• cRazi_man@europe.pub
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    11 days ago

    It’s fine to hate popular things, but don’t ruin other people’s fun.

    Also: don’t drunk drive.

      • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
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        11 days ago

        I think this is more for the random person that attacks people for being fans of things eg adults attacking adults because they like Legos

        • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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          11 days ago

          I used to be the kind of person who hated anything popular. And in Texas country music has always been popular. So I mercilessly mocked anyone who enjoyed it. “So is your cousin any good in bed?” “What has 103 fingers and 32 teeth? The front row at a Garth Brooks concert.” I have dozens of jokes about being stupid, inbred, toothless, smoking cigarettes, going to Walmart, and other stereotypical things associated with being a country music fan.

          I’m still not a fan but sometime in the last 10-12 years or so I stopped giving a shit what anyone else liked. If it’s not for me but it’s not hurting anyone I just don’t care if someone likes country or pop, movies with popular actors, wants to dress in a way I see as weird, likes food that I don’t enjoy, or whatever.

          I wish I could go back and change it because I know I made some people feel bad for enjoying what they like.

          Edit: fixed a word.

  • Nangijala@feddit.dk
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    11 days ago

    This is so true. For example, Werner Herzog hates the French language, despite speaking it fluently. He once had to regrettably speak French when he was held at gun point by drunk child soldiers in Africa.

    Pretty uninteresting guy, I’d say.

    • t_berium@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      I hope this is sarcasm. Herzog is a fascinating guy, even if you don’t watch his movies or read his works. Just watch any interview with him and you might be surprised how interesting his views on things are.

  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Edit: tangent point the above image in the post reminded me of.

    For every person who thinks they’re interesting for hating a popular thing, there’s ten who will be like OMG YOU THINK YOURE SO SPECIAL AND BETTER THAN EVERYONE when you casually mention you don’t particularly care for a popular thing.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    11 days ago

    in my experience, culturally, drinking one (1) 4.8% ABV 33ml can of beer in Europe is drunk driving

    Drinking two (2) 6.2% ABV fl oz (946ml total) glasses of beer and smoking weed in the USA is not drunk driving.

    Not defending it, just saying that it was eye opening how many people in the US get behind the wheel after drinking what they consider a small amount of alcohol

      • teuniac_@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        But that’s okay. Accidents are just that, unavoidable and random. There’s absolutely nothing else that can be done, so we might as well shrug and accept our fate. When a poor kid gets flattened by an SUV, the only reasonable response is to sigh, feel sad for a moment, and then move on. After all, questioning the design of our roads or the size of our vehicles would be an affront to the gods of chance and the sacred right to drive anywhere, anytime.

        Europeans might obsess over safety, but we know better: the universe writes its own traffic plan, and sometimes the ink is a little redder than we’d like…

        • bob_lemon@feddit.org
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          10 days ago

          When a poor kid gets flattened by an SUV, the only reasonable response is to sigh, feel sad for a moment, and then move on.

          Not true. You could also call into question why the kid was outside in the vicinity of motor vehicles! Surely the parents can be blamed as well.

    • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Probably also doesn’t hurt that the US is generally far more reliant on driving to get anywhere. There’s a higher tolerance for doing it dangerously since there’s no alternative

      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 days ago

        I used to live way outside of town and there weren’t any night buses on weekdays, so I got a moped at 15. I just didn’t drink at all when I hung out with friends on weekdays, even when I turned 16 and it became legal, because I had to drive. It wasn’t hard to do and nobody batted an eye. So, the alternative is not drinking. Having no alternative transport is a poor excuse for drunk driving.

    • teslasaur@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Yeah. You’re not gonna find many Swedes getting behind the wheel regardless of alcohol amount. There used to be a HARD stigma against it, since we know what happens. People used to get so drunk that we had to create a state monopoly of alcohol sales, in an attempt to reduce it. People argue about the actual effect, but i know that it’s cultural suicide to get behind the wheel drunk. The legal limit is 0,2 ppm alcohol.

      The Danes however… They could drink 3 halfliter lagers before reaching the legal limit of 0,8

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 days ago

        we’ve even recently had a controversy where people had some blood tests done (or something like that) showing elevated levels of pETH or whatever it’s called, and this made them lose their license.

        really wish we’d just mandate beathalyzer locks in all cars instead

    • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Legally speaking in the USA anything after the first is driving while intoxicated/under the influence (different states use DWI or DUI).

      Working in the booze biz you are sadly correct though. I had a wine rep a few years back offer to pay for my parking in NYC if I went to a tasting. I told him I was taking the train and he was surprised. He shouldn’t be.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 days ago

        driving while intoxicated/under the influence (different states use DWI or DUI).

        I thought it was a matter of severity, with DUI being over the limit but not obviously impaired and DWI driving while there’s no doubt that you’re drunk, leading to more severe punishment?

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          There’s actually been a trend of shifting the language to “owi” or “operating while intoxicated” since the law is the same whether you’re operating a car, a bike, a boat or a dump truck

    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
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      11 days ago

      In NL you are allowed to have 0,05% of alcohol in your blood, which is about 2 Dutch classes. We often server 0.2L glasses these days, it sucks …

      https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/verkeersveiligheid/vraag-en-antwoord/mag-ik-met-alcohol-op-deelnemen-aan-het-verkeer

      And waith you can have almost of litre of beer in your blood and it is still not drunk driving? Yeeeez, especially considering the US is a shit place to walk or bike. No wonder why there are so many drunk driving accidents

      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 days ago

        I think that makes sense too. Sure a drunk cyclist is less of a problem than a drunk motor vehicle operator.

        But as the third party you still don’t want 100 kg (200 pounds) of dude and aluminium frame running into you at 20 km/h (12.4 mph), especially if you are a pedestrian, a second cyclist, or a biker.

        • teuniac_@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          Absolutely. A cycle can kill someone if they are unfortunately. But a car can kill dozens of people at the same time.

          In terms of policy and policing it makes sense to look at outcomes. Heavily policing drunk cycling would result in more drunk driving, which would end up killing more people. So however much drunk cycling is policed, drunk driving should be policed significantly more.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          8 days ago

          i always feel that a distinction needs to be made between people effectively walking on the bike and people who go fast, same as how walking down a corridor is obviously fine but running (or god forbid sprinting) isn’t allowed because it can genuinely harm people.