Reply With QuoteThey let him down two pints of vodka before boarding a plane? Gotta love them Germans.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/.../airport_vodka
I have a grand uncle that did something similar once. But it was a box of beer.
They let him down two pints of vodka before boarding a plane? Gotta love them Germans.
That man is a hero, a testament to what sheer will power and stubbornness can do.
He almost killed himself too. After drinking it he ended up in the hospital.
It's not really hardcore drinking unless someone ends up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. Who hasn't had that happen during a crazy weekend?
So two pints of vodka in two minutes is the real-life equivalent to the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster? Sweet!Instead, he chugged the vodka — and was quickly unable to stand or otherwise function, police said.
“Oh don’t give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit
No, don’t you give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit
For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die
Won’t you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit”
Give him a currywurst, he'll be fine. So, what does a liter of vodka cost in Germany? Is this guy just really, really, really, cheap? That's not that much booze to toss away. I betcha he was hammered when he got there too. Still, I can't imagine chugging that much vodka without barfing and I'm no teetotaler.
Just for people who aren't aware (not saying that you aren't Rich, just using you as the reference for the amount):Originally Posted by RichVR
Pint = 375mL
2 x 375mL = 750mL = 1 "Fifth" of vodka.
A shot is between 35mL and 50mL, so the guy chugged around 20 something shots of vodka in one go.
Since they specifically mentioned two pints, I'm going to assume that it was a cheap ass vodka like Mr. Boston or McCormick and say that that goes for about 8$.
Meaning he put himself in the hospital to save the equivalent of 8-10$.
Um, me. I like to tie one on but the fun stops when the ambulance arrives.
Real men hit on the EMT.
Half a bottle of wine? A bit more I would think, even the lightweight American pint, which I have just discovered...
US pint
British pint
375mL is the amount in a Pint sized liquor bottle. I know, it sounds absurd. I'm also absolutely correct -- I hand about 100 of those things to customers every day.
http://www.bartonbrands.com/mrbostonvodka.html
Check the table at the bottom of the page.
Also,
Since it is (presumably, I mean it IS yahoo, right?) an American news source, I figured they are using the liquor store definition.
Terrifyingly, they could mean the actual pint (~500mL), in which case he drank about 5 to 7 more shots (25% more) than I thought he did. But he... you'd be pretty close to dead after 20 shots, so I figured there's no effing way he took 25.
Last edited by Aeon221; 12-12-2007 at 06:43 PM.
Joking aside, I did have a weekend like that. It involved a brewing war, the consumption of tremendous amounts of alcohol, barely making formation, a drunken soldier wandering in at 2am, a body slam, convulsions, medics, and said soldier disappearing into the hospital for a week. I'd started drinking with him in the morning and quit at about noon. He kept going.
The guy was German, so the "two pints" most likely refers to a 750 ml bottle which is the standard size for alcoholic beverages heavier than beer.
Also, he's from Dresden which means he's an Ossi. Go figure! First we give them free Egyptian vacations with our hard-earned tax deutschmarks, then they waste the opportunity for a bottle of cheap vodka...
I think they'd definately be talking the 550ml pints and not the 400's..
once, when younger, some friends of mine and I had a 750ml of Vodka and were on our way to drink it.
Some guy stopped us and asked for a sip, we said we hadn't mixed it yet and he said that was ok.
We gave him the bottle and he polished off half of it in a couple of chugs.
It was quite the "Wow" moment later replaced by "Hey, that bastard drank half our Vodka!".
I don't think so, that doesn't work out with German bottle sizes. The article talks about a single bottle of vodka, and I've never seen a 1 liter bottle of vodka. Maybe they have them in Russia, though!
If he was an Ossi, he spent most of his life (ages 6 through 46) in a society where consumerism / useless spending wasn't idealized (I've only spent a couple of days in East Berlin before '89, so I hardly know what I'm talking about, but I seem to remember that things were scarce, especially things you can buy). He probably spent a decade saving up for a Trabant, and then another decade after he bought it, waiting for its delivery. I can imagine that tossing away an entire bottle of liquor would strike him as a sinful waste.
Oh, and Dutch vodka can be bought in liter bottles.
Rward: I saw a mate drink 1/4 of Absinthe (85% pure, black death, 750mL bottle) in a single gulp. He shut down after 30 minutes but the bastard did not vomit.
As for this German, that's why we won the war.
Whoa, I've never done one that bad. I have had a good party interrupted by an ambulance though and that's never fun even though the circumstances were hilarious in retrospect.
It wan an outdoor event on a nice summer night and everyone was having a good time drinking and socializing. A girl ambles up to me and she's obviously had about 5 more cocktails than prudent, but this girl has always impressed me with her ability to soak up alcohol and not pass out or get sick. I mention to her I'm impressed with how well she's handling her (extensive) drinking and she promptly launches into a long speech about how her Irish ancestry makes her a better drinker than any of the rest of us lightweight. This impressive rant is culminated when she steps backwards from me, bumps into someone, steps back from them, trips over a lawn chair, and falls down and dislocates her knee.
After the nice EMTs had put her knee back in place and she was feeling a lot better we all had a good laugh over it but at the time it was definitely a panicky buzzkill.
If they had just used the effing metric system, we wouldn't all be arguing about amounts.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/77700
A good follow up article to post. Though I'm sure the guy is way beyond any of it's recommendations.
This fact situation is missing his weight.
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