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Have to laugh at the Helen Lovejoys in this thread. I would like to see the stats about people dieing in the name of religion v drink driving deaths, it would show the true evil in this world.
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I'll drink to that Loris. 
Why should that be a comparison? One is an intense belief system usually introduced at a young age, the other is a personal choice.
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Would never drive the same night when I have had a few drinks. If I am driving and at the puv I will just have a few lights or stick to the soft drinks.
Having said that, if I've gone to bed and woke up the next morning and had to drive somewhere hungover I'm completely sure I have been over legal limit dozens of times.
Having said that, if I've gone to bed and woke up the next morning and had to drive somewhere hungover I'm completely sure I have been over legal limit dozens of times.
Sharrod Wellingham thinks you are very lucky.
I was done for 0.07 years ago and had to attend drunk school.
There were 6 people in my "class", 4 of them were done the morning after, more common than people realise.
To be honest I have done it quite a few times in my earlier days when I was stupid.
Mainly it would have been from a mates to my place or from the local to home.... (Which in most cases the drive is fairly short and late hours with minimal cars on the road).
You never really think of the consequences and think that you are invincible.
I havent done it for a long time and wont be doing it anytime soon.
You wouldnt be able to live with yourself if you were pissed driving and hit a little kid. They die and you live with it for the rest of your life. NO THANKS.
Mainly it would have been from a mates to my place or from the local to home.... (Which in most cases the drive is fairly short and late hours with minimal cars on the road).
You never really think of the consequences and think that you are invincible.
I havent done it for a long time and wont be doing it anytime soon.
You wouldnt be able to live with yourself if you were pissed driving and hit a little kid. They die and you live with it for the rest of your life. NO THANKS.
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Yeah it's something thats not really educated well enough I reckon, obviously they ram home the drink and drive but I reckon I have been over .05 about 4 or 5 times this year and have had to drive the next day.
Imagine ringing work "Sorry I won't be in for another couple of hours I legally can't drive yet" Please
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Don't even know where to start with this post, tongue in cheek or not.
I'm an atheist fwiw and if anything it makes me even less keen for f'wits like you to end my days early with your irresponsible driving.
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...are you seriously asking me to explain to you what is irresponsible about drink driving? Are you drunk right now?
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Okay so drink driving is neither immoral nor irresponsible. Righto.
All I can say is I'll glad I never had to share the roads with prior to your realisation that you could ultimately lose money from it (never mind the whole endangering innocent lives thing).
All I can say is I'll glad I never had to share the roads with prior to your realisation that you could ultimately lose money from it (never mind the whole endangering innocent lives thing).
On the other hand you constantly get into the situation where you sh!t people to tears having to read the utter crap that you post.
We get it, you're controversial.
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'Drink driving' may or may not be depending on the person/circumstances. Driving when drunk is clearly both.
You can't just use some arbitrary limit as a strict definition of irresponsibility. Are you saying that someone with a BAC of .0498 is an upstanding member of society but someone at .0500 is a menace who should be shot? There is no difference in impairment between the two values.
Just the same way that if someone is .052 and driving home in Melbourne and their car suddenly teleports to Sacramento they don't instantly go from being irresponsible to responsible. Just as they don't go the other way if someone is driving in Melbourne at .03 and the car teleports to Budapest.
If you want to take a moral stance against people driving when drunk go right ahead, it's a terribly dangerous and stupid thing to do. But don't sink to the level of basing your entire morality on an arbitrary limit which is at best, a very approximate and often quite poor indication.
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You only have to have one drink driver kill someone you love and thats about all I have to say on the matter.
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Thats a completely understandable position to take. But its also a copout if youve never had that happen.
Whos to say me driving at 0.1 is any worse than you driving at 0.01 ?
Sometimes people are just shit or irresponsible drivers who happen to be pissed when they crash.
The thing is, theres no statistics that can definitively clear up the drink driving issue and say one bac reading from one person to the other is any worse than someone else.
I had a personal testing machine for a while, and i couldve sworn i was 0.08+ some times when i blew under 0.05 and other times (like when i got caught) thought i was 0.0 but i was 0.08+. It really is just luck of the draw, too many factors that cant be controlled if they were to have a true "limit when normal driving becomes dangerous driving".
In the mean time slogans will be advertised and people will still drive home drunk from a mates/pub. People will also still die on the roads. It wont stop, ever.
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^You are defending the indefensible.
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Yeah look clearly I'm talking about driving whilst having drunk enough to impair your reflexes and driving skills.
Not gonna bother with this thread anymore, it is pretty clear vealesy is either trolling hard or deluded. Gasometer last couple of posts, pretty much all that needs to be said about drink drivers.
