# Latest silly tabloid rubbish over here - such a thing as an "Alcopal" to prevent breath test fail?

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**Created:** [August 29, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-silly-tabloid-rubbish-over-here-such-a-thing-as-an-alcopal-to-prevent-breath-test-fail/632980 "2012-08-29T00:17:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-silly-tabloid-rubbish-over-here-such-a-thing-as-an-alcopal-to-prevent-breath-test-fail/632980/21 "2012-09-01T01:37:56Z")

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> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> I’m not sure what they mean by 5 pints

When someone talks about a pint over here, they are in 99% of cases talking about a pint of beer. Pints aren’t really used for anything else, not even other alcoholic drinks never mind say diesel or industrial fluids. I think this is because any pub who moved from pints to selling 500mls would have very quickly lost custom.

Then again, Scotland has moved from selling 1/5 gill (used to be 1/6 in England) shots to 25ml shots, mostly, which is shorting their previous customers, although the gill is way before my time - I’ve only become aware of it due to now having a local that sell 1/5 gill shots.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-silly-tabloid-rubbish-over-here-such-a-thing-as-an-alcopal-to-prevent-breath-test-fail/632980/22 "2012-09-01T02:13:03Z")

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> [@Simple\_Linctus](#):
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> When someone talks about a pint over here, they are in 99% of cases talking about a pint of beer. Pints aren’t really used for anything else, not even other alcoholic drinks never mind say diesel or industrial fluids. I think this is because any pub who moved from pints to selling 500mls would have very quickly lost custom.

Uh, yeah, I know that. England is a heavy drinking place, but I don’t think they drink tumblers of vodka. I mean “5 pints” can mean shotgunning several in succession, or it can mean 5 over the night. The latter is not heavy drinking and would not lead to a high BAC IMHO, the former is going to put your BAC way over 0.08

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-silly-tabloid-rubbish-over-here-such-a-thing-as-an-alcopal-to-prevent-breath-test-fail/632980/23 "2012-09-01T06:43:18Z")

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Simethicone - I give this to my rabbit when he has bad tummy gas. I use wind drops for babies which I buy from the supermarket. I don’t plan on getting him drunk or letting him drive either.

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