(December 5, 2014 at 8:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 5, 2014 at 6:31 pm)lifesagift Wrote: For those in the Uk, what do people think?
Changing the limit from 80 ming baums per 100 fillymags of blood to 50 means absolutely nothing.
People don't know what the limit is scientifically, but it's up to that little machine, so changing the level means nothing.
Just say "if you go to the pub, don't drink alcohol".. I manage to do it !!!
Actually, it will make a difference. Previously, if the cops tested you at 79, they had to let you go. Now they can get you off the road, hopefully before you kill someone.
Boru
Yeah thanks again for stating the obvious.
Point I'm trying to make is the units used....
As a drinker, I know three things:
The number of pints I've had, the strength of that drink, and the resulting number of alcoholic units I've consumed.
Yet the police measure none of those, they measure the number of milligrams of alcohol in my blood.
So, I have no access to my blood, nor a device to check my breath or blood.
So I have no correlation between the amount I drink and the no. of milligrams of alcohol I put into my blood. Plus, it varies wildly depending on when I drank the drink, how big I am etc etc.
So changing it from 80 to 50 way well be a good thing overall, but it really is the wrong message because it still says "you can still drink a bit and drive, but not as much as before"!!
absolute nonsense in my book!
PS if you're about to post a reply and your response is going to be negative, improper, average, odd, obtuse, irrational, an argument, might change the focus, going off at a tangent or just mean ... go and find a maths forum to post on instead, they'll love you !!
