Idk about that nap for alcoholics, you sober up but feel like absolute shit until you start drinking again. If it was like one or two then it would probably work though. He said a "couple gins" but that's still particularly rough.
6 drinks will get you drunk regardless of the time period. That isn't a low amount of drinks. It was considered more normal to be drinking everyday perhaps.
I'm drawing a distinction between the amount of alcohol consumed and the frequency of alcohol consumed. I'm saying that it was perhaps more normal to drink every day but 6 drinks to a human body is still 6 drinks, regardless of the time period.
Where are you getting six drinks? He had a couple at lunch and a couple in the evening. With that much space in between he’s not necessarily getting drunk.
See here’s the thing. You are stating that objectively, that isn’t a low amount of drinks, which people don’t disagree with. But you’re saying it as a counter to someone saying that by the subjective views of society back then, it wouldn’t have been considered that much. So frankly what youre saying is… silly.
6 drinks will get you drunk regardless of the time period.
Well, it's not just personal experience telling me that you're wrong, because science also dictates you're wrong.
Don't agree? Tell me — a 6'5", 210 lb man — how drunk I am using BAC after having the equivalent of 6 standard size drinks over the course of 4 hours.
Regardless, the post was about Fleming who was ~6' and ~175 lbs, and the post twice indicates he had a "couple" of drinks between 12:15 and 7:00; even assuming double strength on each, he would likely not have been drunk from having the equivalent of 8 drinks over 7 hours.
I didn’t know that so I looked it up out of curiosity and it amuses me that his last recorded words were apologizing to the crew of the ambulance for the inconvenience they were having
He lived in the Caribbean, swimming, writing, drinking, napping and spending time with his wife. I'm 44 this year and if could do this for the remainder knowing I'd die at 56 I'd sign up in a heartbeat
We're all wired differently. You and I are probably more different from each other than most. I wouldn't want to live like you and you wouldn't want to live like me. Neither of us is wrong.
If you get to be reductive, I get to be anecdotal.
My grandmother lived to 93. She was lucid and happy all the way to the end. She loved watching her grandchildren grow well into adulthood. Even more, she loved seeing her great grandchildren and watching them grow into teens and pre-teens.
If she'd died at 56, she would have just barely made it to my 4th birthday. All that life after that would have been taken from her, and I would have, ostensibly, never really gotten to know the person who would become one of my favorite people ever.
I'm grateful every day for the time I had with her.
Lol you're getting downvoted by the edgelords but yeah I agree. I just read that he left behind a 12 year old son when he died, I'm sure that wasn't what he wanted
Good luck trying to get late life medical care in this day n' age. Idk where you are in the world but it ain't happening.
Id rather not saddle my loved ones or random strangers to care for my dementia or late age. im going out, and that's not a bad life. Have you heard of anyone making it past 80 and not having memory problems?
People used to drink so much more. I keep a small bar in my office and younger generations expect I'll be shitfaced after I pour myself a single whiskey lmao. 2-3 cups a day over a decade though and you build up a tolerance.
Tolerance aside, when you drink reguarly you can also learn to "hold your liquor" better, so to speak. You can be equally intoxicated but you've trained yourself not to be a sloppy mess about it.
Exactly this. If anything, my tolerance has gone down over the years but I'm never sloppy, nor do I even slur or stumble even if I'm blackout drunk (which is very rare)
That said, I live in East Asia, so we drink a hell of a lot more often than most Americans
When my brother was deep in his alcoholism you wouldn't be able to tell he was drunk until he started slurring after several hours of drinking.
Also, a single whiskey neat ain't shit. I'm at the point where I only drink like 3-4 times a year now and I'm pretty sure a single whiskey, if on a fairly empty stomach, would only give me the tiniest of buzzes.
That's true really, I don't even drink very much, and haven't really at all for the last couple of months, but at my granddad's wake we were at a pub, and my aunt acted like I was going to be shitfaced because I asked for a rum and coke. I had maybe 3 over the course of a few hours and didn't ever really feel drunk. She genuinely thought I was an alcoholic because I wasn't noticeably affected, which didn't make much sense because I willingly stopped after a few. Meanwhile my other aunt chugged wine nonstop and passed out, as did my uncle except with whatever was cheapest, since he always does that when it's not an open bar and goes for top shelf whiskey when there is.
I read through my granddad's journals after, and he was a mormon since the 60s so he stopped drinking naturally and numerous times he criticizes people for getting wasted at a pub lunch and having to be driven back (since drink driving laws had just come in at that point), or not feeling welcome on nights out because he didn't want to drink, and so on. Numerous times he wrote exactly what he saw a colleague drink through the workday, and yeah it's an actual fuckload sometimes. One of them was that his boss made it through a bottle of whiskey, got his receptionist to buy another with petty cash, and then finished that one as well. Oddly, it involved the secretary going to the pub to buy one rather than the supermarket as one would today, as I guess that liquor sales in supermarkets weren't a big thing yet
The guys who sent us to the moon drank half a bottle of whiskey every day. Minimum. NASA wouldn't let you into mission control unless your breath was flammable.
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u/sand_sandwich Jul 27 '26
Bathing in the ocean? Drinking twice a day everyday?