Originally Posted by
txaggiemiles
To be fair, 10 drinks in ~9 hours is pretty close to a drink an hour which is the average rate for the body to metabolize the alcohol.
Not when you start with 4 drinks in the lounge and 4 more before dinner onboard. After that it doesn't matter that your body will metabolize it by the time you land, you are still unacceptably drunk half the flight