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Lifer
Jan 24, 2011
1,067
40
Happy Hunting Grounds
I am always open to making a new friend. Doing that gets harder and harder as time passes and community is important. I'm not going to be friends with someone just because we both smoke, but an icebreaker is an icebreaker, in my opinion.
The few times I saw someone out smoking a pipe and I approached, they were always smoking something I had never tried. Swapping a bowl or two worth was typical.
 

BingBong

Lifer
Apr 26, 2024
1,351
5,912
London UK
That slang never made sense to me. A bunghole is a hole in a wine or whiskey barrel.
Beavis & Butthead, 1996

That's reminded me of a woman at work who was very excited about getting a couple of water butts, to collect rainwater for her garden. I gave her good advice about overwintering and told her that the spigot and tap should be removed and the hole plugged. Luckily, I said, you can find a range of butt plugs online, just do a search. She was so naive....
 
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warren

Lifer
Sep 13, 2013
12,305
18,348
Foothills of the Chugach Range, AK
Somewhere in my 57 years I lost my understanding of things......
More than a few of us here are asocial. I'm always hesitant to foist my company off onto a stranger, whether he has a pipe in his maw or not. What possible reason could there be to do that. I don't know of one. I'll smile and doff my hat to a passing lady but, that is pretty much the extant of my interaction with strangers.

When I rode my big twin I didn't bother other cyclists. Why would I? I was out for a solo ride, enjoying myself. I wasn't into "bikes", I was into long solo rides.
 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
44,960
117,348
Shooters like to talk about firearms
Motorcycle people like to talk about motorcycles
Watch guys like to talk about watches
Car people like to talk about cars

Pipe people like to talk about not talking to people about pipes.

Somewhere in my 57 years I lost my understanding of things......
I like guns, collecting crystal skulls, drawing, Rubiks type puzzles, and skateboarding. It would never cross my mind to interact with others about it as they are pursuits that I enjoy alone. If you see someone smoking a pipe these days, it may be the only "me" time that they are afforded and you'd deprive them of that?
 

PaulRVA

Lifer
May 29, 2023
4,726
79,323
“Tobacco Row” Richmond Virginia USA
I like guns, collecting crystal skulls, drawing, Rubiks type puzzles, and skateboarding. It would never cross my mind to interact with others about it as they are pursuits that I enjoy alone. If you see someone smoking a pipe these days, it may be the only "me" time that they are afforded and you'd deprive them of that?
We need a pick of you on the skateboard doing a handplant with a clenched skull meer!
That would be the pick of the year for here !
 

dog_park_piper

Part of the Furniture Now
Jun 15, 2021
599
4,053
The Woodlands, TX
A pipe smoker spotted in public?

It’s like encountering a grizzly.

How do I know which ones climb trees?
How do I know which ones I need to play dead with?

The last time I spotted a smoker he wasn’t interested in chatting.
 

dingdong

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 2, 2024
579
5,850
Jakarta, Indonesia
Its very rare still in the city of ~20million people in greater Jakarta, but we do have some FB groups, and i think meets once in a while (i haven't get into the gathering just yet, being a relative newcomer) - . Other pipe smokers i know sell and buy pipes/tobaccos.
i carry and puff my pipe wherever i want - work, stroll with the dog, family gathering, offroading, nightclubs puffy puffy puffy here you can smoke pretty much everywhere,in any bar cafes or nightclubs
 
Jul 28, 2016
8,033
41,990
Finland-Scandinavia-EU
Its very rare still in the city of ~20million people in greater Jakarta, but we do have some FB groups, and i think meets once in a while (i haven't get into the gathering just yet, being a relative newcomer) - . Other pipe smokers i know sell and buy pipes/tobaccos.
i carry and puff my pipe wherever i want - work, stroll with the dog, family gathering, offroading, nightclubs puffy puffy puffy here you can smoke pretty much everywhere,in any bar cafes or nightclubs
Hola desde Finland-Northern Europe, that sounds like an ideal place to live for any pipe & cigar smokers, now do they sell what international brands of pipe tobaccies out there?
 
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Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
44,960
117,348
We need a pick of you on the skateboard doing a handplant with a clenched skull meer!
That would be the pick of the year for here !
Thirty-five years ago that was something you would have seen. My hands and wrists are becoming more and more useless with the passing years though. Maybe a 360 flip or an impossible.
 
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