Soldiers Guarding Poppies Not Rosa Parks

[Bob Kuczewski]

For those that don't know (like me before I did some research) the object the PG pilot is holding is typically a device used for "smoking" pot. So much for the Superiority of Paraglider Pilots.

Thanks Bill. I'd never seen it before and I was wondering what it was.

Now the question is ... what's the point of the post?

[Moderator's note on Feb 13th, 2014: This should have read "Thanks Scott" since Bob was responding to wingspan33 (Scott) and not Bill ]

[wingspan33]

Bob,

The link is obvious! Poppies, . . . Pot, . . . how much closer to you need to get?

Plus, the pot was grown in Rose Park, CO. There ya go!

[Free]

For those that don't know (like me before I did some research) the object the PG pilot is holding is typically a device used for "smoking" pot. So much for the Superiority of Paraglider Pilots.

Thanks Bill. I'd never seen it before and I was wondering what it was.

Now the question is ... what's the point of the post?

You'll have to ask Torrey Hawks #212 for the answer. Jim Gaar, is the original poster.
Jim seems to think it's for smoking pot. That's the implications of his indictment of paraglider pilots in general.
I'm not sure why he would know what it is. I sure didn't.
A link someone posted showed it to be rather expensive.

The point of my post was exactly what it asked.
Is Mark Forbes defending dope, or not?
We may never know.
Accountability.
Get some,
Mark.

[wingspan33]

This is the same or very similar device:

http://mamarijuana.com/933/vape/iolite- ... er-review/

Of course, it could be used to "vaporize" tobacco, but if that were the case why not just chew some nicorette gum?

As far as Mr. Forbes' comment -

I'm not a smoker, or a vaper, or anything else of a mind-altering-substance consumer, but I don't think these are confined to THC. I'm seeing a lot more of this stuff used for tobacco substitution, since we're a lot less tolerant (Hurray!) of secondhand smoke in public spaces. While the PG'er in question might have been ingesting something psychoactive, there's nothing I see there which shows it one way or the other.

That said, I think it's pretty stupid...but I think the same thing about cigarette smoking and drinking to the point of inebriation.
MGF

With the likelihood that the small "appliance" in the photo is being used to place the person "under the influence" then you'd think a high (pardon the pun) ranking USHPA EC member would KNOW the exact FAA section that makes it a violation to commit aviation under such influence.

But, clearly MGF thinks it's, at least, "stupid" to be using such a device while flying. He's not promoting this thing at all - as I read his words.

[SamKellner]

I suppose since pot is legal in Colorado, among other places, and the u$hPa Hq. is in Colorado Springs, ...

I guess the office staff can go out and get high on their break time. Is that correct.

Colorado Fly Week really has gained momentum.

Nothing's been said in the mag about it that I know of.

This is the tip of the iceberg.

[SamKellner]

MGF
I think the same thing about cigarette smoking and drinking to the point of inebriation.

This could be interpreted that smoking pot is no worse than tobacco??

[Bill Cummings]

For those that don't know (like me before I did some research) the object the PG pilot is holding is typically a device used for "smoking" pot. So much for the Superiority of Paraglider Pilots.

Thanks Bill. I'd never seen it before and I was wondering what it was.

Now the question is ... what's the point of the post?

Who is Bill? The one getting thanked? Bill C. or someone else.
PS It looks like my ISP has removed the block that prevented me hooking up to the Hawks (only).
Last night I was ready to pound this laptop through the patio slab with my sludge hammer.
I'm still debating with myself whether I open the new laptop or return it for cash and put that on the mortgage principal.
I'm thinking I downloaded a virus along with updates yesterday. I am sooooo damn close to leaving the internet and take up something else.

[Free]

Last night I was ready to pound this laptop through the patio slab with my sludge hammer.

I've got an 8# Wilton with carbon rods in the handle that would make quick work of that job.
Got any TV's?

I'm still debating with myself whether I open the new laptop or return it for cash and put that on the mortgage principal.

Good idea. Life is sweeter with a paid off mortgage. Then all you have to worry about is being taxed back out into the street.
Or having a business reject now ICLEI codes inspector force you into the street with grass too tall tickets.
Or well meaning greenys forcing you off of your land to save the endangered split tail spider frog.
It's such a warm feeling to know about the most worthy thing you've bought, a home, and paid off through years of hard work, will pass to the state after lawyers get their sticky little fingers in to do their business..

Well... just do what you feel like.
Personally, I haven't felt the need for a lap top. I'm nearly a hermit, after all.
It's a Dell, but I bought a 4 gig this, 4 gig that, 1 terrabite thingy majig at a Goodwill for a couple hundred that works pretty good.
It doesn't travel well but that's not a problem for a hermit.

I'm thinking I downloaded a virus along with updates yesterday. I am sooooo damn close to leaving the internet and take up something else.

You will never give it up. Once bit, forever poisoned.
Soon you can just get the chip and have your daily download beamed directly into the brain stem.
Laptops will be so yesterday. There will also be no need to travel because we'll all be living in a giant petri dish.
Good luck in your decisions.

[SamKellner]

[Free]

Ok, new rules on my thread.
[*] No smilies without content. You have to write something in order to use smilies.
[*] Smilies only allowed in quantity relative to quality of text message. No strings of smilies attached to specious arguments.
[*] To be determined