Worst alcoholic you know?

WhiteWalls · 12-04-2014 11:41PM #1

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 · 12-04-2014 11:43PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:44PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:47PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:47PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:48PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:50PM

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

catallus · 12-04-2014 11:50PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:51PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:51PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:52PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:53PM

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

WhiteWalls · 12-04-2014 11:56PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:56PM

Shane McGowen

Muise... · 12-04-2014 11:57PM

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

DellyBelly · 12-04-2014 11:57PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:58PM

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 · 12-04-2014 11:59PM

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

Banjo String · 13-04-2014 12:00AM

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

syklops · 13-04-2014 12:00AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:00AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:01AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:01AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:02AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:03AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:04AM

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. · 13-04-2014 12:05AM

My Boards user name is up for auction.

Two slabs and a bottle of Smirnoff and its yours.

Banjo String · 13-04-2014 12:06AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:08AM

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

razorgil · 13-04-2014 12:09AM

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 · 13-04-2014 12:09AM

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.

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