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dballance

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5. Neither eating nor coffee sober you up once you are drunk. All myths.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #3)

Sun May 3, 2015, 07:59 PM

May 2015

After the alcohol is in your system it must be processed by the liver that takes time. Not food or caffeine. Only time will allow you to sober up.

Here are links to help dispel that and other myths.

http://www.hcs.calpoly.edu/content/pulse/booze-truths

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080403195321AA0PPm9

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Alcohol does not have to be processed through the intestines like other foods. It goes directly to your blood stream from your stomach. It is already

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ANARCHY in the U.K.! Cambridge McDonald's to Start Using Breathalyzer Tests to Keep Out Drunks [View all] Miles Archer May 2015 OP

Seems like the franchise owner is just trying to proctect property and workers. dballance May 2015 #1

By keeping drunk people drunk, instead of giving them food that might soak up the excess alcohol Xipe Totec May 2015 #3

Neither eating nor coffee sober you up once you are drunk. All myths. dballance May 2015 #5

So, denying them food helps? Xipe Totec May 2015 #6

My position is denying them a chance to be obnoxious to workers and other patrons helps. dballance May 2015 #7

Good for you! Keep it up! Xipe Totec May 2015 #8

My position of a cab home also may keep them out of jail for Public Intoxication or worse dballance May 2015 #10

Violation of their human rights..... Historic NY May 2015 #2

Please don't link to Rense. Codeine May 2015 #4

No restaurant has the right to test any patron for anything malaise May 2015 #9

establishments have the right to keep out rowdy and disruptive drunks. linuxman May 2015 #11

Read what I wrote please malaise May 2015 #15

I was responding to the other part of your message. linuxman May 2015 #16

Perhaps if drunken idiots weren't obnoxious and destructive mythology May 2015 #12

In my experience people got denied service for being drunk all the time goldent May 2015 #13

LULZ.. Jesus Malverde May 2015 #14

Great news.... T_i_B May 2015 #17