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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 18498"><p>It is possible to suspect that much of the jealousy-motivated rejection of guys with rooms full of expensive briars is due in no small part to the habit some of them have of showboating at every opportunity. </p><p></p><p>This "Hey -- Look what <span style="color: red">I</span> have" impulse (understandable enough, and common to all of us), when it's kept up and kept up, eventually provokes a(n unanticipated) reaction. It isn't so much the pipes, or even that somebody has them that's annoying so much as <em><u>what's</u> <u>perceived</u> <u>as</u></em> showing off with them that (eventually) irritates people. </p><p></p><p>Board guys you kind of "know" as people in the round can have all the blowsnails they want, and you're just happy for them. It's the folks who buy $17,000 worth of pipes a week and make sure everybody knows it who encounter static after a while.</p><p></p><p>That's what I suspect is the case, at any rate.</p><p></p><p>:face:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 18498"] It is possible to suspect that much of the jealousy-motivated rejection of guys with rooms full of expensive briars is due in no small part to the habit some of them have of showboating at every opportunity. This "Hey -- Look what [color=red]I[/color] have" impulse (understandable enough, and common to all of us), when it's kept up and kept up, eventually provokes a(n unanticipated) reaction. It isn't so much the pipes, or even that somebody has them that's annoying so much as [i][u]what's[/u] [u]perceived[/u] [u]as[/u][/i] showing off with them that (eventually) irritates people. Board guys you kind of "know" as people in the round can have all the blowsnails they want, and you're just happy for them. It's the folks who buy $17,000 worth of pipes a week and make sure everybody knows it who encounter static after a while. That's what I suspect is the case, at any rate. :face: [/QUOTE]
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