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.
Piping Pet Peeves
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When people call tobacco baccy or toby also irritates me.
Burn holes in my dress shirts. I think I spend more on shirts that pipes and tobaccos, but that’s on me.
A cigar smoker telling me my pipe stinks.
Tobacco specific taxes.
A cigar smoker telling me my pipe stinks.
Tobacco specific taxes.
what gets me is the level of snobbery some folks have. That some how only right way is their way and everyone else should stop pretending to even be a pipe smoker if they even slightly enjoy 1-q or other aros or don't vomit so violently it's life threatening with anything but the finest English or whatever. That annoys and entertains me in equal volumes. There are a few more minor issues but they're more eye rollers then forehead slappers.
every cinematographer smokes a pipe, it's in the union hand book (I think). So totally related.
Ditto. Like, 'throw that damn filter away!'
yeah. That sucks. Never really encountered that entirely. But I have asked where the heck those notes went to. Happens most with overly aromatic tobaccos. Oh that smells like tobacco and fruit and a little smokey, how particularly nice. Oh it tastes like fruit and there is zero hint that it's made with tobacco otherwise then how it burns.
So maybe the shaky cam was invented during a pause for a tamp and relight.
yeah I don't like filters but that doesn't mean they're not good for someone else to use. Though the Vauen ones are almost incredible and don't kill the taste or mute it terribly.
I'm often annoyed by shop clerks in tobacco B&Ms, who have no idea how a certain tobacco will taste or even if it's an aromatic or not. Once, I asked in a B&M, if a certain blend contains Burley and I was answered, that I should have looked that up on the Internet before I got into the shop.
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.
better they admit ignorance then that garbage where they pretend to know things when they really don't. You know when you think oh some old pipe smokers told you something and you remembered half of it (the useless half).
So 4 pages in and what have we learned? We all annoy the hell out of each other. Slightly...how like life.
Definitely right. But it's a miracle to me, that B&Ms often do not take advantage of their main strength against online sales, which is a solid man to man sales advice.
When someone posts about their new lighter or nice new pipe (particularly a dunhill) and the beat down starts. why pay $100 for a lighter when matches are the best or the guys that insist any cob smokes as good as a dunhill. then the herd that insist they have bought a dozen Pete's and every one was drilled bad.
That is an excellent point! At my local B&M, the folks that work there are great with cigar advice, but are kind of ‘deer in headlights’ on pipe blends. The obvious take-away being we are a very small minority of customers, at least in most parts of the US. At least it’s understandable, though your point remains.