Blood Alcohol Content
Blood alcohol content, or BAC, is a measurement by volume of alcohol in your body. It can be taken with a blood test or with a breathalyzer. Here is a helpful chart for understanding what the numbers mean:
Just The Facts
- 0.914 is the world record for highest-ever recorded BAC that did not result in death. A 67 year-old Bulgarian man wandered into a hospital after being hit by a truck and they checked his BAC with multiple instruments, thinking that their equipment must be faulty.
- The previous record was 0.80 held by a Lithuanian.
- Eastern Europeans are not to be fucked with.
BAC Information
An individual's BAC is subject to many variables, and cannot be determined simply by counting the number of drinks consumed. Alcohol absorbs into your body in your intestines, and it absorbs at a constant rate, no matter how fast or slow you drink. Here are some handy facts to remember:
- Hydrating yourself by drinking non-alcoholic and non-caffeinated drinks throughout the night will slow your drinking pace, help prevent hangovers, and generally keep you from going overboard.
- Body mass is a big factor in determining tolerance. Bodies with lots of muscle can tolerate more alcohol than bodies with lots of fat.
- Men generally have higher tolerances than women because they naturally have more muscle mass (even if they only sit at home reading Cracked all day) and women naturally have more fat mass (boobies).
- It takes about an hour for a drink to take full effect, and about another hour for it to disappear from your system.
- Regular drinking can increase your tolerance. It's like exercise for your liver.
- Asians are genetically predisposed to having very low alcohol tolerance. Native Americans are predisposed to having very high tolerance. There are exceptions to each, of course.
- Breathalyzers can be bought for personal use either online, or at various gadget stores. They are actually a lot of fun at parties. Just don't let anyone try to beat the 0.914 record.
I'm not of legal age just quite, but I'm interested in how much it'll take to get me tanked. I'm interested because I'm larger than some NFL players at 6' 1", 280 lbs, athletically fit.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesHow much do you think it'll take? I'll gladly put your recommendations to the test.
Probably a lot, but if you've never drunk alcohol before probably not quite as much as you'd expect. I'm 5'10 and 120 pounds, but have been drinking pretty regularly since about 15 years old (UK isn't so strict with the drinking as the US) and am now 20. Eight pints of Stella normally gets me pretty lashed, so i guess you can try and work it out for yourself from that info
You've never drank before, yet you want to? You, sir, are an anomoly. WHo the hell waits till 21 to drink? I remember drinking liquor at 14...god I was awful at mixing drinks then.
I had my first drink at 12, just a sip. I ended up giggling for about a minute.
It also depends on what you drink.
For example, one (small) glass of wine gets me a little tipsy, but I can drink three or four rum and colas before feeling a thing.
psh mixed drinks are for pussies.... i drink my liquor straight (especialy everclear) (PS im drunk lol)
i would never have sex with megan fox. even if i beat the 0.914 record.
Reply Hide All See All 4 Repliesyou know how i know youre gay?
If that avatar pic is to be believed, this is the most abstinent person ever. of all time.
Also, if a normal teenage-looking female got that drunk, she would go from Hot to Flammable.
Megan Fox looks like she's made of a cocktail of plastic and HIV.
Neither would I, to be honest.
I'm not into the whole "tan and rail-thin with a toe-thumb" thing.
Or dumb chicks, for that matter.
Your estimate of my BAC needed to have sex with Megan Fox was 0.001 too high.
Replyyou're about that drunk just being in the same room as an open can of beer.
But yes, much too high.
I think looking at my text messages the next morning is the best technique to determine BAC the night before
ReplyMy friend texted me after she got drunk with her boyfriend. I'm quoting her and saying that she "literally forgot his name and just started calling him Waffles." the next morning, again texting, she said "My mouth tastes like bad choices."
Gmail has a nice feature called "Mail Goggles" that makes you solve math problems before it sends an email. You can set it to turn on when you're likely to be drunk.
Megan Fox is ugly!
ReplyShe's not ugly, she's just always got that "sexy-face" expression (mouth slightly open, eyes glazed) that makes her look mildly retarded.
im have muscle and drank like 13 beers and some shots and other stuff. so i guess its true.
ReplyI'm Asian and I'm an exception to the rule! Yay!
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesAlso pointless fact, Asians are genetically disposed to having very low alcohol tolerance because of mutations affecting alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme responsible for breaking down alcohol.
Yeah.
Hey turd stabber, we aren't 15 anymore. No one cares how much you can drink. Shut it!
Wtf is a turd stabber? i know it's self explanitory but still holy shitballs.
Turd stabber...sad...
OK legit how bout u shut the f**k up.
No one wants to see a 14 yearold trying to be a douche on the comments. Thats my job you nut nibbler.
So f**k off and leave Asian manalone before i gotta play
Choke-a-bitch with you.
Yours truly-
Demoneus
I really want to find a way to fit "turd stabber" into a conversation.
So I was chilling at work with Eric when we realized he was super constipated, so he whipped out his turd stabber and got to business. Lunch was a real hassle.
"It's like exercise for your liver."
ReplyI lol'd.
I would've loved to have known my BAC the last time I got absolutely squiffy. I finished off a bottle of Rumpleminze, left the apartment that I was drinking at, managed to walk about a mile across a college campus (on Halloween), and make it to my door...absolutely blacked out. I could walk a mile safely with little problem (or so I think)...but I couldn't work a key in a lock. *sigh*
ReplyThat's because your subconscious took over and piloted you along safely. When you're consciousness kicked back in you became a drunken idiot again. Everyone's subconscious is a lot better at some things than them. I know mine can drive better than me anyway.
I read all this and get reminded of how much of a lightweight I am... I'd probably be dead at 0.1 or something, that's crazy those people got to 0.9 and all that.
Reply@ Stealthbg f**k YOU.
Replykidding xD
As a Bulgarian who is drunk right now I can attest that we are indeed not to be fucked with.
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Replyim sorry, i had to do that
Information? On my Cracked.com?
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I definetly have to get me one of those breathalyzers. I bet me and my friends can have lots of fun with one of those at parties!!!
ReplyThere's a brand called Alcohawk that run about $100-$130 that give results that are certified by some government agency to be accurate.
There's one at a club I go to, last time I was out I blew .101 and was just like "Really? think I'll stop drinking now..."
Haha. Asians do get reallly red after a shot or two. Quite hilarious.
ReplyWhat Phxbunny says it very important, the is a great amount of genetic variation in the demographic known as "American Indian" also the study you cited had an absurdley low sample size for a study of that kind and only looked at enzyme counts and activity other factors are involved. Asians and American Indians usually have two issues, lower levels of enzymes/activity, and actual allergy to alcohol (this is the source of the bright red color many asians turn when they drink, though this does appear in a minority of europeans too). I have known Asians who can keep up with me (I'm Polish/German) but most of the Japanese who I lived with (I lived in Japan for several years) were complete lightweights, I even knew one girl who would puke after 1-2 beers she had such low tolerance.
ReplyI'm an American Indian woman and I can drink most men under a table....only one problem...I've only been able to do it once because I'm "allergic" to alcohol. The thing about Asian people having a low tolerance is because they have very little of the enzymes needed to process alcohol in their body. Some American Indians have the same problem or worse, they don't have the enzyme at all (like me). I ended up in the er the next morning almost dead. A shot of Tequila and I'm sick as all hell. Don't assume that you can drink just because other people in your family can.
ReplySeacalliope, like I said above, I'm an American Indian and I don't find it offensive that they used an example that happens to be true...for the most part. They even used the proper terms for both races. My advise to you would be to pull the broom out of your a$$ and fly it to a diffrent website.
It varies by tribe of Indian and no medical website sited so far has shown tests done tribe by tribe. Each tribe is quite diffrent in medical respects and if you are a mix of two or more tribes...well then have fun because no one is going to be quite sure what is going to happen to you.
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I don't know how accurate the bit about Asians and Native Americans' alcohol tolerance is, but even if the information is incorrect it's hardly racist. It would just mean the user who wrote this article might have gotten their facts wrong. When medical studies compare which races are more prone to heart disease is that also racist? Don't be ridiculous.
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