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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:27 PM
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College Drinking Games Lead to Higher Blood Alcohol Levels (Study)
Sunday, January 6, 2008; 12:00 AM

SUNDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The first on-the-scene study of college drinking behavior shows that parties with drinking games result in higher blood alcohol levels ...

Researchers ... have determined that environment and party activities also affect drinking behavior ...

The researchers found that playing drinking games, having a personal history of binge drinking, attending a party with many other intoxicated people, and attending a themed event all predicted higher blood alcohol levels ...

The team plans to expand its research ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/06/AR2008010600771.html
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:28 PM
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1. I could've told them that seven years ago.
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:29 PM
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2. File this one under D for

DUH!!!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:29 PM
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3. I'd have never guessed
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:30 PM
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4. Whoever wrote that article should be fired. It offers no information.
Or else the guys who did the study offered no information.

That's a fucking pathetic bit of reporting nothing.

How about some goddamn accuracy and some data, you shithead?
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:48 PM
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7. One of those "I'm paid by the column inch" things
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:54 PM
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8. "I'm paid by the inch and my editor is drunk in the corner"
Disgusting.

That article should never have been printed.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 11:38 PM
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11. Hey! It's not easy trying to meet a press deadline while playing a friendly game of quarters
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:41 PM
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5. Isn't that the whole point of them?
Shit, no wonder my cancer researchers can't get money, their research is way to far above the heads of the granting agencies!
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:43 PM
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6. Uhh.. No shit Sherlock!
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 10:59 PM
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9. Did someone actually pay for this study?
Did any of them go to college?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 11:05 PM
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10. And in other news, chain smoking leads to higher nicotine levels...
:eyes:
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RedCappedBandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 11:52 PM
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12. Ya don't say!!!
:rofl:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 11:58 PM
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13. Ah, so many wasted nights up late playing "Asshole".
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