I’ll repeat: Most people who have read the posts are able to discern that the thread follows the demise of snuff manufacturers and the threat hanging over those that remains. It’s not really that hard to follow, but to make it simple for you let’s call the topic The Passing Away of the Snuff Manufacturer.
[But feel free to keep whinging, I suppose.]
Absolutely amazing! A complete tyro who is wholly ignorant of snuff, snuff history and its manufacture has the downright arrogance to suggest that those concerned for the future of old-established British (such as Wilsons) and European snuff manufacturers are merely whingers. Congratulations to you, BarlimanButtersnuff, for bringing Snuffhouse down to what is probably its lowest ever level.
It appears everyone bar Barliman can discern what’s going on in this thread.
Also, it utterly bemuses me how someone who, as you allude to (and who states as much in their bio), is new to snuff, thinks their opinion of its history, manufacture, etc. trumps those of people on here who have been snuffing for years. I’m new to it, too, but am here to learn from people who are far more versed in it than me. I mean, that’s what you usually do in such situations, right?
On a brighter note, I’m pretty sure if we just ignore, the “situation” will move onto another forum for its sh*ts and giggles.
‘I think’ [questionable] people in this thread need to define what they think “The death of snuff” means.
Regarding what you wrote above, my definition was provided for the exclusive benefit of you and you alone, as you are so patently unable to keep up with the concerns expressed in these posts.
@PhilipS2 Correct, I said that because people like yourself don’t understand what “the death of snuff” means, it doesn’t mean manufacturers are closing, it doesn’t mean laws are made against snuff, it doesn’t mean that recipes will be lost (all of which is terrible), it means snuff is DEAD. The DEATH of snuff. It was a rhetorical statement.
Why don’t you try reading beyond the title? Now, I fully understand that for someone such as you (with no real experience of snuff or its associations) will not appreciate the sentiments expressed by the original poster. However, a less arrogant person, ignorant of the current precarious situation and what existed before, would have left well alone. Instead, you barge in with banal, uninformed and uneducated comments without bothering to inwardly read and digest the text of posters – posters who, by the way, are far and away more informed than you.
@PhilipS2 I believe from other comments I’ve seen of yours that you are an older gentleman. I would think from your years of wisdom on this earth that you would have learned to be less dramatic.
I’ve pointed out, ad nauseam at this point, what the topic was about (yes, even beyond the title) and you still don’t grasp that. Instead you have to try and character assassinate by making me into some arrogant, pompous person who tries to pretend he knows everything about snuff and doesn’t care about snuff being illegal (lol) when I’ve never done that.
You can continue snickering with your sensitive friend all you want, but you’re still failing to grasp the points I’m making and it’s tiresome repeating myself to you.
My knowledge of snuff until recently was limited mainly to literature. But it should be obvious to anyone moderately well-read that snuff today isn’t remotely what it was in, say, Victorian times. And that should be enough to garner concern for its current status.
