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Submerging Your Feet in Alcohol Will Not Get You Drunk

Discussion in 'Break Room' started by NewsBot, Dec 15, 2010.

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    Submerging your feet in alcohol will not get you drunk
    Research: Testing the validity of the Danish urban myth that alcohol can be absorbed through feet: Open labeled self experimental study
    Testing the validity of the Danish urban myth that alcohol can be absorbed through feet: open labelled self experimental study
    Christian Stevns Hansen, Louise Holmsgaard Færch, Peter Lommer Kristensen
    BMJ 2010; 341:c6812
     
  2. RobinP

    RobinP Well-Known Member

    That's a pity




    Wasn't there a thread about the most useless pieces of research. If there is I think that we should strongly avoid putting this one in.

    Robin

    EDIT - actually, it is a useless piece of research. What a bloody waste of good Vodka!
     
  3. manmantis

    manmantis Active Member

    Research carried out with tongue firmly in cheek. Love it!

    Quotes I particularly enjoyed:

    "relevant study period (three hours—a timeframe corresponding to a medium length visit to the local pub)."

    "results are in accordance with...a study in which ethylene glycol absorption was slow and of low concentration through the skin of six frozen cadavers. The last study is not directly applicable to ours because of the frozen state."

    They also conclude:

    "Importantly, students experimenting with transcutaneous alcohol absorption should move on to more relevant activities."

    Which might include:

    "Moreover, new pastimes, such as “eyeball drinking,” have emerged. The significance of this activity is unknown. Rumour has it that it makes you drunk fast . . . and may damage your eyes."

    And evidence that the researchers clearly had little to do this time of year:

    "Approval of the study at the local ethics committee was not attempted as this was self experimentation; all the participants were also authors."

    More, more, more!!!
     
  4. Have snorted and eyeballed tequila. Tequila wasn't too bad, but the squeeze of lime in the eye afterwards was a bit fierce.
     
  5. manmantis

    manmantis Active Member

    A mate of mine used to snort & squirt milk out of his tear ducts, must ask him if he's done the same with vodka or tequila. :santa2:
     
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