If you could go on the beer with one person from history who would it be?

Itssoeasy · 26-09-2020 11:35pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I'd probably have a few cans in a field with good ol' Spike Milligan.

Yeah I’d say he’d be a good laugh alright. I mean that story of him going into an undertakers and shouting “shop” is very funny.

WoollyRedHat · 26-09-2020 11:50pm

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Dont forget Sir Peter Sellers?

If I can exceed my quota then certainly. I would have a go-to story for life.

completedit · 27-09-2020 12:44am

TheValeyard wrote: »

Rasputin. Legend has it he was some fella for the sess.

Also, dafuq was really going on when he was part of the Royal Court.

Was thinking of the big man; would just be worried he'd be a bit to enigmatic. I always imagine him as a sort of Russel Brand character. Poor Nicholas

Plumbthedepths · 27-09-2020 1:04am

Pronto63 wrote: »

I also remember him from various chat shows during my childhood. A brilliant raconteur.
I can’t imagine he’d be mad for the gargle though.

From the session point of view:
Oliver Reed
Richard Harris
George Best

I wouldn’t be able to keep up but fun trying.

Would love to chat to Spike Mulligan - a strange mind!

Fun fact Oliver and Richard went on a bender and ended up buying a pub while p*ssed.

Strumms · 27-09-2020 1:08am

seenitall wrote: »

William Shakespeare, Nikola Tesla, Graham Greene, Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles.

Tesla would be interesting... I’d want to know how he came to evaluate that earth is a conductor of acoustical resonance.

JustAThought · 27-09-2020 1:27am

Catherine de Medici - the power behind the French court & throne,
a billionaire in her time and an expert in political
manipulation and poisons.

Tom Crean thou I hear he never
spoke about his incredible adventures once he got home so only if he’s in a chatty mood.

Marco Polo but preferably if you could get him off the battlefield Ghenghis Khan.

Marlene Dietrich would be a great night out too.

StupidLikeAFox · 27-09-2020 1:34am

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Has to be Jesus Christ..even to ask him straight out did he really come back from the dead? If so, it kind of turns the whole question of an afterlife on its head and would give immense peace and comfort to the world. Without that, we just have to take the word of the bible..

W: Did you really come back from the dead?
JC: No
W: Ok

Could be a ****e enough night after that to be fair

ShatterAlan · 27-09-2020 2:33am

RandomName2 wrote: »

Julius Caesar.

A soldier, celebrity, general, statesman, dictator, poet, historian. He literally created the Roman Empire.

Besides the language barrier, I can't think of a better person.

Julius Caesar walks into a bar and asks the barman for a "martinus".

Barman says "Don't you mean a martini?"

Julius says "If I wanted a double I would have said so."

ShatterAlan · 27-09-2020 2:34am

I'd have to go with John F. Kennedy.

Apparently a great sense of humour and can you imagine being HIS wingman on a session.

Airyfairy12 · 27-09-2020 2:40am

Hunter S Thompson, Gráinne Ní Mháille, Van Gogh and Anne Bonny,
Thats four but I dont care!

Quantum Erasure · 27-09-2020 2:43am

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

W: Did you really come back from the dead?
JC: No
W: Ok

Could be a ****e enough night after that to be fair

What about that water into wine trick?

Oh, that I can do...

Quantum Erasure · 27-09-2020 2:49am

Keith Richards
Joe Stalin
Genghis Khan
Chairman Mao
Napoleon Bonaparte

https://www.buzz.ie/football/ex-ireland-international-baffles-fans-with-dream-dinner-party-guests-including-stalin-388238

ShatterAlan · 27-09-2020 2:53am

saabsaab wrote: »

Hitler didn't smoke, hardly ever drank and didn't eat meat. Must have got his kicks in other ways.

Apparently he didn't drink either. Got plastered one day when he was an artist in Vienna and passed out in a ditch. Was discovered by a milk maid the next day and never drank again.

ShatterAlan · 27-09-2020 3:07am

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Probably a roman emperor but there's a lot to choose from, while marcus aurelius was probably the best emperor maybe a bit too deep and self desiplined for a proper piss up. While a night out with one of the mad, bad ones could go too far into debauchery.

A session with Caligula could be great craic or fatal depending on the mad bastard's whim.

Your Face · 27-09-2020 3:12am

Just some medieval scumbag peasant.

Nobody famous - they all are ****.

ShatterAlan · 27-09-2020 3:15am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Fun fact Oliver and Richard went on a bender and ended up buying a pub while p*ssed.

I read that too, though I think it might have been Harris, Richard Burton and Albert Finney. Apparently the landlord called time. They weren't ready to call it a night so they offered to buy the pub and for him to name his price. He quoted a price and they agreed and wrote a cheque and continued to drink away. The next day he broached the subject and ripped up the cheque saying he knew they were locked and was just humouring them.

Fast forward a few years when the pub owner, with whom they had developed a fond friendship, died and they attended his funeral. Pissed again at the funeral except they were at the wrong funeral as one of the other mourners asked them how they knew the deceased.

:pac:

Atlantic Dawn · 27-09-2020 3:18am

Saddam Hussein to ask him if he really invaded Kuwait because they were stealing his oil by slant drilling at his border. Perhaps one of the most important decisions in the current state of peace in the world. The UN should have investigated if he was being robbed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait

ShatterAlan · 27-09-2020 3:26am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Saddam Hussein to ask him if he really invaded Kuwait because they were stealing his oil by slant drilling at his border. Perhaps one of the most important decisions in the current state of peace in the world. The UN should have investigated if he was being robbed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait

The geologists confirmed the slant drilling. US envoy April Glaspie assured Saddam that there would be no response from the US if he retaliated against Kuwait. Of course she lied. He fell for the trap set by the US. But that's another discussion.

ShatterAlan · 27-09-2020 3:27am

I think I'd like to have a session with Diana Dors as well.

Just so others could gawp at me with this blonde bombshell.
She was a brassy one too. Used to have orgies at her gaff and film them and watch the footage the next day.

The Belly · 27-09-2020 3:30am

The Clintons and see for sure if they are bat **** crazy.

Quantum Erasure · 27-09-2020 3:44am

ShatterAlan wrote: »

The geologists confirmed the slant drilling. US envoy April Glaspie assured Saddam that there would be no response from the US if he retaliated against Kuwait. Of course she lied. He fell for the trap set by the US. But that's another discussion.

Huh....

simongurnick · 27-09-2020 3:50am

Genghis Khan. Would be some craic watching him outside supermacs at 3 a.m.

gormdubhgorm · 27-09-2020 3:53am

Jack Charlton

skooterblue2 · 27-09-2020 8:32am

The Belly wrote: »

The Clintons and see for sure if they are bat **** crazy.

I would say it would be a grand night out with Bill for some good Kentucky whiskey and a couple of jars...... just dont let him see any black cocktail dresses!!

Galwayguy35 · 27-09-2020 11:19am

TheValeyard wrote: »

Rasputin. Legend has it he was some fella for the sess.

Also, dafuq was really going on when he was part of the Royal Court.

You might regret it, he had a habit of riding his drinking partners.

completedit · 27-09-2020 12:02pm

What about George W before he went on the straight and narrow

I'm not really into gregarious drinking partners; I want someone whose good craic, not some plonker who is gonna try steal my thunder

Skerries · 27-09-2020 12:06pm

Stephen Fry

the purple tin · 27-09-2020 12:11pm

ShatterAlan wrote: »

The geologists confirmed the slant drilling. US envoy April Glaspie assured Saddam that there would be no response from the US if he retaliated against Kuwait. Of course she lied. He fell for the trap set by the US. But that's another discussion.

She also told him if it came to a war 'we will always stand by our friends' ie Saddam.

Then she immediately pissed off on hols for a month so he couldn't contact her.
Old Saddam was stitched up lovely, fell for it hook,line and sinker.

Feisar · 27-09-2020 12:45pm

Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Capt'n Midnight · 28-09-2020 12:52am

Your Face wrote: »

Just some medieval scumbag peasant.

Them lads would be well used to the gargle.

An Ri rua · 28-09-2020 1:02am

Jerome Powell, if I felt it was a night I could hold my beer. He'd just keep printing money to beat the band. The Yankee bollix.
The prophet Mohammed, it would be gas when he's completely ossified telling him what's occurrin'.
Kylie Minogue, because I have nostalgia for old measures and pint sized things of beauty.

Justin Credible Darts · 28-09-2020 3:59am

me.......or at least have a pint with the me of the 80s.

give him some words of wisdom, experience, and of course the future results of sports events so a fortune could be made in the bookies