36 pints - the most savage drinking session I've personally heard of.

Tefral wrote: »

28 500ml cans of Heineken. We used to do this thing when the recession hit. Recession saving sessions. Pick a day of the six nations where there was 3 matches on and session on for the day in the house. One of the lads drank 28 cans between 12.30pm and 2am. I managed 19 and I couldn't fit another drop in me. Literally full to the brim. I dunno how he managed 28. Serious hollow leg.

Great days though. About 6 of us having a laugh. Couldn't do it now. I'd be dying for a week after 10 pints

Larbre34 wrote: »

I was at a wedding in China, big industrialist married off his daughter to a pal of mine. About 20 Irish at the gig, 12 lads or so. Mr local big noise has all his business associates and flunkeys at the bash (a bizarre do in itself, but I digest).

As you may know, the Chinese love a drop of the craythur, any spirit really but a good European whiskey preferably for the monied among them (never Japanese, they really hate those guys). The reception, well the whole event really, was split into two massive meals at really strange times, a brunch before midday and a dinner about 5. There were almost 500 people there and the tradition is that the happy couple have a drink at every table.

The bride ducked out, but my pal the Groom, and his best men, sank close to 30 shots of Irish in about 2 hours and only one of the groomsmen came up short in stamina.

That in itself was the damnest bit of of boozing I ever saw, but it led to consequences for the rest of us. The Chinese lads, I mean pretty much all of them, decided it was a mixture between hospitality and honour that they should challenge their visitors to drinking competitions. So we obliged, and it left us in a fairly bad way, but the there was carnage among the Chinese. Lads passed out had to be dragged out by those almost passed out themselves. We found some old guy in a flower bed hours later asleep in his own puke, lucky he hadnt died of choking on it. As for us, we got the munchies and found a McDonalds.

Forget 36 pints. 30 shots of Irish and still standing.

worded wrote: »

I went to a party once in Dublin and drank that much I woke up in Brazil

doolox wrote: »

His accent and casually aggressive style of talking reminds me very strongly of the labouring class from South Galway in the 1950's/60's.

Most were gentlemen behind all the bluster and wouldn't hurt a fly but could talk the talk and back it up if they had to, which was very seldom.

check_six wrote: »

Really depends on the time span of the session. The 36 pints would have been drank over a much longer time span than the 30 shots. The 36 pints might have been drank over the course of maybe 7-9 hours. The 30 shots might have been sunk over the 3-4 hours of a wedding party after all the speeches, etc. That is apocalyptic level booze sessioning by any standard.

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

That's a bit rich coming from a sloppy drunk like Sheen. It's funny how all the people famous for having the ability to hold drink are usually sloppy drunks, Alex Higgins, Olly Reed, Peter O Toole, Sinatra etc al. I once had the privilege of drinking with the late Pat Eddery. It's one thing downing 36 drinks, it's another thing being able to behave yourself in a proper manner afterwards. Eddery was a class act, a gentleman. Counting drinks is something frat boys and people from Cavan do. Real drinkers don't keep a tally.

rossie1977 wrote: »

Imagine sharing a plane ride with him after 100 bottles of beer https://m.imgur.com/gallery/wAjClWV

Mickiemcfist wrote: »

You know Charlie Sheen isn't on Boards right?

Hector Bellend wrote: »

I'd have that for brekkie

FCIM wrote: »