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@chasingembers:
Good tip
@mikethompson:
Basic HTML-ish stuff is not the worst to learn... let me point you toward LISP and SmallTalk.
Good tip
@mikethompson:
Basic HTML-ish stuff is not the worst to learn... let me point you toward LISP and SmallTalk.
Here's a good basic guide to BBcode, which is the version of UBB spoken by bbpress, which I think is the software we are using here.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/
http://www.prowleronline.com/ubb/ubbcode.html
This was developed by a private company back in the mid-1990s, so there is now an open source clone, BBcode, which apparently was popularized by phpBB
https://www.phpbb.com/community/help/bbcode
All of these work by translating the BB/UBB markup into basic HTML, but by limiting its features, allows the forum to filter out potentially dangerous uses of the more flexible HTML.
Interestingly, this forum also allows:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/
Here's a writeup on UBB code:
http://www.prowleronline.com/ubb/ubbcode.html
This was developed by a private company back in the mid-1990s, so there is now an open source clone, BBcode, which apparently was popularized by phpBB
https://www.phpbb.com/community/help/bbcode
All of these work by translating the BB/UBB markup into basic HTML, but by limiting its features, allows the forum to filter out potentially dangerous uses of the more flexible HTML.
Interestingly, this forum also allows:
And reminds us:
You will see that in a message at the bottom of the post window.
In addition, some help on those HTML tags:
I linked to an easy interpretation of the spec for the HTML tags so you can see additional options, which the forum may or may not support.
Found my package of two pounds of Trout Stream on the porch this afternoon's with a tin of Royal Yacht. I am smoking it now as I write. My taste buds, sadly, are not as well developed as many others here who can identify a blend blindfolded,and some will regard the following remarks with disdain, but this is the best I can do.
RY is rubbed adequately, rather dry, and was easy to light. As I took my first few puffs, expecting to be flattened by nicotine or Latikia or some such, but except for a very mild smoothness, I couldn't detect any special flavoring this blend has been so lauded. But at least it wasn't unpleasant, merely an ordinary blend that smoked well but unspectacular. I can't speak to the room note: I've been exposed to cigarette smoke for too many years before turning to the pipe, but I got more flavor from EMP. Q1-A and Trout Stream remain securely enshrined on my tobacco shelf (along with tins of Molto Dolce, Cult, Autumn Evening, Lane's Ready Rubbed). Hope this doesn't cause anyone to scream "Tasteless ignoramus!" and tear out their hair.
RY is rubbed adequately, rather dry, and was easy to light. As I took my first few puffs, expecting to be flattened by nicotine or Latikia or some such, but except for a very mild smoothness, I couldn't detect any special flavoring this blend has been so lauded. But at least it wasn't unpleasant, merely an ordinary blend that smoked well but unspectacular. I can't speak to the room note: I've been exposed to cigarette smoke for too many years before turning to the pipe, but I got more flavor from EMP. Q1-A and Trout Stream remain securely enshrined on my tobacco shelf (along with tins of Molto Dolce, Cult, Autumn Evening, Lane's Ready Rubbed). Hope this doesn't cause anyone to scream "Tasteless ignoramus!" and tear out their hair.
Rarer than Penzance Grape: a middle-of-the road Royal Yacht review.
I agree on these points:
* Flavoring is mild
* Smokes well
* Very mild smoothness
There is no Latakia in it, so it will not be as spicy/zingy as EMP. So far, you are off to a promising start!
I agree on these points:
* Flavoring is mild
* Smokes well
* Very mild smoothness
There is no Latakia in it, so it will not be as spicy/zingy as EMP. So far, you are off to a promising start!
Not at all. I am chiefly an Oriental forward and Virginia blend smoker, but think all genres are great! I have many aros that I love, so maybe you are a chiefly aro smoker that occasionally samples other genres. Nothing wrong with that. :
:Edit: I've been smoking a lot of Autumn Evening at work over the past few weeks.
I smoked a bowl of Hearth & Home Chatham Manor and then Mac Baren 7 Seas Regular yesterday in the evening.
I will have to try those-- always on the look for something new.
Anyone want a fresh tin of RY, short one bowl?
Anyone want a fresh tin of RY, short one bowl?
sparrowhawk, send it my way, in return you will get a mysterious sampler pack of aromatics. How does that sound?
@Sparrowhawk - Give it time, good sir. If I stopped after the first bowl of something I wasn't sure of, I would have given up smoking long ago. Try another bowl with a little more drying time. If that doesn't do it, put it away and come back to it in a week, month, or a year.
I bought a blend and didn't like it one bit. A week later, out of nowhere, I started craving it. It was a good thing I didn't throw it out, because I dug it out and had a great smoke. Time is on your side, young Grasshopper. Let time do the work for you. Come back to it when you have a Royal Yuck mindset. As an Ent once said, "Don't be hasty!" :P
I bought a blend and didn't like it one bit. A week later, out of nowhere, I started craving it. It was a good thing I didn't throw it out, because I dug it out and had a great smoke. Time is on your side, young Grasshopper. Let time do the work for you. Come back to it when you have a Royal Yuck mindset. As an Ent once said, "Don't be hasty!" :P
There are a number of blends that require repeated smokes to begin tasting, much less appreciate. I wish I had thrown some of them in a jar and left them for a year, then revisited.
With Royal Yacht, it took me a couple weeks to understand what I was smoking and come to appreciate it, and then when that tin was empty, I found myself missing it, then craving it.
With Royal Yacht, it took me a couple weeks to understand what I was smoking and come to appreciate it, and then when that tin was empty, I found myself missing it, then craving it.
Very true. GLP on JKP:
I have been converted to this view of most plugs. It takes more effort but it produces a smoke with greater depth of flavor.
The death metal pipe crew is here. There are a few of us around; welcome to the brotherhood of the blood-stained briar. You will find it is an engaging group; as might be observed, "the bigger the curmudgeon, the bigger the heart."
I need to work up a list of death metal bands that are best adapted to pipe smoking. Especially Royal Yacht, which is fairly death metal.
I need to work up a list of death metal bands that are best adapted to pipe smoking. Especially Royal Yacht, which is fairly death metal.
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