Drink-drive women on the increase....

[Hitcher]

Why are drunk drivers now called "drink" drivers?

[Guitana]

Why are drunk drivers now called "drink" drivers?

Why it's just another politically correct way of saying drunk.

When you hear the word DRUNK you get a mental image of a pissed mutant chundering in a gutter and laying in a pool of his own piss!!!!

But when you hear the word DRINK you get a lovely image of beautiful people sipping on a chardonnay!!

[Patrick]

Why it's just another politically correct way of saying drunk.

When you hear the word DRUNK you get a mental image of a pissed mutant chundering in a gutter and laying in a pool of his own piss!!!!

But when you hear the word DRINK you get a lovely image of beautiful people sipping on a chardonnay!!

Prosecuted both forms of drivers, all too numerous, sadly... tis truly scary what is really out there folks...!!!

[MisterD]

Why are drunk drivers now called "drink" drivers?

Because you shouldn't drive after drinking, regardless of whether you are yet drunk....do as I say, not as I do

[Hitcher]

Because you shouldn't drive after drinking

After drinking what? Water? A McDonald's strawberry shake?

[MisterD]

After drinking what? Water? A McDonald's strawberry shake?

Come on Hitcher, don't overdo the pedantry. "Drinking" as a linguisitic convention meaning to drink alcohol is probably as old as the art of making booze

[James Deuce]

But that's the point. No one is driving a drink.

The ARE driving drunk however.

[Hitcher]

Come on Hitcher, don't overdo the pedantry. "Drinking" as a linguisitic convention meaning to drink alcohol is probably as old as the art of making booze

"Drinking" is a verb to describe the act of imbibing liquids. "Drink driver" is a sloppy, grammatically incorrect term, probably coined by the same folk that brought you "fishers" and "personnel access hatch". In this context "drink" should not be used as an adjective. What is meant is a driver who is under the affluence of incohol i.e. a "drunk" driver.