DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
Just pulled the car over to get another pint , and type no 1000 post ...
What about drunk posting is that an offence
What about drunk posting is that an offence
Drinking & Driving
- Thread starter Richard A Thackeray
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No stooooopid, a wooden barrier is offence.
MrJamie
Oaf on a Bike
I don't drive, so unless I happen to get so drunk that I also decide to steal a car I should be okay 
I do sometimes ride my bike after a few beers although I haven't in ages, but that tends to be away from the roads anyway.
As an even more distantly related anecdote, I used to play a driving game so much that I could reliably put in lap after lap easily within a second of eachother, but just 1 beer and youd lose a second or so over a 1min lap, 3 or 4 beers and you'd feel totally in control but lose several seconds and mistakes would be common. I found it interesting that you can feel like normal and think you're behaving as well as normal, but be noticably much less capable.
I do sometimes ride my bike after a few beers although I haven't in ages, but that tends to be away from the roads anyway.As an even more distantly related anecdote, I used to play a driving game so much that I could reliably put in lap after lap easily within a second of eachother, but just 1 beer and youd lose a second or so over a 1min lap, 3 or 4 beers and you'd feel totally in control but lose several seconds and mistakes would be common. I found it interesting that you can feel like normal and think you're behaving as well as normal, but be noticably much less capable.
DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
I thought a wooden barrier was a fence
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Arthur Scargill got away with that for years until the recent court case.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Does that mean that if you've drank enough to turn green, you shouldn't drive...
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Melonfish
Evil Genius in training.
- Location
- Warrington, UK
don't have a driving licence. ~nothing to do here...
must say the ozzies don't pull their punches with these commercials do they? can you imagine that being shown in the uk? there'd be cries to watchdog and offcom and allsorts lol.
must say the ozzies don't pull their punches with these commercials do they? can you imagine that being shown in the uk? there'd be cries to watchdog and offcom and allsorts lol.
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
That's a very effective public information film. Wonder if something as graphic as that would have a similar effect were it shown in the UK?
CopperCyclist
Veteran
Allegedly not... apparently research showed a lot of people, when watching a graphic advert for drink drive thought it was horrific, but couldn't put themselves as the cause of it. That's why they came out with that new advert where the barman goes through all the different characters, showing the effect it has on you - I.e. licence lost, job lost, car sold cheap, marriage in trouble. The theory is that the more personal targeting is more effective. Whether that's true or not, who knows!
What I do think the graphic adverts helped with massively was to help make drink drive socially unacceptable.
Milo
Guru
- Location
- Melksham, Wilts
most frighten them public info ads just end up being a bit silly frankly. Bring back gems like this I say
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
[QUOTE 2224483, member: 1314"]Aaaaand
...see a doctor get rid of it.
...know shinola when you see it.
...don't trust whitey.[/quote]
Jerk!
...see a doctor get rid of it.
...know shinola when you see it.
...don't trust whitey.[/quote]
Jerk!
