I just don’t understand drinking and driving

@BillRM,

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Oh yes if Thom had not been drinking at least he would not had been hung for the cyclist death but to me the odds are very good that the cyclist would had still been kill that night.

WT? You have a crystal ball do you...

Given, that Thom is known to have spent several nights at that bar, drinking and then driving for 2 years and "confirmed", thanks BeachBoy that he also had a DUI a year ago... If that is not enough "risk taking" or "warning" of what may happen, what may be to come, I don't know what is.

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@FOUND SOUL,

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Thom had his first DUI just a year ago, this is his second now.

FOUND SOUL wrote:

Thanks BeachBoy, I was sure that I had read it somewhere,
that it was Thom, appreciate you clearing that up.

That is not the same as killing an additional guy.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I always find a good approach to take with Dave is 'I'm sorry I can't be arsed.' He usually chalks it up to tacit acceptance of his hedonistic lifestyle, and goes down the shooting range to go blasting. He seems happy, although on reflection, that last sentence does seem full of homosexual innuendo.

Izzy, I am at a loss to understand
anything that u wrote in this post.

Will u explain it, please ?

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

maybe you should axe him to spell it phonetically for you, dave...

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@Rockhead,

As long as I understand it . . .

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@OmSigDAVID,

I speak both octogenarian and jive, if you decide you need an interpreter...

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@OmSigDAVID,

Yes, I am intelligent enough to understand that, and I believe that I have also answered you with regards to where I thought that he had in-fact done so...

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@Rockhead,

Rockhead wrote:

I speak both octogenarian and jive, if you decide you need an interpreter...

OK, thank u.
There are 3 sentences there.
Explain the first and the last ?

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

does this help?

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be arsed Slang to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/arsed

Maybe "bothered" is closer

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=arsed

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@hawkeye10,

hawkeye10 wrote:

does this help?

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be arsed Slang to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/arsed

Maybe "bothered" is closer

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=arsed

Thank u, Hawkeye,
but I did not remember Izzy ever having been that impolite.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

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but I did not remember Izzy ever having been that impolite

WOW! He is one of the rudest SOB's on here, how did that escape your notice?

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@hawkeye10,

That was not my experience.

David

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@hawkeye10,

I'm only rude to people who deserve it. People who view other people as expendable commodities, that use the term riff-raff to describe people they don't know. People who argue for the decriminalisation of child pornography, and lowering of the age of consent so they can abuse 12 year olds.

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@OmSigDAVID,

I didn't think you'd be upset by 'arsed,' it's more a reflection of me being able to talk to you/about you in a relaxed manner. I wasn't trying to shock.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I didn't think you'd be upset by 'arsed,'
it's more a reflection of me being able to talk to you/about you
in a relaxed manner. I wasn't trying to shock.

So far as I recall, u have always been perfectly willing to explain your meaning,
when asked; u never refused, that I remember.

U asserted that I'd made a homosexual comment
of some kind???? I am not aware of that! ?

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@FOUND SOUL,

My crystal ball is years of cycling many thousands of miles after dark and knowing that any bike that is not lit up can not be seen until you are on top of it and if you are in a car traveling at normal speeds even for local roads/streets there is little time to react to the present of such a dark bike.

I had cycle those years in one of the worst city in the US as far as it record for cyclists fatalities.

You could in fact not pay me enough to be on a road after dark without being lit up very brightly with two LEDS flashers and a strobe light on the back of the bike and yet the majority of other night cyclists I had come across are not lit up in any manner.

Even from another bike you can not see them beyond a very short distance indeed.

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@OmSigDAVID,

No, I asserted that my preceding sentence could be described as being full of homosexual innuendo, if someone was looking for that sort of thing. I only noticed it myself once I'd written it, so in the interests of levity I thought I'd point it out before someone else did.

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@BillRM,

Like everything in life. Our life experience does NOT mirror reality of someone elses life nor does it be an example of simuar situations as being a fact to all in a simular situation.

You are, using " my situation" and making that a fact to all situations of simular manners which is not correct.

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@FOUND SOUL,

I am using my knowledge of how invisible a bike is after dark if it not lit up and how very dangerous it is to cycle after dark when road traffic can not see you until they are on top of you.

Those facts I know because of my personal experiences as a long distance day and night cyclist however those are conditions relating to the very nature of cycling and is the same for anyone anywhere in the world who cycle where they share the roadways with motor traffic.

A non-lit bike at night is an accident waiting to happen.

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@BillRM,

Dave may quite rightly point out I'm making assumptions, but you twist everything to put the drunk driver in the best possible light. Let's just look at the ridiculous assertions you've made.

1) The bike had no lights.
2) A sober driver would have had the same accident.
3) The drnk driver was probably just over the limit.
4) The driver had no mobile phone on him.
5) The driver raced home to call the authorities as soon as possible.
6) All of the driver's actions were motivated by his concern for the cyclist.

You really have problems dealing with reality.

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