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Re: NEWBIE TRADING THREAD
Once you have 50 quality posts, you'll be eligible for a newbie trade. You'll ask for a sponsor in this thread, you send a forum fiver to your sponsor and they'll return fire.
The 50 posts lets us get to know you some, but more importantly you will get a chance to engage and really decide if this is the kind of place that you're comfortable with, a thick skin and a sense of humor are handy here.
Yakster
Re: Whatcha smokin tonight?
Smoking a Villager Miami Laguito No. 1, a bodyguard from an old L&L Blind Smoke pack.
Yakster
Re: THE NEWBIE WELCOMING THREAD
@silvermouse said:
@ShawnOL said:
Hello, Mike. Plan on spending 4-5 dollars per stick on smokes in the ppassable category. 5 Vegas is something you will outgrow quickly.Now I want to smoke a 5Vegas, I think I have some A or AAAs in the Iris boxes. If I recall they were good yardwork smokes.
I would send you one but I’m not old enough(enough posts) to trade/play in the shenanigans yet.
Re: THE NEWBIE WELCOMING THREAD
@OmgFrigginMike there's always this too if you wanna learn the finer intricacies of cigars, life, political incorrectness, and basic ássholery. Usually stars around 8 p.m. eastern time. 
Rdp77
Re: THE NEWBIE WELCOMING THREAD
Hey guys I wish I would have seen this first thing but…. I’m Mike gonna be 38 on Tuesday(12th) and just starting to get serious about the cigar world. I’ve smoked a couple here and there when friends have given me one but couldn’t tell you what they were. I just ordered my first ~60 in mostly 5 packs and singles and a couple cigarillos to try too. I have 2 kids I’m into Motorcycles(2018 heritage) and video games! Looking to make some friends I can bullshit with and bounce questions off of.
Re: Rock My Ride
I think I want to retire in this general area around Sedona. Close enough to a grocery store but once you go out a few miles you just get all kinds of versions of this.
Arizona seems like a healthy state. Where I live, almost everyone is fat, especially as people get older. I can’t really think of any old people I know back home who don’t have some form of potbelly. Down here that’s not very common. I wonder if it’s the heat? I’m personally not hungry when I’m hot. It might also be the Mexican food being so dominant, compared to the garbage we call American food. I can’t imagine going to a chain burger restaurant if there’s a street taco place right next door that’s going to be the same price and come out of the kitchen just as quickly.
The Grand Canyon is massive. I know that sounds obvious, but it’s kind of profound when you’re just sitting there looking at it. It’s really hard to feel any sort of self importance when you’re there. I felt like an ant in a sense, but in a good way. I don’t really know how to describe it with words.
I’m camped for the night in Tuba City, AZ just inside Navajo Nation. This hotel I’m at, Navajoland Hotel, is actually very nice. 
I would have stayed here anyway though. I think one of the best ways to help disenfranchised communities is to voluntarily spend your money on their businesses, instead of giving it to McDonalds or Amazon. If someone is making an effort to earn their own money, and leave a nest egg for their children for the first time in hundreds of years, then I want to help those people. If someone wants a nest egg without working for it, that’s a different conversation. I try to avoid being a hypocrite when I can, so if I’m going to say that someone doesn’t deserve something, I feel that I also need to try to help out the people who do. The dollar is the ultimate step stool in life. How I spend my dollars is much more important than who I vote for, and if people are making an effort to earn those dollars, then I’m happy to give them to those people, instead of some soulless corporation that won’t even end up paying any taxes. That’s my take on it at least.
Re: THE NEWBIE WELCOMING THREAD
Hello, Mike. Plan on spending 4-5 dollars per stick on smokes in the ppassable category. 5 Vegas is something you will outgrow quickly.
ShawnOL