Piping Pet Peeves

[Ctbill]

Old, unless one is a complete fool to begin with, is contemplative and thoughtful. It might be that pipe smoking and old being associated isnt coincidence.

Respectfully, I know lots of folks with 20-30-40 years on the job, but one year experience...?
Sometimes old IS just “old”...fixed opinion, no consideration, no possible advancement, set... Not good IMHO...
But this should not be associated generically with a pipe smoker.

 

[hauntedmyst]

It seems like the mere mention of CB/1Q really ruffles some feathers... I never meant to imply anyone is less of a pipe smoker for liking the stuff! I just hope the folks that get defensive about popular American aros getting called out for being too ooey-gooey aren't the same folks that call Lakelands urinal cakes and granny panties, or Lat blends tire fires! That would make it on my pet peeve list, for sure. Nothing wrong with calling things the way you see them, that goes in both directions. I just don't get the defensiveness.

I wasn't including you in that. Personally I don't care if someone doesn't like a blend. Some people love blends I hate. I dislike when people call something garbage or trash it just because they don't like it or vilify people who smoke it. It's like calling a Grabow trash when for decades, many people got by enjoying only those. Most people on here started on 1Q.

 

[hauntedmyst]

I don't care if I'm seen as old. I use a cane too on occasion. Why bullshit myself into the delusion that I'm young when I'm obviously not?

Hell, when people call me young I actually take offence. So, if it makes me look old all the better.

You and me both. I've always been in touch with my inner old man. Sometimes it make him grumpy.

 

[whsergent]

Sometimes old IS just “old”...fixed opinion, no consideration, no possible advancement, set... Not good IMHO...
But this should not be associated generically with a pipe smoker.

Those are exactly the kinds of stereotypes with which i viewed age a few decades ago.
One of the saving graces of getting old imo is that one learns that suffering fools gladly is futile and helps no one.

 

[logs]

To further clarify my “old man” reference:
I encourage “younger” folks to try pipe smoking, for the pure enjoyment. Slow down, sniff the world. A wide, deep hobby.
I would like the association with pipe smoking to be more contemplative and thoughtful, Not OLD...

I started smoking a pipe back when I was graduate student in the early 90's. It had the "old man" connotation back then too. When the cigar boom happened I thought it would eventually boost pipes as well and reform their image, but that didn't happen. As it is, I've spent the majority of my adult life being a lone pipe smoker. All I can make of it is that pipes appeal to certain people, and the ones who take it up and stick with it are the one's who don't mind the negative image or at least can tolerate being seen as eccentric or uncool.

 

[olkofri]

Old carries with it maturity. One reason I've always preferred to be old than young. Of course, there are always exceptions, guys in their teens with the maturity and wisdom of an adult, and blokes in their 50s still behaving like perfect clowns.

 

[seldom]

This isn't exactly a pet peeve of mine it's rather something that causes me to shrug my shoulders. I've seen people enter this pipe smoking forum with an assumption that all pipe smokers share the same opinions and traits. Perhaps that pipe smokers are all erudite/professorial, Victorian style gentlemen, or that we all have the same stance on social or political issues and behave in certain ways. Sometimes the realization that this small group includes diverse personalities with different mannerisms causes feathers to get ruffled. We all like pipes but it is unsafe to assume we share other traits.

Wind is my primary nemesis in pipe smoking. I suppose a pet peeve would be identical blends sold under different names. How many names are there for 1Q? But also things like Full Virginia Plug being sold as "Epikur" by Pfeifen Huber.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

My pet peave is when someone takes someone else’s snobbery as a personal attack. Just kidding, it doesn’t really bother me, ha ha.

 

[seanv]

Wind is my primary nemesis in pipe smoking.

I hate the wind when I am smoking. It is always breezy here to say the least.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

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.

 

[logs]

But also things like Full Virginia Plug being sold as "Epikur" by Pfeifen Huber.

Wow, there's a plug version of FVF?? I've got to get some of this right away.

 

[brian64]

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.

Well said...and so true. Strange days we find ourselves in.

Intolerance and conformity are continually pushed and enforced as a means of achieving tolerance and diversity...and few seem to see it all for what it really is.

 

[Idahojoe]

One of my mine is expensive lighters that work for about 2 weeks and then suddenly, they don't (like this morning for instance -but certainly not an isolated incident)
I have resigned myself to cheap tobacco store lighters or my trusty Zippo.

 

[trouttimes]

My pet peeve is when you folks question me. I am an expert in all things. My choices in pipes, lighters, tabacco should only be copied not questioned. None of you are as good looking as I am and all of you guys wish you were me. That's all there is to say about it. Now it's time to close this thread.

 

[condorlover1]

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!".

 

[Mr.Mike]

Have you measured how much tobacco it takes to fill a cigarette versus a pipe chamber. 8-10 cigarettes will fit in a group 5-6 pipe.

This is true embers. Maybe I'm being a bit of an asshole here.

 

[mngslvs]

1) Gurgling
2) That there is no way to tell what you are buying. Even a pipe with a sterling reputation can be a lousy smoker, and vice versa. I recently had a very reputable and long time pipe vendor tell me that in purchasing pipes, a success rate of 50% was beating the odds. That sucks.
3) People who think that forming the plural of a word requires an apostrophe. e.g. tobacco's Shoot me now.
4) see #3

 

[docrameous]

A couple of pet peeves...

As said earlier in this thread, wind. Wind has a huge impact on whether I can smoke or not and lately we have had a lot of it! Nothing I can do about it other than develop more places to smoke out of the wind!

I also wished there was not such a social stigma about pipe smoking. When a non-smoker learns I smoke a pipe, often they assume that I am addicted, throwing my health away, smoking from dawn to dark and that I am essentially a walking ash tray. They throw all smokers into one category, primarily in generalisations formed from the anti-cigarette lobby. These kind of people often find it hard to believe that I might actually exercise regularly, watch my weight, try to eat a balanced diet of non-processed foods, drink alcohol in moderation, etc. and look out for other aspects of my well being. Even if I was destroying my health, that is my choice... but it would be nice if there was a little less stereotyping and judging going on.

 

[diamondback]

I think The Outrage Mob has recently given the edict that ‘pet’ is demeaning and therefore we should say ‘Companion’ *ahem*

So, trying to fit in here... my pe— err, companion peeve is my Grandmother who calls multiple times weekly asking if A) I’m still smoking those “Damn pipes?” and proceeding directly to threaten with B) “Hey boy, you’re not too old for me to shove those pipes up your little a$$.”

Actually I’m not joking. It doesn’t really ‘peeve’ me though. Explaining that I own no livestock only makes matters far far worse, so I just take my verbal beat-down with an internal grin.

 

[seldom]

Wow, there's a plug version of FVF?? I've got to get some of this right away.

I've read that folks in America get it via Synjeco in Switzerland. Otherwise you could give the Pfeifen Huber shop in Germany a try. Their house version is Epikur. Both Epikur and Full Virginia Plug have reviews in tobaccoreviews.