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Post by Matthew on Nov 29, 2017 21:33:33 GMT -5
In another forum I was reading thru a thread where one gentleman had been accused of having "pedestrian tastes". I guess I'm a bit under-educated as I had to look up the meaning of "pedestrian". After reading thru Webster's definition and examples, I have come to the conclusion that like "Red Neck", this term has been perverted into an insult rather than a state of being or statement of social status. I have long been Honored when someone called me a "Red Neck". It is the Red Necks who built this country.Now, some elitist might have had the ideas and plans, but Red Necks put in the blood,sweat, and tears. I'm getting the idea that a pedestrian taste would imply that what nuances I pick up from a blend are ones that many newer smokers can easily pick out and identify with.Giving them a clearer picture of what to expect or look for in those blends.So where I greatly appreciate the reviews of those with a more refined palette, I have to ask,are the reviews of a less talented smoker less informative.Or are they just another avenue to educate and entice others.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 22:07:54 GMT -5
Had an extremely rich friend once. Told her that she could enjoy a movie no more than I could. I love people who can give formal, outlined reviews. I can't. My mom gifted me with understanding the nuances of many forms of art and music. I can neither paint nor perform worth a poop. I can understand the nuances. I can't report them to save my life. My reviews are totally pedestrian. I can appreciate a bourbon and water in a dive or a castle. I feel blessed to not care which
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Post by Matthew on Nov 29, 2017 22:27:07 GMT -5
I have drank beer in Honkytonks,and scotch in clubs.I've played golf with millionairs,and pool with unemployed constrution workers. I listen to classical orchestras and country music.I have more respect for the person who is honest enough to just say,I don't like something rather than a long drawn out verse on why it isn't good. Had a step-sister in law jump my case because I complimented my brother on his singing. (a middle-bass rendition of Amazing Grace) And given my druthers, I could spend the next 20 years listening to Al Jolsen,Frank Sinatra,Dean Martin,and Bing Crosby.So,I might not be able to give a flowery worded thesis,but what I say comes from from the heart.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Nov 29, 2017 22:40:48 GMT -5
Lived in a gated community in a Bay Area, right on the water. Easter floods would come and stuff around fishing camps would float away. The well to do would after the flood ,go as they would say scavageing, picking up what was not theirs. I told my wife, you see Rich people scavenge, poor people steal. Just to clarify I'm in the poor people camp. That's just my pedestrian take on it.
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Post by slowroll on Nov 29, 2017 23:27:55 GMT -5
![f1r3](//storage.forums.net/6447321/images/TZSOUedRWHsVyONHFwOg.gif) Pedestrian taste must mean that you haven't got your pinky finger in the air when you're smoking a pipe or drinking tea.
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Post by simnettpratt on Nov 30, 2017 0:18:29 GMT -5
Remember that probably Leonardo Da Vinci painting that sold at Christie's for $450 million? Here's another 'modern art' painting that sold in the same auction: ![](https://i.imgur.com/QiM3sE4.jpg) It was described by Christies' art critic thus: Red is the colour of wine, but also of blood, and these canvases encompass both the sensual pleasure and violent debauchery associated with the god. The contrast is echoed in the paintings' combination of euphoric loops that soar upwards and vermillion floods of paint that ooze and cascade down the canvas. The unfurling gestures of these painting were made, like Henri Matisses's works in old age, with a brush affixed to the end of a pole, which lends them their vitality and scale.It sold for $46 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS. It is brilliantly named: Untitled. Here's my pedestrian review: Two year old left alone for two minutes with a bottle of ketchup. Sometimes the Emperor has no clothes. And now you know, although I am educated, whether I prefer the company of peasants and rednecks, or elitists and nobles ![:)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Darin on Nov 30, 2017 6:12:20 GMT -5
There's a Sucker born every minute. As for"pedestrian tastes", I take it to mean dull, boring and simple ... like when I was smoking nothing but Carter Hall for awhile. ![:)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by simnettpratt on Nov 30, 2017 8:58:23 GMT -5
Agreed, pedestrian is dull, predictable and common. It's never a compliment. Redneck on the other hand, can be a put down or a compliment, mainly depending on whether you've spent time with rednecks or not ![:)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) White trash is never a compliment, redneck certainly can be. As the most famous redneck of all, Jeff Foxworthy, describes it, it's 'a glorious lack of sophistication'. I love racing. While oval racing is my least favorite form of racing, that's what they built here in Dallas: Texas Motor Speedway. The biggest draws are the two NASCAR races. There are a lot of rednecks that attend NASCAR races. From the very first race, and no one told them to, when folks got up from their seats to go get another hot dog, they left all their stuff on their seats. I'm talking scanners, binoculars, coolers, whatever. Women took their purses, and that was it. I'd never seen that at Cowboys games, Stars games or even Rangers games. No one told them to, it was just normal, and I thought it was fantastic.
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Post by just ol ed on Nov 30, 2017 9:24:43 GMT -5
I fit this tread, I think, quite well. Any tobacco in any of my 51 pipes as satisfying as it gets.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by slowroll on Nov 30, 2017 10:33:24 GMT -5
Remember that probably Leonardo Da Vinci painting that sold at Christie's for $450 million? Here's another 'modern art' painting that sold in the same auction: ![](https://i.imgur.com/QiM3sE4.jpg) It was described by Christies' art critic thus: Red is the colour of wine, but also of blood, and these canvases encompass both the sensual pleasure and violent debauchery associated with the god. The contrast is echoed in the paintings' combination of euphoric loops that soar upwards and vermillion floods of paint that ooze and cascade down the canvas. The unfurling gestures of these painting were made, like Henri Matisses's works in old age, with a brush affixed to the end of a pole, which lends them their vitality and scale.It sold for $46 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS. It is brilliantly named: Untitled. Here's my pedestrian review: Two year old left alone for two minutes with a bottle of ketchup. Sometimes the Emperor has no clothes. And now you know, although I am educated, whether I prefer the company of peasants and rednecks, or elitists and nobles ![:)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Problem is, some people's education is in bullshitting others into believing crap like the above is worth something. I can't imagine even wanting to belong to a club like that.
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Post by simnettpratt on Nov 30, 2017 10:55:10 GMT -5
Here's an actual early Henri Matisse. It's called Dinner Table. ![](https://i.imgur.com/Izi5ydh.jpg) Looks just like ketchup painting to me. The difference between art critics and pipe smokers is, pipe smokers wouldn't criticize a guy for smoking Carter Hall, pedestrian though it may be!
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Post by sablebrush52 on Nov 30, 2017 12:50:52 GMT -5
I've always taken the term "Pedestrian taste" simply to mean average and of no great character. It's not bad, nor is it good. It's not rich, nor poor. It's very common and not thought provoking. Pedestrian taste breaks no new ground. It accepts the ground already broken by many others. There's certainly nothing wrong, nor right, with having pedestrian tastes. They can be very comfortable and occasionally comforting. There is no virtue in having pedestrian taste, nor vice. Having pedestrian tastes requires no exploration, thought, nor intellectual effort. Pedestrian taste is freely available to all
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Post by Darin on Nov 30, 2017 13:02:00 GMT -5
I've heard that J-Walkers taste the best and joggers are the worst.
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Post by daveinlax on Nov 30, 2017 13:17:36 GMT -5
In another forum I was reading thru a thread where one gentleman had been accused of having "pedestrian tastes". Since we don't have an issue with linking other boards here can you please post a link to the thread you're talking about so I can judge it for myself.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 13:20:55 GMT -5
I've heard that J-Walkers taste the best and joggers are the worst. Well, Johhny Walker's Double Black, yes. Never heard of Joggers. Single Malt?
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Post by Darin on Nov 30, 2017 14:21:58 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 15:46:15 GMT -5
Winston Churchill drank Johnnie Walker Red when Black was available. IMO Red has a tad bit of chemical taste. I would consider it Pedestrian, were I to buy into all this. Why would Churchill drink Red when Black was maybe a pound more for a bottle? I don't really know the answer, but I won't say my taste in Scotch is any better than his. Just different and he saw something in Red that I do not. Yet in some hoity toity bar he might have actually been looked down on for that decision. BTW, I am smoking Carter Hall right now. I have some expensive blends here that do not smoke or taste as well. If someone would send me Larson's 100.00 3.5 gram block I would be happy to review. I will accept anything down to 25 grams
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Post by Nevadablue on Nov 30, 2017 15:52:20 GMT -5
Let's see now, pedestrians are walkers. Walking while smoking a pipe is lunting. Therefore I am... now I am confused. Why would someone call someone else a walker? What's wrong with a walker?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 15:56:16 GMT -5
Let's see now, pedestrians are walkers. Walking while smoking a pipe is lunting. Therefore I am... now I am confused. Why would someone call someone else a walker? What's wrong with a walker? Ya friggin got me, but I am going to look for my bottle of JW Double Black!
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Post by Darin on Nov 30, 2017 16:04:21 GMT -5
Let's see now, pedestrians are walkers. Walking while smoking a pipe is lunting. Therefore I am... now I am confused. Why would someone call someone else a walker? What's wrong with a walker? Ya friggin got me, but I am going to look for my bottle of JW Double Black! ... and yet ... neither Lunting nor Whiskey is Pedestrian! ![:)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 16:09:02 GMT -5
And in the case of JW that would be Whisky, not to be confused with glorious Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (Bonnie Blue Flag playing in the background)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 17:04:46 GMT -5
better a Walker than a Wanker.
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Post by Darin on Nov 30, 2017 17:35:01 GMT -5
Wankers are SO pedestrian. ![:)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Matthew on Nov 30, 2017 19:14:28 GMT -5
Agreed, pedestrian is dull, predictable and common. It's never a compliment. Redneck on the other hand, can be a put down or a compliment, mainly depending on whether you've spent time with rednecks or not ![:)](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) White trash is never a compliment, redneck certainly can be. As the most famous redneck of all, Jeff Foxworthy, describes it, it's 'a glorious lack of sophistication'. I love racing. While oval racing is my least favorite form of racing, that's what they built here in Dallas: Texas Motor Speedway. The biggest draws are the two NASCAR races. There are a lot of rednecks that attend NASCAR races. From the very first race, and no one told them to, when folks got up from their seats to go get another hot dog, they left all their stuff on their seats. I'm talking scanners, binoculars, coolers, whatever. Women took their purses, and that was it. I'd never seen that at Cowboys games, Stars games or even Rangers games. No one told them to, it was just normal, and I thought it was fantastic. Here is where I disagree with you,for me,I've had enough excitement and adventure.Dull,predictable,and common are simple goals that I can achieve without external aid.If I happen to enjoy a simple one dimensional smoke on a daily basis does that make me inferior?I think it makes me comfortable and satisfied.If I post a review that is filled with simplistic terminology I must be under educated or lacking in palette talent?I think it just shows that my use of verse is constrained to nouns and verbs I learned in life rather than school. I've always taken the term "Pedestrian taste" simply to mean average and of no great character. It's not bad, nor is it good. It's not rich, nor poor. It's very common and not thought provoking. Pedestrian taste breaks no new ground. It accepts the ground already broken by many others. There's certainly nothing wrong, nor right, with having pedestrian tastes. They can be very comfortable and occasionally comforting. There is no virtue in having pedestrian taste, nor vice. Having pedestrian tastes requires no exploration, thought, nor intellectual effort. Pedestrian taste is freely available to all ABSOLUTLY !,,,,This is exactly what I'm trying to say.We use and take labels as insults when these adjectives are nothing more than a state of being. (I've also been called Retarded and decided to act accordingly) In another forum I was reading thru a thread where one gentleman had been accused of having "pedestrian tastes". Since we don't have an issue with linking other boards here can you please post a link to the thread you're talking about so I can judge it for myself. It was a thread on PSF dealing with Tobacco Reviews,and the comment was a remark how one persons reviews were of a "pedestrian taste".Upon research of the complaining party,the insulted individual found them to be a one or two bowls a week smoker,who claimed a year of expierience.It was the common insult of "pedestrian" that I was addressing not the merits of the other thread.But I will try and find the post and link it for you. pipesmokersforum.com/community/threads/worst-review-i-ever-read-rant.62954/
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Post by Baboo on Nov 30, 2017 19:25:21 GMT -5
I work like a dog, live like a hobo puffin away... what more could I want?🐒😃
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Post by slowroll on Nov 30, 2017 19:50:33 GMT -5
Been my experience that people who accuse others of pedestrian tastes are insufferable sanctimonious bastards who need not be listened to at all. Speaking of insufferable, how'd ya like my avoidance of the preposition at the end of that sentence?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 19:52:36 GMT -5
Been my experience that people who accuse others of pedestrian tastes are insufferable sanctimonious bastards who need not be listened to at all. Speaking of insufferable, how'd ya like my avoidance of the preposition at the end of that sentence? I used a semicolon the other day in a post and a thrill ran up my leg
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Post by Nevadablue on Nov 30, 2017 20:47:16 GMT -5
U sure it wasn't a mouse?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 20:51:52 GMT -5
U sure it wasn't a mouse? Naw, I checked. li'l Pepino was still in his cage
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Post by Matthew on Nov 30, 2017 22:09:50 GMT -5
U sure it wasn't a mouse? Dude ! I was working on the pump years ago when my wife came out to get in the way.As we were discussing the problem I had step out of the well house and she step in to see what I was describing.This little field mouse chose that instant to make a run for the door.She screamed blood murder and commenced to jumping and that damned lil feller ran right up my pants leg.I grabbed hold around my knee to keep him from the sensitive area and had to kick off my boot to get the feller out.All I could think of was the pain if it bit my ****s !
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