Alcohol in blood / drunkeness

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Or you're chinese, which is hilarious when you get a table full of them trying to drink 2 Yorkshiremen under the table

Even better where you attend a serious formal Chinese reception. They have a toast of gambay. Where they expect the gweilo to empty their glass and they sip from theirs.

After a while we realised our hosts were not drinking. So at the next shout we put empty glasses upside down on our heads. They had to follow suit. So if they did not drink, they got wet.

Got told off next day as our hosts thought we had insulted them by forcing them to empty glasses of alcohol over their heads. But then again, I cannot blame the Chinese for not drinking. My own theory is Maotai is distilled from dead bodies.

This is a very interesting question. I don't have any scientific answers, but my own experience is that it takes rapid consumption of alcohol to make me 'feel drunk', and drinking for hours at the weekend doesn't make me feel drunk, and doesn't give me any observable physical difficulties. What I read would suggest that alcohol leaves the body at a fixed rate which is much slower than the rate at which even slow drinking would add it, and so by that measure by 9PM after starting at lunch I should be rat-faced, but I don't feel anything at all.

If on the other hand I neck a pint in a hurry I immeadiatley feel drunk.

Blood alcohol for legal purposes is the crime, it doesn't matter if you personally were capable of threading a needle with a space shuttle while solving soduku - you're not allowed to have more than a set amount of blood alcohol, but being drunk is a different matter.

I know people who go do lally with the first sip and remain cretins all night, and I know people more like me who seem unaffected.

I never drink if I'm driving, and hence never bother going out because Taxi's cost ludicrous amounts of money and if a drunkard stands near you in the queue they drive off and you have to walk.

But I often wonder when I see wibbly idiots weaving about on the road; how much blood-alcohol I would need to be as dangerous as the average sober driver?

[timwilky]

if you get drunk easily. You are perfect company for DavePreston. He has the drinking capacity of a slug. I suggest a night out with him. Home for 8 o'clock in time for horlicks.

I tend to feel drunk after I have had about 2 strong beers and half an hour has passed. We get this a lot in work with drink briefs.

it takes 1 hour to process 1 unit of alcohol. So roughly 10 pints is 15 units at 1.5 units a pint so 15 hours to be back to a normal level. It all depends on your chemical reactivity to the alcohol as some people dont get affected by it as much as others

I feel fine to drive after a magners but wouldnt drive after 2 as I know I am over the limit but probably just as good as if not drinking