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So, I went to Cannafest, the biggest international marijuana expo in Europe
2013-11-15, 7:32 AM #1
I wrote a trip report about the experience if anyone's interested. It's on the longish side (8,000 words), but I had a good time, met many people, and learnt something new about the world.

Check it out here if you're interested in that sort of thing: http://tyrovogel.com/tyro-vogel-goes-to-prague/

Please excuse the occasional typos / lapses in syntax.
幻術
2013-11-15, 9:00 AM #2
That is so stupid.

They should call it Cannabash.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2013-11-15, 9:39 AM #3
It's like Jesus' arrival to Jerusalem on a mule.

Except instead of Jesus it's Koobie, instead of Jerusalem it's the Prague and instead of a mule it's a legless donkey.

I hope you had fun! [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/garosaon/smiley/smile.gif]
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2013-11-15, 9:47 AM #4
Did you get so high
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2013-11-15, 9:49 AM #5
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
That is so stupid.

They should call it Cannabash.


This thread was over before it started.
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2013-11-15, 1:54 PM #6
Originally posted by Koobie:
Please excuse the occasional typos / lapses in syntax.


Okay, come on dude, aren't you an aspiring writer? How do you expect people to invest time out of their day to read something you wrote with the faint hope that it might be worth their while, when you freely admit that you couldn't be bothered to proofread it?
2013-11-15, 2:10 PM #7
Guys, upon reading some of it, I rather quickly found a plethora of issues with his sentence structure, choice of words, many of which can only be called outright mistakes.

Koobie, you really need to proofread your work if you are to amount to anything at all as a writer. From what I can tell, I would guess that I generally spend more time, per word, proofreading my posts than you did proofreading your article. Although, perhaps this is not true, and I'm being too harsh. Surely, English usually is not the first language of a continental European like yourself.

I hope this is not taken as an afront, but instead what appears to me merely some much needed advice.

All that said, short of some more stringent self-criticism, I suppose what you're doing is as good a way as any to practice writing. It certainly beats doing nothing, and I hope you won't get discouraged by the negative tone of my post.
2013-11-15, 2:22 PM #8
Proofreading a trip report is kind of antithetical to trying to explain a trip. If it were a well formatted, and proofread article, it wouldn't be about describing a trip. Things white people like.
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2013-11-15, 2:35 PM #9
I thought about applying that kind of logic while writing my post, but I think this is different because he is an aspiring writer. Perhaps our brains work differently, but my general attitude is that you should impulsively take every presented opportunity that lends itself to developing and practicing long-term skills.

In addition, anything that will be read by others would benefit from some level of proof-reading.
2013-11-15, 2:37 PM #10
Oh I pretty much agree with you, I just think you're asking a lot from "And then we smoked a bunch of weed."
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2013-11-15, 2:37 PM #11
lol
2013-11-15, 2:56 PM #12
Originally posted by JediKirby:
Oh I pretty much agree with you, I just think you're asking a lot from "And then we smoked a bunch of weed."


To be fair to the Reverend, it definitely looks like Koobie is trying to do a lot with "and then we smoked a bunch of weed."

RJ's essentially right; if I'd written this, I wouldn't post it, in this state, on a website meant to showcase my writing skills.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2013-11-15, 3:04 PM #13
Well, I WAS thinking to myself that, over the years, I've become no more than a tiresome dick, but your reinforcement was just what I needed to press on.
2013-11-15, 3:09 PM #14
Another success for Michael MacFarlane, Tiresome Dick Enabler.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2013-11-15, 3:09 PM #15
shut up guys, the "tiresome" modifies "dick" not "enabler"
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2013-11-15, 3:13 PM #16
I think I've got a job for you Michael....
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2013-11-15, 3:16 PM #17
:psyduck:
2013-11-15, 3:17 PM #18
If your dick is going to yell obscure and inapplicable racial slurs at me the entire time, I'm out. I've worked with James Deen too many times already.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2013-11-16, 3:13 AM #19
Hi guys. Thanks for... Commenting, I guess?

It's true that I didn't proof-read it; I will later and correct the spelling / grammar / sentence structure accordingly, but I also didn't write this to show off my "1337 writing skillzorz" or whatnot, just wanted to share my impressions of Prague, its people, the mystic coincidences (?) that culminated in me meeting that girl from NY and my mega-failure to ask her for her phone #, etc.

And then we smoked a bunch of weed.

幻術
2013-11-17, 8:50 AM #20
"I thought this was supposed to be a film festival!" - confused tourist
Cordially,
Lord Tiberius Grismath
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