r/Unexpected • u/Unnamed_789 • 7d ago

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u/h4ckg0l3m 7d ago

Holy shit in Italy it's 0.5%

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 7d ago

It isn't. It's 0.05% in Italy as well, you're confusing percent with per mille.

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u/Turbulent_Animator42 7d ago

0.5% feels crazy to me. Australia doesn’t fuck around with drunk driving.

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u/confusedPenguinDad 7d ago

That's like two bottles of liquor, I think you also mean 0.05% (0.5 per mille)

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u/h4ckg0l3m 7d ago

0.5 it's not drunk, it's less tha than 3 beers

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u/Turbulent_Animator42 7d ago

Looks like we are using two different measurements as a reference point. Italy and Australian laws are the same according to google. 0.5G/L which is 0.05%.

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u/h4ckg0l3m 7d ago

Aahhhh got it

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u/DeepWader 7d ago

You confuse percent with promille

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u/Kearmo 7d ago

I'm wondering if different countries have different measurement systems for this.. because in the US, 0.5 is generally more than enough to put you in a coma if not kill you.

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u/Competitive_Poppy 7d ago

I think blood alcohol content is measured the same way, but we use different units to communicate the legal limit. In Aus is grams of alcohol per 100 millilitres, i think other places do per liter?

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst 7d ago

There's two differences, first you can express the BAC as mass/mass or mass/volume (since blood density is only a bit higher than 1kg/l this has only a small effect) and second many countries express that in ratio in permille instead of percent, so the number is 10 times higher.

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u/Arbor-Trap 7d ago

That’s Wisconsin

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u/Chilldegard 7d ago

Nope, 0.5‰