They can also give you a landing strip.
The "Truth"
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And THAT'S the Truth!
Speaking of women, I miss @Smoke Queen.
What a collection of pipes she has, hope all is well for her, and she’ll grace us again with her presence.
It is critical that you buy the most expensive tobacco you can afford. It doesn't matter if you like less expensive alternatives the same amount. It has to be the most expensive you can afford, otherwise you are a peasant who is smoking pipes wrong, and we will bite our thumbs at you.
Exactly. Even if you're smoking Cherokee post the most obscure out of production blend you can think of.
I hold to the 25% equipment, 75% technique point of view. You can have the most luscious tobacco and/or the most admired pipe an it doesn't matter one bit if you don't know how to prep, pack and smoke.
And suave and, sophisticated, more erudite, and so forth. The pipe just makes one a better person, Jos. Stalin was the poster boy for pipe smokers back in the day.
OK. Serious time...
You want the truth?
Here ya go:
America was forged by 150 years of frontier taming, followed by a world war, followed by the Great Depression, followed by another world war, all of which toughened everybody. Mentally, physically, everything. You either made things happen or you didn't last long.
Then, after the second world war, everything changed. Most of the previously developed world was rubble while America came out of it (relatively) unscathed, having been protected by oceans and being thousands of miles from either theater. What to do? We had massive natural resources, a freshly jump-started economy, women in the workforce (to free up men for military duties), and wartime industrial capacity up and running. We could sell everything we could make as fast as we could make it TO the rest of the world. And we did.
That situation lasted a solid generation (the Moon landing in 1969 was the USA's peak).
What happened then? Nothing. Which is the key point. Nothing challenging happened... America's kids grew up wanting little and having a lot of free time. They were an entire population of "rich kids" and went the direction rich kids always go: Dissipated energy, a lack of self discipline, self-indulgence, avoidance of responsibility, and so on. Moral relativism became accepted, families became marginalized, drugs and debauchery became common.
Then, after a festering quarter century of that came the Internet, which gave birth to so-called "social media."
Now, today, virtually all under-30's and many under-40's are engaged in a non-stop screech-fest to see who can complain the loudest and generate the most outrage. And when not doing that they are playing video/online games, and when not doing that they are trying to find a buyer for their master's degree in transsexual dance therapy interpretation studies. Few of them can make REAL things happen.
Politicians and policy-makers, of course, care nothing whatsoever about anything except obtaining & increasing their power, which means pandering to the screechers. The end. Logic and/or wisdom be damned.
And here we are. The victim of our own success. A cycle that's as old as Man and as predictable as gravity: Rich kids never amount to much.
In the meantime the rest of the world Wants Our Stuff, senses our weakness, and is doing everything possible to highjack the in-flight airliner that is America.
You want the truth?
Here ya go:
America was forged by 150 years of frontier taming, followed by a world war, followed by the Great Depression, followed by another world war, all of which toughened everybody. Mentally, physically, everything. You either made things happen or you didn't last long.
Then, after the second world war, everything changed. Most of the previously developed world was rubble while America came out of it (relatively) unscathed, having been protected by oceans and being thousands of miles from either theater. What to do? We had massive natural resources, a freshly jump-started economy, women in the workforce (to free up men for military duties), and wartime industrial capacity up and running. We could sell everything we could make as fast as we could make it TO the rest of the world. And we did.
That situation lasted a solid generation (the Moon landing in 1969 was the USA's peak).
What happened then? Nothing. Which is the key point. Nothing challenging happened... America's kids grew up wanting little and having a lot of free time. They were an entire population of "rich kids" and went the direction rich kids always go: Dissipated energy, a lack of self discipline, self-indulgence, avoidance of responsibility, and so on. Moral relativism became accepted, families became marginalized, drugs and debauchery became common.
Then, after a festering quarter century of that came the Internet, which gave birth to so-called "social media."
Now, today, virtually all under-30's and many under-40's are engaged in a non-stop screech-fest to see who can complain the loudest and generate the most outrage. And when not doing that they are playing video/online games, and when not doing that they are trying to find a buyer for their master's degree in transsexual dance therapy interpretation studies. Few of them can make REAL things happen.
Politicians and policy-makers, of course, care nothing whatsoever about anything except obtaining & increasing their power, which means pandering to the screechers. The end. Logic and/or wisdom be damned.
And here we are. The victim of our own success. A cycle that's as old as Man and as predictable as gravity: Rich kids never amount to much.
In the meantime the rest of the world Wants Our Stuff, senses our weakness, and is doing everything possible to highjack the in-flight airliner that is America.
Yeah,but you still need to know how to prep, pack, and smoke.
^^^^ That's a man who's got his priorities straight, right there...
On the other hand, this same guy ^^^^ lives where this sort of thing happens:
Gotta work that into a conversation at work this this week.
All very true, as far as it goes...but still wouldn't have resulted in the hopeless clusterfuck we're in now if it weren't for the real rich kids who turned the whole country into one big organized crime syndicate.
Most of the time a smoke is just a smoke.
And that's perfectly fine.
And that's perfectly fine.
Smoke what you like, and like what you smoke.
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