Big Drinkers

Trollhättan · 12-10-2013 08:42PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Richard Harris was just as bad if not worse. Peter O Toole and RICHARD BURTON. All taken from the Hellrazors book. Great book to enjoy with a drink. Liza Taylor was meant to be worse than them all!!

Hah ....I read that as Richard Bruton! :-)

wexie · 12-10-2013 08:44PM

castletownman wrote: »

Thanks to QI I learned of the Durable Mike Malloy, ....

aka Mike 'Rasputin' Malloy

MJ23 · 12-10-2013 09:25PM

2 crates of Guinness and a half bottle of whiskey.

wazky · 12-10-2013 09:27PM

MJ23 wrote: »

2 crates of Guinness and a half bottle of whiskey.

Only half a bottle?, do you have court or something in the morning?

haveabanana · 12-10-2013 09:31PM

I had five bottles last night and didn't do the washing up until lunchtime today. hashtag mad yoke

Pj! · 12-10-2013 09:38PM

Brendan Behan ('a drinker with a writing problem').

Plenty of famous Irish drinkers for whatever reason.

Too Tough To Die · 12-10-2013 09:41PM

donegal__road wrote: »

Luwig Van Beethoven was alcohol dependent all his life, it killed him in the end.

Not surprised. Dogs shouldn't be drinking.

12-10-2013 09:42PM

As long as I don't eat while drinking I've yet to find my limit when drinking beer, I generally run out of money rather than anything else. I love a night of pint after pint, don't even get to do it once a year though.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-10-2013 10:37PM

Some they say I'm living the rockstar way, hey hey I piss my pants twice a day, You say that I should go join AA , No Way tomorrows Payday!!!!!

Drink it up, Drink it up, drinking like Keith Moon........

Agricola · 12-10-2013 10:45PM

Would loved to have spent a couple of hours in that little rural pub in Cork where Oliver Reed spent his last few years. Must have been gas to see the guy buying drinks for everyone and slowly going from incomprehensible to violent! I believe the place is a bit of a shrine to him now!

Wattle · 12-10-2013 10:56PM

Love Alex Higgins opening line to Stephen Hendry before an important snooker match: 'Hello, I'm the devil'. Class.

electrobanana · 12-10-2013 10:57PM

Jim Lahey the drunk bastard.

An Riabhach · 12-10-2013 11:06PM

Steve Clarke,Def Leppard guitarist.
It was once said that the only time he wasn't drinking was when he was onstage-he was always in and out of hospitals and then one night he went on a serious drinking binge in his apartment which included about 5 or 6 bottles of vodka among other stuff,keeled over on the couch and never woke up.Drank himself to death,literally.

Pat Mustard · 12-10-2013 11:21PM

Larry Hagman had no regrets about his alcoholism. He lived to 81 after a liver transplant.

The lifestyle

On the set of Dallas, Larry would drink steadily from nine in the morning until he went to bed.

He reveals: "I was loaded all the time, all the time, all during Genie, all during Dallas I was loaded.

"Do the first scene, get it into the can, hopefully by nine o'clock and so I'd reward myself, I'd open a bottle of Champagne and start to imbibe."

"It was just steady, steady, steady. I never had a hangover, never felt bad, I never got sober I guess, that's why. I just seemed to work alright and I didn't kick my kids or beat my wife or anything, I was just loaded."
He says of his wife: "Either she was very understanding or I didn't demonstrate that I was drunk."

No regrets

Larry has now been a reformed alcoholic for eight years and although he says he doesn't regret his years of drinking, he sees it as a part of his life that is over.
He remarks: "I think it's made me a better person to be able to come out on the other side.
"I work for the programme and rehabilitation is part of my life now. I like to pass on what I've learned."
Larry's is a story of successful rehabilitation and he offers hope to other alcoholics.
He says: "It's not easy but it's a good path. I like that."

His wife sounds like a very patient lady.

Now, to the pub! Good night, gentle AH people.

hidinginthebush · 12-10-2013 11:30PM

Wattle wrote: »

Love Alex Higgins opening line to Stephen Hendry before an important snooker match: 'Hello, I'm the devil'. Class.

Alex Higgins was pretty bad though. I saw him in a pub when he was fully on the drink, quite a sad sight to see.

Banjo String · 12-10-2013 11:46PM

The Mustard wrote: »

Larry Hagman had no regrets about his alcoholism. He lived to 81 after a liver transplant.

The lifestyle

No regrets

His wife sounds like a very patient lady.

Now, to the pub! Good night, gentle AH people.

And then your feckin man went and shot him.

http://i546.photobucket.com/albums/hh427/thecathoderaychoob/Blog%20Pics/I-Shot-J-R-1.jpg

Smidge · 12-10-2013 11:54PM

Duff McKagan

The "Duffman" from The Simpsons is named after him.
Don't let that fool you, he drank a horrendous amount and his antics? :eek:

Wattle · 12-10-2013 11:59PM

Some classic pissed up Higgins.

taytobreath · 13-10-2013 01:06AM

i no at least half a dozen guys in my town that drank themselves to death, I live in a town where everyone knows everyone. I dont think glorifying how much one can drink does anyone any help when our friends and family are dying all around us from pints. then theres the tv adds, non stop reminders when we should have a scoop

Cee-Jay-Cee · 13-10-2013 01:13AM

I just had half a sherry to help me sleep. I'm a fockin legend me!

Smidge · 13-10-2013 01:28AM

CJC999 wrote: »

I just had half a sherry to help me sleep. I'm a fockin legend me!

Hope you didn't mix your drinks?
Sherry and Horlicks can be a lethal combo

BlurstMonkey · 13-10-2013 01:40AM

Andre the Giant. He was big.

"Roussimoff has been unofficially crowned "The Greatest Drunk on Earth"[68] for once consuming 119 12-US-fluid-ounce (350 ml) beers (over 41 litres) in 6 hours.[69] On an episode of WWE's Legends of Wrestling, Mike Graham said André once drank 156, 16-US-fluid-ounce (470 ml) beers in one sitting, which was confirmed by Dusty Rhodes.
Such feats can be attributed to his large size, which meant it took higher amounts of alcohol to inebriate him. In her autobiography, The Fabulous Moolah writes that André drank 127 beers in a Reading, Pennsylvania hotel bar and later passed out in the lobby. The staff could not move him and had to leave him there until the giant awoke from his slumber."
-from wiki

Horrid Henry · 13-10-2013 04:03AM

Some of the stuff that passes for weekend fun in Ireland would have the Yanks grabbing the clipboards and citing chronic alcoholism.

My own weekly routine is:

1. No booze
2. No booze
3. No booze
4. 2 pints
5. 10 pints, 4 Jaegerbombs and 5 Jack Daniels
6. 8 pints, 4 Jaegerbombs and 10 Jack Daniels.
7. 2 pints

I'm not proud of it, but I wouldn't say that it's outrageous compared to my peers.

BlurstMonkey · 13-10-2013 04:28PM

Horrid Henry wrote: »

Some of the stuff that passes for weekend fun in Ireland would have the Yanks grabbing the clipboards and citing chronic alcoholism.

My own weekly routine is:

1. No booze
2. No booze
3. No booze
4. 2 pints
5. 10 pints, 4 Jaegerbombs and 5 Jack Daniels
6. 8 pints, 4 Jaegerbombs and 10 Jack Daniels.
7. 2 pints

I'm not proud of it, but I wouldn't say that it's outrageous compared to my peers.

If you're paying Irish pub prices for that lot you're being raped with a dildo shaped cheese grater. Your health is one thing and then your pocket is yet another, as in there's stupid and there's really stupid.

13-10-2013 04:34PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I love a night of pint after pint, don't even get to do it once a year though.

I do it at least once a week

13-10-2013 05:11PM

Azalea Fat Minute wrote: »

I do it at least once a week

I just ain't got that kind of money.

The King of Moo · 13-10-2013 05:42PM

Going out to have fun and using alcohol to enhance that experience can be great.

Going out with the intention to drink as much as possible is something I've never understood. I'd assume that someone who drinks a ridiculous amount of alcohol is boring, and unable to find or create amusement while sober or somewhat drunk. Therefore I'd have no interest in spending the evening observing the antics of someone with a major alcohol problem.

Horrid Henry wrote: »

Some of the stuff that passes for weekend fun in Ireland would have the Yanks grabbing the clipboards and citing chronic alcoholism.

My own weekly routine is:

1. No booze
2. No booze
3. No booze
4. 2 pints
5. 10 pints, 4 Jaegerbombs and 5 Jack Daniels
6. 8 pints, 4 Jaegerbombs and 10 Jack Daniels.
7. 2 pints

I'm not proud of it, but I wouldn't say that it's outrageous compared to my peers.

How do you find the time to drink all that, let alone the money?
22 drinks in one day? Either you basically spend all of Saturday drinking, or you're drinking those ridiculously fast. Why not drink half of that amount so you can drink at a more relaxed pace, save yourself money, and still get drunk.
You're free to do whatever you want of course, I just don't see the point in spending that much money, and I'm sure you're aware of the massive damage keeping that routine up will do to you.

13-10-2013 05:47PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Going out to have fun and using alcohol to enhance that experience can be great.

Going out with the intention to drink as much as possible is something I've never understood. I'd assume that someone who drinks a ridiculous amount of alcohol is boring, and unable to find or create amusement while sober or somewhat drunk. Therefore I'd have no interest in spending the evening observing the antics of someone with a major alcohol problem.

Some people, like me, love being very, very drunk. Very very few people can tell the difference between merry me and black-out me.

Savoir.Faire · 13-10-2013 05:59PM

I relish a good old weekend on the razzle from time-to-time. I love when the Irish rugby team are playing in Dublin as I use it as an excuse to let the hair down and imbibe a large quantity of turps. 5 or 6 pints before the game to wet the whistle, then a hipflask of whiskey to warm the gills. Then back into town for a bite to eat, couple of glasses of wine, then back on Uncle Arthur's Elixir until I'm as drunk as a skunk. Invariably end up stumbling out of Leggs at some ridiculous hour rather the worse for wear.

I'm a rambunctious drunk, but never messy or obnoxious. The worst thing about it is the next day, when my eyes look like a greyhound's bollocks on a frosty morning. Not as big a fan of the hair of the dog cure as I was.

kneemos · 13-10-2013 05:59PM

Don't know if it's an Irish phenomena or a universal thing,but whatever happens on a night out an Irish person will always remember how many pints they had.
Is it a measure of the quality of the night or bragging or something?

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