Worst alcoholic you know?

WhiteWalls

Man up the road from me is gone into an addiction service from alcohol. He is elderly now and an absolute wreck from drink but rumor has it that he hasn't been sober for 30 years.

Neighbor who lived beside him reckons he drank a liter of brandy and 8 cans of cider everyday for years.

Custardpi

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Neighbor who lived beside him reckons he drank a liter of brandy and 8 cans of cider everyday for years.

Lightweight!

The_Pretender

My uncle used to drink 3 bottles of whiskey a day. Jumped off a canal bridge locked and broke his leg.

You could say he was partial to a drink.

WhiteWalls

The_Pretender wrote: »

My uncle used to drink 3 bottles of whiskey a day. Jumped off a canal bridge locked and broke his leg.

You could say he was partial to a drink.

When you say bottles do you mean liter bottles? Crazy amount of alcohol

My name is URL

The_Pretender wrote: »

My uncle used to drink 3 bottles of whiskey a day. Jumped off a canal bridge locked and broke his leg.

Gone are the days where that's seen as a sign of alcoholism. Shur people do that crap for likes on Facebook now

Littlehorny

At age 51 doctors gave up on my uncle, poor fella was a hopeless alcoholic. lived till he was 61 before his body gave out, the man would just drink till he choked!

LETHAL LADY

Chinwaggers are usually worse than alcho's in my experience.

catallus

I knew a guy who drank one bottle of whiskey everyday. He was a nice fella, if he was half sober, but he could be an angry drunk. Throat cancer killed him in his early 60's.

I knew another guy who was an ex-priest, and he drank a lot of brandy-and-port. He's dead too, heart-attack in his late 50's.

BNMC

A guy I went to secondary school with. The salt of the earth, a nicer lad you wouldn't meet. Played on the school's football team with him too. A classy footballer. Brains to burn too.

8 years later. Living in a bedsit in Dublin, broke and unemployed. Spoke to his sister about a month ago, she told me he will not accept any help, be it professional or from his family. He drinks a bottle of whiskey and whatever cans of beer he can get his hands on. I don't know how he affords all this on €188 per week, I wouldn't like to guess either.

He's 26 but looks late 30s.

Sad.

Stheno

My aunt literally drank herself to death, one party too many and she died, she'd drink a litre of vodka for breakfast.

My OHs friend ordered enough booze to drink himself to death

I'd to attend both funerals

It's not a specially funny topic, my memories of both are very very sad, I remember my OHs friend arriving into us pissed out of his mind, and telling my OH he was lucky to have a partner who would make him a cup a soup

corner of hells

The_Pretender wrote: »

My uncle used to drink 3 bottles of whiskey a day. Jumped off a canal bridge locked and broke his leg.

You could say he was partial to a drink.

Pfft my uncle used to eat his bottles after he drank the whisky out of them.

Cantremember

The worst alcoholic is the one who doesn't realise they are one.

WhiteWalls

Cantremember wrote: »

The worst alcoholic is the one who doesn't realise they are one.

The best way to describe it is if it is affecting your life. Having two cans every night is not an alcoholic in my book but if your neglecting work/family because of drink then you are

Frynge

Shane McGowen

Muise...

How are we measuring this, OP: units of alcohol, lulz, or litres of blood and tears shed?

DellyBelly

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is

LETHAL LADY

Stheno wrote: »

My aunt literally drank herself to death, one party too many and she died, she'd drink a litre of vodka for breakfast.

My OHs friend ordered enough booze to drink himself to death

I'd to attend both funerals

It's not a specially funny topic, my memories of both are very very sad, I remember my OHs friend arriving into us pissed out of his mind, and telling my OH he was lucky to have a partner who would make him a cup a soup

Good post. This is the reality of it I'm afraid, not a competition for who is the most shameful drunk we know to make us all feel superior.

skippy15

If I can't name one of my friends does it mean it's me?:eek:

Banjo String

You're only an alcoholic if you drink more than your gp. (apparently)

syklops

Frynge wrote: »

Shane McGowen

How that guy is still alive I don't know.

There will be a few Phd's made from his autopsy.

Merkin

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is

I think that's moderate. Far more sensible than being teetotal for a week or two and then going out and cutting through 50 units in one sitting.

porsche959

Dennis Hopper claimed to have been drinking a half a gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side and twenty-eight beers per day at his worst.

But he also said he couldn't remember much of that period so how could he be able to remember exactly how much he was drinking!

WhiteWalls

Merkin wrote: »

I think that's moderate. Far more sensible than being teetotal for a week or two and then going out and cutting through 50 units in one sitting.

Good point, never thought of it like that

porsche959

syklops wrote: »

How that guy is still alive I don't know.

There will be a few Phd's made from his autopsy.

Part of that is a persona, the persona of being Shane. Not to say he doesn't put away somewhat over the recommended limits.

porsche959

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is

Pints of what?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is

My dad does that. Reckons it's better than drinking 15 pints in one session. I'd tend to agree.

Sir Osis of Liver.

My Boards user name is up for auction.

Two slabs and a bottle of Smirnoff and its yours.

Banjo String

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is

A fcuking WHOLE pint every night even on a Monday ......

How in under fůck is he still a living person?

humbert

I've a friend who doesn't drink. Absolutely useless alcoholic.

razorgil

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is[/QUote


uh oh....

catallus

porsche959 wrote: »

Dennis Hopper claimed to have been drinking a half a gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side and twenty-eight beers per day at his worst.

I've been looking for an interview he did on the BBC in or around 1999-2002, I saw it one night and it was really interesting, he said he drank so much and took so much bad quality drugs, he came back to the US after filming something and was going to kill himself but an ex-gf stopped him, I can't find it anywhere, but it was a really good 30 minute interview. His description of the self-inflicted harm the drink and drugs did to him was chilling.

Custardpi

porsche959 wrote: »

Part of that is a persona, the persona of being Shane. Not to say he doesn't put away somewhat over the recommended limits.

You'd wonder also how much of that is actually the reality these days & how much is just playing up to his reputation e.g. drinking a pint & having his entourage tell everyone it's his 12th.

WhiteWalls

Keith Richards snorted his old mans ashes, dunno if that can be topped

Karl Stein

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night.

Do not approach this man, he may be dangerous.

syklops

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is

Replace pint with tea in that sentence and come back to us.

You think thats a problem with drink? :rolleyes:

WhiteWalls

Technically somebody that has one drink a night is an alcoholic because they would not be able to function without this drink

Merkin

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Technically somebody that has one drink a night is an alcoholic because they would not be able to function without this drink

Says who?

Bassfish

Custardpi wrote: »

You'd wonder also how much of that is actually the reality these days & how much is just playing up to his reputation e.g. drinking a pint & having his entourage tell everyone it's his 12th.

Doubt he has much of an entourage these days to be fair and he definitely still hits it hard. He was at the FM music store for a signing a couple of years back and refused to sign anything until he had a bottle of brandy in front of him. A lad working in the shop had to run up to Dunnes and get him one. Sad way to be in my view but he seems to enjoy it.

amdublin

DellyBelly wrote: »

I know a guy in work who has at least a pint every night. Even Mondays. He than might have 4 or 5 pints on a Saturday and a Sunday. If that isn't a problem with drink I don't know what is

Yep that's true

hfallada

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Technically somebody that has one drink a night is an alcoholic because they would not be able to function without this drink

In places like France and Italy most people have a glass of wine with their dinner. But that doesnt make them an alcoholic. But if they were having 2/3 bottles a night, that makes them an alcoholic.

Only 3% of Irish people drink everyday which is the lowest in the EU. But we are the biggest binge drinkers in the EU

amdublin

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Technically somebody that has one drink a night is an alcoholic because they would not be able to function without this drink

Function as what?

I wouldn't risk functioning as a driver. But everything else I am pretty much unaffected

corner of hells

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Technically somebody that has one drink a night is an alcoholic because they would not be able to function without this drink

How do you know they couldn't function ?

Sir Osis of Liver.

I know a fella who showing off in the pub ,amid the pleas of his fellow boozers not to, made a bet that he could slug off a bottle of whiskey in one slug.

The poor bastard had a stroke while 3/4 way through the bottle and is now blind in one eye and the left hand side of his body does fcuk all.

Be careful out there lads.

Karl Stein

Merkin wrote: »

Says who?

AA I suspect.

A huge amount of bullshit pseudo-expertise has attached itself to alcohol addiction.

syklops

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Technically somebody that has one drink a night is an alcoholic because they would not be able to function without this drink

There is so much bollocks in this sentence...

amdublin

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I know a fella who showing off in the pub ,amid the pleas of his fellow boozers not to, made a bet that he could slug off a bottle of whiskey in one slug.

The poor bastard had a stroke while 3/4 way through the bottle and is now blind in one eye and the left hand side of his body does fcuk all.

Be careful out there lads.

Or you could end up with your username :eek:

syklops

Already the "I know a fella / I know a guy" stories have started.

Karl Stein wrote: »

AA I suspect.

A huge amount of bullshit pseudo-expertise has attached itself to alcohol addiction.

Absolutely. Between AA, the church(the shame of it!), and peoples general ignorance, there is a lot of myths around about alcohol and people addicted to it.

dee_mc

Technically somebody that has one drink a night is an alcoholic because they would not be able to function without this drink

Not so. That theory is based on the idea of dependence, with the idea being that the guy who cannot function without his one pint every single day, or every second day, or whatever, is an alcoholic, in that his daily life is adversely effected by his relationship with alcohol.

beano345

Man I know who tries to hide his drinking from his wife by various means including pretending to drive down for the paper filling the window washer compartment in his car with vodka.then nips down to his garage with a straw to drink it throughout the day

syklops

beano345 wrote: »

Man I know who tries to hide his drinking from his wife by various means including pretending to drive down for the paper filling the window washer compartment in his car with vodka.then nips down to his garage with a straw to drink it throughout the day

Another "man I know" story.

Banjo String

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Keith Richards snorted his old mans ashes, dunno if that can be topped

Spoof story.

beano345 wrote: »

Man I know who tries to hide his drinking from his wife by various means including pretending to drive down for the paper filling the window washer compartment in his car with vodka.then nips down to his garage with a straw to drink it throughout the day

He should be on dragons den.