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Started by jimmy olsen, October 23, 2012, 10:34:30 AM

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Barrister

#15
October 23, 2012, 11:36:52 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 23, 2012, 11:24:09 AM
Quote from: Barrister on October 23, 2012, 10:51:02 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 23, 2012, 10:46:27 AM
It's a workday, so everybody has just left. :(

Have pounded at least a lieter of water and am sitill hammeredl.

Your body metabolizes alcohol at the same rate, whether you drink water or not.  Drinking water just helps with the hangover.  :console:
Really? No affect at all?
I've heard both that it helps dilute the alcohol and reduce its effectiveness and that it somehow (can't remember the pseudo-science) makes the alcohol work better.

Note: I'm not an alcohol expert, but I've heard them testify in court more times than I care to count, so I think I've learned a thing or two.

No, drinking water (or coffee, or greasy food, or whatever) will not change your elimination rate.  Everyone eliminates alcohol from their body at a fairly constant rate of 10-20 mg alcohol per 100 mL of blood.

Drinking water while drinking alcohol may slow the absorption of alcohol into the blood stream.  I know that food in your stomach definitely has that effect, not so sure about water.  And more practically, if you're drinking water in between alcoholic drinks you're probably drinking less total alcohol anyways.

Think of your body as a bucket that has a small hole in the bottom.  As soon as you add liquid to the bucket it starts to leak out at a slow but steady pace.  Then, as you add more and more luquid to the bucket it contains more and more, and takes longer and longer for the liquid to drain out.

Water doesn't "make alcohol work better".  Alcohol is a molecule that has a number of specific affects on the body.

There are a variety of other substances which, if taken together with alcohol, will magnify the effects.  You don't want to do that.
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Habbaku

#16
October 23, 2012, 02:41:32 PM
:cheers:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

jimmy olsen

#17
October 23, 2012, 07:15:11 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 23, 2012, 11:28:04 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 23, 2012, 10:34:30 AM
So fucking drunk!

Goodbye cancer, hello cirrhosis.
I haven't got that drunk in 2 years. It's not a common occurrence.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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katmai

#18
October 23, 2012, 07:17:52 PM
Try it more, maybe your spelling will improve.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Razgovory

#19
October 23, 2012, 07:44:28 PM
 :lol:
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#20
October 23, 2012, 07:52:16 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 23, 2012, 07:17:52 PM
Try it more, maybe your spelling will improve.

He could try using a browser that lets you know when you type something that isn't a word.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#22
October 24, 2012, 12:58:31 AM
 :cheers:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Tamas

#23
October 24, 2012, 02:10:19 AM
:cheers:

Pedrito

#24
October 24, 2012, 04:50:01 AM
:cheers:

L.
b / h = h / b+h


27 Zoupa Points, redeemable at the nearest liquor store! :woot:

jimmy olsen

#25
October 24, 2012, 05:46:54 AM
Thanks everybody! :blush:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

KRonn

#26
October 24, 2012, 02:22:46 PM
Congrats Tim!  Glad to hear that's going well.  :)
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