On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 12:12:58 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On 12/4/2019 7:00 AM, Shadow wrote:

**Are people able to "think" after 2 bottles of whiskey?
Apparently not coherently ...

Thinking coherently isn't the problem. Most people are not able to
*live* after two bottles of whiskey. That's way over a fatal dose for
almost everyone.

I had the ill fortune of dealing with my son the weekend he
overindulged the weekend before start of grade 12. As in high .30s
blood alcohol content with a police escort to hospital and emergency
treatment.

After he fell asleep that night I worked on what I knew would be one
of the most important speeches of my life and the next morning told
him that I knew he had wonderful dreams (which he is now well on the
way to achieving 10 years later) which I thought were great and fully
supported - but that the doctors told me that anything over .30
carries a risk of permanent brain damage and that nothing would hurt
me more than him being unable to realize his ambitions because of this
kind of damage. (Considerably more length than that but that was the
key point - fortunately for me my wife was 2000 miles away that
weekend visiting her parents - no question her reaction would have
been totally over the top and likely would have hurt the cause)

I'm not aware he's had more than one drink at a time on any occasion
since including at his wedding last summer. (He drank a lot at his
wedding but I heard him asking the bartender for soda water early in
the evening and again later on)