Ontario gets just a little more big brother

[OzzyKP]

I have family in Guelph. :wave:

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by rah
I dissagree. I can stop for a beer on the way home. One beer doesn't impair my driving skills.

[Asher]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
I have family in Guelph. :wave:

The only people who live there are hippies or vet school students, who are hippies.

[OzzyKP]

My family are rein fair geeks. Get it right.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Maybe he's Johnny Fever.

But seriously, you feel 1 bottle (10 oz) of 5% alcohol makes a grown person reasonably larger than a midget impaired?

May I ask, do you drive?

If you do, do you ever use cold medication within an hour or two of operating a motor vehicle?

[KrazyHorse]

Bottles of beer are 10 oz where you live?

I always knew Albertans were pussies...

[notyoueither]

12?

Been a while since I bought anything in ounces.

I recall 10 being pretty standard.

[Boris Godunov]

I thought most bottles were 14 oz?

[KrazyHorse]

OMFG.

12 oz. 12, mother****ers. 355 ml.

[Boris Godunov]

I only drink beer on tap, so don't blame me for not knowing.

[notyoueither]

Maybe it was 15.

[KrazyHorse]

I only drink beer on tap, so don't blame me for not knowing.

Those, by the way, should be 16 oz (a true American pint)

A Brit pint is 20 oz

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

I only drink beer on tap, so don't blame me for not knowing.

Those, by the way, should be 16 oz (a true American pint)

A Brit pint is 20 oz

Most American bars serve 14 oz in the 16 oz glasses. They don't fill it to the brim. But even more perniciously, many bars have begun to use "cheater" pint glasses that are only 14 oz, so in reality the customer is getting 12 oz of beer.

One bar near where I live has made a big point of throwing out all their cheater pint glasses and selling true 16 oz pint beers (slopping over the sides and all).

[KrazyHorse]

God love the Brits. They have a line on the glasses. And woe to the barkeep who cheats.

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Asher


The drinking age in the Ideal Province of Alberta is 18.

I drank at 18. I've never, ever, driven drunk. Not even a little bit. Some people call me overly paranoid, but even after 1 beer I don't drive. I don't handle the liquor as well as most people, I'm a lightweight like that.

We also didn't have graduated licensing back then...when you turned 16 you were free as a bird.

Many people do drink and drive. As a matter of fact, one fella drove home (about 30km) today after about 8 beers. We all tried to stop him from doing it, but to no avail.

I'm all for zero tolerance. From experience I realise that driving while drinking the slightest bit makes me more (over)confident etc. And letting teenagers drive when they're 16 is insane imo. But okay roads in North-America are bigger, and everyone has auomatic transmission, but still. I'd never allow my 16 year old son/daughter drive in the narrow Belgian roads.