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I believe most tobacco reviews are pretty useless. The perfect example can be found by actually reading the reviews. The worse thing you can do in a review is to say all the things you taste. Again, just read the reviews.
I guarantee that if you add up all the "tastes" people mention for one blend, it would be in the many hundreds. Taste is subjective, and what YOU taste is not important in most cases. Observations like "sweet", "tart", "good tobacco", "musty", can be helpful because these tastes usually are tasted by all.
But when it gets to "grass, lemonade, cherry blossoms, oregano, dirt, mud.....", the listing of 36 "flavors" gets lost on most people. Which again, can be easily observed by reading the reviews.
Anything more than price, availability, moisture content, and overall impression is just fluff in my opinion. For example, Steve Fallon (Pipestud) does great reviews in my opinion. "Perfect moisture out of the tin, burns evenly, this is what good Old Belt Virginia is supposed to taste like....4 stars". Now THAT'S a tobacco review that let's you know what's up.
Because if you read a review and want to taste dirt, leather and a dirty jock strap, you may be disappointed when you don't taste what another dude does.
Just my opinion....and I know I'm not alone.
Thanks for saving me a lot of typing.
All of the above maybe true. I am not sure about a tobacco with undertones of jock strap as it raises more questions than it answers. It is in the same galaxy as describing a tobacco as reminiscent of squirrel farts since you have to wonder how the author knows what a squirrel smells like after letting one rip!
With respect, I think some may be missing the essence, the kernel, the whole flake of the matter here. It is not a question of what a squirrel fart smells like, it is a question of what the original speaker intended to convey by uttering the phrase, "squirrel fart." Is it literal, metaphorical, or semiotic? Is it really squirrel fart qua squirrel fart, or is it squirrel fart as metaphor for the plight of pipe smokers today: a tiny puff of hot aromatic air into the void, an attempt to create an infinitely small but warm moment of meaning in the midst of an uncaring, faceless universe? Or is it squirrel fart as ironic signifier, a pungent commentary on the state of discourse on this and other pipe smokers' forums -- an implied critique of those who mistake the parole for the langue, the term of art for the meta-theoretical framework -- those, in short, who fail to see that the squirrel, its fart (if it really exists as a temporal event) , the smeller of said fart, and the whole pipe-smoking community are trapped in a semiotic bubble, a language-universe bounded by, nay even imprisoned, by its own traditions, systems of express and implied authority, individual desires, mistaken meanings, and other trappings of the Wittgensteinian fly-in-the-bottle (not to be confused with a fart-in-a-bottle) statement on the limits of objective rationality?
I submit this humbly to the collective, and end with a question, or comment: "what is the sound of one squirrel farting?"
@BriaronBoerum : The squirrel fart metaphor is similar to my favorite description of something unpleasant as to remind one of 'Sucking the farts out of a Swan' which is a picture to conjure with on a dark damp night!
With respect, I think some may be missing the essence, the kernel, the whole flake of the matter here. It is not a question of what a squirrel fart smells like, it is a question of what the original speaker intended to convey by uttering the phrase, "squirrel fart." Is it literal, metaphorical, or semiotic? Is it really squirrel fart qua squirrel fart, or is it squirrel fart as metaphor for the plight of pipe smokers today: a tiny puff of hot aromatic air into the void, an attempt to create an infinitely small but warm moment of meaning in the midst of an uncaring, faceless universe? Or is it squirrel fart as ironic signifier, a pungent commentary on the state of discourse on this and other pipe smokers' forums -- an implied critique of those who mistake the parole for the langue, the term of art for the meta-theoretical framework -- those, in short, who fail to see that the squirrel, its fart (if it really exists as a temporal event) , the smeller of said fart, and the whole pipe-smoking community are trapped in a semiotic bubble, a language-universe bounded by, nay even imprisoned, by its own traditions, systems of express and implied authority, individual desires, mistaken meanings, and other trappings of the Wittgensteinian fly-in-the-bottle (not to be confused with a fart-in-a-bottle) statement on the limits of objective rationality?
I submit this humbly to the collective, and end with a question, or comment: "what is the sound of one squirrel farting?"
The squirrel farted in Wittgenstein's bottle, and he's the only fly trapped in it. Sucks to be him. He could have gotten out by admitting the irony of successfully communicating to us our supposed entrapment in an ouroborian umwelt bubble. But some people will consider any nonsense better than facing a universe that Really Means.
i have been banned from tobacco revieuws for over 6 months now.thought it was an European issue,for the internet is full of complains,about being banned.my email was returned for not be able to deliver.i do hope it will turn out well,for i truely miss the comments,especially Jimminks collourfull revieuws.
Tobaccoreviews is no longer available to us europeans. You can get around this with a vpn connected to a us server.