smelly4tay wrote:lol Rah.
I could care less about you sending fake cigars because I don't think you know any better....and that is not a diss on you. Some people just can't tell or don't know what the base "real" cigar actually "should" look like. We agree that you smoke it, if it's good...cool, if it sucks....toss it. I give you props for the package regardless of the Cohiba.
What does piss me off is that you didnt apologize for questioning people's faith a week ago, and for continuing to post after many civil longtime posters told you to slow the F down with bidding and posting, and you went ape on both and called people out on it. Do you really think we care what cigars you bid on and won/lost, are smoking at the moment, or are sending to people if you are a complete azzhat about your delivery? There is not a guidebook on, or proper way to be accepted or atleast tolerated on one of the oldest cigar boards on the net...but one tip is to take everything slower than you currently are. If you read this as me acting elitist and not helping you....you are a troll and should have recieved banhammer long ago.
I hope to see you talking about aged t52 piggies, how you love the Tatuaje Tatoo, and MB2's construction type stuff in 6 months...not Mark Twain BS! It is progression, even if you end up continuing to like Maxim de Paris. Atleast you will know what you like and we can't and won't bag on you for it. Please never break out the "Padilla Miami in yo face" stuff again. It is a great cigar, but is a driving, mowing, warm-up cigar to many here. I love the Miami but think you need to try 50 or so middle-top shelf stuff before you can trade words with DMV and others.
this will be the last I say to or about rah until i see less BS
No, I don't resent your posting at all. You did not make any spurious allegations about me and I don't think your purpose behind it is to discredit or mock me in any real way.
Weather you like it or not, you and I have a very similar view on thought process, especially when it comes to the matter of anyone caring about anything anyone else writes in a forum such as this. Not caring about what is posted here is a fact we all conveniently ignore otherwise the rate of posting would be significantly reduced. Caring to the point of acknowledgment is 'normal'. It is done without much thought in order to maintain a continuous and most times courteous exchange of personal experience on all matters pertaining to cigars.
However, their are times when that exchange goes well beyond simple acknowledgement and agreeable or disagreeable opinions. And as I stated in a prior posting, members that have been posting here the longest should exhibit the wisdom that their longevity should have established when posting on any subject or matter presented by other members.
The matter of making a statement about an individual, especially one that is made public, is as important to me as any, and should be to everyone. Writing posts with the single purpose of slandering and discrediting a member, or 'take the rug out from under them' is wrong. I don't CARE if that poster has made 1 or 100,000 posts. You would expect such a post would not come from a poster of 100,000 due to some degree of wisdom they should have retained by years being in the mix of subjects or topics presented here. But it is not. It is WRONG in every case to make statements with their sole purpose being to attack and tarnish that members.
If my bidding practices 'offend' any members it is something they will have to learn to live with. It comes down to a matter of tolerance, as you said, because it is personal even if posted publicly. No one should have to justify, or 'apologize' for a decision when no can show it caused any harm or hardship in any way to anyone. The reason behind my thread too display the bids I had made with reasonable max amounts is my own, and not up for judgement, and in need of no ones approval. If you, or any member posted bids they had made I would either act on the information or not, especially without knowing the actual reasons behind the thread. That exceeds the level of 'caring' ANYONE should display as it has nothing to do with cigars. And the last thing I would do is call another member a liar. If they declare after being asked if they simple over bid, and said no, the issue should be closed. Antagonistic Insinuations as to why someone has done something, with no actual knowledge as to their reasons why, coupled with mocking, slander, and ridicule is WRONG as well.
But it is the standard routine here. I did not over bid. If I had, I would have simply said I had, as I truly don't care. I did misread 4 closing dates which I posted without care of the badgering and bad mouthing I would receive from doing so. But if my reason for offering additional bids after that careless error is not material suited for a cigar forum that is also my business and I do should not have to offer it up to justify the thread I started. And responding to members who have repeatedly labeled me a liar and a moocher or leech at the expense of other forum members with no proof is something any member would do. Do I honestly care? Of course not. Which makes their accusation look even more ridiculous.
And if you label Padilla Miami as being a stick lacking enough quality to be compared to a fake Cohiba or other cigars, that's your business. Using it in a harmless joke to my friend is my business. I think it is an excellent tasting cigar along with the other 95 brands and lines I have tried that are classified $6 cigars. And the chances of me writing rave comment about Ligas T52, or rare Oliva Master Blends II and most Tatuaje cigars are slim to none because I am on Social Security Disability that limits me to smoking Cigar Bid discount sticks, which I am more them happy with. I'll survive just fine without the $10+ sticks, that according to you are the only sticks worth talking about, which is your opinion, but won't stop me from offering details about a DIESEL or AMBOS MUNDOS I scored for $4 that I think is great. Doesn't make you a cigar snob. I guarantee if I were still working I would be sampling them and looking for as many more like them as I could find.