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Kind if new here. I frequented fauna and kingsnake in the early 2000s and now that I have my own son looking to be a part of this beautiful hobby again. Favorites are monitors, retics, and gtp's. Moved to Oregon from Houston, TX so the ridiculous laws regarding my main hobby, cannabis cultivation, would not negatively impact my boy. I love fauna, these forums have me cracking up so hard everyday. Especially in the BOI. I will do my best to not get any more infractions there lol. Harvest is near, and should prove a good time to jump back into herps. Thank you guys for keeping me entertained (even the thieves, I can't believe some of these "people" Lol. With that I hope everyone is having a beautiful day.:)
 
llmanbroskif said:
I love fauna, these forums have me cracking up so hard everyday. Especially in the BOI.
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While the BOI is often humorous in a sad, unintentional way, you may want to rethink your strategy of bumping a thread to add nothing more than a stupid, jokey post. As your new red karma block will attest, that's one section of this site that most would probably prefer to be taken very seriously, with serious consideration being put into making comments that serve some useful purpose.

About the weed thing: you're probably not really doing yourself any favors by calling such blatant attention to that hobby. I think an alarming amount of people still have themselves convinced that drug use is somehow inherently immoral, regardless of regional legality. Others may choose to focus on the tacit admission that you were doing it illegally in Texas. As someone who'd never really cared enough to try to hide my own drug use, I'd learned the hard way that some things are just better off not being publicly broadcast around here.

Some food for thought.
 
If anyone else has anything as useless to regurgitate as this one, please feel free. And drug use? I don't use any drugs, including cannabis. Breeding cannabis genetics for particular traits is not at all any different to those of herps. The laws involved with plants, entheogenic or otherwise are very unjust, just as most of the laws that pertain to herps. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's beyond "weed" or reptiles, it's our right as human beings.....just some food for thought...
 
llmanbroskif said:
If anyone else has anything as useless to regurgitate as this one
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llmanbroskif, I find you unusually rude and judgmental. You could have courteously explained your point of view, but instead, you've made yourself unwelcome to some, right here in the Welcome Room, no less.
Maybe you should start over.
 
....and also, being "jokey" isn't wrong either. Making people laugh is a positive thing, especially living in this day and age. So, if you don't have a sense of humor, well I'm so sorry for that.....as for "your own drug use" I had no idea , but now I get it lol. Brillo pad isle four....
 
I'm sure you must have thought that any of that nonsense you spewed amounted to some kind of sick burn, but it's just another example of you overestimating yourself. Nothing you've posted so far has been remotely funny; and your worthless BOI posts are seriously out of place. If you think you've got jokes, there's a forum set aside purely for humorous posts. Using it, you could at least fall flat on your face in the proper section of this site.

The BOI is a business forum that's meant to discuss serious issues. Given that you obviously can't even muster the smarts to gauge the tone of someone's clearly civil comment and reply in kind, I have serious doubts about your ability to effectively analyze much of anything on the BOI. Even without this thread, I doubt many would need look any further than your past contributions to come to the very same conclusion. You may do well to just quietly eat that popcorn you love to mention in lieu of making a point to waste bandwidth by posting about it.

Since idiocy and misplaced aggression are all you seem to have to offer - aside from what you seem to think is humor - you're just likely to keep alienating yourself. Hell, I like watching a good crash-and-burn, so have at it. :shootfoot If you manage to get shown the door, it's looking like it'll simply be a matter of addition by subtraction. If it comes to that, I'll be sure to break out the popcorn just for you. :rolleyes:
 
I'll try this again....hi my name is Darren, I share a common interest in hero's particularly retic morphs, monitors, and gtp's and this seemed like the right place to be. I'm a single Dad of a wonderful 3 year old boy and would love to participate in this hobby and forums. If I offended anyone with dull jokes, I apologize. Hope you all are having a beautiful day.
 
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