ladyislingering

because it looks like it was posted while the OP was drunk as shit.

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Neapolitan

I was going to mention the title too.

I had loss two friends in car accidents involving drinking and driving, the were two separate incidents. So I rather not think dwell on this is a subject.

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The Batlord

It implies that English people think their terminology matters when it differs from American English.

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Trollheart

Don't you people follow the thread? I already explained: here it is called drink driving because you don't have to be drunk in order to be over the limit and therefore putting yourself and others' lives at risk.

Dug up some statistics.
RSA.ie - Drink Driving in Ireland
Most interesting reading, report 2, seventh point, reproduced here in case you couldn't be bothered.

Almost a quarter of the drivers killed on our roads, where alcohol was present, were under the legal limit when they died.

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Trollheart

Who's posturing? The first thing I said, in the OP, was that I neither drink nor drive. But when I see mangled cars on a roadside on the news, and the cops confirm there was alcohol present, well you join those dots up pal. It's not like it's a hard puzzle, and you saying you know more about it because you can "control your drinking" doesn't mean one day you'll think you can and will have a lapse in concentration or something will happen and you'll hit someone.

You guys and gals who drink and think it's ok to drive, to chance it, will never agree with me, and I'll never agree with you, but in this country anyway, if you do chance it you are breaking the law. It may be different where you are, maybe it's more lax or there is some leeway, and if so then that's another thing, but here: right, let me tell you this. It's legal for a cop to arrest you THE MORNING AFTER as you're driving to work if you fail the breathalyser. You may not be drunk, but you're breaking the law and you can be done in. Bet they don't do that in the land of the free, wot? That may be a little extreme but it shows how seriously we take this (that, or the Gardai are just trying to pad their arrest figures...)

Now, for the last time, the title will NOT be changed. This is NOT about drunk driving (though it can certainly escalate to that) but about driving with drink on you, ergo, drink driving. If you don't like it, suck it.

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Janszoon

Interesting, but if you think about it that statistic might not actually mean anything whatsoever. It would be more significant if the statistic was that the "under the limit" people had more fatalities than the "no alcohol at all" people.

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John Wilkes Booth

the posturing thing was aimed at roxy not you.

Frownland

They're the same thing Trollheart, we just have different terms for it.

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RoxyRollah

I honestly just noticed its called Drink Driving.
My brain just automatically read drunk driving.

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Neapolitan

That's it, The Batlord should henceforth be dethrowned of his 2014 MusicBanter Funniest Member title and it shall be awarded to Ki and ladyislingering.

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