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I did the same almost, bought weird new energy drinks, was about to drink one at work, looked at the can better, 5,5% alcohol. Whoops.
Drank it on the drive home instead, naturally
Why the fuck are you drinking alcohol and driving?
Insane that you're getting downvoted for this. I feel like alcohol abuse is so normalised in a lot of places. This really shouldn't be a controversial comment.
I think the crucial part here is he's not saying he's drunk-driving. He's saying he's having his first drink while driving.
That's an essential time saver for a lot of people, getting to start that buzz 20-30 minutes earlier so as you can still get a little drunk in the few hours of free time you have before having to go to bed to start it all over again.
Is it healthy? Nah.
But will opening your first drink on the home significantly impair you? Nah.
Although there is an exception to this, which is young people driving after a single drink. Because if you're not just a nihilistic person killing your feelings with alcohol, then the first one hitting you can make you overconfident, and then drive recklessly for 'fun' (despite not yet being actually impaired) and that's when traffic accidents happen.
Idk what the law is where you live, but there's no "open containers" shit here, you could downright have vodka if you're driving — but you can not exceed 0.05% BAC. Americans do weird "field sobriety tests" which seems like utter sitcom shit to everyone in the rest of the world where we actually use breathalysers. Finnish cops will even give you a bit of leeway if it's just on the edge, because they want to see if it's going down or up. So if you blow real close to the limit, they'll have you wait for 5-10 min and blow again, and if it's over, then you're taken for blood tests / a more accurate breathalyser. (A properly calibrated really accurate one, the cops just rock like nice high tier handheld ones.)
I mean the cops would definitely comment if you were having a beer while driving, but if I told them it's the first and the breathalyser corroborated it, they could only chastise me a little bit and not fine me or anything.
The point is I'm not saying drinking any alcohol while driving is good, but having literally one drink for someone who's not in their 20's anymore is nothing to panic about.
sorry but that's a terrible rationalization, pound a couple shots as soon as you get home if you wanna immediately get drunk in your free time.
If god didn't want us to drink and drive then why'd he invent those nifty beer can hats?
And this
Holy fuck, they really exist: https://thetikit.com/
yeah i got one of those and my wife got really mad at me. i mostly just drove 5 blocks to work in a 30mph residential road. if i got on the highway, i'd take it out and put the belt on
I don't understand why you'd put the burden of that extra step on yourself rather than just wearing your seatbelt
its not an extra step. 9/10 trips were short trips in a neighborhood, and saved the step of putting on the seatbelt. 1/10 trips on highway with an additional step. saved me 9/10 steps.
But putting on your seatbelt should be just as automatic as using your blinkers... right?
...right?
It’s a simple explanation, really, they’re fucking daft.
My friends complain about the seatbelt alarm going off because they don't wear their seatbelt. Instead of wearing their seatbelt they defeated the safety mechanism, problem solved!
Allow me to try to change your mind.
Accidents are by definition unpredictable. If you try to pick and choose when to prepare, you are just increasing your risk in order to feel smart or brave or in control.
If you want to make safety a priority, and you should when it comes to the most dangerous thing you do every day, then it doesn’t take much thought to get to the realization that you have to do it every time.
It’s kind of like how I never get caught with my car windows open during a rain storm. It’s not because I roll them up when there’s rain in the forecast, it’s because I roll them up every time I turn off the car.
Most importantly, regarding your desire to have fewer steps to do, you have to think of it in terms of cognitive load rather than physical movement. Putting on my seatbelt is just automatic pre-drive muscle memory that adds virtually no time and does NOT require me to think about and decide whether to wear my belt. Likewise, there is no mental check list to verify that I’m wearing my belt because my body is used to the feel of it. If the belt isn’t on, it feels like i’m not all the way seated into the car yet.
In addition to the wisdom of 100% belt use for other reasons, a crash on a 30mph road can and will fuck you up. The only time I’ve had a broken bone repaired with a metal plate was after some dickhead ran into me in a low speed collision like that on a side road. The bruised sternum from the seat belt fucking sucked for a few weeks, but I bet having a steering wheel ram my own broken arm into my rib cage would have been worse.
there's no need to change my mind. there's a reason i stated everything in past tense. this was several years ago.
Ah, nice.
I wrote that comment while trying to ignore crazy family members at a gathering, so apologies for not picking up the subtleties, lol.
Hopefully somebody will still read it and think to improve their habits!
Don't even have to stop driving to top up. I couldn't find a picture for the one I've seen with bait, liquor, and ammo sold in the drivethru.
Been to the Myers a few times, nice place, haven't used the drive through though.
These were also a thing in Australia about 15 years ago.
they are still very much a thing in Australia, but we also have open container laws in vehicles. Don’t drink and drive fuckwits (not talking about you op)
I had already opedened it, what else was I supposed to do, pour it out?? How wasteful smdh fr
Put it in your cupholder and drink it at home??
Don't be ridiculous, it would have gone flat by then. Yuck!
If they get past a 0.07 with 1 white claw, I envy their lack of tolerance induced financial burdens and I hope they have a great time where nobody gets hurt but I also hope they know their limit and never drink and drive because we all share the road and a drunk driver probably won't end up killing the person who doesn't understand that the left lane is for crime that really ruins the buzz on my drive home.
They have those weed waters now too. I love them but wouldn't want someone to get that by mistake
Was it the Monster Beast Unleashed?