ProTip: Hitting someone with a joint doesn't usually inflict grievous bodily harm. Unless your rolling papers are steel-jacketed, perhaps.

So...

Everyone who wanted to overturn alcohol prohibition was an alcoholic, right?

And all who advocate equality for LGBT folks must be one of those weirdoes themselves.

Riiiight....

You do realise you directly contradict yourself in the bolded sentence, don't you?

When I was a heavy user, I used to rationalise in a similar vein.

I was admiring the "DestroyerOfWo" part, myself. :)

You don't know too much about Norway, or many people from there, do you? "Røgeberg" is a completely legitimate Norwegian surname.

BTW, Ø is not zero; it's the Norwegian (and Danish) equivalent of Ö.

Right.

Wrong.

(Try actually testing them for the presence of cannabinoids in their systems, maybe?)

And I challenge your statement that

Back in the late 70s, Car & Driver magazine did an informal study (with a couple of professional test drivers) which was later reprinted in High Times, IIRC.

Their results appeared to indicate that small amounts of cannabis actually improved the pros' driving performance slightly and for a very short while, after which performance fell rapidly to much less than normal. They found in addition that using more than a small amount also quickly caused the pros' driving performance to decrease to much less than normal.

Reagan didn't do shit. The USSR was already moribund.

I too answered "80-100%" without thinking about my phones/tablet.

Both PCs are mostly FOSS, with the exceptions of Skype, Flash, and (on the work laptop) oXygenXML.

Phones and tablet all run Android with (I suspect) mostly closed-source apps. I guess I should look more seriously into Cyanogenmod and F-Droid.

I hadn't thought about it, but, now that you mention it, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out.

Just so you know: I'm a native of the Deep South. I'm primarily of Anglo-Irish descent, and all my ancestors were in North America prior to the American Revolution. (FWIW, I'm eligible for membership in the SAR, SAC, and the Mayflower Society.) Both my parents have Master's degrees (my mother's degrees are in English Lit and Library Science). Our family moved North (to the Midwest, actually) while I was in elementary school. After high school and a couple of years of college (still in the Midwest), I spent about 15 years in Appalachia, then a couple of years in CA/AZ. After that, I lived in Australia for several years before coming to Sweden nearly 7 years ago. I've been mostly a writer and editor by trade for the last 15 years, and before that I worked in broadcasting as an announcer and copywriter for nearly a decade. In all the standardised tests I've ever taken, I've ranked consistently in the 97th or better percentile in all categories relating to English.

So I'd say that my credentials as a knowledgeable speaker and writer of English are pretty good.

I also speak fair amount of German and Spanish, can get by in Swedish, and have recently started tackling Mandarin.

And just so you don't think I'm just trying to impress you or whatever, I'll add that it's a damned good thing for me I can speak and write English as well as I do, since it makes me quite valuable here; I'd be in a tough spot without that ability, since I'm not that great a coder, and my mastery of spoken Swedish leaves a lot to be desired even though I've lived here for quite some time.

The o in "work" is actually an example of the o+e ligature (which Slashcode filters out, dammit) or ö except that modern English orthography is allergic to special characters and diacritics. (Compare the pronunciation of the same vowel in horse or sport.)

Make of all that what you will.

I'm a lifelong native speaker, and it looks and sounds plenty like English to me... a bit like "twerp", perhaps.

That could sort of apply to Miley as well.

I like to think of myself as a Language Authoritarian rather than a Language Nazi. ;) Glad to be of service.