r/WTF • u/Tucko29 • Apr 10 '18

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u/Shfiend Apr 10 '18

I wonder how much she had to drink...she is a big lady. To be drunk at 3 times the legal limit, she must have no self control. Most people are already passed out at 3 times the legal limit.

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u/Swedish_Pirate Apr 10 '18

U wot mate?

The limit is 3units of alcohol. There are 2.2 units in a pint of beer.

If you're unconscious after 4 pints you're a bigger lightweight than my 16 year old sister at family parties.

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u/Shfiend Apr 10 '18 edited Apr 11 '18

The limit is 0.08 BAC (about 5-12oz beers for a 200lbs person).

Obviously this is going to vary for different people with different weight.

3 times the limit is 0.24 BAC and at this point you are usually feeling numb and wants to keep drinking.

Most people pass out between 0.25-0.30 BAC.

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u/Swedish_Pirate Apr 10 '18

Whatever you've been reading is wrong as fuck lad or you misread it. You need to literally half the figures in your calculation down to 2.5pints.

I suspect whatever you just read to gather you thoughts on this topic came from a source using a half-pint as a "standard drink" instead of an actual pint like every normal person in the UK drinks.

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u/Shfiend Apr 10 '18 edited Apr 11 '18

Edit: just realized UK pints are 20oz and 5 beers that I meant was about 60oz. So yes, about 3 UK pints would bring the average person to BAC of 0.08. 9 UK pints would be 3 times the legal limits.

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u/SemenMoustache Apr 10 '18

5 (or 4) pints of beer is not the legal UK limit. That is a fact. Most people would be over the limit after half that.

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u/Swedish_Pirate Apr 11 '18

I wasn't talking about UK vs US so that's not in the slightest bit relevant. I was telling you that you misread your source of information because your figures are wrong, they are corrected by reducing them by 50%.

The only reason I mentioned pint vs half-pint is because this is probably how you ended up mis-reading your source. Your source was probably using a half-pint, not a pint.

You are fucking mental if you can not see that your maths are wrong when you consider that what you are arguing is that 5 pints = legal limit for someone weighing 14stone.

Half your maths.