosity, since I have a dedicated pipe to it after that, but the perfume just doesn't hit me in a bad way. Went back and tried the Best Brown2, which is still all left in a jar...... terrible again (and lesson learned). I keep it in case I ever need a case of nausea. I'm clueless as to how I can enjoy an Enerdale and yet not tolerate the Best Brown #2.

 

[DarkButterfly]

I hate filters but I don't care if anyone else gets more enjoyment out of a pipe. O.k. confession time. I'll sometimes use the filter if I am doing something while smoking that might take some focus off of the cadence. Like if I am getting my drink on.

No filters for me either, my only pet peeve is having to rush a smoke and not fully enjoy it.

 

[cigrmaster]

I hate smokers who refuse to wear silk ascots while smoking. I also hate abbreviations. People who use them should have their finger nails ripped out slowly.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Has anyone else ever noticed that the word "abbreviations " is an unnecessarily long word?

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

I hate smokers who refuse to wear silk ascots while smoking. I also hate abbreviations. People who use them should have their finger nails ripped out slowly.

Silk? How gauche!.. My ascot is made from finely spun fibers extracted from 5000 year old Egyptian mummies.. and dyed with the tears of Nebuccanzer when he found out his wife was a man. Silk.. pah... get thee to a nunnery!

 

[Frozenoak]

Has anyone else ever noticed that the word "abbreviations " is an unnecessarily long word?

Yes, that's why I spell it Abbv.

 

[kg.legat0]

Pipe smoking glamour shots ...now, this is accompanied with a heavy dose of "do whatever ya want..."

But I find it a little weird that half of my FartBook feed is dudes' glamour shots ...like, we get it, you smoke a pipe...

However, one could contend that this is a good thing culturally as these photos circulate and then other folks actually 'see' pipe smokers out in the world...still...kinda weird. (says a guy who has a photo of himself smoking a pipe in his avatar)

 

[jpmcwjr]

Pipe smoking glamour shots .

Kinda an oxymoron, no? At least based on the guys I've met at pipe shows.



And

Has anyone else ever noticed that the word "abbreviations " is an unnecessarily long word?

Yes, that's why I spell it Abbv.

I like "Abv", he said as condensedly as he could.

 

[Elric]

Funny, after I finally tried Gawith & Hoggarth Best Brown #2 at the push from a friend, I had to finally stop and dump it before finishing the bowl. I got sick to my stomach as the "old ladies perfume" just became more and more nausiating. Apparently BB2 is supposed to have less Lakeland. Why in God's green earth woudl I try Enerdale Flake? I do not recall why, but I did it. And I liked it. I only do it once or twice a year out of curiosity, since I have a dedicated pipe to it after that, but the perfume just doesn't hit me in a bad way. Went back and tried the Best Brown2, which is still all left in a jar...... terrible again (and lesson learned). I keep it in case I ever need a case of nausea. I'm clueless as to how I can enjoy an Enerdale and yet not tolerate the Best Brown #2.

Just leave explicit instructions in your will that the Ennerdale pipe is to be destroyed upon your demise by a crew in hazmat suits! ;-)

 

[Kozeman]

Pipe smoking glamour shots ...now, this is accompanied with a heavy dose of "do whatever ya want..."

But I find it a little weird that half of my FartBook feed is dudes' glamour shots ...like, we get it, you smoke a pipe...

However, one could contend that this is a good thing culturally as these photos circulate and then other folks actually 'see' pipe smokers out in the world...still...kinda weird. (says a guy who has a photo of himself smoking a pipe in his avatar)

"(says a guy who has a photo of himself smoking a pipe in his avatar) " Hah,,,,, I was waiting for you to say it before I had to.

 

[cigrmaster]

Silk? How gauche!.. My ascot is made from finely spun fibers extracted from 5000 year old Egyptian mummies.. and dyed with the tears of Nebuccanzer when he found out his wife was a man. Silk.. pah... get thee to a nunnery!

Nicely done, beats the shit out of my lowly silk.