Permissions Only Output Bukkit Sad

I'll preface this by saying that I'm using PermissionsEx. No, I'm not willing to change it, but I do want to support SuperPerms.

With that said, whenever I give a if(player.hasPermission("some.perm"), it doesn't really do anything. If it's define in plugin.yml, it doesn't make a difference at all. However, trying to implement a message to be sent if they don't have perms is what I'm really having a problem with. Take this code, for example (it's an example):

Code:

if(player.hasPermission("i.like.turtles") {
 player.sendMessage("gratz.");
  return true;
} else {
  player.sendMessage("You don't have perms!");
  return true;
}
return false;

My problem is that everyone sees the Bukkit sad error when they don't have perms.

What am I doing incorrectly?

Can you use both the permission: in plugin.yml and with hasPermission?

 

The permissions node has to be in plugin.yml to be properly registered so that you can check it with hasPermission.