What Is Stocklow Syndrome?

[Questionable Source]

What Is Stocklow Syndrome?

Stocklow syndrome isn't a psychological diagnosis. Instead, it's a way of understanding the emotional response some people have toward a blend or a blender. It happens to some pipe smokers and tobacco users when they have positive feelings toward a blend or a blender that is low on, or going out of stock of a blend.

Sometimes, people who are cellaring or are subject to use can have feelings of reverence or other positive feelings toward the blend. This seems to happen over days, weeks, months, or years of cellaring and close contact to the blend.

A bond can grow between the victim and the blend. This can lead to kind treatment and less harshness from the tobacco as they might also create a positive bond with their users.

Someone who has Stocklow syndrome might have confusing feelings toward the blend, including:

Love
Sympathy
Empathy
Desire to protect them

Stocklow syndrome might also cause the pipe smoker to have negative feelings toward the distributors or anyone who might attempt a match blend.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

 

[The Benedictine]

 

[Servant King]

It's what all those smug boomers who have built up (read: stolen from three subsequent generations) their unrealized gains in the S&P 500 will have when the index starts tanking.

The symptoms will only be readily apparent when all those "zestimates" on Zillow start dropping precipitously.

Meanwhile, I'll be on my mountaintop smoking some Match Match Balkan Sobranie in a pipe constructed exclusively out of my parents' bounced pension checks.

Small chamber...I prefer quick smokes.

 

[huntertrw]

Stocklow Syndrome could be defined as:

A buying panic induced in certain susceptible pipe-smokers who, when seeing that their sources of supply have low inventory levels of their favorite pipe-tobaccos, think "Oh, my gosh, I've got to get them NOW before they are gone FOREVER!"

 

[VUswim73]

Picking up from Huntertrw, Stocklow Syndrome also applies to the public at large that goes on binges of buying milk and bread when there is a threat of snow 50-80 miles from Chattanooga, TN (and other communities I'm sure) or toilet paper when rumors of either another COVID variant or a Norovirus outbreak is underway.

 

[BingBong]

I approach this scientifically and lean towards buffering solutions.

 

[sablebrush52]

This reads like a corollary to my Theory of the Psychopathy of Scarcity.

 

[krizzose]

My ThinkIGotEnoughStockedUp Syndrome has made me immune.

 

[woodsroad]

Call it what you want, but my reserves of Mixture 79 are unmatched in the free world.

I hear that Xi may have more I do, though.