Man of Honour
who here has had a pint and then driven somewhere shortly after?
I've done it, but I was younger and dumber.
who here has had a pint and then driven somewhere shortly after?
who here has had a pint and then driven somewhere shortly after?
I think I am going to bite the bullet and buy a proper breathaliser for myself - it's the only way to be sure.
I have a rule, if I am driving = no drink.
Most i ever will drive when pressed to is 1 pint and a meal. However a mate has passed after 5 pints and 2 smirnoff ices + a meal of wetherspoons mixed grill, literally 10mins after leaving the pub, i was a bit drunk and can only blame myself as i'd never get in a car with someone that drank that much usually.
id call shenanigans on that. must have been a pretty large built lad?
who here has had a pint and then driven somewhere shortly after?
whats with the
Small - gets drunk quick
Big/fat/tall w/e doesn't get drunk from the same amount of alcohol? i dont drive but i know i can drink quite bit more than people who are bigger or a lot bigger than me.. dont think the size matters here? if you drink dont drive.. simple..
In the UK there is a widely held belief that a couple of pints will put you over the limit, 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. That same limit exists in America, where your average Joe will say 'err - the limit is probably about 8 or 9 beers'. At first I thought to myself - wow - Americans are stupid. But then I spoke to a doctor, who said that most of the stuff in the press was rubbish. He pointed me to webMD.
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/blood-alcohol?page=2
FYI normal liquor is 40% ABV, 1.5fl oz is about 44ml = 1.77 UK units, so working on that basis you'd have to drink about 8 pints of normal beer in a 3 hour pub session to be over the current limit.
Evidence I have for this probably being correct:
-A doctor told me so
-My former boss (who would never BS) bought an ~ £200 breathaliser said that to blow a .08 he had to be very hammered indeed
-This Tucker Max story (read it just for the hilarity) http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the_famous_sushi_pants_story.phtml#277
-One of my friends got hit by a driver in Hampshire who was apparently so drunk that he couldn't stand up straight and kept dropping his keys, yet the Police told him the next day that by the time he was breathalised at the station he was below the level at which they could prosecute (which I think is 0.088). Not many men are that 'drunk' after a couple of pints
Evidence I have for this probably being optimistic:
-The widely held belief in the UK that the drink drive limit is just over a pint
-Articles like this which say the drink drive limit is currently about 1.5 pints
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article7061168.ece
So who's right? It's very confusing. I think I am going to bite the bullet and buy a proper breathaliser for myself - it's the only way to be sure.
who here has had a pint and then driven somewhere shortly after?
If I drank 8 pints of normal beer, I'd be unable to operate my own legs, never mind a car
Abit of a lightweight?
Thats an average night out for me and my mats