PSA - We’ve Been Doing It All Wrong

[mtwaller]

Shame on us. Now we know better.

 

[ashdigger]

Whenever I see pictures like that I think “you’re not even trying”

 

[cshubhra]

I will try to smoke a military mount pipe like this and will report back the results (Some day)

 

[FurCoat]

That sir is a very rare chin warmer. Also useful is you wish to smoke whilst raining.

 

[jaytex1969]

Ah, the rare and exotic "beard-warmer" configuration!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Shame on us. Now we know better.

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Ha ha, that's how I've always done it!

 

[pruss]

By injecting the stem, physically, into the retro-nasal sinus Peterson has systematically avoided the novice pipe smoker’s inability to retro-hale.

When asked for comment Peterson staff declined to comment and were only heard to mutter, “They just leave the factory like that sometimes.”

— Pat

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

This is how I've always done it.

 

[solideogloria86]

 

[didimauw]

I will try to smoke a military mount pipe like this and will report back the results (Some day)

One pipe, stem turned backwards for a year???

That would definitely start my goatee on fire....

 

[Chasing Embers]

One pipe, stem turned backwards for a year???

That would definitely start my goatee on fire....

Unless it's a straight pipe.....loophole!

 

[cshubhra]

I am happy to say it is entirely possible. Clenching is slightly uncomfortable but can be done. If you are not clenching then it is not much different from a p-lip.

Smoking some Daughters & Ryan SJ Rimboche in a Peterson Rhodesian with upside down stem in a military mount