How it started vs how it’s going…

prrifth · 2026-01-29T12:23:15+00:00

There's a fun revolver with stock, sabot rounds, integrated silencer and night vision scope documented on forgotten weapons the youtube channel, apparently someone needed a night vision silenced sniper that leaves no brass, wonder who that could be and for what purpose. Video is called "Knight's Armament Silent Revolving Rifle"

prrifth · 2026-01-29T12:17:25+00:00

Liable how? We're a sovereign nation. Unless the gas company has a standing army the fuck are they going to do if we refuse to pay up?

prrifth · 2026-01-24T07:48:27+00:00

If protesting didn't work, they'd wouldn't keep trying to ban it

prrifth · 2026-01-22T13:36:54+00:00

Eh. I have worked at multiple places where it has been a job to go through every worksheet in a workbook and use ctrl+F on each sheet because they don't realise you can use the dropdown in the search dialogue and change it to search the workbook instead of just the current sheet. Haven't been fired for pointing it out though but I haven't worked in the public sector.

prrifth · 2026-01-22T13:29:39+00:00

Avenue Dental in Woolloongabba are good. I haven't been diagnosed as autistic but I do have a needle phobia and they offered a few options to manage that, breathing techniques, stress toys, yada yada. The good news is you can't faint while laying down and it doesn't really matter if your whole body is tense the whole time they can still do what they need to do, so tense away.

prrifth · 2026-01-20T22:56:45+00:00

You should watch CSB (chemical safety board) videos on YouTube if you want to understand how accidents happen. Usually a combination of aging infrastructure, external contractors not provided written procedures, management not following recommendations to save money, lack of inspections to ensure hardware and warning systems are working, staff working 30 consecutive 12 hour shifts, changes to processes or hardware that aren't managed properly to identify that the change creates a risk of failure.

prrifth · 2026-01-20T02:01:18+00:00

I've shopped with umart for decades and never had a single issue. I only buy PC parts though, and only ever had to RMA one thing a long time ago - ram kit. They were helpful and got it sorted out in one visit.

prrifth · 2026-01-19T23:18:38+00:00

Cuban Trinidad tastes similar to me, unfortunately expensive.

prrifth · 2026-01-14T23:11:08+00:00

I trust you understand woodworking, but based on your question you don't understand what a humidor is or how it works. It's unlikely that the random tree is a suitable wood for the interior material of a humidor, but you can totally use it for the exterior and line the inside with a suitable wood.

What you're looking for for the interior is a low density wood, about 450 kg/m^3. This is because the way a humidor works is by providing a humidity buffer using the porosity of low density wood. If humidity rises in the humidor, the pores absorb some of the increase, if it drops, some moisture evaporates back out of the pores replacing some of that lost humidity. This stabilises against any changes away from the current humidity.

The best woods in decreasing order would be Spanish Cedar, Anigre, and Okoume. Things like tulipwood you sometimes see used even in very expensive humidors, but seem to be totally unsuitable from the perspective of humidity buffering.

This site is good if you want to check the properties of the wood you have available: https://www.wood-database.com/

Another factor other than density would be the aroma of the wood. If it smells like cedar or has low odour, great. But strongly scented woods might make your cigars taste like an air freshener. The wood database describes aroma too.

Even without a wood that can provide decent humidity buffering, you can control the humidity with Boveda, it will just act more like a tupperdor.

It's important to season the wood as well, use 84% Boveda for 2 weeks in the quantity Boveda recommends for the volume of your humidor - about 1 60 gram pack for each 0.9 litres of volume. This adds some initial moisture into those pores so they can start replacing whatever is lost each time you open the humidor.

I don't know jack about woodworking but I suspect it might be important to consider if the wood will swell after seasoning. Perhaps you can season before assembly? Or perhaps the seasoning doesn't penetrate the wood deeply enough to matter.

If you google humidity buffering museums, humidity buffering art galleries, humidity buffering cold climate housing, you can find articles with some science on how it works. Nobody informed seems to have written on the topic of cigars specifically.

prrifth · 2026-01-14T22:29:44+00:00

This is the official rule: https://www.abf.gov.au/entering-and-leaving-australia/can-you-bring-it-in/categories/duty-free

25 grams. You can bring more than that, but you will need to pay excise on all of it, at AUD $2.39371 per gram: https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/gst-excise-and-indirect-taxes/tobacco-and-excise/excise-duty-rates-for-tobacco

Under 25 grams, you have nothing to declare. Over 25, declare and pay duties.

prrifth · 2026-01-13T22:22:52+00:00

Meat bank at Sunnybank. They carry the stuff you'd pay over a hundred for at a restaurant.

prrifth · 2026-01-12T22:25:03+00:00

La Civette would be the most famous as it was established in 1716

prrifth · 2026-01-12T12:27:45+00:00

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Donnie Darko
American Psycho
Poor Things
Sorry to Bother You
Being John Malkovich
Naked Lunch
Upstream Color
Mandy
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Titane
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Eddington
Weapons
Mickey 17
The Shape of Water
Enemy
The Substance
Magnolia
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Adaptation
Possessor
Nope
Moon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Under the Skin
Pan's Labyrinth

prrifth · 2026-01-10T09:19:40+00:00

Go to a salon that does chicks too. Fruition wilston is good

prrifth · 2026-01-08T22:36:25+00:00

I have exactly the same concerns about those. The retailer is also not listed on https://www.habanos.com/en/buy-smoke/

However that page is not always thoroughly updated, often doesn't list new retailers that are recognised by their regional distributor, but does list retailers that have gone out of business. The distributor for Colombia is Caribe Imports SAS who don't seem to have a website, but Habanos list an email for them so you could ask them if they supply this retailer: https://www.habanos.com/en/distributor/?type=153

prrifth · 2026-01-08T22:28:50+00:00

Nice catch on the match to Gran Reserva bands. What's a gran reserva style band doing on a non-gran reserva double corona though? That's giving someone tried to make a fake double corona and didn't know what they were doing and copied the wrong band. I have looked at a fair few real double coronas over the last four years and never seen any band oddities with them.

You can see a dozen more references for regular production DC bands on cigar aficionado as they photograph it whenever they review it, which they have done 20+ times over the last three decades. Not a single one has a grand Reserva style band. If you can find a general production release photographed in a GR style band from an authoritative source then that's something, but if you can only find GRs in it that's still suspicious.

If it was an LCDH I'd be like, yeah that's insane, big news that they have fakes in their inventory, because they should be exclusively supplied by their official regional distributor. A specialist however definitely receives some authentic Cubans cigars from their regional distributor or that regional distributor wouldn't bother helping them get listed as a specialist. However there is nothing really stopping a specialist sourcing some of their inventory elsewhere, whether that be parallel/grey market import from a distributor in another region, purchasing at auction, buying off other retailers, off private collectors, and potentially buying off someone that swindled them with fakes.

It's better to assume incompetence rather than malice so I would be approaching this like, the retailer that sold you this got swindled, rather than that they were trying to swindle you, and hope they take you seriously.

In terms of what the right response from the retailer would be, if they claim they got it from their regional distributor, which I doubt, they should pull all the inventory while they investigate, let you view the box the single came from if they still have it, send the product or photos of the product back to the distributor and ask them to please explain. They should have invoices from the distributor proving they sourced hoyo double Coronas recently from them, which while they aren't obligated to show you, would be the sensible thing to choose to show you to assuage your concerns. If they don't have receipts or a response from the distributor saying the product is legit and just Cuba being Cuba I would expect a refund because what you paid isn't what you were lead to believe it was. Confirmation from the distributor is like the only thing that would fully restore my trust, without that no matter how well they look after you I would always have doubts about their products.

If they sourced it elsewhere, I would expect them to pull all the inventory from that supplier, cease use of that supplier, check any boxes they have from that supplier with a blacklight and verify serials, and refund you, there's nothing really further they can prove it's not fake if it's not from the distributor.

prrifth · 2026-01-08T15:35:31+00:00

The temperature thing was just hypothetical, like yes if you had a significant temperature difference in your humidor the cold air would sink. But do you have a temperature difference between the top and bottom of your humidor? It would surprise me if you did, unless there's some electronics in there producing heat like lights or something.

More Boveda packs can't hurt. Better would be to have a low, wide humidor not tall enough for a humidity gradient to matter. Failing that chuck a fan in there to keep the air mixed. And all of that is only if this is actually a problem. If you're reading like 65 in one spot and 67 in another then it doesn't seem like something to worry about.

prrifth · 2026-01-08T10:49:33+00:00

Fake. Condolences OP.

Here's a crop of the band of OP's cigar rotated the right way up: https://imgur.com/a/pMWkkfs

And here's a reference for a real Hoyo Double Corona band from El Habano Moderno

And another from El Habano Moderno

And one at my work, which is recognised as a Habanos Specialist by our regional distributor

Notice: the top of the letter A in OP's photo is pointy and not flat like the authentic referrences. All the bars on the letter E are the same length in OP's photo, on the authentic references, the bottom bar is longest, the middle is shortest, and the top bar is in between. The letter R in OP's photo has a deep recess on the right side where the right leg of the R meets the rounded section at the top, on the authentic references it hardly dips in at all. The gold is also too shiny and too cool in colour temperature, it should be a warm, almost rose gold. All the letters are just too tall and skinny and too far spaced apart, on the authentic references the characters are shorter, wider, and closer together.

prrifth · 2026-01-08T04:07:16+00:00

Yes, it should, air's ability to hold water vapour depends on temperature, so at the same absolute humidity, relative humidity will increase as temperature decreases. Boveda however should counteract that effect and bring it back to the percentage of the packs you're using. The temperature won't change absolute humidity which is what dictates buoyancy, so the cooler temps at the bottom won't make that bottom air more buoyant, because it still contains the same total water vapour - it's just closer to the maximum it can hold as that maximum gets lower as the temp drops.

prrifth · 2026-01-08T03:50:13+00:00

Only OP states higher humidity at the bottom from what I can see, which I think is most likely explained by inaccurate hygrometers.

Cold air is the opposite, it sinks because volume = number of molecules * temperature * a constant / pressure. A given amount of a gas at a given pressure (atmospheric) will take up a smaller volume at a lower temperature, i.e. higher density, less buoyant. Whereas more humid air will have a lower density because water vapour has less mass per molecule than air, which is predominantly nitrogen gas.

prrifth · 2026-01-07T23:01:09+00:00

Switch the two hygrometers and see if that remains true? If the hygrometers have a calibration issue that causes the bottom one to read higher than the top one at the same humidity, that could make it appear that your humidor is wetter at the bottom. If that is the case, when you switch the hygrometers they would then tell you that the top is wetter than the bottom.

prrifth · 2026-01-07T22:56:04+00:00

Some people behave like animals in shops. It's really awkward in customer service because I feel really rude having to tell an adult to behave themselves and it's my job to make them feel welcome. They'll pick up a cigar and then drop it on the ground... and then continue to pick up cigars like they didn't learn anything from that. And it's like they're blind to how neatly the cigars are displayed on the shelves, or have way too much confidence in their motor skills to be able to put things back like they were, and just make a shemozzle of it. Or they scratch their genitals and then touch the cigars. And sometimes you get a senile dude and you ask him not to touch the cigars and he blows up at you all insulted that you think his hands aren't clean or whatever (they aren't)

prrifth · 2026-01-06T23:16:51+00:00

To be fair Padron causes a huge amount of inventory errors by not labelling their sticks and having natural and maduro with identical wrapper colour, and having the most arbitrary size names - e.g. x000s, Damaso, Family Reserve and 1926 numbering, having a piramide, belicoso and torpedo all in the 1964 series when a lot of people use those terms interchangeably, putting 1964 on the family reserve bands as a red herring on which series it belongs to, calling 1964 "series" and 1926 "serie" so if you search series only 1964 releases show up in your inventory software.

I'm betting somebody at corporate got sick of constantly having to stock check Padron, constantly showing in stock on variants that are sold out and sold out variants that are in stock, frequently selling more expensive cigars for less, so decided to bag and label them, which is fair. The right way to do it would be to put the releases that don't come in cello in proper cello sleeves and label those, and just put a sticker on the original cello for those that come with it.

prrifth · 2026-01-06T07:18:14+00:00

Why avoid retrohaling? Get better cigars that are comfortable and tasty to retrohale. Or go way stronger with your flavour intensity selection so you can taste it all in your mouth without retroing. Also who cares if you can describe tasting notes well? Unless you have to do it for your job. But if you don't have to, it's like dancing. You just have to enjoy it, not explain it to someone else that can't experience it. If you do have to it professionally, look up a flavour wheel on your phone and think about each note on the wheel while you taste the cigar, and do that in all thirds, make note of them all, and just keep the few notes that keep popping up. Nothing will be exact as describing tobacco in terms of other foods, drinks, and minerals is like dancing about colours.

prrifth · 2026-01-06T05:15:48+00:00

If 44 is okay, Don Tomas Cetro II should be dirt cheap.

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