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Grown Men who can't drive. Do you find them weird?

  • 19-02-2014 3:38pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭HooohRaaah


    Personally I find it odd if a grown man can't drive. Would anybody else share that opinion? There just seems to something really strange if a man is over 24 years of age and can't drive.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    No

    21/25



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭OntheStrings


    No?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 shs08


    HooohRaaah wrote: »
    Personally I find it odd if a grown man can't drive. Would anybody else share that opinion? There just seems to something really strange if a man is over 24 years of age and can't drive.
    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Can't drive or doesn't have a car?

    Either way, no.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Yes.


    Id be looking for medical reasons to explain it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    not at all, it's very common, you see them on the roads every day.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    yes

    source. 30 year old man who can't drive

    i'm like one of those self hating jews


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,145 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Theres a good chance that i'll never be able to drive due to a medical condition so the answer is no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I'm nearly 25, have no idea how to drive a car, actually had no intention of ever driving til I bought a motorbike on impulse a year and a half ago....

    DeVore doesn't drive IIRC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I'm nearly 25, have no idea how to drive a car, actually had no intention of ever driving til I bought a motorbike on impulse a year and a half ago....

    DeVore doesn't drive IIRC.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    A little to be honest. Not sure why though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Dj Stiggie


    I'm 22 and have lived in cities with great public transport over the past few years so I haven't needed to. I was the passenger in a road trip across the US last summer, and when people learned I wasn't driving at all, the number one response was, 'What did you do to loose your licence?'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    ryanf1 wrote: »
    Theres a good chance that i'll never be able to drive due to a medical condition so the answer is no

    Something something *insert gag about wimmin and driving*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Not really. A car is a constant drain on your finances, and if you were living and working in a town, where you could walk to shops/doctors/work/kids schools etc then why bother running a car?

    If I could do without one I would.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I'm driving since I was 7 and I'm the weirdest guy you'll ever meet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,473 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Yep, find it quite weird in this country.

    A friend is organizing some marketing research for the RSA at the moment and one of the demographics they'd specifically asked her to fill was a man in his 50's who'd only been driving for 2 years.

    I'm sure that out of the couple of thousand of men in this age-group they were aware of who had passed their driving test in the past two years were in fact new drivers but something tells me that the vast, vast majority of them were men who'd been driving for years in other jurisdictions or had been driving a different class of vehicle prior to that test (e.g. motorcycle / were upgrading their license to a heavier class of vehicle etc.)

    If you've spent your adult life living in a major city with good public transport e.g. London / Paris / New York or are so loaded you can afford to pay for taxis everywhere I can understand it but not really in Ireland tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I can't drive but that doesn't stop me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    That's a ridiculous statement OP. It's like saying it's weird if grown men can't play football.

    Not everybody has to learn to drive, especially if many people do not need to drive. For example, people living in towns and cities who use public transport will not see learning to drive as a pressing matter.

    Not every person has the desire to own a car and soup it up with blue lights and other shiney things that they saw on Top Gear.

    Also, why have you left out the other half of the population? If it's weird for men, why not women?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    live in dublin city centre. cant afford to park or insure a car right now :'(


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Inability to drive = inability to operate heavy industrial/military vehicles.

    Better be a damn good reason or it'll be big penalty points on your man card.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 shs08


    Butterface wrote: »
    That's a ridiculous statement OP. It's like saying it's weird if grown men can't play football.

    Not everybody has to learn to drive, especially if many people do not need to drive. For example, people living in towns and cities who use public transport will not see learning to drive as a pressing matter.

    Not every person has the desire to own a car and soup it up with blue lights and other shiney things that they saw on Top Gear.

    Also, why have you left out the other half of the population? If it's weird for men, why not women?
    Public transport doesn't exist outside Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    I've been reversing since I was 7 and I'm the weirdest guy you'll ever meet.
    :cool:
    ryp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭Ironman76


    Don't have a drivers license but am a good driver. Unlike most motorists WITH a license that haven't a clue. I bet if you had to re take your test after a certain amount of time the roads would be empty.

    Anyway I'll stick to my beast of a motorbike thank you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Something something *insert gag about wimmin and driving*

    That would be sexist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭HooohRaaah


    Butterface wrote: »
    That's a ridiculous statement OP. It's like saying it's weird if grown men can't play football.

    Not everybody has to learn to drive, especially if many people do not need to drive. For example, people living in towns and cities who use public transport will not see learning to drive as a pressing matter.

    Not every person has the desire to own a car and soup it up with blue lights and other shiney things that they saw on Top Gear.

    Also, why have you left out the other half of the population? If it's weird for men, why not women?

    People say "oh there's public transport I don't need to drive"
    I find it hard to believe that these people would prefer to be at the mercy of the public transport timetable and to sit in a packed bus that having their own car.

    Nobody said anything about owning a brand new car so I don't get what you're trying to say there.

    Why have I left out half the population? Basically it's more accepted if a woman can't drive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭HooohRaaah


    The men who can't drive are the same people who look for lifts down the country to weddings, sports events etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 417 ✭✭Wolf Club


    I've known the functions of a car since I was around 17 but I haven't been insured or gotten my full license yet (I'm 25 now). Why? Cos I don't think I'm in a position to fork out big money on something I don't need and probably wouldn't use that often. If I was making more money and living in the suburbs/countryside I probably would.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Why is it weird?

    I don't drive and don't have a car. Just never needed one, I prefer to live where everything is close by. I was bored about 10 years ago and decided I'd do my driving test, joined the local driving school, did my exams, did the minimum required motorway, city, countryside and night time driving hours, passed the first-aid course and driving test.

    That was the last time I drove a car.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    I'm surprised at anyone (without a medical reason) who lives in Ireland (one of the most car dependent countries on earth) who can't drive.

    Male or female, if you're not driving by 19… I would be wondering why not.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭s8n


    Driving needs to be added to the secondary curriculum here from a skills and safety perspective. The insurance companies could pick up some of the cost on this for the exposure it would give them to the young driver market


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    I'm surprised at anyone (without a medical reason) who lives in Ireland (one of the most car dependent countries on earth) who can't drive.

    Male or female, if you're not driving by 19… I would be wondering why not.

    Good for you.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 shs08


    jester77 wrote: »
    Why is it weird?

    I don't drive and don't have a car. Just never needed one, I prefer to live where everything is close by. I was bored about 10 years ago and decided I'd do my driving test, joined the local driving school, did my exams, did the minimum required motorway, city, countryside and night time driving hours, passed the first-aid course and driving test.

    That was the last time I drove a car.
    So you've passed your driving test and can drive. Well done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭HooohRaaah


    When people question somebody as to why they can't drive they seem to get very touchy. That says it all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    HooohRaaah wrote: »
    People say "oh there's public transport I don't need to drive"
    I find it hard to believe that these people would prefer to be at the mercy of the public transport timetable and to sit in a packed bus that having their own car.

    Nobody said anything about owning a brand new car so I don't get what you're trying to say there.

    Why have I left out half the population? Basically it's more accepted if a woman can't drive.

    The people who complain the most about public transport always seem to be the people who use it the least. Yeah, it's overpriced in Ireland, but any route I've ever had to rely on (having lived in Galway, Dublin, Belfast and Waterford) has never let me down.

    I'm very used to using public transport - planes, trains and buses on a regular basis. I've only had cause to rent a car on one occasion in the past 8 years and that was only because we were going off the beaten track a bit down in Kerry.

    I completely understand the need to own a car when you're living in the countryside and the nearest bus stop is 2 miles away, but not if you're living in a city.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Good for you.

    Well it's reasonable to wonder why not.

    Ireland is extremely hard to function in without at least being able to drive a car. Owning one isn't necessary, but even if you live and work in an urban area it's vital to be able to drive for some things.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    I can drive but don't have a car, because financially I cannot afford to keep one on the road, I'm within walking distance of work and very close to an aldi and super value but if I could afford it, I would put a car on the road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭dm09


    HooohRaaah wrote: »
    Personally I find it odd if a grown man can't drive. Would anybody else share that opinion?

    Yes Kent, Yes I do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    HooohRaaah wrote: »
    Why have I left out half the population? Basically it's more accepted if a woman can't drive.
    Dunno how you come up with that idea.

    HooohRaaah wrote: »
    Personally I find it odd if a grown man can't drive. Would anybody else share that opinion?
    reading this you seem unsure about men, but have your mind made up about women.
    HooohRaaah wrote: »
    There just seems to something really strange if a man is over 24 years of age and can't drive.
    The men are "really strange", do you not even find it remotely strange if women don't drive?

    Any reason for the contrasting view? or did any people who told you its more acceptable for women come up with any ideas?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 shs08


    Butterface wrote: »
    The people who complain the most about public transport always seem to be the people who use it the least. Yeah, it's overpriced in Ireland, but any route I've ever had to rely on (having lived in Galway, Dublin, Belfast and Waterford) has never let me down.

    I'm very used to using public transport - planes, trains and buses on a regular basis. I've only had cause to rent a car on one occasion in the past 8 years and that was only because we were going off the beaten track a bit down in Kerry.

    I completely understand the need to own a car when you're living in the countryside and the nearest bus stop is 2 miles away, but not if you're living in a city.
    Public transport doesn't exist outside Dublin. It would take me 3 hours by public transport to make a journey across Cork City that would take me 15 minutes by car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    If youre living in a city them I guess not but down here in "Bogland" I think I would actually. Fair enough, lost licence or hit the dole etc, that can happen to anyone. But never learning at all? Yeah Id find it surprising. And annoying having to cart your fat hole everywhere:p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Boggers tend to find it weird


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    I am 27 (female) my partner is 30 in April, neither of us can drive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭burnhardlanger


    I can drive but I don't have a license or a car.

    I could drive no problem in an emergency situation.

    But I don't have to pay for;

    Car Loan and it's interest
    Tax
    Insurance
    NCT fees
    Servicing fees
    Fuel
    etc

    Judge me all you want, I'm saving a fortune :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    shs08 wrote: »
    Public transport doesn't exist outside Dublin. It would take me 3 hours by public transport to make a journey across Cork City that would take me 15 minutes by car.

    You would walk across cork city in 3 hours, the bus services in cork city are pretty decent, I've never had a problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭HooohRaaah


    I can drive but I don't have a license or a car.

    I could drive no problem in an emergency situation.

    But I don't have to pay for;

    Car Loan and it's interest
    Tax
    Insurance
    NCT fees
    Servicing fees
    Fuel
    etc

    Judge me all you want, I'm saving a fortune :)

    You know how to drive. I'm talking about fellas who can't


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I learned to drive when I was around 31 IIRC as I needed to. I didn't need to before then. Simple really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Bambi wrote: »
    Boggers tend to find it weird

    No it's actually a bit like saying you can't use the internet.

    Dublin is actually extremely car dependent by any standards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    HooohRaaah wrote: »
    People say "oh there's public transport I don't need to drive"
    I find it hard to believe that these people would prefer to be at the mercy of the public transport timetable and to sit in a packed bus that having their own car.

    In the last ten years I've been working, I've used public transport to get to work. I could count on one hand the number of times I've been inconvenienced.

    Which is why I don't feel the need to buy a car right now. When I do, I will.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I'd consider that a little unusual, but certainly not "weird". I know a good few fellas who can't drive, and a good few more who hold and maintain driver's licenses but don't really bother with the actual car bit. Most of these live in the city, mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Bambi wrote: »
    Boggers tend to find it weird

    Yeah :D


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