KingLoser wrote: » Try not to take it as such a personal attack on "Irish law", stop sounding like there's a bigot just under your skin waiting to break free, and maybe this thread will stay open for a week.Anybody who drink drives, deserves to drive their car straight into the grave. Pity they have to take others with them.
echosound wrote: » Of course anyone who drink drives like that deserves to have the book thrown at them if they don't manage to wrap themselves round a lamppost/take out some innocent person first.
just saw something that has shocked me. i was talking to a pal outside a shop and close to us were 3 polish chaps. they were all drinking a can of lager each. one of them then went into the offlicence and bought three more cans and they all drank them. two of them got into a car each and the other went off on a moped. i mean F F S how can they get away with that. how much of this is going on. and how much would they normaly drink and think its ok to drive. what are the drinking laws in there home country.
Ri na hEireann wrote: » I'm looking at this post in a new light... Are you attacking them because they're Polish? If so it's a rather poor analysis of drink driving. I don't think we should look at it as "them" and "us" ie as Polish and Irish,but rather them=drinkdrivers and us=law abiding drivers. I can assure you drink driving isn't a phenomenon attached to the immigrant community. I question whether you'd be as pissed off if it was your pal doing the drinking.
longshanks wrote: » its very easy to bring the racism/xenophobia argument into it every time a particular culture is mentioned. its a fairly weak, and at this stage predictable argument though. critisising or commenting on something should be seen as just that. the original post stated something which a lot of people know goes on (and i'm not claiming it to be exclusively a polish problem) but the usual bullshhit comments about the op being racist are rolled out. it was in no way a racist remark, (eamonn dunphy would call it ethnic critisism). how about discussing what was referred to in the first post instead of baaing like sheep every time polish, nigerians, travellers, or whoever gets a mention. take it easy kids
KingLoser wrote: » Sorry about the long essay you just wrote....... but..... I was talking about his second post.
Ri na hEireann wrote: » But generally drinking alcohol is habitual in these countries and I reckon having a few and driving is widely overlooked
teetotaller wrote: » I'm usually wondering why there are so many cars owned by Irish drivers outside pubs. It is difficult to find some parking space near the pub.... What for are they all going to pub ? to drink tea and juice?
Ilovebeard wrote: » Wait there, you said they only had two drinks each? How do you know that put them over the limit - it most certainly didn't. What is this country's obsession with drink driving, its easy to judge, far more people die from far more sinister crimes and issues yet are often overlooked. so what if you have a couple of drinks and drive. bad driving causes accidents, sometimes by drunks sometimes not.
BlaasForRafa wrote: » Thats quite possibly the stupidest post I've ever seen on this forum.
Ilovebeard wrote: » Wait there, you said they only had two drinks each? How do you know that put them over the limit - it most certainly didn't..
Ilovebeard wrote: » What is this country's obsession with drink driving, its easy to judge, far more people die from far more sinister crimes and issues yet are often overlooked.
Ilovebeard wrote: » so what if you have a couple of drinks and drive. bad driving causes accidents, sometimes by drunks sometimes not.
Ilovebeard wrote: » how many times do you see people race about the town everyday, which far more dangerous, yet no post about that.
Ilovebeard wrote: » What I find stupid is he mentions nothing of the state the lads were in or the quality of their driving. Yet say anything other than 'drink driving is the worst crime in the world' will have people turn on you. how many times do you see people race about the town everyday, which far more dangerous, yet no post about that. ok ok ok. just to clarify, yes the guy on the moped was drunk( in my opinioun) im not an expert but thats how it looked.
freebird23 wrote: » and close to us were 3 polish chaps. they were all drinking a can of lager each.
teetotaller wrote: » Just look at your country ... ok ? then start talking what is generally happening in other countries .... Are u any better or what ? just look at thousands of drunk people every single night in city centre, all pubs busy, no place to sit, during the weekend hundreds of thousands drunk people on the streets..... think - then write !! I'm usually wondering why there are so many cars owned by Irish drivers outside pubs. It is difficult to find some parking space near the pub.... What for are they all going to pub ? to drink tea and juice?
Ri na hEireann wrote: » I've been in Poland and I know they drink vodka in a not so different way to how we drink,say tea or coffee.
teetotaller wrote: » Did they tell u Hi mr Irishman we are from Poland , we are fu..in drunk ? if not - how did you recognize their language? are u 100% sure that they were Polish ?
eth0_ wrote: » I'd imagine they had their PL licence plates on their cars. Because, you know, paying VRT and changing your plates doesn't apply if you're Polish or Latvian etc... Yes, I know lots of people from the republic buy cars in the North and take their time re-registering them....but there are far, far too many PL and LV registered cars on the road here to excuse it by saying "Oh they must have just arrived in the country".
shockwave wrote: » They're allowed drive here for a year before they have to change to Irish plates.
shockwave wrote: » But if you are a foreign resident and you come to Ireland in your car you can live and work here for a year before having to register. .
