Drink driving

The Batlord · 01-25-2015, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Ki

The thread title still annoys me for some reason.

It implies that English people think their terminology matters when it differs from American English.

Trollheart · 01-26-2015, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I was going to mention the title too.

I had loss two friends in car accidents involving drinking and driving, the were two separate incidents. So I rather not think dwell on this is a subject.

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

because it looks like it was posted while the OP was drunk as shit.

Don't you people follow the thread? I already explained: here it is called drink driving because you don't have to be drunk in order to be over the limit and therefore putting yourself and others' lives at risk.

Dug up some statistics.
RSA.ie - Drink Driving in Ireland
Most interesting reading, report 2, seventh point, reproduced here in case you couldn't be bothered.

Almost a quarter of the drivers killed on our roads, where alcohol was present, were under the legal limit when they died.

Trollheart · 01-26-2015, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

difference is that i try to explain the nuances rather than just posture about how much i know

Who's posturing? The first thing I said, in the OP, was that I neither drink nor drive. But when I see mangled cars on a roadside on the news, and the cops confirm there was alcohol present, well you join those dots up pal. It's not like it's a hard puzzle, and you saying you know more about it because you can "control your drinking" doesn't mean one day you'll think you can and will have a lapse in concentration or something will happen and you'll hit someone.

You guys and gals who drink and think it's ok to drive, to chance it, will never agree with me, and I'll never agree with you, but in this country anyway, if you do chance it you are breaking the law. It may be different where you are, maybe it's more lax or there is some leeway, and if so then that's another thing, but here: right, let me tell you this. It's legal for a cop to arrest you THE MORNING AFTER as you're driving to work if you fail the breathalyser. You may not be drunk, but you're breaking the law and you can be done in. Bet they don't do that in the land of the free, wot?

That may be a little extreme but it shows how seriously we take this (that, or the Gardai are just trying to pad their arrest figures...)

Now, for the last time, the title will NOT be changed. This is NOT about drunk driving (though it can certainly escalate to that) but about driving with drink on you, ergo, drink driving. If you don't like it, suck it.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 01-26-2015, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Who's posturing? The first thing I said, in the OP, was that I neither drink nor drive. But when I see mangled cars on a roadside on the news, and the cops confirm there was alcohol present, well you join those dots up pal. It's not like it's a hard puzzle, and you saying you know more about it because you can "control your drinking" doesn't mean one day you'll think you can and will have a lapse in concentration or something will happen and you'll hit someone.

You guys and gals who drink and think it's ok to drive, to chance it, will never agree with me, and I'll never agree with you, but in this country anyway, if you do chance it you are breaking the law. It may be different where you are, maybe it's more lax or there is some leeway, and if so then that's another thing, but here: right, let me tell you this. It's legal for a cop to arrest you THE MORNING AFTER as you're driving to work if you fail the breathalyser. You may not be drunk, but you're breaking the law and you can be done in. Bet they don't do that in the land of the free, wot?

That may be a little extreme but it shows how seriously we take this (that, or the Gardai are just trying to pad their arrest figures...)

Now, for the last time, the title will NOT be changed. This is NOT about drunk driving (though it can certainly escalate to that) but about driving with drink on you, ergo, drink driving. If you don't like it, suck it.

the posturing thing was aimed at roxy not you.

**Frownland** · 01-26-2015, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Now, for the last time, the title will NOT be changed. This is NOT about drunk driving (though it can certainly escalate to that) but about driving with drink on you, ergo, drink driving. If you don't like it, suck it.

They're the same thing Trollheart, we just have different terms for it.

**Janszoon** · 01-26-2015, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Dug up some statistics.
RSA.ie - Drink Driving in Ireland
Most interesting reading, report 2, seventh point, reproduced here in case you couldn't be bothered.

Almost a quarter of the drivers killed on our roads, where alcohol was present, were under the legal limit when they died.

Interesting, but if you think about it that statistic might not actually mean anything whatsoever. It would be more significant if the statistic was that the "under the limit" people had more fatalities than the "no alcohol at all" people.

RoxyRollah · 01-26-2015, 11:02 AM

I honestly just noticed its called Drink Driving.
My brain just automatically read drunk driving.

Key · 01-26-2015, 09:50 PM

Damn, can't joke about anything anymore.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 01-26-2015, 11:02 PM

^you know how touchy people get these days. should have stuck to safe material like the bill cosby rape allegations.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 01-27-2015, 03:52 AM

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