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Worst alcoholic you know?

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  • #32
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


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


  • #34
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #36
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


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


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  • #37
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭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?:confused:


  • #38
    Bassfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #40
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭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


  • #41
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭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 :confused:


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  • #42
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭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 ?


  • #43
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Merkin wrote: »
    Says who?:confused:

    AA I suspect.

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


  • #45
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • #46
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #47
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭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


  • #50
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #51
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    syklops wrote: »
    Another "man I know" story.

    The thread is looking for "man I know" stories! It's in the thread title!! Aaargh!


  • #53
    whitey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭whitey1


    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



    LOL-that's warming up for most MODERATE drinkers


  • #54
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    syklops wrote: »
    Another "man I know" story.

    Yeah your right he's been a figment of my imagination all along.I deliver drink for a living........ you tend to meet some pretty desperate cases along the way


  • #55
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    catallus wrote: »
    The thread is looking for "man I know" stories! It's in the thread title!! Aaargh!

    It would be nice if the stories were true though right?


  • #56
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    amdublin wrote: »
    Or you could end up with your username :eek:
    No swaps,thanks.


  • #57
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    beano345 wrote: »
    Yeah your right he's been a figment of my imagination all along.I deliver drink for a living........ you tend to meet some pretty desperate cases along the way

    If you deliver drink for a living you must have loads of plausible stories, why not share one of them?


  • #58
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    syklops wrote: »
    If you deliver drink for a living you must have loads of plausible stories, why not share one of them?

    Eh I just did...you be surprised at the lengths some people go to for alcohol


  • #59
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    syklops wrote: »
    It would be nice if the stories were true though right?

    You're very cynical tonight. Tell us a story about a man you know?


  • #60
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,162 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


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

    So someone who is following the recommended way of drinking alcohol is an alcoholic! There have been a few studies which have proven that drinking that way is better than not drinking alcohol at all.


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  • #61
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Personally, I'd stop drinking right now, if I could find another way of getting all this alcohol into me :)


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