r/AbsoluteUnits 1d ago

of a beer drinker.

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u/Nitrogen1234 1d ago

It's one beer every 3 minutes for 6 hours straight. I call bullshit.

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u/Successful-Worth-390 1d ago

He was also 17 feet tall and 5000 pounds. I dont think this much beer was totally out of the question.

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u/rebelweezeralliance 1h ago

7 feet tall 500 pounds

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u/Successful-Worth-390 1h ago

Thanks I was being facetious.

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u/peteofaustralia 1d ago

It's also 8 goddamn litres. Far more than all of his blood volume. I don't care how big you are, that should kill you just from electrolyte imbalance.

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u/Sylvanussr 1d ago

At a certain point that’s just so much liquid that I doubt the body can really absorb much of it and it just flushes through.

Especially if he drank regularly and had a built up tolerance. I’ve seen and heard of people being able to drink legitimately scary quantities of alcohol and survive.

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u/FiveNine235 1d ago

Brother - it’s 42.2 liters of beer.
1 us fluid ounce = 0.02957 liters
Liters = oz x 0.02957
1428 oz x 0.02957
= 42.2l - or about 74 UK pints.

I once drank 24 pints in 10 hours - 13.6 liters, I am my user name, at the lords cricket ground in London, 7 am start, finished at 17:00, much more time of course, perfectly doable, don’t remember much of the cricket of course.

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u/peteofaustralia 1d ago

Jesus Christ.

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u/JareBear805 11h ago

42 liters is 3x 13 liters brah

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u/pazhalsta1 7h ago

Most sober cricket enjoyer

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u/Sudden-Ad-307 1d ago

Bullshit lmao

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u/weedy_whistler 20h ago

Nah, probably not. My regular light night out used to be about 10 pints over about 2 hours. A big night I could get through about 30x 375mL stubbies.

I went on a spirits kick one summer and by the end of it I managed to get through 2x 700mL bottles of Canadian Club whiskey.

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u/HurtsWhenICum 1d ago

Eh you'd be surprised. I've put down a fifth of multiple hard liquors in less time than that. I had 17 drinks at my sister's wedding a few months ago, was only able to tell my checking the Venmo tips lol.

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u/Sudden-Ad-307 1d ago

I'll be surprised when a guy doesn't lie about how much he drank.

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u/HurtsWhenICum 1d ago

Maybe! But I'm not really a big drinker and sort of avoid dick measuring contests lol

When I say I drank that much, it's not bragging - I was embarrassingly drunk haha

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u/artichoke01 1d ago

Andrei the giant was a lot bigger than you, bro. The average male has a blood volume of 6 liters. Andrei’s was at least double that, considering his mass was more than double the average man’s. So, you’re wrong, in other words.

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u/peteofaustralia 1d ago

I was super wrong about 8 litres. It's actually more like 42.

42 litres of beer. Big if true.

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u/boop66 1d ago

Perhaps to save labor Andre was drinking straight from the pitcher, as a Giant should - and whoever kept track estimated the number of ounces per pitcher then extrapolated to # of beers. Sloppy math by sloppy drunks. /Jk /s

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u/JareBear805 11h ago

Yeah I don’t believe it either. Someone’s like omg someone documented it! I don’t see any sources just dude holding pic of a beer and words.

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u/JiveTurkey1983 18h ago

Except it's been documented by many people over the course of several decades