Piping Pet Peeves

[rushx9]

Never imagined this thread would still be going! Guess we're called "codgers" for a reason. I'm sure being called a codger is some pipers pet peeve!
You guys are great, you all trip me out!

 

[BROBS]

We're back on topic? OK, good! When a certain forum sponsor photographs only one side of a pipe when it costs less than $100, as if budget minded pipers don't deserve to see the other side. Grrr . . .

that's because the other side is the bald grained side! lol

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Here is a non-pipe pet peeve since many are stating there favorites..... planning a get together with a meal and telling folks to arrive at a time, say 2:00pm, and folks arrive at noon.

 

[hauntedmyst]

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!

I hear ya. It's like Free Trade Coffee. I'm sorry, but coffee tastes sweeter when its been brewed with the tears of a financially screwed over Columbian bean farmer.

 

[diamondback]

Err... I’m jumping back in. Life has pulled me off forum a bit...

But, yeah? The weather? ? I’ve not had a pipe in a long time. That’s a serious peeve.

 

[cigrmaster]

I actually have a couple of serious pet peeves. Anytime I hear a smoker turn his nose down at a pipe smoker who enjoys aromatics, it pisses me off. Who freaking cares what someone else enjoys. Without the aromatic business,,none of us would be buying all the different blends we enjoy.

The other is when I hear people say that all you need are corn cob pipes and OTC's and nothing more. Just because an old guy in your family smoked that way doesn't mean everyone should.

We all have different tastes and wallets and all groups should be respected.

 

[BROBS]

I actually have a couple of serious pet peeves. Anytime I hear a smoker turn his nose down at a pipe smoker who enjoys aromatics, it pisses me off. Who freaking cares what someone else enjoys. Without the aromatic business,,none of us would be buying all the different blends we enjoy.

The other is when I hear people say that all you need are corn cob pipes and OTC's and nothing more. Just because an old guy in your family smoked that way doesn't mean everyone should.

We all have different tastes and wallets and all groups should be respected.

very true.
If I only had OTC and cobs I would smoke very very little. SWRA or Granger occasionally.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Furniture delivery trucks who park on the grass, when I don't even park on the grass. * while smoking my pipe *

 

[maulragoth]

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

Ya, I should carve into this Mizzou Bent, and I really think I will, PWSNBS (pipe who shall not be smoked) as a warning to others.

I just picked it up and gave it a puff, and yep... there is a ghost living in there after only 3-4 bowls in it.

 

[chopper]

I get a variety of what I call 'interesting questions. They range from "Is that a clay pipe" which is sort of understandable to the other extreme "Are those drugs your cutting up?". This usually results in me telling the said individual that my plug is really a giant piece of Golden Leb and its theirs to take home for $200.00. One of two sad individuals have actually gone as far as to reach for their wallets before I tell them its not some form of Marijuana resin block. Other pet peeves are "Do you inhale that?". Answer "No. Not unless I really hate my lungs!".

You don't inhale?
That's a bit like going to bed with Elle McPherson and you just give her a brotherly hug & a peck on the cheek before rolling over to fall asleep.

 

[condorlover1]

@chopper: You try inhaling Condor Plug & Brown Twist - I guarantee you your lungs will not like you the next day!

 

[chopper]

My one and only pet peeve is how over the last 45 years or so there has been a transition from the general public having a generally positive reaction about pipe smokers to, especially in the last 10 years or so having pipe smokers be viewed negatively..... and sometimes even quite harshly. Basically it seems to go hand-in-hand with a rise in intolerance of each person’s individuality that seems (to me anyhow) to have also occurred across a myriad of different areas of an individual’s life.

It's very Orwellian. 'Group speak' I think it was called.
That's the purpose behind the Lefts political correctness nonsense.

Only yesterday I was called a 'racist' by a mod on a Rugby League forum for asking 'If there's an Indigenous team then where's the Anglo-Saxon team?'
People these days just love to get offended on others behalf.

 

[chopper]

It's not so much a pet peeve but when I'm in a cheeky mood I like to clench an unlit MM cob when out shopping or in a non-smoking area & wait for the first puffcake to have a go at me for smoking.
Fixing them with my steely blues I ask "What smoke?"
The varied reactions can be very amusing

 

[chopper]

@chopper: You try inhaling Condor Plug & Brown Twist - I guarantee you your lungs will not like you the next day!

Lol. As an inhaler I only buy mild, mild to medium blends.
Having switched from a 40-a-day cigarette habit to a pipe, I now avoid nicotine.

Mate, I wouldn't have to inhale either and I'd still probably turn green from the nicotine alone. ☠

 

[RedZeppelin]

People who use acronyms and abbreviations instead of just spelling out the words.

Seriously, Is it that hard to spell out the words?

I got your SG FVF right here next to my GLP and G&H!

Sounds like where I work! Managers love to impress with their command of acronyms and abbreviations. Seriously, I've heard entire sentences made up of acronyms, with an article and verbs thrown in to make it a sentence. WTF!

 

[RedZeppelin]

Blasted, High-end, Reverse-Calabash pipes ...those pipes with the bowl and reverse-chamber, equal in size, round, bulbous, hideous. Them pipes look like some geezer's nut-sack.

Can't say I've ever seen a geezer's nut sack.