[SMGFan]

Well, if you are drinking to get drunk anyway... /s

[Tublecane]

So you trade calories for drunkenness. Why is this article written in the debunking style?

[Hieronymus]

Badly written headline or one given to showing a self evident truth. If one doesn’t mix alcohol with one’s diet soda, it would be extremely rare for the diet soda to make one drunk at all.

[Newbomb Turk]

Umm....might make HER drunker. An isn’t that the point I’m after ?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Why didn’t someone tell me this, way back in my college days? Think of the money I could have saved!

[jeffc]

Well, I’m not as think as you drunk I am.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Which then leads to the mating call of the sorority members, “Aaahhhhmm sooo drunk”.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I’m not mixing good liquor (Elisha Craig 12 yo bourbon) with any soda. But if I was I certainly wouldn’t make it even worse using diet (gag) soda.

I remember when they thought alcohol with Gatorade would get you fried faster. Or how about the beer through a straw urban legend?

[showme_the_Glory]

I use zero calorie ice cubes only. I get less drunk when I add zero calorie Coke? Is it just me or is there a dilution factor missing?

[Big Giant Head]

I completely reject this story.

I’ve done very, VERY scientific studies showing how I don’t get any different results while drinking, yet get drastically different hangover results. I remember getting blasted once after changing over to diet mixers (Jim Beam and Diet Coke specifically, better known as “Beamers”), and I was all, like, “weren’t we drinking last night?” We had to test this theory repeatedly, but the results were the same. They were all like, alike. Sugared mixers lead to deadly hangovers, and diet mixers makes you wonder if you even had a drink the night before.

[Valpal1]

This may be why women in general seem to instinctively prefer girly drinks that are all sugared up.

[skinndogNN]

You could leave out the cola all together.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Does it really make you more drunk or does the diet soda just screw with the works of the breathalyzer device? Seems a bit vague.

[gundog]

You don’t expect me to just take yer word for it, do you?

[gundog]

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[gundog]

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[Utah Binger]

Hey it’s 4:00 pm in southern Utah....And Mark Levin is on in four minutes.

Mixing up a vodka and a touch of Peach Nectar. You heard that correctly. A nectar martini.

Three hours of easy listening.

[elkfersupper]

Only amateurs and predators use mixers.

[Disambiguator]

Then add the Mentos when you’re ready for projectile vomiting.

[BfloGuy]

Well, if you are drinking to get drunk anyway...

And, truth be known, why else would you drink?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The dimension of time is missing from this report. We're told that diet drinks make you 18% drunker than sugary drinks. We're not told when those measurements were taken. It's not likely that the BAC was measured immediately after the drink. The alcohol needs some time to get into the blood stream.

Let's assume they measure the BAC one hour after drinking & at that time the BAC is higher if you used a diet mixer. It stands to reason that, at some point, the BAC is going to be lower, if you had a diet drink. The article does say that the sugar simply slows down the absorption of the alcohol. Therefore, at some point, the BAC resulting from the diet mixer, and the BAC resulting from using a sugary mixer would be identical. After that point, the diet mixer would leave you less drunk than the drinking booze with a sugary mixer.

IOW, if you want a sustained drunk -- use a sugary mixer. If you want to get drunk and sober up quickly -- use a diet mixer. If you want to sober up, after a party, so you can drive home (or so you can have a quick shave, and go to work right after the party) - use diet mixers.