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not only are the translations wrong, they also cut the dialogues abruptly but put whole sentences in the subtitles

They should make a episode about why find "good translaters are expensive" 😀😀😀

Hahahaha they literally made it up?

Wow. It may seem innocuous but for a news company to do that is shameful.

@@connorperrett9559 Totally agreed. I am a linguist myself, maybe I should start working with them. :)

"Tree of these peices " 😂

How do they smoke? Significant differences or just marketing?

*three

shiiid, did you also pay tree fiddy for em?

@@when_life_gives_you_limes NO. TREE.

That’s a really great quote!

tryhard hipster lmao

@@MrGhostTheBigRoast Didn't know 50 year old Gen Xers could be hipsters. lol Swing and a miss comment tough guy.

Lung cancer premium (but yes they are very pretty)

@@Starwarrior-pw5st Pipe smokers do not inhale the tobacco smoke. A pipe smoker’s risk of lung cancer is exactly the same as that of the general population. I for one believe the small increased risk of mouth and sinus cancers is far outweighed by the benefits that are accrued by pipe smoking.

im looking on ebay and see a ton of them. they dont seem that expensive

@@JoeKyser I've got a small claw-egg meerschaum pipe that I got new for $75. It smokes wonderfully but since the bowl is much smaller than the rest of my pipes I don't use it very often.

@@JoeKyser the cheap ones are often quite small, and low quality stone, they may break just from smoking. estate pipes are probably cheaper long term... but having said that i don't have any good ones, enjoy the surviving small cheap ones and look forward to the day i can find a quality estate pipe.

@Ben Dover Why its fake? If u drink water, then others drink fake water?

@Ben Dover because u don't have logic

Can you eat that? I mean peps eat clay and salt itself is rock but that... Something

@@RADIT-ip3eq apparently it's non toxic so you can eat it, but I don't think it has any taste tho

@@RADIT-ip3eq he wasn't eating, and may have just been playing it up for the cameras. he was probably tasting it to see approximately what the composition was

So that like eating clay huh, imagine man smoke from that and proceed to eat it. Would be hilarious

@@RADIT-ip3eq Magnesium Silicate hydrate. Its indigestable but claylike, so basically, its Kaopectate, a medecine used for diarreah.

LOL its soon covered with tobacco! so doesnt matter what it is! Ivory is best!

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 You do realize you're supposed to put the tobacco on the inside, right? What kind of moron thinks that smoking will coat the outside of the pipe. 😂😂😂

The cool thing about mercham pipes is they slowly change color as you use them.

Yes, you are right, however, it is not very wise to learn about cultures from such videos since almost all of the translation is wrong, so wrong in fact, subtitles doesn't even resemble what Ertuğrul is saying in the video. I cannot stop to think that there's a clear disinformation made in order to mystify the whole process, which is a remnant of the orientalist view which by the way, all Turks hate. For example, while Ertuğrul is asking them them about "cutting the video" because of materialist concerns(he probably sees this documentary as an advertisement, or a confirmation of his skill), they simply wrote "evil eye", like he's a superstitious person, to make the whole thing look more "oriental" while he was literally wanting the part where the stone got broken out of the video. Or, another part where he says "You can only sell one or two of them in a year" in subtitles, while he was actually saying "I only make one or two expensive pipes, and lot's of cheap ones, because I make what I can sell", again, like a passionate, starving artisan who can only sell two pipes a year. They've tried to make a Van Gogh out of him. The moral of the story is, of course, it is nice to learn about cultures, but when done in a correct way. We don't smoke pipes in Turkey, I've never seen or heard that stone before and it's whereabouts because we smoke cigarettes in Turkey, not pipes, not cigars. We're not experts of rugs. Carpet salesman in Istanbul are just regular merchants, who makes tremendous amounts of money by selling $14,000 carpets which they bought for $500 from Iran. Artisans, especially the ones is Istanbul(because of the tourist population) simply do those crafts to sell to the tourists, in fact, many of the craft shops I know are tourist traps, overvaluing their items for the sweet foreign money. Most of those crafts are brought to Turkey by artisans(many of them are first generations of those crafts by the way) who learned those abroad, to sell to the tourists and created a fake culture satisfying the expectations of a tourist who came all the way from USA.

@@cnarozturk3804 This is an amazing reply. Thank you so much for translating what he said! I'll be more cautious about this channel from now on. Thank you, my friend.

I have my grandad's collection of pipes and there's a few of these in there. I don't smoke but I love the smell of pipe tobacco, 500 bucks seems reasonable considering the time and effort put into it.

@Ben Dover you'd hate to break your pops pipe, would pull it out on occasions.

@Ben Dover He probably wanted 3 of them.

If u have good bryere and the pipe is smoked in theres no added flavor and the heat i better

@Ben Dover Because they're antiques from their grandfather and they don't want to risk breaking them?

I love it for the artistry

I've known pipe-tobacco smokers both in my family and clan, all my life, and today I learn Meerschaum is a mineral (!!) and not a tree-root. Might not be a gobstopper, But it is to me.

Ive noticed comments from all over the world..GREAT content.

Don’t forget, 90% of the time, climate change is threatening the business

It’s the modern how it’s made we needed

middle of odunpazarı area. if you ask some locals they will show you

@@zexfy Thank you !

That's really interesting, did it affect the taste of the weed? I smoke spliffs of weed and pipe tobacco because the pipe tobacco is like 2 dollars a bag in California vs like almost 20 dollars for the same amount of cigarette tobacco. I'd like to try my smoking mix out of one of these pipes.

@@adriennefloreen it Taste more pure in wooden Pipes you Always have a distinct Wood tast in the Back but with Meerschaum Not because of well its a Stone

@@TheGogeta222 thats rubbish. If u have a good bryere pipe theres no flavor of wood over time

@@mugnuz but only if you always at all given times use it properly as it is wood it is keen to get burned flavour if it gets too hot stone in the other hand forgives more and your always have the same result

That's an expensive souvenir for someone who wouldn't even use it!

And then you see the price and walk right out

Where did you but it from please ?

@@malmoran8643 The Grand Bazar in Istanbul

I was there for 2 months in ‘02, & bought 2 meerschaum pipes for myself & got 3 of my college buddies one each. We used to smoke briar pipes in college & only dreamed of meerschaums, which were about $100 at the time. I think I paid $10-$12 for each one at Incirlik.

How does one become hardcore? You either smoke or you don't.

What do you mean

Dare I say…..A Great Big Story??

I just watched a video of a guy doing pinstripes and wording. Frikken insane! The video was on the channel Unintentional ASMR. It's full of other master craftsmen that are a joy to watch

same

In Turkish Lüle means Carving so Lületaşı basically means carving stone.

Hm, magnesium silicate sepiolith needs high pressure and heat to form in combination with volcanic gasses resulting in the porous light structure of the material. So I guess that would be not a cheap process and its only for a smaller market. Diamonds are sold around the world with a very high price. A fistful of material for 40 dollars (from the video) seems to me not high enough, especially with cheap labor costs in Turkey.

There's a reason you have to look for "block meerschaum". A lot of cheap meerschaum is made up of meerschaum powder held together with a binder.

Don't smoke that lettuce in the pipe if you get one. It will ruin the bowl.

We say "Lüle Taşı" in Turkish. Lüle: The thing that we put the tobacco to be burnt. Taş: Stone.

Yeah I saw some "basic" (as in , no elaborate carvings) meerschaum churchwarden for like 200 bucks. When briar can run much higher than that. Do you recommend meerschaum or briar?

Slightly yeah, thanks to our government Turkish Lira devalued so hard over the last year, people tend to assume rest of the world is now poor too but that ain't the case :d I remember buying my first hand-made violin in 2003 for 750$, it wasn't expensive, exchange rate was around 1.6, now 18.5 😅

@@lordshitpost31 buraya gelip elin gevuruna Ülkemizi kötülemek nasıl bir oc hareket ya

@@oa7554 Ulkemizi kotulemiyo , ekonomimiz hakkinda bilgi veriyo iki gram beynin olsa bunu anlardın zaten. Yorumundan akpli olduğun da cok bariz

Make that 5 now. Woops