Water and Alcohol

[InTheLight]

Chasers are now a silly game?

For the uninitiated, chasers are non-alcoholic drinks (usually water, but can be soda) that someone drinks after guzzling a shot of booze. It's used to take the taste of the booze out of your mouth and to dilute the alcohol in your stomach. Chasers are also guzzled. So a shot of booze followed by a chaser would all be drunk in 20 seconds or less.

If you are chasing a Mike's Hard Lemonade Lite you are a silly person playing a silly game.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

It has been my experience that if a person has to go through a convoluted thought process such as this to rationalize their use of alcohol then there is a problem with alcohol already.

The alcohol content of any beverage is measured by volume. If you drank a 12 oz bottle alone you'd ingest a little more than half an ounce of pure ethanol. If you drank a 12 oz bottle of Mike's and a 12 oz bottle of water the pure alcohol weight would be the same even though you doubled the volume of liquid.

Hard Lemonade is not a safer nor more holy alternative. There isn't a slug of difference between wine, beer, liqueur a quart jar from over the hill and Mike's Hard Lemonade.

Your right.... wonder if its a peer pressure thing. If so, just say no. We used to visit Alcoholics in the medical center & the common denominator in almost all of them is denial. You see the guy laying there all bloated, liver out to here & yellow from jaundice & invariably they all say, "But you dont understand, I am not an Alcoholic." You come back a week later & he is dead & there is another one taking his place, same condition saying, "But you dont understand, I am not an Alcoholic."

 

[prophet]

For the uninitiated, chasers are non-alcoholic drinks (usually water, but can be soda) that someone drinks after guzzling a shot of booze. It's used to take the taste of the booze out of your mouth and to dilute the alcohol in your stomach. Chasers are also guzzled. So a shot of booze followed by a chaser would all be drunk in 20 seconds or less.

If you are chasing a Mike's Hard Lemonade Lite you are a silly person playing a silly game.

I chase coffee, with water, can I be on the silly list, too? Please?

I can't pretend to disagree with you on this.

 

[padredurand]

Your right.... wonder if its a peer pressure thing. If so, just say no. We used to visit Alcoholics in the medical center & the common denominator in almost all of them is denial. You see the guy laying there all bloated, liver out to here & yellow from jaundice & invariably they all say, "But you dont understand, I am not an Alcoholic." You come back a week later & he is dead & there is another one taking his place, same condition saying, "But you dont understand, I am not an Alcoholic."

The only difference between a drunk and an alcoholic is drunks don't go to meetings.

 

[Revmitchell]

'Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler'. This & other verses in the Bible never say we cannot drink but are warning signs of what alcohol can do.
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BY this point it is too late. You have already sinned.

 

[Revmitchell]

Bingo!







Drinking water in between drinks does work to inhibit the amount of alcohol in your blood for the simple reason that as you are drinking the water you are devoting time to drinking something with zero alcohol in it, which gives your liver the necessary time to metabolize the alcohol you've already drunk.

It is a silly game to play but it can work. You'd be better off simply setting a goal of "I'm only going to drink 2 Mike's Hard Lemonades and I will take at least an hour and a half to do it. Better yet, don't drink, you're obviously an amateur.

It does nothing. Period.

 

[InTheLight]

It does nothing. Period.

You must have a medical degree? You're so wrong.

It's simple math. If one person who weighs 180 lbs. drinks 3 beers in an hour (one every 20 minutes) and another person weighing 180 lbs. has 3 beers in 2 hours (by having a beer every 20 minutes followed by a glass of water every 20 minutes) who will have a higher blood alcohol level when they have finished their 3rd beer?

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

BY this point it is too late. You have already sinned.

How very Calvinistic of you. :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

You must have a medical degree? You're so wrong.

It's simple math. If one person who weighs 180 lbs. drinks 3 beers in an hour (one every 20 minutes) and another person weighing 180 lbs. has 3 beers in 2 hours (by having a beer every 20 minutes followed by a glass of water every 20 minutes) who will have a higher blood alcohol level when they have finished their 3rd beer?

Now change that beer to Bourbon & ya know, throw in a beer after (and stay away from the Stella Artois & anything with higher alcohol context.) Stick to the Panther P, crud you shoot after shots (a beer chaser) to keep it down & to keep your eyes from poppin outa ya head. Then go drink your water.

Result, you will wake up pee soaked & vomiting. Then you will really need the water to rehydrate. Don't believe me, come with me to the Irish Pub in Motown NJ on St. Patrick's day and praying to RALPH & HUEY. http://paradeday.com/

 

[padredurand]

Result, you will wake up pee soaked & vomiting. Then you will really need the water to rehydrate. Don't believe me, come with me to the Irish Pub in Motown NJ on St. Patrick's day and praying to RALPH & HUEY.

EARL plans on being there with his BUICK.

It's simple math. If one person who weighs 180 lbs. drinks 3 beers in an hour (one every 20 minutes) and another person weighing 180 lbs. has 3 beers in 2 hours (by having a beer every 20 minutes followed by a glass of water every 20 minutes) who will have a higher blood alcohol level when they have finished their 3rd beer?

Does it matter? They both have consumed identical amounts of alcohol. If a person is down to playing games like this to keep their BAC low they have bigger problems than math.

 

[JonC]

It's simple math. If one person who weighs 180 lbs. drinks 3 beers in an hour (one every 20 minutes) and another person weighing 180 lbs. has 3 beers in 2 hours (by having a beer every 20 minutes followed by a glass of water every 20 minutes) who will have a higher blood alcohol level when they have finished their 3rd beer?

The idea about water/non-alcoholic drinks is to substitute - not supplement - alcohol consumption. You don’t drink as much alcohol in a given time frame. The lower alcohol level is a result of what your body oxidized during that extra hour. The water didn’t really help, but the extra hour made the difference (one guy had 3/hr while the other 1.5/hr).

 

[Revmitchell]

You must have a medical degree? You're so wrong.

It's simple math. If one person who weighs 180 lbs. drinks 3 beers in an hour (one every 20 minutes) and another person weighing 180 lbs. has 3 beers in 2 hours (by having a beer every 20 minutes followed by a glass of water every 20 minutes) who will have a higher blood alcohol level when they have finished their 3rd beer?

What I have is experience since I drank from the time I was 5 years old until I was 29. I was a full blown drunk at age 17. Because of all of this I was homeless 4 times. In all of those years I tried all sorts of dumb things and made all sorts of stupid excuses. When you have lived it you do not need a medical degree.

Some people think because they can gather up some facts they understand how it works. It is the difference between seeing it on paper and living it. The latter has a much greater degree of credibility.

 

[Inspector Javert]

What I have is experience since I drank from the time I was 5 years old until I was 29. I was a full blown drunk at age 17. Because of all of this I was homeless 4 times. In all of those years I tried all sorts of dumb things and made all sorts of stupid excuses. When you have lived it you do not need a medical degree

I also was a drunk for years....
and I call Shenanigans...

Some people think because they can gather up some facts they understand how it works. It is the difference between seeing it on paper and living it. The latter has a much greater degree of credibility.

No it doesn't....

I am a recovering drunk:

I no more respect the opinions of a former drunk than I do a present one.
I have LESS.
All drunks were what they were....DRUNKS....and they neither knew nor DO KNOW what they are talking about.
As a former drunk myself...I say...don't listen to a WORD a dumb drunk says, and listen to the revelation of God's Scripture and the knowledge of those who are masters of human Physiology....
I go with those who understand body chemistry.

The reason is, I'm a former Drunk who hasn't decided that my personal experience trumps the word of God.

I am a Baptist, not a Pentacostal.

God's word tells us three things:
1.) Alcohol can be a dangerous and deceptive (and mocking) thing. (i.e. it'll make you a drunk or former drunk if you aren't careful).
2.) Drunkenness is forbidden, but the moderate use of alcohol is not.
3.) Jesus drank alcoholic beverages.


You think your personal status as a former drunk trumps the Word of God?????....

My personal experience as a former drunk says:

SHENANIGANS!!!!!!!!

Do you BELIEVE that given your wasted drunken state you are now perfectly cognizant of all that you experienced and all that you perceived????

I don't.
I don't trust my recollections and perceptions of that period at all.

I only trust that drunks are complete and total fools who are a mockery of themselves and don't know their own bum from their own elbow....

The LAST thing I'd trust is a former drunk.....................................
Because they are drunks.




OH, and yeah..... I was homeless twice too:
You live in a small world if you think you are anything CLOSE to unique in that. That ain't street-cred sir.

I ain't got REAL "street-cred" and neither do you.

 

[Baptist4life]

The last two posts are the most convincing on why to not drink period.

 

[Inspector Javert]

The last two posts are the most convincing on why to not drink period.

And you would be correct in that assessment:

It DOES serve as sufficient warning.

What it does NOT do, however, is prove what the Bible teaches about the moderate consumption of alcohol...

What it does do, is serve to demonstrate how much of a foolish mockery alcohol abuse can make of a man deceived thereby.....and it demonstrates it fully.

 

[Revmitchell]

I also was a drunk for years....
and I call Shenanigans...


No it doesn't....

I am a recovering drunk:

I no more respect the opinions of a former drunk than I do a present one.
I have LESS.
All drunks were what they were....DRUNKS....and they neither knew nor DO KNOW what they are talking about.
As a former drunk myself...I say...don't listen to a WORD a dumb drunk says, and listen to the revelation of God's Scripture and the knowledge of those who are masters of human Physiology....
I go with those who understand body chemistry.

The reason is, I'm a former Drunk who hasn't decided that my personal experience trumps the word of God.

I am a Baptist, not a Pentacostal.

God's word tells us three things:
1.) Alcohol can be a dangerous and deceptive (and mocking) thing. (i.e. it'll make you a drunk or former drunk if you aren't careful).
2.) Drunkenness is forbidden, but the moderate use of alcohol is not.
3.) Jesus drank alcoholic beverages.


You think your personal status as a former drunk trumps the Word of God?????....

My personal experience as a former drunk says:

SHENANIGANS!!!!!!!!

Do you BELIEVE that given your wasted drunken state you are now perfectly cognizant of all that you experienced and all that you perceived????

I don't.
I don't trust my recollections and perceptions of that period at all.

I only trust that drunks are complete and total fools who are a mockery of themselves and don't know their own bum from their own elbow....

The LAST thing I'd trust is a former drunk.....................................
Because they are drunks.




OH, and yeah..... I was homeless twice too:
You live in a small world if you think you are anything CLOSE to unique in that. That ain't street-cred sir.

I ain't got REAL "street-cred" and neither do you.

Probably one of the most inane post made on the BB.

 

[JonC]

Probably one of the most inane post made on the BB.

Nah….it’s on par with others. :laugh:

 

[evangelist6589]

Just so you know this, there are some wines that have no or very little alcohol content.....good for a dinner with the wife. now my bride is a recovering alcoholic so she is the one to tell me not to buy that kinda stuff....she is fine with a Cola drink. Me I would prefer to sit down all night and nurse a good Micro Brew or a Guinness Draft......see I dont drink for the buzz, I drink because I really enjoy the taste. My only real vice, if you could call it that, is Coffee..... but as Ive stated earlier....been drinking that since I was 6....it softened the biscotti my Italian grandma used to bake & serve in the mornings.

This I did not know. I do not know much when it comes to drinking alcohol, as I generally stay away from it, with one exception.

 

[evangelist6589]

It has been my experience that if a person has to go through a convoluted thought process such as this to rationalize their use of alcohol then there is a problem with alcohol already.

The alcohol content of any beverage is measured by volume. If you drank a 12 oz bottle alone you'd ingest a little more than half an ounce of pure ethanol. If you drank a 12 oz bottle of Mike's and a 12 oz bottle of water the pure alcohol weight would be the same even though you doubled the volume of liquid.

Hard Lemonade is not a safer nor more holy alternative. There isn't a slug of difference between wine, beer, liqueur a quart jar from over the hill and Mike's Hard Lemonade.

My unbelieving brother says this is incorrect. He drinks to get a buzz and he says Mike's do not do that because of their low alcohol and their high sugar content.

 

[evangelist6589]

Could you please check the label and verify the ABV % for your diet booze. It says online that it's quite a bit higher.

I drank 2 Mike's last week on the same day and they both said 5% alcohol on the labels. Don't trust the online websites. Trust the labels.