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posted by estray

Sorry if this is in the wrong section but I wanted to share this. Last week at a superbowl party I drank 12 beers in 5 hours. Just for fun we broke out the breathalyzer(its a real deal as one of my buddies is a parole officer) and everyone was blowing from .15 to .22 and I only blew a .07 and I was beer for beer with all those guys. Is it possible that because im eating 3500/4000 cal/day and 7 to 8 times a day that my body just metabolized this alcholol way faster than normal.:screwy:

posted by EL2

While you are consuming alcohol 1 oz leaves your system every hour, so if you had 2 beers an hour, after the first hour you are losing one of them. How much do you weigh? How much bodyfat? Eating alot while you are drinking slows the absorbtion rate of the booze. Who ever blew .22 drank alot more than you did, and probably shots too.

posted by estray

Im 178 lbs 15%bf. Ive used that same breathalyzer berfore after drinkin with those guys and been way higher on less beers. With my buddy being in law enforcement, he takes it with him everywhere as he cannnot get a dui because it would cost him his job. The rest of us use it too for kicks. We always eat when drinking too. The guy at .22 was drinkin jack daniels though while the rest of us were drinking beer. But my other friend who is 215lbs and 25%bf drank a 12 also in the same time frame and he was .15. We had eaten but it was at like 6pm and we were doing the breathlyzer at around 11. Strange

posted by AMERFOOTBALL

i have done a brethalyzer...couldn't help you...

posted by cwshorns

EL2- i don't understand, according to your math if 1 oz leaves your body every hour,it would take 24 hours to burn off 2 beers, unless you're drinking a 40oz. 2 beers=24oz.????

posted by estray

Thats 1oz of hard liquor or one 12oz beer per hour.

posted by CUTS

i blew a .375 once. or 3.75 or something. i almost died! i just remember the police telling my dad i was lucky to be alive

posted by AMERFOOTBALL

im not el2 but i believe he was referring to just the alcohol. 1 oz of alcohol is metabolized. in a beer that is 5% alcohol by volume or 10 proof, there it is 5% alcohol. so a 12oz beer would contain .6oz of alcohol. so roughly 2 beers per hour would be metabolized. for hard liquor, you would take the proof, divide by 2 to find alcohol by volume and then multiply the volume you drank by the percent of alcohol by volume you consumed to find how much actual acohol you drank.

posted by CUTS

:screwy:

posted by AMERFOOTBALL

too much to follow? try this...

proof divided by2 = % alcohol by volume

% alcohol by volume x volume of drink = amount of alcohol consumed

amount of alcohol consumed divided by1 =how many hours it takes to metabolize

posted by cwshorns

...i was told there would be no math:confused:

posted by AMERFOOTBALL

i like math. i wish it were easier to post formulas on here...

posted by CUTS

amerfootball when to college. ooooo college boy

posted by estray

See, who says you dont use math in practical apps.

posted by AMERFOOTBALL

I was watching the pro bowl skills challenge this weekend and they had a physicist on showing the mathematical formula for the perfect pass. it was funny. something like the cosine of arm speed x weight of the ball divided by distance...ill try to google it.

posted by EL2

One ounce of alcohol (content of 1 beer), not total volume. Make sense now?

posted by estray

Id be interested to see what the formula for a perfect ASS was!

posted by TomSizeMore

My girl is trying out of the Lingere' bowl... THat's a good formula if she makes it.

posted by AMERFOOTBALL

i might place a wager on that bowl game. bodog.com has it available...

posted by TomSizeMore

I'm going to wager something gets torn off

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