Alochol???????

[j0nb0y]

I have decided my alcohol intake has been excessive recently and have decided to cut right back, in fact, I thought I would do "stoptober" and not drink alcohol for a full month, longer if I feel any benefit from it.
My problem is, I still want to socialise with friends and can only drink so much diet coke, so thought I would drink lager shandies. NOW I know I am still drinking alcohol, but in my mind, in very diluted quantities.
I got into a discussion with someone earlier who said, I am still having the alcohol equivalent of half a pint, for every pint of shandy. My argument is 1) they normally do less than half a pint and fill the rest with lemonade. 2) even if it was 50% lager and 50% lemonade, that would dilute the alcohol content to half the original quantity and thus, I am actually only having a quarter of an actual pint. So 4 pints of shandy would be equal to the alcohol of 1 pint?????
Your thoughts please.

[j0nb0y]

But pebbles are physical objects, alcohol is a chemical. I am not saying I am right, I am just trying to get it straight in my head. That by diluting a chemical, lessens its strength.( I am sure there are weird chemicals out there that increase potency through dilution. )

[woofgang]

if you drink half a pint of lager or half a pint of lager mixed with half a pint of lemonade, you will still have consumed half a pint of lager. Look at it this way. You have two glasses in front of you. One has got half a pint of lager in and the other one has got half a pint of lemonade. You drink the half a pint of lager. How much alcohol have you had to drink? answer: half a pint of lager. Next you drink the half a pint of lemonade. Now how much alcohol have you had to drink? answer: still half a pint of lager.

[237SJ]

If you dilute the alcohol with lemonade, you will have reduced the volume of alcohol.

[Tilly2]

Either drink alcohol or don't drink alcohol. Stop messing about.

[j0nb0y]

237SJ....that is my assumption. Hence posting the question. Purely out of curiosity.

[j0nb0y]

Tilly2 are you saying drinking shandy is tantamount to "messing about"???

[pixie374]

You've reduced the percentage of alcohol in the drink- not the volume.

[Prudie]

You will have reduced the amount of alcohol as a percentage of the volume but if you drink it all you've still drunk the same amount of alcohol. Think of it as sugar, 3 tsps of sugar in 1/2 litre of water will have a higher percentage sugar content per cc than 3 tsps in a litre of water. Whichever you drink you will still have consumed 3 tsps of sugar.

[Tilly2]

Yes, jOnbOy, I am.

Make your mind up. StOp or dOn't stOp.

[yogi-bear]

I think she means stop acting the pRat and grow up, but being she's a true lady, she can't get herself to say it....Me, on the other hand.......

[nailit]

So you drink 8 pints some nights? Ametuer, lol.
I havnt had a drink for 2 months now and it feels good. As others have said, knock it on the head altogether for a bit and see how you feel.

[237SJ]

Pixie - I believe the percentage and the volume are one and the same (ABV)

[murraymints]

I agree with Tilly..you are only seeking permission to continue drinking..do or don't up to you..my tipple is lime and soda too ! and in a pub your friends may put pressure on you to have a "proper" drink...

[nailit]

You can always do ''Stoptober'' and if you want to drink again do ''Cant remember November''

[murraymints]

Nailit you're a good boy ! lol xx

[nailit]

I'm an angel Minters (A fallen one, but still an angel...)

[murraymints]

:0) xx ...

[j0nb0y]

237SJ....that is my assumption. Hence posting the question. Purely out of curiosity

[j0nb0y]

Yogi-bear.....bit harsh!!!
Tilly2......are you being flippant with my use of 00? :-))).

[Prudie]

You should really have posted the question in Science and then you'd have got those kind of answers rather than ones about your personal drinking. I can see it's an interesting topic (the dilution bit).