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Unfortunately people seem to have taken this as some sort of attack, or a desire to be pointlessly pessimistic. The standard merry-go-round news cycle of pretty ugly stuff is a given, and as many have pointed out is nothing new. I think 2015 to me felt like a saturation point of surveillance whereby it became definitive to me that the point of the internet wasn't for the betterment of the user. I'm not sure if that period time coincided with change in algorithm design/evolution etc, Ever since that point, there has felt like an inevitability of increased toxicity. Anyway haha! I have my answer it seems, the FOH community don't agree in the slightest.

There's no clear inflection point around 2015 but social media certainly came into it's own after that

At this rate there'll be a shortage of Masters of Habanos in London. Another new coming up project: https://www.cigars-connect.com/en/dominique-london-to-open-a-la-casa-del-habano-in-london/

I jest. Yes the world has its share of issues but these are the best years of my life. Love the people around you and be grateful for what you got.

There's a retailer in the UK with this on sale for £53,000 ($72,000) with the caveat "hurry, only 1 left in stock". I check back every few months to see if Habanos are going to snag someone with this humidor. No biters so far.

@El Presidente, they had heard enough Springsteen.

Now. Hate this question and the inference. We're here talking about our shared passion for a luxury product. Like most of us, I'm certain, I've struggled. I still do. But I have a CC in my hand while I kvetch. How much of what's going on around us in the world affect us directly, really? My dad graduated high school to go fight in a war. By comparison, things in the world are good. I'm not going to let the bastards that live through a perpetual lens of discontent convince me otherwise, no matter how hard they try.

Life’s good. People > screens. Break a sweat. Hang with family. Choose to be positive.

Having been in and around the reptile business for many years, knowing what some of these critters are worth, it always seems terribly unfair to me that the people who don't want them are the ones who end up with them. News articles about the person who got a free viper in their ornamental houseplant or a free super cool and very expensive venomous spider in their bunch of grapes make me want to pull a Karen and complain to the management that I didn't get one too.

Let me see, 55 aged (?) Fundies and a $600 humidor or 4800 Fat Fundy Rob will buy you the humidor

Phenomenal! Thanks for the info. I’m going to try something like that here.

Love all the tubo selection.

Nice to be back everyone, catching up on he latest, but boy do I miss this site and the awesome selections of cigars and repartee.

Ken had a couple living in his ceiling for years. They moved out when they couldn't put up with the mess downstairs any more.

I think I was about 12. After that it got complicated. People make up the stupidest reasons to hate and persecute other people, and it's only gotten worse.

I'll double that nope.

Eh, they're fine. People pay serious money for the nicer looking ones in the States, they're bred in some lovely color morphs. I lived in a venom lab for years. My bathroom was occasionally a quarantine zone for mambas, Gaboon vipers and anything else that needed a high humidity setup but couldn't go into the main collection. No carpet pythons though. Good times.

So how many are you ordering Rob?

Started with Bourbon on Facebook and in-person and through that met many that also enjoyed cigars so a few of us branched out and now we have close to 100 in Sioux Falls.

“with 55 Trinidad Fundadores, each purported to be aged for at least a decade” Love that CA snuck “purported” in there. I’d bet anything they are not that old.

I couldn't handle this. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/19/snake-catchers-queensland-learned-to-live-with-pythons-in-my-ceiling

My most favorite whisky maker. 🙂

It's not the terrorism that will destroy the world, but f*****g political correctness.