Nutty, thanks for the cites! It's interesting and depressing. The 31% of teens who got into a car with someone who drank in the previous 30 days seems low low low to me.
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Kat - Dec 03, 2003 10:29:17 am PST #33 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Vortex - Dec 03, 2003 10:32:56 am PST #34 of 10002
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And 31% had been in a car where the driver had been drinking within the 30 days prior to the survey. 31%!!
well, if the driver was drinking 30 days ago, wouldn't it be safe now? (cause that's how I originally read the sentence)
Kat - Dec 03, 2003 10:34:19 am PST #35 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
well, if the driver was drinking 30 days ago, wouldn't it be safe now? (cause that's how I originally read the sentence)
how I read it too.
Kat - Dec 03, 2003 10:34:21 am PST #36 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nutty - Dec 03, 2003 10:46:51 am PST #37 of 10002
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Right, I didn't phrase it properly.
The 31% (32% m, 29% f) was have you done this in the past 30 days, and they didn't have a statistic for have you done this in the last year, or ever, because then the statistics would skyrocket. They did say it was down from 35% overall in the 1997 report.
Also, bike helmet wearing is up (to like 18%) and motorcycle helmet wearing is holding steady somewhere close to 80%.
In my heart, I think I am a statistics nerd.
Kat - Dec 03, 2003 10:55:43 am PST #38 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Again, 31% seems kind of low to me still. Dude, among my adult friends, at least 2 (though probably more) have gotten into a car with someone driving who has been drinking. And that is in this past year alone -- people who know better.
Changed it to read less like a statistic more like the truth.
Micole - Dec 03, 2003 10:59:01 am PST #39 of 10002
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meara - Dec 03, 2003 11:03:53 am PST #40 of 10002
Dude, among my adult friends, at least 2 (though probably more) have gotten into a car with someone driving who has been drinking.
Well, by "someone who has been drinking" do you mean someone who is impaired? Or a friend who I've been with for four hours and who had one drink during that time? Cause I'll drive when I've had one drink. Sometimes when I've had two, if it's been over a fair amount of time/with food.
Fred Pete - Dec 03, 2003 11:05:28 am PST #41 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Someone mentioned the Palliser books, proving the Buffista Hivemind Is One. I finished Can You Forgive Her? this morning.
I think that was me. Most of Trollope's people come across as very nice people. Even the cads.
Then there's The Way We Live Now, where even most of the people who are trying to do the right thing have their caddish streaks. Although the Masterpiece Theatre production did a good job of expanding to show some things Trollope could reasonably have expected his characters to do, but would never have gotten away with talking about.
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2003 11:06:05 am PST #42 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Please tell me Trollope stops trying to write about The Perfect Man. He is much better writing about people he doesn't approve of.
He says in one of his essays that Glencora is the perfect lady. Low standards much? (He also says that Planty Pall is the perfect gentleman, which I suppose he is by prevailing local standards.)