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Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover
Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a shorter sobering up time. People drinking the bubbly booze sobered up 20-30 minutes faster and had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-fizzy stuff. Kwon said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does. This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects of acetaldehyde without a significant difference in alcohol's effects. Furthermore, the reduced time to a lower BAC may reduce alcohol-related accidents."
No hangover - Good
Faster sober - Bad
You're not done mister, get back to the lab.
MG
If I want to be sober, I just won't drink. However, when I do drink, (I won't drive) I want to be drunk and stay drunk. I want to be drunk all night and when I wake upside down in a sleeping bag trying to get it open with my toes, I want to wonder how I got there and not be able to remember. This just takes all the fun out of drinking.
no he meant 160 Proof, he doesn't f$%# around when it comes to Vodka.
No, I did mean 80%. It kicks ass ;)
You can get the same thing with an alcohol enema.
And we've all been there, right?!?
Right...?
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
With our Civilization 4 drinking game (drink every time you hear Leonard Nimoy's voice from ANYONE's Civ 4 game in the LAN), there is no such thing as consuming less, lol :-)
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cold and devoid of oxygen
Actually, he used a percentage measurement. Which is valid on both "sides of the pond", as well as anywhere else in the universe that has "math".
Most people measure alcohol in percentage ABV. Only old-timers use "proof".
And "degrees proof" is only really used in the UK, despite it making no sense. "Degrees" of what, exactly? In America, it's just "proof", if it's used at all. Usually it ain't, as places that require labeling of ABV require a percentage measurement. Nowhere requires a "proof" to be put on there, but it is generally allowed.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
... that putting oxygen in alcohol is a good idea? It sounds like a recipe for rocket fuel to me.
Is your doctor badanalogyguy?
-- HeUnique
Stout and thick-headed?
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
I disagree -- My observation has been that it's the lack of booze in your system (after boozing) that correlates with the hangover. The easy solution; don't stop drinking.
Ian Ameline
Pale and Bitter?
So you're saying oxygen enriched Bacardi 151 or 190 proof Everclear could be hazardous? :)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
And I'll be set!
I’d be able to tell a story about Everclear, if only I remembered it.
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A solution to the problem does exist, though. It's called "everything in moderation."
... including moderation.
I find I personally like my moderation in moderate amounts.
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Eh, nevermind. Didn't realize that the UK boozers used a different formula for calculating proof.
I'll go shut up now.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Who cares what the researchers say.
I'm going to have to do my own research. In cases like this, first hand knowledge is the only way to go.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
full bodied and regrettable the next morning?
Flat and with yeast issues?
Made under the control of the German Purity Law?
Tell your friends about xenu.net
I have followed this rule religiously and I have NEVER gotten a hangover. Here it is:
Drink Coke and watch everyone else get plastered.
Aged 2 months and picked up at the grocery store?
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Meh, I'm fine with my current strategy of drinking enough to regret it in the morning but not enough to not remember why.
Ahhh, the good ol' days. I remember those parties. It's respectable-ish to start, and pretty much an orgy by the end of the night. What I wouldn't give to be a stupid teenager again. :) Maybe in the next life. Of course, we have to remember the "no fat chicks" rule on the party invitations. Well, unless one of your friends is a chubby chaser, and he'd better corral the cows out of sight. :)
[/me ducks from the "big boned" women in the audience]
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.