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delta1 Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 11-23-2011
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Here's a place to rant about, or call attention to something in the cigar world that's been bothering you.



What's with the cigars that come with a huge wrapper? Examples: Latitude Zero, Alec Bradley Black Market...they hiding something?
deadeyedick Offline
#2 Posted:
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By wrapper I assume you mean bands? Seems like they get bigger every year and second bands as well.

DED
Mr Roso Offline
#3 Posted:
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Snobs that say they can detect more than 4 flavors from one draw.
cacman Offline
#4 Posted:
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Big annoyance… people that can't use the proper term for a cigar band.

The wrapper is the outer leaf of tobacco that actually 'wraps' the cigar. d'oh!
tonygraz Offline
#5 Posted:
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I think you are supposed to smoke 'em with the bands on. It adds a new non-cigar flavor.
fiddler898 Offline
#6 Posted:
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^ Hah! You could be talking about me, Carl. I posted about two weeks ago about multiple cigar "rings" because I couldn't pull the word "band" out of my aging addled memory!
tamapatom Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 03-19-2015
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I hate the wind when i want to use a match.
99cobra2881 Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 11-19-2013
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I hate a cigar that won't stay lit. Tobacco is supposed to burn but somehow some cigars or their manufacturers have figured out ways to make cigars out of tobacco that doesn't burn.
Palama Offline
#9 Posted:
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So much glue on the bands / wrappers / rings that it makes removal almost impossible with damaging the wrapper / leafy thing around the cigar.

Edit: should have been "...without damaging..."
delta1 Offline
#10 Posted:
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Posts: 28,754
cacman wrote:
Big annoyance… people that can't use the proper term for a cigar band.

The wrapper is the outer leaf of tobacco that actually 'wraps' the cigar. d'oh!

lol...OP's a moron...

d'oh! fog

Me---------------------->horse <---------------------cacman (notice the point of impact)
danmdevries Offline
#11 Posted:
Joined: 02-11-2014
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Cigars that aren't tasty are the worst.
Bur Offline
#12 Posted:
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Palama wrote:
So much glue on the bands / wrappers / rings that it makes removal almost impossible with damaging the wrapper / leafy thing around the cigar.



Cigars are made out of leafy things?

Sarcasm
delta1 Offline
#13 Posted:
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High priced cigars that claim to be rolled with premium aged tobaccos that taste no different, and sometimes worse, than $5 smokes....And then trying not to offend the guy who hands you one.

A guest who scrounges through your humidor, and asks indignantly, "where's the Kuba Kuba?"
tonygraz Offline
#14 Posted:
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Bundled cigars with a bar code stuck on the cello opening.
elRopo Offline
#15 Posted:
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cut and paste reviews extolling the virtues of whatever dog turd they happen to be smoking.
KingoftheCove Offline
#16 Posted:
Joined: 10-08-2011
Posts: 7,600
The drunk douche at the party, who I barely know, who saunters over to me while I'm enjoying a nice cigar with a friend or two, and asks:
"Hey man, can I have a hit off that?"
My response is always then same.............................
cacman Offline
#17 Posted:
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Palama wrote:
So much glue on the bands / wrappers / rings that it makes removal almost impossible with damaging the wrapper / leafy thing around the cigar.


I'm guessing those are Liga's LOL!

The leafy thing wrapped around the cigar is actually called the wrapper. Some will say that over 50% of the flavor comes from the wrapper. For those that smoke the paper band and cedar sleeves YMMV. d'oh!
TMCTLT Offline
#18 Posted:
Joined: 11-22-2007
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Palama wrote:
So much glue on the bands / wrappers / rings that it makes removal almost impossible with damaging the wrapper / leafy thing around the cigar.




+! That's THE ONE thing that I can't stand either!!
QMPASH Offline
#19 Posted:
Joined: 03-15-2011
Posts: 897
Thin wrappers; bad caps and little bits of tobacco in my mouth when I smoke a cigar.
Mr Roso Offline
#20 Posted:
Joined: 09-05-2013
Posts: 384
Reference to 'coffins' instead of tubes or any other more Marketing friendly term.
ZRX1200 Offline
#21 Posted:
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Posts: 60,476
People who don't know the difference between a round metal tube and a rectangular wooden box.
deadeyedick Offline
#22 Posted:
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1. People who ask for a cigar at a party, take a few puffs, then toss it. Happened to me once and the cigar was a well aged RASS. Never again!

2. Golf playing partner who stepped on my PSD4 I laid down while I putted. (I immediately putted HIS ball into the nearest bunker)

DED
fenderbendertex Offline
#23 Posted:
Joined: 08-17-2013
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Palama wrote:
So much glue on the bands / wrappers / rings that it makes removal almost impossible with damaging the wrapper / leafy thing around the cigar.

Edit: should have been "...without damaging..."

CAO extreme I tried had so much glue it looked and smelled like burnt plastic. Tossed it. A buddy had the same problem. Good thing they were samples.
Palama Offline
#24 Posted:
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Not necessarily an annoyance but this is something that makes me go "Hmmm?...":

Guys that bring their 40 count Herf-a-dors to cigar events.

Talking the evening kind that lasts at the most 4 hours, not the all-dayers that I've heard about on the Mainland. And yeah, I get that they may have some smokes in there that they want to give to their buddies or they truly don't know what to ash up so they bring a w-i-d-e assortment. But a 40 count? Really? Don't have a 5 or 10er that they low / overbidded on? Got as a gift? And we *always* get 3 to 6 "samples" from the featured / sponsoring manufacturer so you'd think they'd have the courtesy to smoke at least one or even 2 that they were given.................or not (...'cause you know, my smokes are better...). Oh well....

Okay, annoyance / Hmmm? button turned off.
TIGERCDW Offline
#25 Posted:
Joined: 09-17-2009
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Kombat in the Cigar World.

Nuff said.

TIGER
Bur Offline
#26 Posted:
Joined: 07-31-2012
Posts: 5,638
N00bs who bid up the go-to cheapies (your definition may vary) when the stockpile is down to 1 or 2. So by the time the overbidding frenzy dies down, ya win an auction, weekly ship gets packed, shipped and arrives....

delta1 Offline
#27 Posted:
Joined: 11-23-2011
Posts: 28,754
deadeyedick wrote:
1. People who ask for a cigar at a party, take a few puffs, then toss it. Happened to me once and the cigar was a well aged RASS. Never again!

2. Golf playing partner who stepped on my PSD4 I laid down while I putted. (I immediately putted HIS ball into the nearest bunker)

DED


Happened at both my son's and my daughter's weddings. I brought boxes of Hemingway Signatures and My Father cigars for my son's wedding a few years ago, and boxes of Diamond Crown Maximus and Kauai Cigar Company Island Prince for my daughter's wedding. There were many cigar smokers in the crowd who appreciated them, but plenty of cigars with only half an inch burned and then cast off.
Palama Offline
#28 Posted:
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^^^ As Gae9 would say, "Aigoo!" ^^^
delta1 Offline
#29 Posted:
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Dull cutters that tear the round leafy pieces of tobacco on the top of the cigar, that also cause the big leaves on the outside of the cigar to unravel...
Homebrew Offline
#30 Posted:
Joined: 02-11-2003
Posts: 11,883
The cancellation, of many of my favorite cigars, by Habanos.
The fact that many of my other favorites, are no longer offered in 50 count Cabs.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)Beer
Herfosaurus Offline
#31 Posted:
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Knuckleheads who grab a guillotine cutter, chop a half inch off the end of their cigar, then complain about the construction when the end starts to unravel.
MACS Offline
#32 Posted:
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Posts: 79,593
Palama wrote:
Not necessarily an annoyance but this is something that makes me go "Hmmm?...":

Guys that bring their 40 count Herf-a-dors to cigar events.

Talking the evening kind that lasts at the most 4 hours, not the all-dayers that I've heard about on the Mainland. And yeah, I get that they may have some smokes in there that they want to give to their buddies or they truly don't know what to ash up so they bring a w-i-d-e assortment. But a 40 count? Really? Don't have a 5 or 10er that they low / overbidded on? Got as a gift? And we *always* get 3 to 6 "samples" from the featured / sponsoring manufacturer so you'd think they'd have the courtesy to smoke at least one or even 2 that they were given.................or not (...'cause you know, my smokes are better...). Oh well....

Okay, annoyance / Hmmm? button turned off.


I do this. But I do it because I like to share... and I like to give the people I share with choices.

18+ count traveldor, though... not 40.
Palama Offline
#33 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
I do this. But I do it because I like to share... and I like to give the people I share with choices.

18+ count traveldor, though... not 40.


I usually take my 15 count and it's usually packed at first but once I distribute to my friends, it's quite empty unless I put in the samples for the evening.
cacman Offline
#34 Posted:
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Know some folks who have large cabinets that keep a 40ct as a regular rotation humi. It's a lot easier to just grab it as they walk out the door.

My peeve is that they don't make a 20 or 25ct travel humi. Boxes are usually 20 or 25. Why the hell did they decide on a 15ct instead of a 20ct like a box?
Palama Offline
#35 Posted:
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cacman wrote:
Know some folks who have large cabinets that keep a 40ct as a regular rotation humi. It's a lot easier to just grab it as they walk out the door.

My peeve is that they don't make a 20 or 25ct travel humi. Boxes are usually 20 or 25. Why the hell did they decide on a 15ct instead of a 20ct like a box?


40 ct - that's a good point, makes a lotta sense.

20-25 ct - I just use a decent sized Tupperware when I need to travel with that many.
ZRX1200 Offline
#36 Posted:
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I take my 40 count everywhere, but I'm a jerk.
tamapatom Offline
#37 Posted:
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Waterproof dive boxes come in a variety of sizes and look and function very similar to herfadors. Another travel option in a pinch is good latching cigar boxes but not as secure. For small quantities a plastic sport bottle is handy.
tonygraz Offline
#38 Posted:
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Posts: 20,175
I travel with 2 15ct and a 10ct herf-a-dor and aometimes a tupprerware too. I wish I had a 40 ct.
SmokeMonkey Offline
#39 Posted:
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I lucked into a 50 count on the Bay that a former Torano rep was getting rid of, but tthat's usually reserved for trips of a week or more. I have a 5 and 10 for shorter trips.

On the annoyance scale - being grouped with cigarette smokers, whether in a smoking section or generally. Nowhere near the same thing.

And that guy that, no matter what you are smoking, has always just had something better. "Yeah, that Partagas Lusitania is ok, but I just had a pre-emargo, etc...."
cacman Offline
#40 Posted:
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SmokeMonkey wrote:
On the annoyance scale - being grouped with cigarette smokers, whether in a smoking section or generally. Nowhere near the same thing.

And that guy that, no matter what you are smoking, has always just had something better. "Yeah, that Partagas Lusitania is ok, but I just had a pre-emargo, etc...."

Talk about someone who thinks they're smoking something better! Smoking tobacco is smoking tobacco, whether it's a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Smoking a cigar may be different than smoking a cigarette in that you don't inhale, but it is no better. You're still burning tobacco, and your 2nd-hand smoke is inhaled by others. d'oh!
SmokeMonkey Offline
#41 Posted:
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Not better, just different.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#42 Posted:
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cacman wrote:
Talk about someone who thinks they're smoking something better! Smoking tobacco is smoking tobacco, whether it's a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Smoking a cigar may be different than smoking a cigarette in that you don't inhale, but it is no better. You're still burning tobacco, and your 2nd-hand smoke is inhaled by others. d'oh!


I could not disagree with this more...
delta1 Offline
#43 Posted:
Joined: 11-23-2011
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Lighters that run out of fuel halfway through lighting up, on a windy night while you are out somewhere with paper matches your only back-up.
watchurai Offline
#44 Posted:
Joined: 09-17-2008
Posts: 9,289
- Wheelrite
- The a$$hole who nipped my Perdomo table top lighter. LOVED that lighter. Choke on a bone, el douche...
- The fact that I am not enjoying a fine stogie right now. Or even today. Sadness....
- Buying poorly kept cigars
- Drew Estate's current offerings...and the mad prices their vintage stuff pulls
- Guys who bash on my cigar suitcase at a herf

tamapatom Offline
#45 Posted:
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Herfosaurus wrote:
Knuckleheads who grab a guillotine cutter, chop a half inch off the end of their cigar, then complain about the construction when the end starts to unravel.

How about the knuckleheads who have a cutter ready faster than you and quickly offer to cut yours for you and before you know it they have grabbed your gar out of your hand and THEN cut the first 1/2 inch off and YOU end up dealing with the unraveling. Grrrrrrrrr........and of course they don't know they have done anything wrong. This happened to me at a wedding.
Colorado0321 Offline
#46 Posted:
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The only thing that annoys me while I'm smoking is my wife.
tamapatom Offline
#47 Posted:
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Colorado0321 wrote:
The only thing that annoys me while I'm smoking is my wife.

That too! The looks I get when i light up are enough to want to find a refuge.
shaun341 Offline
#48 Posted:
Joined: 08-02-2012
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The thing that gets me the most is people saying kitty litter is just wrong to put in a humi when it works. Heck even the used stuff works, like recycling from the litter box to the humi and back and forth.
shaun341 Offline
#49 Posted:
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Oh and I forgot, a wise man once showed me that crushed cinnamon pop tarts also works for humidity control.
zerohourhero Offline
#50 Posted:
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The one friend everyone has that doesn't smoke period, but suddenly wants a cigar when you have one. Mine is especially persistent because I've tried to nuke him out with a Punisher, and he pretended he wasn't sick, while everyone watched him gag repeatedly. (I myself genuinely enjoy the punisher but highly recommend it for giving to the group mooch)
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