OT: drinking alcohol and water

[James Wilkinson Sword]

If you've had a few to drink, and you drink a pint of water/juice/whatever, you immediately feel less drunk. So why do all the websites say you don't?

[gfretwell]

All you are is less dehydrated. That may make you feel better but you are still drunk. The alcohol is still in your system and will be until it oxidizes away.

[micky]

And for that matter, I can tell you first-hand that when you throw up, you feel less drunk, but it's not true.

And the bad effects on mental and physical judgment are still there.

You say "less drunk" so that means you were drunk and even you JWS are saying you are only less drunk, not sober.

So driving a car is still just as dangerous as it was, and if you do, if you drive when you know or should know that you've had too much to drink, and you kill someone I consider it akin to murder. There is nothing you can do to undo the harm you've caused, the life you've taken.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Not true at all. If you have enough drinks so you can feel it in your legs, then you have a pint or so of orange juice, you are then able to walk about properly again.

It makes perfect sense, you're diluting the alcohol in your blood with water, so the percentage must be lower.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

If you feel less drunk, then you are less drunk.

No they're not. You can easily tell how in control you are. Drinking water takes you back a step towards sober. It has to, your blood contains alcohol and water. Add water, the % alcohol is then less.

Depends how much water and how much alcohol, but you can make yourself sober (so you can't feel the alcohol in you at all) by drinking enough water. You've diluted it to virtually nothing.

Oh dear, you're one of those.

[gfretwell]

If that is what you believe, go for it but a cop with a breatholizer will argue differently.

[Tekkie®]

micky posted for all of us...

I agree. I hate DWI repeat offenders. They probably have no license, no insurance and no morals. I'm sputtering because I was a victim of one and have treated other victims. That's where a local PD knows the doers by sight.

[Tekkie®]

James Wilkinson Sword posted for all of us...

That is only one field test out of three. The breathalyser come last after you fail the others. Remember only only 1 out of 80 drunk drivers are caught.

[Tekkie®]

[e-mail] posted for all of us...

+1 One should be asked about their problems prior to testing. I'd fail getting out of the car...

[Tekkie®]

Oren posted for all of us...

Cops take the quoted number and add at least 2

[Tekkie®]

trader_4 posted for all of us...

Yeah, just ask the WalMart driver that hit Tracy Morgan.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:10:24 -0000, Tekkie=AE wrote= :

hatever, you immediately feel less drunk. So why do all the websites sa= y you don't?

Driving while drunk is not a guarantee he'll kill someone. Just as carr= ying a gun isn't a guarantee he'll shoot you. You really should stop tr= ying to predict the future....

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[James Wilkinson Sword]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:15:05 -0000, Tekkie=AE wrote= :

the USA used to, walk along a white line.

In the UK, it's the breathalyser first, then a blood test.

Good for them.

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[James Wilkinson Sword]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:21:06 -0000, Tekkie=AE wrote= :

Opposite of fishing.

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[James Wilkinson Sword]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:25:46 -0000, Tekkie=AE wrote= :

Shit happens. Zero tolerance is insane.

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