People Who Died (13 Viewers)

[7 - No tomorrow]

Like we're all going to a work party next week. Everyone will drink. And everyone except me will drive home.
No one says anything to anyone about it.

 

[Jim Daniels]

I'd say most people are okay after 1 or 2. Beyond that, you're lying to yourself.

It's usually the speeding that kills in drink-driving cases anyway.

Drink driving is still massively widespread here. I'm amazed that there isn't more deaths tbh

Two successive pints - you shouldn't be driving within one hour of finishing the second one. At least.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

My mate's club, everyone drinks like crazy in there and all drive home.
You're looked at like you're the weird one when you turn down a lift.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Two successive pints - you shouldn't be driving within one hour of finishing the second one. At least.

Strictly speaking, yes.
But if you're taking some fucker's licence off him for two pints. Take it off the fucker doing 140 too.

 

[Jim Daniels]

My mate's club, everyone drinks like crazy in there and all drive home.
You're looked at like you're the weird one when you turn down a lift.

Thats crazy. I've seen this kind of thing in movies, but I thought that was just the movies. Weird, cause I didn't think they had the drinking culture that we have. Or maybe that explains it...

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Thats crazy. I've seen this kind of thing in movies, but I thought that was just the movies. Weird, cause I didn't think they had the drinking culture that we have. Or maybe that explains it...

They don't have the same proportion of drinkers that we do, but the ones that do drink, do so with gusto.

 

[pavlos]

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[nooleen]

the limit's being lowered to 50mg in scotland soon, which is apparently about half a pint at most

BBC News - Scotland to reduce drink-drive limit

 

[nooleen]

you'd be within the (old) limit after one or even two pints depending on your size and the strength of the beer

for a 5'10", 11st 35 year old male you'd be able to have 2 pints of 4.9% beer over 2 hours and be under the UK (and ireland) limit

R U Pissed? - Online Breathalyzer Test and Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) Level Calculator - Hangover Cures

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Years ago I had two pints and drove home. Got bagged by the Gards and was told I was just under the limit and that I should drive directly home and not drive again that night.
I grabbed a Chinese anyway, cos I'm mad like that.

 

[therealjohnny]

you'd be within the (old) limit after one or even two pints depending on your size and the strength of the beer

for a 5'10", 11st 35 year old male you'd be able to have 2 pints of 4.9% beer over 2 hours and be under the UK (and ireland) limit

R U Pissed? - Online Breathalyzer Test and Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) Level Calculator - Hangover Cures

Phew.

 

[Unknown Convict]

i think the cultural battle re: drink driving has largely been won.

i meant in ireland, but maybe not. i don't think i know anyone who'd consider driving after anything more than 1 drink, and few who'd do that (or would admit to it). i might be wrong.

tired driving is arguably just as dangerous and i know i've been guilty of it. have never fallen asleep at the wheel , but i've come close a couple of times. very hard to legislate for that though and hard to detect the danger in yourself until the eyelids start to droop.

 

[Unknown Convict]

plus, in the 250-300,000 kms i've done in the last six years, i have been breathalised once.

 

[nooleen]

i was talking about irish people, both the facebook bragging and the experience of people suggesting drink-driving after a night out

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

plus, in the 250-300,000 kms i've done in the last six years, i have been breathalised once.

The breathalyzing is another numbers game. Getting people on their way to work in Dublin hardly seems to be tackling the problem.
They want to be able to tell Gay Byrne they've caught another 200 people or whatever.
Do it where people are dying. People are not dying in the morning rush hour.

 

[Unicron]

plus, in the 250-300,000 kms i've done in the last six years, i have been breathalised once.

I'm frequently driving at 2/3AM, often at weekends, I think I've been breathalysed 3 times in my life

 

[magicbastarder]

bear in mind too that if you don't have your licence on you when you're breathalysed, you'll be subject to the lower limit. 50mg applies to qualified drivers, 20mg to learner drivers; but if you can't prove you're qualified - i.e. if you don't have a licence, they'll treat you at the scene as if you're unqualified.

 

[rettucs]

Joe Cocker

 

[Anthony]

I suppose now is as good a time to let you in on my 30+ years held opinion that Joe Cocker is a talentless bore wringing the life out of that horrid song for far too long.

Condolences though. I'm sure he was a cool grandfather.

 

[therealjohnny]

You're a bad man Anthony

Although I don't have any of his records I enjoyed the tour movie "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". He was huge in America for a while. Most of us (of a certain age) would know 'that' Beatles cover and the dreadful duet with Jennifer Warnes in the 80s

It will probably be punned all over his obituaries and in fawning youtube comments "You're up where you belong now Joe....sob"