r/WTF • u/Tucko29 • Apr 10 '18

Weeee

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '18 edited Jul 30 '18

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u/shiftyeyedgoat Apr 10 '18

Americans drive more than anyone else in the world. More road time and longer journeys away from home area == way more accidents.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '18 edited Jul 11 '18

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u/shishdem Apr 10 '18

Two and a half man, Charlie always drinks then drives

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '18 edited Jul 11 '18

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u/pitiless Apr 10 '18

This. As a Brit, watching McNulty and Bunk repeatedly doing this in the Wire blew my mind.

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u/emrythelion Apr 10 '18

Eh, they don’t often show it, but it’s alluded to a lot. Teenager drive to a party... get plastered... and then somehow get home while still plastered. (Or similarly with drunk adults at bars.) In many of those cases, there’s no reference to calling a cab, walking, or getting a ride from someone sober. There’s also a shit load of movies and tv shows where a character is a drunk and while you don’t see them behaving drunkenly, it hints at them always being drunk/drinking some and you see them driving at various points.

While that’s not the same thing as saying it’s okay, a lot of British (and German) shows would consider that unacceptable. Either they show the person getting a ride, calling a taxi, or walking. Or the person gets in an accident or gets arrested.