All other things being equal, does a short person's blood alcohol level reach 0.05 faster than a tall person (because they have less blood and/or a smaller liver)?
posted by dontjumplarry
on May 6, 2013 -
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I'm interested in the origin and propagation of this particular trope: Extremely drunk driver, with bottle of booze in the car, gets in a crash, possibly killing someone, with plenty of witnesses. The driver, either on his own initiative or after calling someone (perhaps a lawyer) for advice, gets out of the car and starts publicly drinking great volumes from the bottle.
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posted by 256
on Mar 13, 2013 -
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I'm looking for visual representations or imagery that can be used as an analogy/representation of how drinking (too much) alcohol clouds one's judgment. (explanation inside)
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 24, 2013 -
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Someone had sex with me even though I said "no" multiple times, but I was drunk and my memories of the event are completely foggy, especially the moment of penetration. This happened several months ago and I have been completely ignoring it, but in the past few days told my partner and now feel completely confused. What do I call this? Is this rape or a confused moment that turned nonconsensual by accident? Especially confused about how to interact and think about the other person involved.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 2, 2013 -
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Is there a tactful way to tell a friend that they are not pleasant to be around when they drink too much, an occurrence that happens every time we see them?
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 20, 2012 -
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I have a neighbor on my block that seems to be an alcoholic. Every couple of weeks, I see him driving slowly down the block, pull into his drive way and drunkenly stumble up the stairs in the middle of the day. I don't care if he drinks all day long, but I am concerned that he drives drunk. There are lots of small children that live on our street, including mine and I don't want a drunk driving around. So far, I've only seen him coming him drunk and at that point it's too late to call the cops. I don't know him personally, so confronting him does not seem like a good idea. What can I do, short of a staking him out at the bar? I'd rather not entertain the idea of car vandalism.
posted by LemonOrange
on Oct 13, 2011 -
32 answers
I'm looking for references - fictional and non-fictional - where someone becomes more psychic when drunk. Not high. Not drugged. Drunk.
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posted by rileyray3000
on Jul 5, 2011 -
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Does anyone know the origin of the latin word "ebrius" which roughly translates into "inebriated" in English?
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posted by fantasticninety
on Mar 28, 2011 -
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Over the past two years or so, my mother has undergone a complete, total and sweeping personality shift. She's gone from June Clever to Lizzie Borden. Can I get my real mom back?
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posted by Avenger
on Feb 9, 2011 -
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Where can I read about the philosophies of spiritual or ritualisted drinking and drunkenness?
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posted by curious nu
on Jan 10, 2011 -
6 answers
What's the science underlying increasingly severe "blood alcohol" laws, particularly with regard to "good" drivers?
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posted by philip-random
on Nov 15, 2010 -
17 answers
Tell me about all the bowling alleys and places to shoot pool in Chicago, both good and bad. If they have a pool table or a bowling lane, I want to know about it.
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posted by Juliet Banana
on Aug 16, 2010 -
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I have lived for half a century and packed in a century or more of life. And I need an interviewer. I need someone near me who will ask the right questions and get the story out of me.
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posted by Splunge
on Apr 22, 2010 -
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A few years back, my friend Russell (mid-twenties, American, white, male) was in Scotland, at a bus stop. It was late at night, he'd been drinking, and some guy (mid-twenties, British, white, male) came up and angrily asked him "Are you of Scottish descent?" Russell raised his hands and eyebrows in a confused "Whoa, no idea what you're on about" gesture and said, "Buddy, you got the wrong guy." The man then punched Russell in the face.
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posted by Greg Nog
on Mar 31, 2010 -
48 answers
On occasion I say mean, horrible things to my boyfriend, and only when I've been drinking. Why? Where is this coming from?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 14, 2010 -
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Can you prove what someone's blood alcohol level would have been two hours ago based on what it is now?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 1, 2009 -
18 answers
Looking for a serious Dive Bar in Los Angeles. In the Venice, Culver, Santa Monica region. Not an "LA" dive, a real dive please.
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posted by swbarrett
on Aug 17, 2009 -
16 answers
Question-for-a-friend filter: How do you truthfully answer a job interview question about a previous job that you were asked to resign from, because you were an idiot?
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posted by liquado
on Jul 30, 2009 -
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I want to hash this weekend in Flagstaff AZ, but it appears online at least as if all the Flag HHH kennels are defunct and I keep getting dead emails for Feenix hashers. Hows a guy supposed to get his on-on on? Are there still any active Flag H3s?
posted by TheManChild2000
on Jul 2, 2009 -
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I had a fantastic idea, years ago, which Google has recently implemented (where I have not). They call it
Mail Goggles. My idea was a safe to store your bottles in that would have a sort of Simon-type game built in, to unlock it. If you were too buzzed, no entry.
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posted by Gusy
on Feb 22, 2009 -
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Is there a plugin or AppleScript for Apple Mail that would popup a simple dialog box that says "Are you
sure you want to send this message?" I send far too many messages that I probably would have edited (or scrapped) with 2 seconds of reflection (drunk or otherwise.) Not to mention all the times an itchy trigger finger fires off a message while forgetting the attachment.
(i.e. please help save me from myself.)
posted by skammer
on Nov 18, 2008 -
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There are two beverages that nearly every American adult seems to like, but I dislike both: coffee and beer. I would like to develop a taste for both of them. For morning caffeine, coffee's free at most workplaces whereas pop isn't; and beer is a cheap mood alterer; but more importantly, both are social lubricants, one that isn't achieved by drinking a soda while others get either awake, buzzed or drunk. It's been a while since I had either, but remembering the tastes, I think it's that I dislike the bitterness in each drink.
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posted by WCityMike
on Nov 15, 2008 -
56 answers
What's the difference between a concussion and drunk? Is he going to die? (OK not really—but is it safe for us to go to sleep?)
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posted by cheerwine
on Aug 30, 2008 -
23 answers
Quick! What is the joke about the vindow vasher? My friends and I are going nuts! ..and looking up salmon PR)N.
posted by xorry
on Jun 29, 2008 -
11 answers
Help me identify this mystery object. It looks sort of like a set of metallic false teeth, smaller than life-size, with a metal tube or something where the tongue should be.
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posted by kpmcguire
on May 30, 2008 -
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"Liquor then beer, you're in the clear; beer then liquor, never been sicker." Is this true, and if so, why?
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posted by papakwanz
on Dec 16, 2007 -
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I've never had a hangover in my life, how common is this and will it stay this way?
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posted by lioness
on May 28, 2007 -
51 answers
I had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy last November (gall bladder removal). Recently I have noticed I get much drunker, much faster than I used to. Is there likely to be a connection between these two facts?
posted by nowonmai
on Feb 28, 2007 -
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Morning after a drunken 'hook up', what do you do? More follows...
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posted by pwf
on Oct 28, 2006 -
28 answers
So, I've recently realized that my boyfriend's habit of going out and getting gross-sloppy drunk isn't just because he can be an ass sometimes, but because he has one of them, you know, addiction thingies. How can I help?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 19, 2006 -
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