Can Pop make you drunk?

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:09 pm

Drinking Alchohol Makes you drunk.

But Does Coke?

I watched a Brainiac episode on Can Pop make you drunk, But I never saw the end of it, Anyone know the DEFINATE awnser?

-Jerry

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:12 pm

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:15 pm

It can cause you to go crazy and stay up for 3 days strait if you drink enugh of it. But intoxicate you? No.

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:15 pm

Not even Accessive Amounts?

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:15 pm

Well definitely not. But if you want to try, grab 20 or so and drink up. You'd get hyper off of all the caffeine, but not drunk.

That show looks like a cheap ripoff of mythbusters. N00bs.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:22 pm

The definite answer is no.

Soda doesn't contain alcohol and therefor can not make you drunk. Aside from Caffine, soda does not contain any drugs capable of altering your state of mind. Caffine travels to the brain and prevents the chemical messaggers for 'tired' from reaching their receptors, therefor keeping you relatively alert. You would quickly fill your stomach and oversaturate your body with fluids before you even came close to harming yourself with the Caffine content of soda.

But then, this is all common knowledge.

sam · Post by **sam** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:24 pm

teraflop122 wrote:
But then, this is all common knowledge.

Obviously not common enough for some of the posters.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:30 pm

There's a story around here, (at the school drug talks where the cops come in and try to scare you out of drugs) about a kid who went to a party, and there was some drug that some kids slipped into the water, like tcp or something. anyways, they shut off the water to the building, and the drug makes you very thirsty

so he went home and drank out of his hose, but the drug also shuts off the "im full of water, stop dirnking" and he drowned himself.

anways ya. i dunno how thats relevant.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:38 pm

i hope you realize that at least half of what those cops tell you are lies and hearsay.

you cant drown by drinking too much.... thats not even possible.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:39 pm

I know. But you can if your stomachs fuill and you're dirnking into your lungs.

But ya it's not true but still an amusing story with a moral.

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:40 pm

Unless you drink so much that your throat gets full ( Your stomach is full also), and you cant breath.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:49 pm

Kurt_ wrote:There's a story around here, (at the school drug talks where the cops come in and try to scare you out of drugs) about a kid who went to a party, and there was some drug that some kids slipped into the water, like tcp or something. anyways, they shut off the water to the building, and the drug makes you very thirsty

so he went home and drank out of his hose, but the drug also shuts off the "im full of water, stop dirnking" and he drowned himself.

anways ya. i dunno how thats relevant.

scary ......yah are cops tell stories like that one to

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:54 pm

Only Mormans think you can be intoxicated by carbonated water.

As for drinking too much, you don't want to. Carbonated water will build up a lot of gas (or carbon-dioxid) and that can cause intestinal or stomach acks. I know not deadly but can be painful.

gotchocolatemilk2 · Post by **gotchocolatemilk2** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:57 pm

Timmeh you can die from excessive water consumption. If you drink too much water and dont take in any more elctrolytes you can dilute your electrolytes to the point that your neurons can no longer fire in your brain and you die. You have to drink a hell of a lot of water to the point of extreme discomfort. People who have ingested poison and it says "dilute with water" freak out and start chugging water and dye from hyperhydration. Also people on extacy who know they can die from dehydration will start downing water and end up dieing.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:59 pm

oh, true. but the way i understood it in this 'incident' the kid died right there with the hose in his hand. it would take much longer than that to die from hyper-hydration (hypo means 'below', so i think you meant hyper)