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30 beers? Thats crazy
Honesty I would be curious as how a drunk guy got the flamingo. He definitely should be brought to justice but the casino also shouldn't be creating a situation where this is possible to begin with.
"...says he drank between 30 and 40 beers on the night..."
I'm an alcoholic and can't drink 30 Keystones in 24-hours. About half that is my limit. I don't mean cutting myself off, that's all I can drink before I'm bored or tired.
The Flamingo casino in Vegas has a bunch of actual flamingos in one of the courtyards outside where you can eat. It wouldn't be hard to get one, even if you're drunk, because they're already pretty used to people.
Ok up until this comment I thought they were talking about a plastic flamingo and I didn't see what the big deal was.
A real flamingo huh.
wife currently drinks abt 16 glasses of 8% wine a day, before 1pm. every day. also she’s an alcoholic. so there’s that. sigh. i’m tired.
Really? What makes you say that?
is your reply sarcasm? but also diagnosis.
Yes it's sarcasm
I hope she gets the help she needs, but there are support groups for family members of alcoholics out there too if you're struggling.
i am. and thank you. i just need to find and fit one in.
The casino is at fault???
I hope you mean in the case that they served him too much.
There's usually more than one bar and bartender and some of us can pull off looking relatively sober.
Fair, but I know in a lot of US cities that doesn't matter, legally, overserving is overserving.
Fair, but I know in a lot of US cities that doesn't matter, legally, overserving is overserving.
There's usually more than one bar and bartender and some of us can pull off looking relatively sober.
30 beers is bullshit. He would have died of alcohol poisoning.
A person can only drink about 3L of liquid per day.
So unless each beer was 100ml -> less than a standard beer can, this bullshit on the physics alone. And everyone here claiming "30 is totally doable, and then some" while ignoring the sheer volume is making themselves look like an idiot. And that's before you consider the effect of the beers from 6am being long gone by the time you're drinking your 12pm beer. Maybe if you're drinking teeny tiny beers..
Clearly you've never been an active alcoholic.
Alcoholics can get alcohol poisoning.
Nonsense! I'll prove it!
They said he gambled "all day", so if he started drinking around noon and entered the flamingo enclosure at 5am, I'd say 30-40 beers is possible. You would certainly be absolutely shitfaced though, even with tolerance.
Most American beers tend to be weak, usually under 6% ABV (especially macrobrews, which rarely go above that and usually hover around 4%).
Drinking a 30 pack of a macro is easily doable if you don't eat anything all day, especially if you're not pairing it with liquor. An experienced drinker could literally drink American macrobrews all day long and maintain a steady buzz without getting drunk. For me, personally, I can't get drunk off of beer alone unless it's above 8-10% ABV. I do 2-4 shots and chase them with 2-3 beers tops. Liquor is just so much stronger here than beer that I don't need more than that.
4% is the lower end even for macrobrews. Budlight is the lighetest mass produced brew and that's ~4.2%, but the standard set you'll find at most generic bars (corona / budweiser / blue moon / lagunitas) at 4.5% / 5% / 5.4% / 6.2% and there are some common brands in the 8%+ range. It's a weird narrative that American beers are all light, it's like people think we ONLY drink bud light when in reality the majority of beer drank by Americans are non-light.
Once you get into the 10%+ range you're not really drinking a "chill and watch the game" type drink anyways. And as you conclude, there are more efficient ways to get there than drinking a 14% lagar.
Am from New Zealand
30 is totally doable, and then some
Especially weak 'Murican beers
It takes a hell of a lot to die from alcohol poisoning
It's actually quite difficult to do, and impossible with beer because you'd have to consume such a huge volume of liquid that you would be vomiting it up before it could be absorbed into your blood stream