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Little_Doctor
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SOFIA, BULGARIA - Bulgarian doctors tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was 0.914 – nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening.
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It's an old article, but wow! Things like that just weird me out. How did he survive?!?

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ludosti
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He's Bulgarian... [Wink]
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Maybe he's a zombie.

Or a booze elemental.

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Is that a percentage - i.e., almost 1 in 100 parts alcohol, or an actual proportion, 91 in 100 parts alcohol.

I assume the former, of course, but they need to be more precise with their units.

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Little_Doctor
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I think it is 91 in 100. If .08 is the legal limit, it sounds reasonable that that is 8 in 100. Don't go by my word though, I learned about it in school a few years ago so I might be wrong.
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Isn't it possible that their analysis machine was consistently off?
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Eight in a hundred whats? You mean to suggest that for every 100 ounces of blood in the body, there are 8 ounces of pure alcohol?

That just seems ... high to me, for some reason.

Certainly, a 90%+ figure seems impossible. Like trying to run a car on orange juice.

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Little_Doctor
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I think of it in percentages. .08 would therefore equal 8% blood alcohol content. After seeing this article though, I hardly think I was right. Someone having a 91.4% BAC doesn't sound possible.

Edit: Pretty much what you said Puppy.

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I thought .08 meant that your blood was .08 percent alcohol. That would mean this guy had .914 percent alcohol, or just under 1 percent. That's quite a lot.
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Jon Boy is right, AFAIK.
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quote:
Or a booze elemental.
[ROFL]

Booze elementals take half damage from cold based attacks, but double damage from fire based attacks, at least according to second edition rules.

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Little_Doctor
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Ah, but Booze elementals have the advantage of not feeling pain. Therefore, they will always be some of your most valiant units (and the worst coordinated, but who's counting?).
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Most times I see it listed as BAC %.

It's a pretty crucial distinction.

And everyone knows that booze forms a paraelemental, not an elemental.

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it *is* a percentage... that is to say, in this case, just under 1% alcohol, which is freakin' amazing... that's nearly as drunk as I was that one night...
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