Czech tools, like socks and hankies, vanish. It’s a cosmic law, which became apparent to me over the course of smoking pipes for over a decade. I can’t even begin to reckon up how many of them I’ve bought over the years…anymore, I buy a handful of them when I go to the tobacconist.
You know we’ve never analysed what social class any of us come from and it’s actually quite a novel thought when you come to it. The sense I get of people here is of essentially eccentric and pretty well educated/well read, but not necessarily upper class people. I’m just a policeman so that puts me on the level of a McDonalds employee and the like and I’ve always pinched without even thinking about it. Pre-internet, pre-any knowledge of the wider world of snuff when I first tried it I natuarlly pinched as it just seemed the only way to do it. I am generally covered in snuff at home - as are my surroundings. The keypad on this PC has ingrained snuff and the sweats I am wearing are a kind of splodgy brown courtesy of WoS.
If it comes to ‘class’ (though I hate that term) I suppose I’m middle class with a solid working class background (miners, trawlermen, steelmen and farm workers). I have a degree and post-grad qualifications and I worked as a teacher for a number of years, though before that I was a bus driver and I worked as a docker before that. Now I’m self-employed with my own business. I probably defy any sort of classification!
I pinch like every snuffer in Ireland. Class divide is an English thing, so we pretend to have no classes here! Seriously, don’t mind the obvious mess with snuff, it was worse with rollies to get ASH everywhere. Professionally I’ve always been literally to shit, even with 2 university degrees, real man’s work, ladies are around now and doing well.
I grew up middle class middle middle class I guess. My adult life has been spent extremely poor. I feel like I’am talking to rich people often times when I hear how much snuff people order. Untill recently I had to plan snuff orders out at least a month in advance to make sure I could afford it. Somehow I’ve always managed to have a life full of decadence and indugence with very few laws being broken. Though now I’am just poor. Educated not really I’ve kind of always hated school almost everything except for music I’am self taught. Of course now is the time in my life I’ve decieded these things should change should be interesting to see what I come up. Since we are talking about class and such now. As far as the people that I place my self around and their class. Not kidding when I say pretty far and wide does it.
There is economic class, social class and just plain having class. Since most of the people here fall into the latter group I’'ll stick with them, and not worry about whether they have a bigger income or high status than I.
Amen bigmick! Bob, reading your post reminds me of an observation made of the poor in Britain (which applies everywhere, even to the fellow in front of my computer), when times got very tough with the onset of the Depression, the necessities were the the first thing to go. I always find a way to keep some luxury in my life!
@bigmick: So, so true! People nowadays just don’t seem to understand, and continually confuse economic class with what you wisely called just having class. It is a little known fact that–never mind, I won’t go into that. That’s one of the problems in the States; many people from higher economic classes assume that if you are not also wealthy that it is because you are lacking in certain desirable traits (discipline, an appreciation for learning and self-betterment, etc.). Hel, I feel a rant coming on, which I will avoid. But well said about the distinction between economic and other types of class–the poverty-stricken nobleman is enough of a cultural motif (at least in folk-and-fairytales) that one would think that people would make the distinction…
I use my thumbnail, too. Works as a wonderful scoop, but my thumbs are double jointed so it may be easier for me than others to do this. I only get stuff under the nails if I use moister snuffs, which I don’t do often.
not anymore, i use the scoops that Bernard’s has been nice enough to supply.
Well I am female and therefore in my opinion (I could be wrong) the brown fingers and dirty nails are more of a issue as most folks do not expect women to have dirty fingernails. I simple keep mine clipped as short as possible and try to wash my hands often. I have noticed that I tend to wipe snuff after a pinch onto my pants, which I need to stop doing. Sadly I love taking snuff with a pinch, maybe I should try using a spoon and see if that is more ladylike. Not that I worry much about being a lady or not.
Snuff box & thumbnail.
@Tin Can +1 that!
@dgriego, that’s what I do, clip my fingernails short and wipe my fingers on my pants! Never any snuff on my fingers. I tried using a spoon but to no avail. Pinching is the style for me.
I started growing my pinky nails out (an old thing from my drug addled misspent youth) and I use them to scoop out snuff.
I was quite disturbed the other day, when I discovered that a lip between the cushion of my desk chair and the bottom of it is now brown, as there is a groove I’ve been wiping my fingers onto…should probably put a stop to that behavior…