The Irish army should be called in to do battle with rhododendrons because the plants are "taking over" a national park, the government has been told.
Jack the Stripper wrote: » Let's all drink three pints ffs leave it out.
Don't Chute! wrote: » How do you make that out?
Joeytheparrot wrote: » Are you seriously saying most drink driving accidents are mainly caused by people drinking 1 pint?
ohnonotgmail wrote: » Nobody has said that most drink driving accidents are mainly caused by people drinking 1 pint.
Special Circumstances wrote: » So... is it the extra glass that does it? Or is it only dangerous if your car is over 15 years old aswell?
ohnonotgmail wrote: » what in gods name are you talking about?
Special Circumstances wrote: » Lost again? A good chunk of the thread is about rhododendrons so you can skip that to get yourself re-calibrated as to where you are posting. Skip to the bit about drink driving. It starts just a little bit before your posts... about drink driving. This is basic stuff
ohnonotgmail wrote: » perhaps you should have a look at the post i replied to. I have made no comment at all on the new limits. And none of the above explains the bit about 15 year old cars. this is basic stuff
Special Circumstances wrote: » That's the joke. You'll get there. Maybe. It's a bit of logical/mathsy joke but when you realise the unbiased statistics to support the car insurance things are filed in the same magical filing cabinet as the "3 glasses of guinness are wiping people out throughout the country" statistics... you'll wet yourself, it's a slow burner of a joke I'll admit.
ohnonotgmail wrote: » and absolutely nothing nothing to do with the post you originally replied to. You do know what the quote button is for, right?
Grayson wrote: » If you think 2-3 glasses of guinness wouldn't impair peoples ability then I'm assuming you'd be ok with say commercial pilots or bus drivers drinking whilst on the job. Why not doctors or dentists? Drinking impairs your reaction times and your ability to control a vehicle. Anyone who refuses to accept that is an idiot....or drunk. Anyone who drinks any alcohol before driving is taking an additional risk that could lead to theirs or someone elses death.
Jack the Stripper wrote: » Where did he say a glass was a half pint? Link?
Boom_Bap wrote: » Special Circumstances & ohnonotgmail - Give it a rest please
Special Circumstances wrote: » If we drop any further back and forth between us can we continue to post here? The likes of snickers man's post above and a few other posters are very sensible logical posts and deserve some support against the "high horse" brigade.
Don't Chute! wrote: » Why does he want people to drink and drive AT ALL? The stupidity of these people and their supporters is astonishing.
Don't Chute! wrote: I've never been able to understand the Irish obsession with drinking just enough to be under the limit for driving. Why can't they just not drink at all?
Graces7 wrote: » Small question which often occurs when I see these threads. IF alcohol is so safe and ineffective on you why drink? If you drink for the effect? This automatically affects all you do else why do it?
Special Circumstances wrote: » And this is where we are headed people.... IF caffeine is so safe and ineffective on you why drink? If you drink for the effect? This automatically affects all you do else why do it? Eventually all consumption of sustenance not approved/contracted/supplied by the state will be outlawed. Personal preference. Outlawed. Personal taste. Outlawed. You don't feel like your full 100ml per kg sustenance allowance today? Tough, no individuality, choice, or deviation can be allowed.
tayto lover wrote: » We need to learn how to drink in this country.
Snickers Man wrote: » Because we enjoy a drink! What's so hard to understand about that? And what's so wrong with it? I have no sympathy for people who want to get tanked out of their head and drive home. If caught, they should be put off the road. But you are making a moral equivalance between drinking "two or three glasses" of beer and drinking a gallon. It's NOT the same thing. I think prigs like you should be forced to consider the damage done by your zealous lack of tolerance for moderate drinking down through the ages and throughout the world. Prohibition in America was a disaster. Extreme laws against drinking in Scandinavia do nothing to stem the local fondness for getting plastered; they just move it to offshore booze cruises and to holiday resorts on the Mediterranean. Our own censorious legislation against ANY form of moderate drinking only has the effect, in my view, of encouraging destructive drinking. Which, logically, is counter productive. If you drive home from work and you want to pop into the nearby pub with your colleagues for a swift social pint (or two) before you leave then what the hell is wrong with that? That is moderate, responsible, non-destructive drinking. Force people to be allowed to enter a pub only if they have made arrangements not to drive at all and you turn the practice of going to the pub into an expedition. One that has to be planned in advance rather than decided on spontaneously. The natural conclusion is that if you've made the effort you might as well stay all night and get plastered. That's destructive, as opposed to the sane adult practice of keeping to within a safe limit before going home after a hard day's work. And it's NOT your call to make. As a Dublin 4 sophisticate who normally thinks that the Healy-Rae's are a pathetic caricature of all things Irish and a general disgrace to our gene pool I feel I must give credit where it is due and say that they are RIGHT on this point. Death to the prigs!!!
tayto lover wrote: » We need to learn how to drink in this country. Sometimes you'd think it was a race or that there was a lack of it the way people drink. You should be able to enjoy a conversation and sip your drink and still have a great time. Some of the best nights i've had in a pub consisted of only having 2 or 3 pints.
Graces7 wrote: » Oh DEAR! Now we hit the real issue of self. No thought of any possible consequences or effects on others of our chosen actions? For that is what it comes down to. Self above all else. Nothing and no one else matters ? Lone wolf against the state is all that matters? Many of us live within limits that will help keep those around us safe and feel no restrictions' it is called CARING, being responsible. Being adult. If others acted likewise my family would not be in deep mourning just now. Our loved one would still be among us. OK I made the mistake of coming back to board .... Clearly a great mistake indeed. A very great mistake.
