What Kind of Pipe Smoker are You?

[jorgesoler]

To sum everything up, I'd say there are only two kinds of pipe smokers. On the one hand, you get the usual ones who have no clue about all the different components in a blend and only follow the hype. I call these "posers." In this category will fall all of those who are always seeking approval in every other forum, tally the likes they get in their posts, show off their last and ultimate fish like Japanese models, etc. On the other hand, you get what I call "all codgers." In this group, you will only find grumpy old fellas with worn-off pipes looking like crap, but a good deep understanding of all the different tobacco components and the like. If you know what you like, what the ratios, can mix your own blends, and could not care less about what others might think about your crapy-looking pipes, or if you hate aromatics with a passion, you will probably fall into this category. What kind of pipe smoker are you?

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I cannot agree given my studies on JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. Their pipes looked well used, but obviously they didn’t fit your definition of a Codger. Perhaps it’s not so obvious ???

 

[BarrelProof]

I’d like to add a third group. This is the guy who takes his pipe and favorite blend to the hardware store in search of the broadest paint brush available. Upon locating and purchasing it, he simply begins painting.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

So basically you're saying some of us are posers and some are the real deal?

I'm gonna have to call BS on this one, sorry mate. This is the type of attitude that makes tobacco shop owners say rude things to people. Pipe smoking literally saved me from another 20 years of cigarette addiction, made me a calmer person, showed me the value of contemplative thought and in general just improved my life. Am I a poser because I haven't smoked Royal Yacht or tasted McLelland flake? Am I poser because I don't own a three hundred dollar bit of tree root? This thread is pointless as a discussion piece and serves only to reinforce an elitist attitude that has zero merit in a community meant to bring pipe smokers together.

I highly suspect the OP just ran out of his favorite blend! I know I'll be cranky when I run out of this tasty ODF!

 

[saltedplug]

I was neither. If you added another 12 categories you might come close to the varieties that exist. I find your censure here to be a continuation of your last posts, both remarkable only for their arrogant and vapid thinking.

 

[jorgesoler]

I was neither. If you added another 12 categories you might come close to the varieties that exist. I find your censure here to be a continuation of your last posts, both remarkable only for their arrogant and vapid thinking.

I am flattered you remember

 

[Infantry23]

I would self-asses that I don't fall into either category. I like my worn pipes and my new shiney guys. I like latakia and perique but have no idea about ratios. I cannot pick out components and I like aromatics but I don't care about "likes" or approval from fellow forum members. Maybe I am a codger by the fact that I'm too old to care about which category I fall into?

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Mark Twain said there are two type of people. Those that have accomplished things and those who claim to have accomplished things. And, the first group doesn’t contain as many people.

Ironically he didn’t group pipe smokers. ???

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I smoke whatever I like in nice pipes whether I like. And how I like without any regard to what anybody thinks other than myself. I'll leave it to you to categorize because I also don't give a shit about what category I may fit into l

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I would self-asses that I don't fall into either category. I like my worn pipes and my new shiney guys. I like latakia and perique but have no idea about ratios. I cannot pick out components and I like aromatics but I don't care about "likes" or approval from fellow forum members. Maybe I am a codger by the fact that I'm too old to care about which category I fall into?

I know you don’t care, but I like Latakia also.

 

[mithridate]

Well, you define to which I fall into: I've started smoking pipes something like three years ago, am less than thirty-years-old, and have purchased some pipes I like very much. I don't understand anything about tobacco or blends, just that I like some more than others. I'm smoking almost casually, now and then, practicing to build up a good technique, less relights, better packing and so on, and I'm enjoying my time with the pipes more and more.

I'd say I fall into neither of those, quite suspicious, categories.

 

[BarrelProof]

My dad always told me there were two types of people in this world - those who return their shopping carts to the stall in the parking lot and those who need to be punched in the nose. YMMV.

The interesting bit to me is that the OP needn’t research too deep into the recent history on this forum to find evidence of self-proclaimed codgers posting photos of their fish.

 

[verporchting]

I smoke a pipe, therefore I am a pipe smoker. Beyond that it’s meaningless to me.

Hoosier and I would get along just fine I think. ?

 

[peregrinus]

I'd say there are only two kinds of pipe smokers.

Someone has said there are two kinds of people in the world: “those who divide the world into two groups and those who don’t.”
With out prejudice I agree with @saltedplug, that @jorgesoler seems a serial provocateur, and this sometimes leads to interesting conversation.

 

[Casual]

Can’t I be ignorant and grumpy?

 

[rushx9]

Yeah, I don't know of anyone that falls into either of those very specific categories. In fact, most "codgers" smoke codger blends, aka supermarket burleys and goopy pipe shop aromatics, and don't know shit about the components of anything. Some codgers smoke cobs and grabows, but many buy the most expensive pipes they can find to ghost up with their heavily cased OTCs. Y'know, because "you get what you pay for", as the codgers say.
Then there are the posers... while they definitely chase instagram hypester retailers and every limited release, and hoard tobaccos they've never even tasted just because other hoarders are hoarding, some are out buying expensive artisan pipes, but just as many are buying up old estates to pose as the codgers they wish to be. Have you seen the prices old beat up kaywoodies, medicos, yello boles, etc. go for on ebay? I doubt anyone expected that when they were sitting in the drugstore display for <$5. But they sure do seem to entitle folks to that "I'm a grumpy codger" attitude.
Anyway, posers are everywhere and plenty of codgers are just posers of a different sort that somehow think they're better than all the other posers because they pose just like their favorite old posers that hated young posers.
Perhaps if they'd stop worrying about how the other posers are posing, they could just sit back and truly enjoy their pipes and tobaccos.
Or maybe they really just prefer banging their cane and shouting "get off my lawn" over anything else, including pipes and tobacco...

 

[solideogloria86]

Neither one.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Could we all have fell victim of a troll? ??

 

[bullet08]

I'm a simple man. I'm a pipe smoker who doesn't care for posers posting stupid ass opinion and believe it to be some sort of fact. I might be too simple to understand these deep opinions.

 

[verporchting]

Can’t I be ignorant and grumpy?

Casual, you can be as many of the dwarves as you want, but BROBS has called dibs on being Cinderella.

(Dammit, I wanted that part).