Enjoy your summer pint, but...

Enjoy your summer pint, but...

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Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

169 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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You just sign up and post this?

It doesn't read 'right', it reads like the typical attention seeking made up dribble of troll or attention we or some nutter anti-drink campaigner.

If that offends you, add it to the list of things that are st about your life.

FoundOnRoadside

436 posts

143 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Veloce2012 said:
Nothing spectacular - a new(ish) MX-5.
Just as well it wasn't a 335d(mapped). The world would have exploded if you'd crashed THAT...

LuS1fer

41,069 posts

244 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Good post but I can't help thinking there must have been far more wrong with your marriage if a drink-drive was enough to destroy it. I understand no job, no car and debt doesn't help but it is supposed to be "for better or worse".

Similarly, while your parents may condemn it, dissociating themselves entirely does have a hint of there being something more to your own behaviour before this that contributed such as a drink problem. However, I am merely speculating.

You are right, however, that drink driving is an evil that you cannot always control in drink so the keys and car need to be left out of sight and out of mind as it is usually sober people who suffer the consequences and props to you for admitting that.

B'stard Child

28,284 posts

245 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Jamesp24 said:
sorry to hear but im sure you will be able to get back to where you were,i have a mate who got banned for 18months he certainly learnt his lesson.
I've got a work colleague who has been done three times - each time the ban gets longer........ Still in the same job - He'll never learn

Cyder

7,043 posts

219 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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FoundOnRoadside said:
Veloce2012 said:
Nothing spectacular - a new(ish) MX-5.
Just as well it wasn't a 335d(mapped). The world would have exploded if you'd crashed THAT...
The world will definitely explode if these ste old jokes keep getting trotted out instead of leaving them to die. I'm pretty sure it wasn't funny in 2007 and it certainly isn't now.

Veloce2012

Original Poster:

8 posts

143 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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MX7 said:
Veloce2012 said:
My parents didn't want to know me
Really?

Although it reads a bit like a government backed drink awareness campaign, good luck with sorting you stuff out.
They were furious, and they're still highly annoyed, but will always be my parents.

The wife didn't leave me because of it directly, but all the stress and money issues that ensued all took their toll.

motco

15,908 posts

245 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Assuming you were drinking 'normal' strength beer (c.4%) and the ensuing few hours were three or more, you must have been marginally over the limit only, surely. On the basis that one unit gets metabolised per hour, roughly, those three pints would represent about seven units. After three hours they would be down to four units or less than two pints. The pint 4.5h earlier wouldn't figure more than very marginally.

CampDavid

9,145 posts

197 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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I'm taking a punt that this is part of a drink driving campagne

Not buying

Nicholas Blair

4,096 posts

283 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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fatboy69 said:
Man enough to admit to your mistake which is a rarity in this day & age.
Lesson learned I reckon.

Hitch78

6,097 posts

193 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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This good looking wife...do you still have a number?

squeezebm

2,319 posts

204 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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To be fair I would have to be pissed to get into an mx-5 too.

Op you have my sympathies

FoundOnRoadside

436 posts

143 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Cyder said:
The world will definitely explode if these ste old jokes keep getting trotted out instead of leaving them to die. I'm pretty sure it wasn't funny in 2007 and it certainly isn't now.
Sorry. I'll go flail myself with a thorn bush.

RemyMartin

6,759 posts

204 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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I'm part of the other side of the system, the law...

Breathalysed many folks....have to say, you won't get any sympathy from me, you're an adult and no amount of goading should make you do something so inherently wrong. This isn't like speeding where we've all done it, I've never even thought about driving.

As someone else put it boo fking hoo.

LuS1fer

41,069 posts

244 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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CampDavid said:
I'm taking a punt that this is part of a drink driving champagne

Not buying
Go on, it's your round....

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

264 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Hang on. Wife and an MX5?

frosted

3,549 posts

176 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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doogz said:
Given you've only ever read one post he's made on an internet forum, you seem to know a lot about him.

He had the house, he had the car, he had the woman. he lost them all. Whatever the reason for that, it doesn't change that he had them, now he doesn't.

You're entitled to your opinion, but you don't need to be an arse about it.
You wanna calm your st . Its a bit daft loosing everything because of drink drive ban

aka_kerrly

12,415 posts

209 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Chris71 said:
Sage advice.

Don't forget the morning after a big session too. For that matter the afternoon afterwards....
1 in 5 drivers convicted of being over the limit are caught the next day!

If the "average" person can process 1 unit of alcohol per hour and it takes barely 3-4units for an "average" person to be over the limit you can see how easily done it is.

As for those arguing that he couldn't have lost everything, I find it very easy to see how a losing one's licence can lead to a multitude of problems with work, family & friends.

The stigma attached to drink driving today is almost on par with massacring a bunch of school kids, certainly a long way away from the "old days" of having a few and it only being a short drive so it was acceptable and unlucky if you were caught- anyone who lives in the countryside will know!

OP - Well done for the thought provoking read.

Veloce2012

Original Poster:

8 posts

143 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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CampDavid said:
I'm taking a punt that this is part of a drink driving campagne

Not buying
Certainly not. I was just thinking the other day about how everyone worries about how long the ban woul be (I did) without realising how much else can happen too.

A911DOM

4,084 posts

234 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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Leptons said:
If your wife left you for DD...!
I never touched her guv... wink

Its a pretty rough outcome from the sounds of things - But, as others perhaps are intimating, you really find out who your true friends / alliances are at the worst times!

Good luck getting back to a better situation!

Dom D

Veloce2012

Original Poster:

8 posts

143 months

Thursday 26th April 2012
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RemyMartin said:
...have to say, you won't get any sympathy from me.

As someone else put it boo fking hoo.
I wasn't asking for anyone, just hoping someone else would think twice. Must be great to have a fast track to Sainthood.