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26 shots of whisky

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chatnicknameyousuggested · 30/06/2019 04:49

I am not a drinker, but come on... it's impossible for a person to drink shots of cheap whisky (small shot glass) and not be dead or severely ill?
It's just a tall tale, isn't it?

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Expressedways · 30/06/2019 04:59

Presuming a 750ml bottle and 25ml shots that would be nearly a bottle of whiskey (4 shots short). I don’t disbelieve that someone would drink that much but I would have thought that anyone that isn’t in need of a stomach pump afterwards is probably a seasoned alcoholic. So I call bullshit or major drinking problem.

Quintella · 30/06/2019 05:00

Sounds like a Tom Waits song.

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chatnicknameyousuggested · 30/06/2019 05:02

It's a teenage boy story (not mine).

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Brandyb · 30/06/2019 05:03

Well, is he still alive? There's your answer. Pray tell

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chatnicknameyousuggested · 30/06/2019 05:06

Yes he is alive and well, apparently it didn't affect him that much. Not my DS, fortunately.

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SaskiaRembrandt · 30/06/2019 05:21

It's a teenage boy story (not mine).

Ah - he's probably also had eleventy-million sexual partners, goes clubbing every night till 5am, and once beat Chuck Norris in a fight outside a chip shop.

IAmAlwaysLikeThis · 30/06/2019 05:35

A teenager, no.

Some old pissheads could probably manage it though.

MrsGrannyWeatherwax · 30/06/2019 06:11

A person whose trained themselves can easily do that, but a teenager ... shouldn’t have had the time to build up that high an alcohol resistance.

Probably flavoured water out of a whiskey bottle.

maggienolia · 30/06/2019 06:17

My MIL could have managed it...sounds like a tall story though.

Sexnotgender · 30/06/2019 06:17

Definitely a tall tale he’s telling.

Wizened old alky might manage it but teenage boy, no.

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chatnicknameyousuggested · 30/06/2019 06:23

Here comes the dripfeed... it was apparently whisky from the Ukraine. In which case the poor boy's insides need replacing.

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Winebottle · 30/06/2019 06:33

That's equivalent to 13 pints of beer.

It's definitely possible to do that and not have any effects other than a mild hangover.

GMtoBe · 30/06/2019 06:46

My brother is an alcoholic and has been for nearly 20 years and he will drink a 750ml bottle of whiskey and sometimes more in one sitting. I do doubt a teenager could do the same and I would be very concerned if he could.

YouJustDoYou · 30/06/2019 06:52

"26 shots" = "5 shots" in real life.

dudsville · 30/06/2019 06:52

I think it's possible, especially a teen, but I doubt it's possible to drink that much asund keep accurate records. So either someone else was counting for him or the story is exaggerated.

TheLovleyChebbyMcGee · 30/06/2019 06:57

I once drank a full bottle of vodka when I was maybe 20, I was used to drinking vodka, it not in that amount. I was extremely ill and very hungover the next day. Like, unable to function level, I've never done it again since!

tabulahrasa · 30/06/2019 07:08

I accidentally drank a 750ml bottle of vodka a couple of years ago (I was pouring my own, there was dancing and it was hot)

I’m definitely not an alcoholic and quite often go months without a drink at all... I was fine, I mean I was very hungover, but not seriously ill or anything.

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 30/06/2019 08:42

My friend's son, as a teenage boy, drank his way through most of a bottle of whisky before vomiting spectacularly and passing out in the garden of a friend's house.

Fortunately his friends called his parents who took him home, put him in the recovery position and sat up with him all night.

x2boys · 30/06/2019 10:16

When I was a student my friend drank 22 shots of very cheap and nasty tequila (there was a bar we frequented that soldr them on a Thursday night for 50pence) She was very sick an hungover the next day.

Evilspiritgin · 30/06/2019 10:29

Most probably an exaggerated tale, mind you in my youth (about 21) a lad I worked with said he would try and fix my dads computer while my parents were on holiday, we had an Indian takeaway, a bottle of red wine a load of whiskey and then I is my wisdom decided to open my dads bottle of poteen, I sent him home hardly able to walk I went to bed and woke the next day feeling like hell

ReggaetonLente · 30/06/2019 10:30

Bottle of whiskey? Completed it mate.

Chip22 · 30/06/2019 10:32

Had a few, got so drunk he lost the ability to count...

CakeNinja · 30/06/2019 10:33

I’m a vodka drinker but nearly a full bottle would make me incredibly hungover the next day, as I’m unable to do anything other than shuffle to the loo and beg someone to bring me food that I wouldn’t be able to eat anyway. I’ve only drunk that amount in one evening once - the after effects were not pretty!! I drank quite a lot yesterday but everything was served with a glass of water alongside it (mainly because we were bloody melting) and I feel okay today.
I think there’s an element of truth in this lad’s story but not the whole thing. Something has become distorted along the way.

Whisky2014 · 30/06/2019 10:37

My husband has drunk half a large bottle in one night before. On numerous occasions. His friends have too.

Whisky2014 · 30/06/2019 10:39

And he has drunk a whole bottle before too come to think of it.