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Drink Driving...DO YOU DO IT ? ? ?

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  • #212
    whadabouchasir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭whadabouchasir


    Bandit12 wrote: »
    i've no sympthy for anyone who does and get's caught.
    Why would you though?It's ilegal for a good reason because alcohol impairs your judgement and reactions.


  • #213
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    GaNjaHaN wrote: »
    How do you anonymously report someone who's lost their licences for drink driving but continues to drive?

    Garda confidential helpline: 1800 666111


  • #214
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    I am working xmas eve till 8pm, will drive home then to see my family, in the glorious (not) county carlow, will get to the pub 9.30 ish, will have to leave them 6am stephens day, to get to work...mammy happy I am there for xmas day as I should have been working, but my poor beloved Da is telling me to work xmas day instead, because of the guards...feck it, am a daddy's girl but me ma holds the purse!


  • #215
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Bandit12 wrote: »
    Drink drivers are the lowest form of scum.

    Sensationalistic gibberish.

    Drink driving isn't clever and it puts innocent people at risk but are you honestly saying that the culprits are worse that paedophiles,
    heroin dealers, suicide bombers and Gerry Ryan?

    People can go on as much as they want about how bad it is but in certain rural areas it's the norm.
    It's not that long ago that drink driving was socially acceptable everywhere.
    Realistically what do people do when they live in areas with no buses or taxis and lifts aren't always possible?
    What does the likes of some 50 year old Bachelor living in the arse of nowhere do?
    Stay at home alone? go to the pub and drink Coke?

    Drink driving is wrong and culprits should be punished.
    Drink drivers have obviously been responsible for killing innocent people but the OTT extreme views you read in these threads are ridiculous.

    Are back seat passengers who don't wear seatbelts scum?
    Are people who download pirated software, movies and music scum?
    Are people who don't pay their TV licences scum?

    NO, they're breaking the law and what they're doing is wrong but try putting things in perspective FFS.


  • #216
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    shuvly wrote: »
    I am working xmas eve till 8pm, will drive home then to see my family, in the glorious (not) county carlow, will get to the pub 9.30 ish, will have to leave them 6am stephens day, to get to work...mammy happy I am there for xmas day as I should have been working, but my poor beloved Da is telling me to work xmas day instead, because of the guards...feck it, am a daddy's girl but me ma holds the purse!

    Hate that but alot places are open St. Stephen's Day this year so it would be nice to be home for Xmas day... not many people working Xmas day unless your in a hotel/emergency services or a retail service such as a petrol station


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  • #217
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    Mm., yeah, am a nurse, was asked to change to stephens day instead of xmas...feck it , will wear my nurses badge on way up...bring on all the coppers rejects now!


  • #218
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    I'd would safely say that all the 'Copper's rejects' will be gone home for Xmas now. You might have a quiet a day/night after all. Then again I can't really complain because I'll be working on Stephen's Day too but without an hours drive(ouch)!


  • #219
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    If you r any where near the back end of carlow going towards the dub stephens day at 6 (and coming back about 8!) ...give me a shout.


  • #220
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    Ha-ha-ha I like your style - good try but unfortunately I am from Dublin and work in Dublin but if I need the services of a nurse when I'm in work during Stephen's Day I will give you a shout no doubt. By the way that's a long day - I presume it's a 12 hour shift?!


  • #221
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Can't drive but I never ever would even consider drinking and then driving.

    Unfortunately when I was in my teenage years all the local lads ...in fact nearly everyone was drunk while driving home.
    I had a lucky escape one night.
    Hopped into the front passenger seat to get a lift home(I was steaming drunk and so was the driver). My friend dragged me out of car only because she wanted to get lift with some lad she fancied!!

    Thank god she did because 30 seconds down the road he crashed and the engine ended up in the front passenger seat where I would have been :eek:

    All those lads have all grown up now and a hell of alot more sensible. Prob due to having more expensive cars and not wanting to wreck them.

    But there will always be new young ones thinking they can handle it...even though plenty local lads have died in recent years. They all seem to forget.


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  • #222
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    Jaysus Rodberg, I'd say u did well in school. Yeah, its an fld..fcuking long day...


  • #223
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    Ha-ha yeh I did actually.... I was good at maths too(not) - I used to work in Carlow years ago but it's a different place now though..


  • #224
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    Only good thing to come (yeah, now and again...), out of carlow, was me..carlow regional technical college has a lot 2 answer for.., in the good auld days of the pre nursing course...!


  • #225
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Please ease up on the txt speak there shuvly.


  • #226
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    shuvly wrote: »
    Only good thing to come (yeah, now and again...), out of carlow, was me..carlow regional technical college has a lot 2 answer for.., in the good auld days of the pre nursing course...!

    I believe ya... sooooooooo did you post something that snnoyed somebody above then Miss Shuvly....?? you wouldn't do that sure you wouldn't ??!!


  • #227
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    I might have said "CRTC" darling, but i soon rectified it, but actually it is now something ponsy like austin waldron bla de bla...I await another slap on the thingy...if I am lucky...


  • #228
    therokerroar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭therokerroar


    Only around the village the odd time around 3 or 4 in the morning when there is about a 0.01% chance of anyone being around.


  • #229
    shuvly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭shuvly


    Oooops, I did it again, bejaysus and begorra...am tempted to say bless me father for I have sinned... but after that auld priest been done..I choose to keep all my sins to myself..


  • #230
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    shuvly wrote: »
    I might have said "CRTC" darling, but i soon rectified it, but actually it is now something ponsy like austin waldron bla de bla...I await another slap on the thingy...if I am lucky...

    ......is that all like ..?? I thought that you used some other RUDE words shall we say.... but some people must have little to do if ya know what I mean!!

    R.


  • #231
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    therokerroar wrote: »
    Only around the village the odd time around 3 or 4 in the morning when there is about a 0.01% chance of anyone being around.

    Like do you mean you have had a only one or two drinks in the local village hanging out with mates in pub until 3 or 4 and then just drive home?

    Or you have been drinking until 3 or 4 in the morning and then drive home?


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  • #232
    rodberg007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭rodberg007


    shuvly wrote: »
    Oooops, I did it again, bejaysus and begorra...am tempted to say bless me father for I have sinned... but after that auld priest been done..I choose to keep all my sins to myself..

    And that was rich coming from him/her with a name like that 'dr.bollockoo' so who was 'bollocking' who ??...


  • #233
    flanum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    well im in my 15th month in my ban.. i was done the next day going to work.. im hoping to get licence back in march.. have i learned anything?? well id be petrified to go near the car for at least 24 hrs after ive had a drink from now on..!!


  • #234
    streings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭streings


    I'm doing it right now. :cool:


  • #235
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Can I ask people what exactly the point is in having ''1 or 2''? If you say you feel no different than being sober then what's the point? :confused:


  • #236
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Can I ask people what exactly the point is in having ''1 or 2''? If you say you feel no different than being sober then what's the point? :confused:

    Well, no you can't, because it is a ridiculous question! Are you suggesting that the ONLY reason / purpose of drinking is to get to the point of falling over / puking ?

    I'd suggest that "what exactly is the point of having 8 or 10 ?" is a far more relevant question.

    Have you ever had a huge meal ?

    And have you never just had a snack ? If so, why did you only have a snack - why not a full 5-course meal ?


  • #237
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    flanum wrote: »
    well im in my 15th month in my ban.. i was done the next day going to work.. im hoping to get licence back in march.. have i learned anything?? well id be petrified to go near the car for at least 24 hrs after ive had a drink from now on..!!

    I really feel for you. Bagging in the morning is an absolute disgrace.


  • #238
    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    If they really couldn't do without beer...sure they could just drink Becks Non-Alcoholic beer or something like that.
    Tastes the exact same as beer!


  • #239
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Can I ask people what exactly the point is in having ''1 or 2''? If you say you feel no different than being sober then what's the point? :confused:

    If you call around to someones house and they offer you a can, or you go into the local to watch a match its nice to have a pint or 2 rather than drink coke. Its more social to have a proper drink.

    Especially auld lads they usually dont like soft drinks and are happy with there two or three pints.


  • #240
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Well, no you can't, because it is a ridiculous question! Are you suggesting that the ONLY reason / purpose of drinking is to get to the point of falling over / puking ?

    I'd suggest that "what exactly is the point of having 8 or 10 ?" is a far more relevant question.

    Have you ever had a huge meal ?

    And have you never just had a snack ? If so, why did you only have a snack - why not a full 5-course meal ?

    Quite a leap there, where did mention falling over or puking? The point of drinking is to feel a little tipsy, or a little bit drunk or completely pissed, whichever tickles your fancy. If that wasn't the point, people would drink non-alcoholic bear.

    Yes I have had a huge meal and yes I have had a snack. Both of which probably satisfied my hunger. If I'm still hungry after a meal, then I'll eat more.

    My question was, what's the point in drinking if you know you will feel no difference what so ever?


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  • #241
    jape
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭jape


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Quite a leap there, where did mention falling over or puking? The point of drinking is to feel a little tipsy, or a little bit drunk or completely pissed, whichever tickles your fancy. If that wasn't the point, people would drink non-alcoholic bear.

    Yes I have had a huge meal and yes I have had a snack. Both of which probably satisfied my hunger. If I'm still hungry after a meal, then I'll eat more.

    My question was, what's the point in drinking if you know you will feel no difference what so ever?

    Well obviously you don't feel "no difference", but it is not a level of difference that seriously impairs your driving or poses a threat to yourself and other road users. Hence why there are drink driving limits in the majority of countries, and NOT zero tolerance.

    Having 1 drink (and being way under the legal limit) impairs your driving slightly, but is NOT a significant danger. Millions of things impair your driving, getting 7 hours sleep instead of 8, being in a bad mood, being hungry, having a fight with your girlfriend, having an itch, sneezing, driving at night, driving in rain, etc. But not to the point of putting your (and other road users) lives in danger. Exactly the same as having 1 drink does not put your (and other road users) lives in danger.

    If you only drove when under the most ideal circumstances, being in the perfect mood, having had enough sleep, never having a bad day at work, never being even slightly hungry, never driving at night, or in rain, sure you might aswell not bother owning a car.

    Once I stay within the confines of the law, you have no right to criticize how I (or anyone else here) use their car.


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