You steal a camera during MY Workshop? Fuck you, you piece of messed-up shit !

[ivan astikov]

Pothead Denial --- band name!

 

[Rand Rover]

I drove stoned a billion times. Never hit one school bus.

Well, there you go. QE motherfuckin' D.

Yet the damage lingers on...

Indeed. Dio is a living example of "drugs are bad, m'kay."

 

[Enderw24]

That's just a load of self-serving pothead twaddle.

True, it doesn't affect you in the same exact way that alcohol does, but pot certainly does affect one's cognitive abilities and fine and gross motor skills.

No it doesn't.

Are you high?

 

[pedescribe]

Want to see my transcripts?

Yes, I want to see your transcripts.

 

[Cat Whisperer]

Yeah, could we change the message board so that a thread that's been Diogenized is a different colour or something? Like the Grapist? That would be handy.

How about the background flashing red? ALERT! ALERT!

 

[nicole1912]

I wonder if I start a new thread Cartooniverse might come back and finish his story without Dio making everything all about him.

I hope so. I thought Cartooniverse's OP was a great rant, and I'd love to know more about what happened. The hijack is just more Diogenes' Experience Trumping All, and it's boring. He never changes his mind, no matter what cites you bring.

 

[JThunder]

I haven't smoked pot in years, but if someone wants to claim that marijuana impares cognition and motor skills, that's the person who needs to bring the cite, not me.

That would be fine if you made no claim whatsoever. That's not the case, though. You likewise made a claim -- namely, that marijuana does not affect one's cognitive abilities or motor skills. You made that claim, so it's just as fair to ask you to defend it.

As MsWhatsit said though, you continually hold yourself to a much lower standard. "I'm right because I say so" is not a valid form of argumentation.

 

[Jolly Roger]

I haven't smoked pot in years, but if someone wants to claim that marijuana impares cognition and motor skills, that's the person who needs to bring the cite, not me.

Not that |I really care that much about this particular side argument, (I only looked it up because I wanted to know myself) a quick google search did find this.

Not super detailed, but at first glance, pot does affect motor skills.

 

[fuji]

Shut the fuck up. Honestly.

Take a look at the idiot's post count. He won't. He can't. And while he used to have about a 10/1 idiot or troll/reasonable poster ratio, that ratio is now trending toward infinity.

I know, I know. This isn't a new shtick - he's been doing this since I joined up three years ago.

 

[Digs]

...but at first glance, pot does affect motor skills.

Wait, are you saying that, while we're all waiting for Cartooniverse to come back and post -- and clear things up for us all, he's suckin' on a big ol' dooooobie...

... and is too baked to type?

 

[billfish678]

That dude on the Simpsons seems to function just fine.

And there you go folks. The most authoratative cite Dio has ever used and is most likely to ever use. Go Otto!

 

[kaylasdad99]

I'm not following the evidence well...

When you say "But surveillance cameras? They really don't lie, now do they ?" do you mean that you were shown video that showed the accused in the act?

If not, it still does sound pretty suspicious that the camera was found by the guy. However, I would be wondering who had control over those trash bins. It isn't too unusual for workers to put stuff in the trash and then retrieve their loot when they take the trash out to the dumpster.

Considering that you were guests, it doesn't seem plausible that a thief in your group would use the garbage route for their crime. I assume you feel he tossed it in the bin minutes before "finding" it?
Was he unobserved long enough to have done this once the heat was on?

My guess? He "found" it in the bin by diving down head-first, taking it out from under his jacket, and putting it there.

 

[Euphonious Polemic]

. "I'm right because I say so" is not a valid form of argumentation.

Yes it is.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Oh, now THAT'S an objective source!

NORML is just the reporter, not the source.

 

[Shot From Guns]

1.) I'm suspicious of the fact that Cartooniverse has never responded to say that he did, in fact, view the security tapes.

2.) Smoking pot has nothing to do with somebody's likeliness to steal shit. This particular pothead happens to be a fucking loser.

3.) Coming to an event fucked up as a client is not remotely comparable to coming to the same event fucked up as a vendor. The person paying for something is only cheating themself; the person being paid would be cheating everyone who gave them money.

4.) Shut the fuck up, Dio.

5.) No, seriously--shut the fuck up, Dio.

 

[lieu]

Calling me a retard doesn't refute the scientific facts.

Now now, don't be so hard on yourself.

 

[ivan astikov]

I haven't smoked pot in years, but if someone wants to claim that marijuana impares cognition and motor skills, that's the person who needs to bring the cite, not me.

Not that |I really care that much about this particular side argument, (I only looked it up because I wanted to know myself) a quick google search did find this.

Not super detailed, but at first glance, pot does affect motor skills.

What these people are missing out, is that a regular user of cannabis doesn't get an extreme high unless the substance is really potent. And if it was that potent, you wouldn't even want to drive. I'm gonna claim that to the average habitual pot smoker, smoking 5 joints and going for a drive, will be less of a hazard than drinking 5 pints of cider, for example. Tell me how you are going to prove differently?

 

[jayjay]

I liked this thread a whole lot better when it was about cameras and thieves instead of Dio the Amazing Sober (Ex-)Pothead.

 

[MsWhatsit]

That's not how it works, my bud-smoking friend. You make the claim; you provide the evidence.

 

[ivan astikov]

There is more wisdom in a single episode of The Simpsons than there is in the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. FACT!