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Litre of Spirits Safe????

BuzyLizzy

My 17year old brother recently began college and had started drinking quite a bit. On a usual night out he will drink a bottle of buckfast along with 3pints of beer possibly more for all I know! He is talking about going to a friends house tonight and a few young lads (his age) drinking a litre of vodka EACH. I am wondering of the health problems associated with the consumption of this amount of alcohol in one go before he leaves tonight.

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pagancornflake

Drinking a litre of vodka is fine idea. A lady might choose to sleep with him because he drank a litre of vodka, and displayed the concomitant rowdy behavior.

DB10

rubadub wrote: »

You can multiply up the alcohol contents to get estimates -though drinking neat vodka quickly will have more effect.

e.g. buckfast 14.8%x750ml=11,100
3x4.3%x568ml=7,327

so 18,400 "booze points".

I expect his litre might be the absolut on offer, which is 40%, so 40,000. So he is planning on having over twice the usual.

A litre is like 16x500mlcans of 5% beer, but will hit harder if drank neat or not diluted a lot.

Nicely counted. Considering the state I can be in after 7-8 cans, 16 cans in one evening would certainly be blackout territory. Which as I've found is fun to experience once, when it happens again your in dangerous territory.

I have young mates it's the cool thing "not to remember anything". Usually though that only happens with a blackout where your lying on the floor fcked off your head, so most lie about it.

Anyway bottom line, it is highly likely he won't drink the full amount and is ****e talking like most do. If he does, then you better hope he has some sober mates around. The chances of the whole group drinking that amount are slim to none so he should be alright.

But it is dangerous, the time I blacked out, I was told the next day, a bloke in his late 30s/40s, got me own and started telling me "here have a couple of pills mate, you'll feel alot better", and pulled them out asking did I have much money, I apparently pulled out some money but luckily some mates intervened and ****ed him away.

And it is relatively safe where I go out, but really scum come out everywhere at night preying on the vulnerable drunk.

saintsaltynuts

Back in 1990 a friend of my Da's drank a litre of vodka at a Christmas party.Went to sleep that night and didnt wake up.

HellFireClub

An inquest in Cork has been told how a 19-year-old student died after he drank what was described as a lethal amount of alcohol.
The coroner's court was told that paramedics could not resuscitate Gary Murphy from Palm Drive, Grantstown Village, Waterford, when they were called to his apartment by friends with whom he had been drinking.
He died ten days later at Cork University Hospital.
Mr Murphy, a second-year Arts student at University College Cork, was a keen hurler, and was a member of the Ballygunner U-21 team that won the Waterford Championship on 5 December last year.
The following night they returned to Cork to celebrate their win, and a number of them gathered in Mr Murphy's apartment at Victoria Mills, Victoria Cross, in Cork.
Mr Murphy was drinking cans of beer. He and his friends started a drinking game which involved pulling a card from a deck of playing cards and drinking different amounts of alcohol, depending on the card picked.
The inquest at Cork City Coroner's Court was told that Mr Murphy had more than ten cans of beer before he started drinking vodka neat from a one-litre bottle.
Some of his friends put down money and dared him to drink about a quarter of a litre of the alcohol straight.
He drank around half a litre of vodka in total, in addition to the beer he had drunk earlier.
He became drunk, and fell on a coffee table in the apartment and on the concrete floor of the balcony outside.
He was asleep on a couch when some of his friends removed his clothes.
He was put into an elevator naked and sent up a number of floors before the elevator returned. He was then put to bed. Two more friends then shaved off one of his eyebrows.
Minutes later one of his friends noticed that Mr Murphy's lips had turned blue.
He was placed in the recovery position and an ambulance was called. He was removed to Cork University Hospital but slipped into a coma.
He died ten days later of bronchial pneumonia. The jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure.
Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane described Mr Murphy's death as an unbearable loss. She said the facts of the case were a testament to the risks associated with high alcohol intake.
Speaking at the inquest, Mr Murphy's father Liam said his son's death had devastated their family.
He said Gary loved life, he loved hurling, student life and UCC. He said he missed him terribly but also had great memories.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1104/murphyg.html

Guill

Seen a 65 year old woman down a litre of vodka in 10 minutes!

She is a raging alcoholic but if she can do it...

cleremy jarkson

OP, a litre of vodka has about as many units of alcohol (38 units) as 16.5 pints of beer (at 2.3 units per pint). And if he's drinking it before heading out, I would take a guess that he would be drinking the litre over the course of about 3 hours. And he's 17. I would say there's over a 50% chance something very bad could happen if he does that ie. end up in hospital directly from the alcohol or else by doing something stupid.

And if he drinks even more when he is out he might bring it up to the equivalent of over 20 pints of beer in a night... recipe for serious damage I would imagine..

Tell him not to drink more than half a litre instead...he'll still get as pissed as he should want to be but shouldn't end up in hospital..

fluffo

You need to be a good sibling - drink half of this litre of vodka and then proceed to fill the rest of the bottle with water.

hondasam

The chances are he will puke long before he finishes the bottle. If not getting his stomach pumped once will not do him any harm.

He definitely will not drink vodka again.

[Deleted User]

That is so true, once sickened bad enough, he'll leave that particular drink behind.
Had a run in with Tequilla many many years ago. Thought I could handle it. So I drank about 15 large shots. WRONG, I puked up everything I had ever eaten in that one year.

Still to this day, the smell would make my stomach lurch.

fonecrusher1

Guill wrote: »

Seen a 65 year old woman down a litre of vodka in 10 minutes!

She is a raging alcoholic but if she can do it...

...it means she's had plenty of practice & her liver is probably like a lump of 200 year old swiss cheese.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Jake1 wrote: »

Strange how a lot of boys seem to start out with the buckfest. I dont drink anymore, but even when I did, theres no way I could have put that medicine to my lips :eek:

Obviousy not from Galway so, second highest consumers of Buckfast per capita in the world, behing Glasgow.:) Majority of u-18 year olds drink buckfast down here..

hondasam

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

What, in a pool of your own vomit,piss and shite?

That pleasant thought will make me stop drinking.

Seosaimh77

Tarzan_man wrote: »

Ah sure, gimme the address of the house that the party is at and I'll head over and look after him for you. I'll of course need payment.

Litre of Vodka should do it.

I reckon there'll be a few bottles leftover for you to have when all the young fellas have fallen asleep in their own puke

Tonyandthewhale

If you let him drink that amount...
he might die and you'll never forget it.
he might also **** himself and you'll never let him forget it.

davyjose

TheZohan wrote: »

Choking on the aul vomit is, however.

Or breathing in your vomit, and getting severe pneumonia, and dying from that after 2 weeks of agony.

I always think og the "Hungry Eyes" kid when I read these stories.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8763507.Stay_safe_this_New_Year__says_dad/

Matthew was celebrating with friends in Buckinghamshire and had been challenged to drink shots of the aniseed liquor ouzo as part of a drinking game.

Every time Matthew heard the word hungry in the song Hungry Eyes he had to down a shot.

By the time the song had stopped playing he had consumed 13 shots. He then continued drinking. Later he collapsed and died.

Guill

we used to play the same game to the polices Roxanne song.
We never died.

Seosaimh77

is that because the word 'hungry' isn't in Roxanne??:p

[Deleted User]

Ah, the days when my 2 best friends and I would split a litre bottle of vodka or rum :rolleyes: The worst was splitting the bottle of rum and them having many cans of beers and myself going through at least 1 sixpack of bacardi breezers

anyway yeah he's probably being stupid.
I'd object more, but I think it's more likely to lead to a 'get it out of his system never drink like that again' scenario.

TeddyTedson

safer than weed at least...oh wait :rolleyes:

admiralofthefleet

why would he bother drinking that amount? he wont be able to talk, see walk or remember a thing. isnt the idea of drinking to socialise and enjoy yourself? thats just torture

[Deleted User]

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

why would he bother drinking that amount? he wont be able to talk, see walk or remember a thing. isnt the idea of drinking to socialise and enjoy yourself?

You might want to go around explaining that to half the country!

[Deleted User]

So, OP, dont leave us hanging, did you let the little brother leave the house or what?

Enquiring minds want to know.

admiralofthefleet

bluewolf wrote: »

You might want to go around explaining that to half the country!

i know. im 30 in a couple of weeks, i didnt think it would start showing so soon!

metalfest

why are people taking this so seriously??

the OP's big brother won't drink a litre of vodka.

the brother is 17 and in first year college, of course he is talking himself up, drinking a litre of vodka blah blah, trying to make himself feel cool

bulls**t he'll have a double naggin and he'll think he's daycent....:rolleyes:

and as for whether or not a litre of spirits is safe? it's safe if you're not a moron and dont try to drink it in one sitting...