(December 6, 2014 at 6:38 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(December 6, 2014 at 6:09 pm)lifesagift Wrote:
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!
Why don't you just buy a breathalyzer?
A breathalyzer will just measure the alcohol in your breath, not in your blood. If I have a drink and immediately get breathalyzed it will give a high reading, even though very little alcohol has reached my blood.
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Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!
