/lit/ - Literature

Why?

>>18433549
unless you read outside I really see no way of smoking while reading given how many smoking restrictions we have nowadays

Sometimes, but more often I smoke a pipe and think on stuff before going inside to read or write while I'm still buzzed.

Was walking through the town the other day and a man passed me smoking a pipe. I use an ecig but the smell coming from the smoke was incredible. Nothing like a cigarette.

I tried to pick up pipes but they're genuinely a bitch to light and keep lit properly. Both my grandpas are dead so there isn't anyone I know who could teach me in person :(

>>18433549
No, only weed

>>18433618
Just part of pipes. Pack them well, get a good cadence puffing away, be prepared to relight every now and again.

>>18433549
No. I snort snuff instead.

>>18433549
I smoked a bowl once when I was reading a chapter of Two Towers. Incidentally, it was the one where Merry and Pippen find Sauramon's pipe weed stach.

>>18434533
Lovely anecdote, thanks for sharing anon

>>18433549
Yes, I've been smoking pipes for over 20 years. You want a pipe made of briar, meerschaum, clay, or corn cob; budget permitting. The most lit tobaccos are latakia mixtures such as Westminster by GL Pease or Squadron Leader by Samuel Gawith.

>>18433585
Not in Italy they don't

I might need to smoke something harder in order to attend the online Tolkien Seminar this year.

>>18434642
Are they really that difficult to keep lit and enjoy ? Id like to get into tobacco but im curious if I should just do cigars like im familiar with.

>>18435578
It takes a few years to get really good at packing and puffing so you don't need to relight a lot, but it's worth the effort. I love cigars too, but they're too strong to smoke often, plus a major time commitment. A literate gentleman should appreciate both, while shunning the vulgar cigarette habit.

>>18435645
Sweet, ill grab a pipe. Thanks.

>>18433615
pipes smell amazing

No because I don't larp as someone I'm not and tobacco is bad for you

>>18433549
I smoked tobacco pipe once
I asked my grandpa to make me a tobacco blend suitable for me
It was very good

I miss you grandpa. I wish I could have told you goodbye before you were gone.
I know that in some of those dozens of boxes of books you left me there's an original Mein Kampf. Danke Schoen.

>>18433549
I sniff your mom's anus if that counts

God this board is filled with degenerates. Enjoy your well-deserved lung cancer.

>>18433549
I only smoke while watching anime or reading manga. It's just a ritual I have.

The only ''book"' I read is the bible and I don't want to get it smokey.

>>18435991
I guess you live far from any factory, city, do not use a car (or motorbike) and do not buy furniture?

>>18434317
Can you even buy this in the USA? I’ve never seen it

>>18435955
May he rest in peace.

>>18435994
>he didn't read Gen 1:29
ngmi

>>18435991
bitch ass faggot

>>18435991
just smoke a couple times a week, not a big deal

>>18436000
>I guess you live far from any factory, city
Yes, actually
>do not use a car (or motorbike) and do not buy furniture?
No, but those things aren't entirely pointless and easily dispensable like smoking.

>>18436003
Thank you.
I feel somewhat bad thinking he was buried alone. Me, sis, and my mother (his daughter) could not attend his funeral. I cried about that. His wife (my grandma) spent her last years with us, in a foreign country (for her) and was buried here.

>>18436047
Ahhh, so you think that car pollution does not give you cancer. Ok.

>>18436048
What book is that, anon?

>>18436064
Where did I say that?

>>18436080
It's not a book, it's a Wehrpass. Basically military documents.

Interestingly, in the "Kenntisse in Fremd-Sprachen" there's "Franz. Engl. Italienish. Hebraisch"

Tbh my grandpa was not a soldier, he was too young. He still was in HJ and similar stuff

>>18434642

Wrong. The most lit tobaccos are Navy Flake Virginias.

>>18436111
Checked, and fucking cool anon.
My Great Grandfather was a tank commander for the Italian army in the Second World War.
He got hit with an anti-tank round, though, so I never got the chance to meet him :/

>>18436111
My great-grandfather died on the Eastern front, away from his family, in a frozen wasteland. My grandmother grew up without a father, grew up with bombs exploding over her head.

That family, in countless others, were ripped apart because of degenerate fucking tryhards like yourself and the fucking retards you admire. Neck yourself.

>>18436126
RSI o Regio Esercito?
Sono Italiano anch'io ;)

>>18433549
I just drank a nip of Evan Williams while reading ama

>>18436160
From my understand Royal Army.
And sorry anon, I don't speak Italian.
My family grew up in an area where being Italian was a bad thing, so my grandparents tried not to speak Italian and cause me to get harassed like they did.
Canada isn't all sunshine and rainbows like they'd like you believe

>>18436159
Point out EXACTLY where I said I'm a Nazi.
In fact, my grandpa had to change name and nationality.
He was just a kid (about 13) when the Third Reich fell. But he was a very smart guy. He kept all the stuff as an historical document.

You can't possibly imagine how intelligent my grandpa was. He worked as manager in IT in the 70s. He spoke Turkish, self taught, as his fifth language. He had a collection of Roman coins. He visited Iran in the 70s. He was writing books about German folklore. He draw by hand landscapes of cities. He had epistolary relationships with people inventing crosswords. He came up with the longest conceivable word in German language.

>>18435991
What's so important you want to live past your 60s so badly

>>18436203
Oh, I didn't know there was anti-Italian sentiment in Canada. But I could have imagined that.

>>18436212
I don't have any expectation of living that long. My priority is not engaging in behavior that needlessly harms others.

>>18436214
The 50's was a really rough time for Italians because of the war. It was tragic, because a lot of my family spoke only Italian, and I couldn't take to them on account of the language barrier. They've passed away, so now I'll never be able to have full conversations with them. :/

>>18436250
*Talk to to them

i dont smoke but i do have some of my best thoughts driving at night packing a nice fat Copenhagen Long Cut

>>18436001
They stopped selling snuff in the US years ago, but I still order it from MrSnuff in England. Ships here with no problems.

>>18436120
Those are great too, but I don't recommend them to beginners. Trickier to both prepare and puff.

>>18436159
>Autistic rambling about a unrelated issue vaguely related to the topic
>Retarded spacing
Yep, this is a Reddit Moment

>>18436293
Do you have any Cigar recommendations?

Shamelessly bumping this comfy thread

>>18436210
>I know that in some of those dozens of boxes of books you left me there's an original Mein Kampf. Danke Schoen.

you're either massively autistic thinking this doesn't scream dogwhistle or a backtracking pussy on top of everything I already described. If it's the latter, still, neck yourself.

If it's the former, good luck

>>18436560
Another Reddit Moment. You're just full of them, aren't you?

>>18436574
I don't give a shit about your formatting conventions, you stupid fucking monkey.

>>18436581
No, I give more of a shit of your autistic ramblings and grandstanding in an otherwise chill thread.
Now take a long walk down a short pier, fag bag.

>>18436595
I don't care what you give a shit about. Die.

18436618
No (You) for you. Go be a nigger elsewhere.
You're doing nothing but showing your infantile nature.
Anyways, does anyone have a book recommendation for Neophytes in the world of Tobacco?

>>18436163
>while reading ama
Reading what?

>>18436632
>You're doing nothing but showing your infantile nature.

you talk like a faggot

>>18436407

Victor Sinclair 55.

>>18435991
>implying a pipe smoker inhales

>>18436643
You're seriously calling me a faggot after your little shit flinging session ITT?
Oh that's fucking rich

>>18436214
Are you still here anon?
I'd like to talk more

>>18436560
>muh dogwhistles
nice crystal ball faggot. who needs a dogwhistle on an anonymous forum anyway? go back to tumblr or whatever fag pit you crawled out of

>>18436203
>>18436214
>grew up in an area where being Italian was a bad thing,
Fuck me, I need to move to Canada. You Italian diaspora are the worst people on earth.

>>18436250
Nobody cares.

>>18436779
Stay classy.

>>18433549
i want to try it, since it seems like a better alternative to my cigarette addiction
what tobacco and pipe should i start with, pipefags?

>>18436159

>>18433585
Where do you live that you're not allowed to smoke in your own house?

>>18438286
I use trinity blue velvet tobacco, which has a chocolate-cinnamon flavour. It's very unique for tobacco because it doesn't leave a completely awful smell behind (you'll still be able to tell it's tobacco though). It's just more like incense.
As for pipes, just start with a cheap corn cob pipe to get the hang of it.

>>18438286
Oh, and the thing I forgot when I started was to get a small pipe cleaning multitool. There should be a small spade-like tool, a pipe-rod and a flat compactor for compacting the tobacco when filling the bowl.

>>18438427
He lives in an apartment because he's a europeon

>>18438286
If you have a store that sells pipes and pipe tobacco you can try just asking for advice. The store I go to is very helpful, they got me set up and gave me tips and stuff and helped pick tobacco.
If you want to order off the internet just get something simple to start and a cheap pipe, just look at a description of different types of tobacco and start with something that sounds like you'd like. You'll probably quickly upgrade but you'll make a better choice after you have some experience.

>>18438452
Oh, sorry. I thought this was a thread for men, not apartment dwellers.

>>18433549
No, I don't pay the tobacco jew for the privilege of dying.

>>18438475
We're all going to die fren. Make peace with it.

>>18438475
Your risk depends on how much you smoke. If you're worried just do it occasionally. It's a nice relaxing activity. It's like a lot of things in life, do it responsibly and not to excess.

>>18435645
Based

>>18438522
Or just not do it at all. I take my suffering raw, no need for crutches

>>18438475
Its not that addictive people just have addictive personalities. I smoked once a day without a problem, when I lived with family my stress levels rose and went to 2-4 a day. Moved out and my stress levels went so low I stopped smoking, been 2 months since I went cold turkey. Will I smoke again? Maybe. I like the idea of having uninterrupted moments to myself with tobacco. Point is unless you have something really important to do past your 60s I dont see why life has to be a marathon and even if it is I wouldn’t enjoy being an old man it sounds like hell the older you get til you can’t remember anything anymore. If you don’t agree just dont smoke but the graveyard doesn’t care what you have in the end and we will go there

>>18435645
I had a pipe but lost it unfortunately, it was a cool dr grabow one too. Anyway I want to get another one and try again since cigs last wayyyy to short and American Spirits are expensive. Whats some good beginner tobacco? Last time I tried it was hell because the tobacco wasn’t beginner friendly and I didnt have a pipe lighter that worked so I had to use matches and I got nothing at all. I hear Half and Half is alright

>>18438566
You will regret this outlook later, there is much about life you can't anticipate until it hits you. There will come a time when you would give the world for one more day with your wife, children, grandchildren. I know someone who discovered his life's mission at 53 years old and needs every minute he can get to complete it.

>>18438622
I live every day under the assumption that I could be dead tomorrow. These "life purposes" are all silly delusions. What matters is focus, concentration and meditation, and always remaining centered and aware.

>>18436638
Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove. It's a collection of Salish just-so stories focusing on the ubiquitous Native trickster, Coyote.

>>18433549
smokers are losers.

>>18436632
The Gentle Art of Smoking by Alfred Dunhill is the coziest book on pipes ever. Dunhill pretty much invented modern tobacco blending.

>>18436230
and yet you're on 4chan. probably a weedfag too

>>18438670
good thing i'm a puffer

>>18433549
Yes, sometimes, though usually when I'm smoking my pipe I'll just be listening to music and musing on various thoughts. It's very comfy.

>>18434642
This is fine, but bad advice for a novice who is going to be turned off by latakia. For someone just starting out I would recommend a corn cob pipe and a Virginia/burley blend, possibly aromatic. That will smoke easier and milder than a meerschaum and a latakia, for instance, and cobs are cheap, easy to get started and keep lit, and don't require seasoning the way briars or other hardwoods do.

>>18435991
Lung cancer isn't an issue for pipe smokers. In theory mouth cancer might be, but it's still vanishingly rare - you might double your chances of getting it if you are a on everyday smoker, but that's going from a 1 out of 1000 chance to a 1 out of 500. For an occasional smoker the risk is statistically insignificant.

And the one large study on lifespans and longevity of various smokers and nonsmokers actually found that pipe smokers on average live *longer* than nonsmokers.

>>18438622
what the other anon said, I dont live like this. Like I said if you disagree dont do it, we're clearly not the types to care even if we did sire children but I know some people are so it matters. We revel in the fact that life is full of uncertainty im not trying to be nihilistic just embracing what life is, if I end up having kids im sure i'll love them but when its time for me to go its time for me to go I wont cling onto anything. if I dont have kids I wont cling onto friends or family, when its time to go its time to go.

>>18439069
i keep forgetting his name but there was an aussie that made books discussing this, and his studies were supported by doctors who disagreed with the new conclusion that smoking causes lung cancer because it couldn't be replicated but was furthered because anti tobacco was used ironically for more corporate greed. Just stop fucking listening to doctors like they're priests, most doctors I've talked to dont give a shit if you smoke unless its a pack a day

>>18433549
Of course I do. The pipe I use is ludicrously big, but folks still dig it.

>>18435955
Lol what a faggot glad he died

>>18433549
I don't smoke pipe tobacco but sometimes I'll light a cigar while I read.

>>18433618
>I tried to pick up pipes but they're genuinely a bitch to light and keep lit properly. Both my grandpas are dead so there isn't anyone I know who could teach me in person :(
Watch youtube vids on pipe smoking. I watched a bunch of videos before picking up a tobacco pipe for the first time last year and have never had a problem lighting it or keeping it lit. I recommend Muttonchop Piper.
https://youtu.be/q6EWJcSbhLY

>>18435991
>God this board is filled with degenerates. Enjoy your well-deserved lung cancer.

>pipe smoking
>lung cancer
Retard

>>18438721
Nice
I'll check it out Anon