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First, and most importantly, I'm not making fun, or poking fun at, anyone. I have a couple people in my life who don't understand numbers, and it goes beyond just being bad at math. I mean numbers hold no meaning for them. They literally make absolutely no sense to them. A number might as...

I've been buying 8LB bags of oranges for a couple months now. Some of the best oranges I've had for years. Started out as Navels, but now Sequoia. Never heard of Sequoia oranges until now. I noticed how thick the rinds are, but not until I took my garbage out did I realize how much weight...

1) yes, I know it is the way of the world. 2) no, it's not something I give a lot of thought. I don't don a tin foil hat too often and conspiracy spiral. I'm not a big fan of websites hitting me up with an email moments after I click off their site, asking me if they can answer any questions or...

A short story made long. Brevity is not one of my virtues. I'm working on it, but not in this moment... I used to only order from Pipes and Cigars. It wasn't out of loyalty, but pure economics and habit. I tend to order tobacco once a year during the big sales in August or around the winter...

I haven't used either sambal oelek & sriracha for a while. I've never been a huge sriracha fan anyway, but today, I was in the mood. I used to pay around $4 for a 28oz squeeze bottle. Today, $9+. I didn't buy any because that was so extreme that I thought maybe it was just the store...

I think we might have another similar thread to this, but I cannot find it. Delete if this is redundant. A glass of ice water while in a hot shower or sauna. Akin to that, is slowly driving down backroads in the winter with the windows down and the heater full blast. When the top seam of the...

I'm privy to a largish group that goes out a couple times a month. One of the folks is on a highly restrictive diet. I'll call them Jack. Another is one of these folks who makes a large part of their identity about food. Fancies themselves a cook. They can eat enough food to make other...

I thought we had a thread about podcast listening, but they're scattered about pipe makers and such. If you have one to recommend, please do so. About anything. NOT limited to pipes and tobacco. I'm a fan of Julia Ioffe. I don't always agree with her (I mostly do), but she always has a...

I could have used any of the already-existing Kaywoodie threads, but I wasn't sure how much attention it would get. I've looked on other boards, and trying to find out this information was nearly impossible (because of people like me starting new threads). I apologize in advance. I'm not sure...

This is one of the advantages of using a two-piece lid. I don't. I re-use peanut butter jars. When I jar up bulk or tinned tobacco, I have a little cup of distilled water in which to dip my finger and run around the rubber seal for lubrication when tightening down the lid. Generally works...

I'm struggling with this a bit (I never got it fully back after my first C-19, and now recovering from a third time), along with worsening allergies, and while this is out of my means, I thought this was worth sharing in case there's someone here who no longer can taste or smell because of covid.

If I was God, I would do an ultra-high-speed time lapse on the evolution of this pipe. I think I know how this happens, but I think I'd need to see it to believe it. Do you think the guy rubbed every square millimeter of this pipe while he smoked it? How does a rusticated finish get so...

This isn't intended to become political or an opportunity to rant about taxes and regulations. I think there are a couple subforums for exactly that. I'm talking about the sales themselves. Does a 10% sale motivate you to buy? Unless you're dropping a couple hundred bucks, it barely covers...

I'm looking for an inexpensive straight virginia to experiment with, but also to daily smoke. I have a bunch of Stokkebye 41 burley cube cut I'd like to dribble into a virginia (if it proves smart). I've had neither of these. As you might know from the smoking thread, my daily driver is...

If any, what online outfits, newspapers (paper or online), podcasts, radio, etc do you pay for to get news? I admit to consuming most of my news on TV, but I do check out maybe 3-5 links per day from my various feeds. I sometimes google a particular situation or person, but most of my on-own...

I have a stem that needs some smoothing out on the inside. Can anyone recommend a needle file they use on their pipes? What size would you recommend? I'm seeing a lot of needle file sets, but they all look too big, but maybe that is poor photographing. *I've never needed to do this before...

Can anyone explain why crumble cakes often have such small bits of tobacco in them? I recognize it is in the name...sort of. Some of them have tobacco so small that I'd swear they ground them up in a food processor until they were slightly larger than dust...well, like coffee grounds size...

To piggyback on my post about oil companies reporting a second quarter in a row of record profits while also lessening oil production, there's also shrinkflation and profiteering. For example, Post Honey Bunches of Oats not only shrunk the contents of their cereal box from 14.5oz to 12oz (same...

The Tour de France ended today. One of my favorite times of the year. Coffee and bicycling makes for a good morning. I don't follow it like I once did, which is funny now that it is almost guaranteed to be televised somewhere. Back in the old days, it was a treat to get to see it. Peacock...

I do not care for the dublin shape, or anything resembling that classic shape, tapering down to smaller. For example, within the dublin family is the calabash. I do not care for how they look, but in particular, I do not care for how they feel in the hand. It's not as if I have a death grip on...