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NOBODY can drink like that and not have their heart explode...


Come on, I dont care how full-on alki he is, if you guzzle hard liquor like he did, in the quantities that he did, I'm pretty sure your vital organs would immediately seize up and explode/implode...

"The psychologists call him a psychopath. They don't know what else to call him."

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You can drink like that. I have. Sure I almost died but here I am ! Not dead so yes...you can drink like that. Took me a long time to build up that kind of tolerance. Been drinking since I was 12. I really wanted to drink. So I did. I drank alot.
Then when I was 19 my gf broke up with me and that really messed me up. I tried to drink myself do death. So over that summer all I did was drink. From when I opened my eyes til I closed them I drank. Thats all I did.
One morning my family sat down to have breakfast and I got up from bed and opened my bottle that I had next to bed. Anyway I sat down at the table and said to my brother good morning. Then I drank the bottle in one sitting.
Only took a few seconds but I drank the whole thing. And I looked at my brother and laughed and said " it goes down as easy as water" He laughed and shook his head. And my mom slapped me over the head.

Anyway after drinking like that for 3 months I almost died. I had 5.1 in promille and the doctors was shocked that I was still alive. My point is you can drink like that. Over time you build up tolerance.






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I have a best friend..ok, tbh I had a best friend who could drink an enormous amount of alcohol in a short time. He didn't drink at all until he discovered vodka around age 25(1995) and he's never stopped since. I visited him in 2001 and the first bad sign was we went to a restaurant bar and he ordered 2 double jacks. He called me up blitzed out of his mind after the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in Jan, 2003. For a few years after that we just emailed each other lol. Around 2010 his wife left him after he went on a bender and threw up all over her house. He saw the after effects, she was terrified - Divorce. His mom left the state he was in because she couldn't take it anymore. I visited him in 2014 and he never stopped drinking for one minute. He started turning into a monster in front of my eyes whereas before he had mostly been a friendly drunk. One night we went to a local restaurant, in the parking lot he went straight to a woman who was sitting at an outside table with her boyfriend and started hitting on her, telling her she was with the wrong man etc. It was so embarrassing I scurried inside the restaurant. Once he got to my table once again he gets up and goes to a table near us and starts hitting on another woman with her friends. I couldn't hear was he was saying to the woman, at least nobody made a scene. After awhile he came back and sat down and soon after that the manager came over and had a "talk" with us. I turned beet red, plus I was furious at myself for getting into such a situation knowing my friend was escalating his drinking for years and years. Later on he laughed at me for getting beet red, acting like having the manager talk to us wasn't a big deal. A year later I was passing through Amarillo and stayed at his apt. a couple of nights he went on a bender like Nic Cage I locked myself inside his guest bedroom. I drove him to the liquor store repeatedly, the clerks gave him a very sad look. I won't answer his drunken calls anymore.

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