Well, if you are drinking to get drunk anyway... /s
1 posted on
02/06/2013 1:36:07 PM PST by
SMGFan
To: SMGFan
So you trade calories for drunkenness. Why is this article written in the debunking style?
2 posted on
02/06/2013 1:41:26 PM PST by
Tublecane
To: SMGFan
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.
3 posted on
02/06/2013 1:43:06 PM PST by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
To: SMGFan
Umm....might make HER drunker. An isn’t that the point I’m after ?
4 posted on
02/06/2013 1:44:55 PM PST by
Newbomb Turk
(Hey Newbomb, where's your brothers ElCamino ?)
To: SMGFan
Why didn’t someone tell me this, way back in my college days? Think of the money I could have saved!
To: SMGFan
Well, I’m not as think as you drunk I am.
7 posted on
02/06/2013 1:49:43 PM PST by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: SMGFan
Which then leads to the mating call of the sorority members, “Aaahhhhmm sooo drunk”.
To: SMGFan
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?
9 posted on
02/06/2013 1:57:57 PM PST by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: SMGFan
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?
12 posted on
02/06/2013 2:03:58 PM PST by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: SMGFan
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.
To: SMGFan
This may be why women in general seem to instinctively prefer girly drinks that are all sugared up.
15 posted on
02/06/2013 2:11:23 PM PST by
Valpal1
To: SMGFan
You could leave out the cola all together.
To: SMGFan
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.
To: SMGFan
You don’t expect me to just take yer word for it, do you?
21 posted on
02/06/2013 3:06:33 PM PST by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: SMGFan
22 posted on
02/06/2013 3:07:35 PM PST by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: SMGFan
23 posted on
02/06/2013 3:07:50 PM PST by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: SMGFan
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.
24 posted on
02/06/2013 3:13:56 PM PST by
Utah Binger
(Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
To: SMGFan
Only amateurs and predators use mixers.
25 posted on
02/06/2013 3:23:45 PM PST by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: SMGFan
Then add the Mentos when you’re ready for projectile vomiting.
To: SMGFan
Well, if you are drinking to get drunk anyway... And, truth be known, why else would you drink?
29 posted on
02/06/2013 4:31:33 PM PST by
BfloGuy
(Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people.)
To: SMGFan
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.
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