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I'd hate to see this guy's liver.
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Jan 6, 2005, 03:03 PM
 
Not someone I'd wanna challenge to a drinking contest.
     
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Jan 6, 2005, 03:18 PM
 


I guess, 0.5 is just normal and sober for him...

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Jan 6, 2005, 04:08 PM
 
The 67-year-old man
Especially bad for guy that old. Liver cancer, anyone?
     
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Jan 6, 2005, 04:46 PM
 
Anyone see Supersize Me? Apparently eating McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 30 days (24 anyway) does more damage to your liver than a severe alcoholic on a month long drinking binge.

I heard that they sell beer at McDonald's in Germany.
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Jan 6, 2005, 04:51 PM
 
Ok.. I've never paid attention to this before... but what does the number mean? It can't be % of alcohol in your bloodstream... can it?
     
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Jan 6, 2005, 04:59 PM
 
holy. crap.
     
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Jan 6, 2005, 05:12 PM
 
Originally posted by macroy:
Ok.. I've never paid attention to this before... but what does the number mean? It can't be % of alcohol in your bloodstream... can it?
Alcohol concentration is defined in terms of the weight of ethanol (Ethyl alcohol) in a volume of blood or breath. In the United States the typical measure is grams of ethanol in 100 milliliters of blood or in 210 liters of breath.
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So yeah, the guy's blood was 1% ethanol. Could have bled him and had a really weak beer.
     
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This is hard to believe.
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Jan 6, 2005, 07:54 PM
 
damn I thought I had a drinking problem. Well not really I only got drunk once....but it lasted ten years.
     
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That man is a national treasure!
     
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Jan 7, 2005, 03:00 AM
 
i wonder what his body fat percentage is...
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Jan 7, 2005, 03:02 AM
 
Originally posted by gumby5647:
i wonder what his body fat percentage is...
Who cares! He can drink more than all of us combined!
     
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Jan 7, 2005, 04:41 AM
 
Not bad but this guy from Poland was better!

Since the link is in german:
Short before Christmas a guy was run over by a car in Poland. He survived the accident but then the doctors found out that he had an alcohol level of 1.2%!!! WORLDRECORD!!! He is still alive!
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This proves that the Poles are the lords of drunkardry.
     
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Jan 7, 2005, 07:48 AM
 
Originally posted by olePigeon:
Anyone see Supersize Me? Apparently eating McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 30 days (24 anyway) does more damage to your liver than a severe alcoholic on a month long drinking binge.

I heard that they sell beer at McDonald's in Germany.
I can vouch for the fact they did in 92.

Was crap beer, but when you are 15, beer is beer.
     
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Jan 7, 2005, 08:26 AM
 
Too bad the article doesn't mention what he was drinking. To get an alcohol level like that you would have to drink 2 bottles of wodka really fast and get tested within 15 minutes.

I can finish a crate of beer alone, but that takes me about 7 hours. The taste of beer gets kinda disgusting then. My record was 12 Duvels, 6 heinekens and 3 Kriek lambic's. We went out for a drink in a bar after that, but jumped into the water instead.
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Jan 7, 2005, 08:55 AM
 
Originally posted by moonmonkey:
I can vouch for the fact they did in 92.

Was crap beer, but when you are 15, beer is beer.

Hey! I had my first beer at 15, and let me tell you... We spent several hours setting up the purchase of the Miller High Life in it's cool clear bottle!!!!!
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Jan 7, 2005, 11:49 AM
 
The amazing ability of the human body to adapt.

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