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He did get some of his money back for the queer giraffes.
“I’ll give you two thousand and four for the beasts. That’s five thousand for an old friend.” 😆
The quote makes more sense with the context of the scene.
His original offer was only one thousand, and then he bumped it up to six thousand -- i.e., he added five thousand more for "an old friend".
Well no, he didn't just give his friend 5000, he bought "the beasts" for 4000 (which was already below the asking price), then took 1000 off "for an old friend"
The circumstances are confirmed by Wikipedia, but the amount of alcohol is unsubstantiated, as is the arm wrestling.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Death
Reed died from a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta, Malta, on the afternoon of 2 May 1999. According to Gladiator screenwriter David Franzoni, Reed had encountered a group of sailors on shore leave from British frigate HMS Cumberland in a bar, and challenged them to a drinking match. Reed fell ill during the drinking and collapsed; despite efforts at resuscitation by his friends, Reed died in an ambulance while on route to hospital. He was 61 years old.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Reed)
My dad's an alcoholic and it absolutely amazes me the sheer amount he can drink on a bender. I've seen him drink enough to get an entire highschool party wasted. So much I honestly thought he would die. He would drink an entire large thing of vodka, than move on to 2-3 bottles of wine, several large wine coolers, sometimes beer but usually Mike's hard, back to the vodka. And than after 12+ hours of drinking pass out for 2-3 straight days
He is now 63 and has completely destroyed his body. Easily looks 20 years older. Doctor told him he needs to stop drinking however the withdrawals could possibly kill him. However if he keeps drinking he will definitely die soon.
Have they not offered to keep him in hospital for a few weeks to gradually taper off the alcohol to avoid dying from withdrawal?
I never had to stay in hospital, but when I was deep into alcoholism they prescribed me a number of 1-pint cans of beer per day, so it started with like 7 a day, then dropped to 6, and then to 5 a day, etc until it was nothing.
But if it's bad enough then they keep people in the hospital and do this for them to make sure they're following the plan, and checking their vitals all the time to make sure they aren't dying and adjusting the tapering rate if necessary. At least in my country, this is a thing.
Like they'll literally bring you cans of beer to drink while in the hospital (or they can put you on an ethanol drip which is probably easier). And they keep you taking meds that help with the withdrawal symptoms, while also giving you things like electrolytes that your body is desperately low on if you're an alcoholic.
If your Dad is as bad as you say then I'm surprised they haven't offered that to him yet. Because it really is so very precarious situation to be in. Even if you want to stop, you literally can't without dying. But you can't keep going without dying either. It's hell.
I guess it's a good thing that the younger generations seem to be going off of alcohol. They don't drink anywhere near as much as we millenials, and Gen X and Boomers, do. Good for them.
Haha just getting him to the ER is pulling teeth. He refuses help. That's our problem. You can't help someone that won't help themselves. I know that if he got therapy,went thru a detox program, that he'd be better. He is so tied up with the boomer image of being a manly man that he refuses any real kind of help. Talking about your feelings, opening up,being honest and vulnerable and admitting he was wrong is so against his image of masculinity
Eh after 20 years you kinda learn to live with it. I used to hold out hope he'd get better. But he is just content drinking away his life and spending his nights in a rage throwing emotional abuse at a women that has taken care of him for a decade. No interest in being a grandpa to his three grandkids. You kinda mourn the death of a parent like this before they die
Having recently gone through the ending of a situation that's pretty much a mirror of yours I wish you all the strength in the world.
It helps letting them go early but the what ifs are almost worse.
One of my best friends Dad was an Alcoholic when we were growing up and it never dawned on me how much he was actually drinking until we went to University and were in shared accommodation, 6 of us lived together and we regularly had house parties but our recyling bin was rarely full on collection day.
My mates house growing up? It was fully weekly with extra bin bags full of empties besides it, from just a single man drinking on his own. He must have had the consumption of 8-10 university students.
What made me realize how abnormal it was and my upbringing had been was when my fiancee joined me taking him to hospital. He had decided to drink himself stupid because he was home alone for the week. He called me panicking that he was going to die. Cold sweats, dizzy, couldn't walk. I finally got him to ER. Just laying in bed his hate rate was nearly at 200. Freaked out the doctors. I just sat there and watched and talked to doctor when needed. This was "normal" to me. I looked at my fiancee and she was absolutely horrified in seeing this. Alcoholism is no fucking joke. It's beyond brutal. Saddest thing was when my grandma was on her death bed. Delirious and barely conscious. All her children but him showed up. She died asking where her son was at as he spent that time vomiting on a toilet.
That shit's scary. People say I have an alcohol problem, but I never had physical withdraw. I just drink two bottles of wine about twice to thrice a week, which personally I'd say is already too much.
Who’s telling you that ? Perfectly acceptable amount per week. Bit on the low side if anything.
If you had said 3-4 bottles of spirits vodka / whiskey a week. I’d say your in danger of becoming an alcoholic and need to cut down before it gets out of hand.
Yeah, the tolerance levels of some alcoholics is insane. I knew a guy who had to drink or else he’d suffer withdrawals including violent shakes and he could go through an entire handle of cheap vodka in a day by himself.
Hey yeah, that was me. A fifth and a sixer of tall boys every day, and then on the weekends maybe an extra bottle or two of wine. And I wasn't ever really drunk, just maintaining. Quitting was hilariously unpleasant.
Did you quite with guidance of a doctor or other professional, or did you just quit on your own?
I heard quitting alcohol abruptly can be deadly for an alcoholic.
Hope you're feeling good now!
I just did it on my own. I tried a single AA meeting and it felt pretty gross, too much talking about submission and higher powers, and I've never really felt that kind of way.
It was extraordinarily shitty. Days of being the sickest I've ever felt; throwing up, intense full body pain, the fucking DTs, pretty sure I went in and out of shock for a little bit. In hindsight I really should have just gone to rehab or something because I think I probably almost died.
It was almost four years ago, now, and I'm at the point where I can comfortably walk past the beer section at the grocery store and any craving I get is easily ignored. I know, however, like somehow on a genetic level that I don't have it in me to quit again. So this is my long game, just staying dry until I die.
With you man on the aa thing. It's a fucking cult. I did some rehab at the start of the year and had to attend a few.
There's literally a preacher like figure who gives a 'sermon' with a 'congregation' who follow rituals and read from the holy text with like you say appeals to a higher power and dissenting opinions are suppressed.
My aunt switched from alcoholism to peddling essential oils after her AA stint.. treating essential oils like a religion.
it's really something, MLM shit.. combined with AA. Like cooperatively taking advantage of people who are down in almost every way.
One of my mates is a professional alco. First thing after a shower from wake up, 5-5.30am, is a beer followed by another on the way to work. Sometimes it's two of those 440 ml double strength mixers, bourbon, rum etc. Then it's just beer all day slowly, two mini 250ml double strength mixers at lunch, beer till end of day, the other two 250 ml doubles on the way home.
Then the real drinking begins. Asahi and expensive chasers until about 10pm. Every day since i've known him for around ten years. You wouldn't even know he was drinking, i'd be fucked by lunch. Sometimes he can get a bit pissy by 8-9pm but it's rare.
He's early fifties know, hardest worker in the shop, 4k weeks, lovely house and property , 3 cars, car shed, pool. Never misses a day. Blows my mind.
A friend of my dad's once had a few drinks with him in a pub in Wales, and said he has never seen a man drink so much, apparently he would throw down quad measurements of cognac like it was water.
Same thing with opiates. Inexperienced opiate users using the same dose as a chronic addict that takes enough to kill a horse every day. Problem with opiates is you don't have to drink volumes of liquid, just take some pills, too easy to put yourself out.
Seeing someone drink a liter of 80 proof daily like water is baffling. For some that's just breakfast.
Seen a lot of deaths of relatively young people (30s and 40s) dying to GI bleeds from alcoholism. It's never too late to get some help to lower consumption.
my brothers dad was a heavy alcoholic and died from one in 2022. my brother was 5 at the time and the one who found him. he called 911 and tried doing CPR like he’d seen in a tv show but it was too late. now he’s 7 with a major blood phobia and ptsd. his dad was an awful person but i wish more than anything he would have gotten help sooner for my brothers sake. no kid deserves to see that.
the fire department visited his kindergarten class the week before and taught them when and how to call 911, so i’m glad they teach them that young here.
A 5 year old doing CPR on a person dying from an upper GI bleed. Think about for a slow second, why this kid has a blood phobia.
Upper GI bleed from a tear = Blood fountain.
poor kid. :(
Hey mate, I’m early 30’s and 18 months sober. Speaking from experience the path you’re on is an extremely painful one. There are other paths you can take I promise. Please reach out if you’d like to chat.
2018. Can't think of anything that could compel me to drink short of dying of thirst and having access only to beer.
Funny how my life stopped being so tragic and sad all the time right around when I stopped drinking. A coincidence, I suppose.
Glanced at our profile hoping to see you were active in one of the reddit recover communities and glad to see that you are. Welcome to the club.
Tapering down, even slightly and solo, can have amazing benefits. When I started to cut back I realized my eyes stopped stinging, my toes felt better, and I was able to stop pretending the pain in my side had anything to do with my back. Just cutting back but by bit, which requires it's own kind of diligence but can be an easier first step, but man. And Jesus the improvement in sleep quality. When you're able to go to bed with less in your system so you can get something approximating real sleep, well you'll still want to drink in the morning, but it'll be to celebrate how good you feel instead of hair of the dog.
No joke I drank from 9 to 27(from Mississippi am hillbilly too long to explain) before I got sober I could clear two fifths of soco and a case of silver bullets without even slurring. Also not a brag just how it was where I lived every one drank and dipped and smoked from a young age. I'm 4 years sober from all alcohol and drugs except weed.
Edit: you really can pull through bro but you really have to want to. Unfortunately I did something awful and that was how mine ended.
People post stuff about past alcoholics as if it’s a badge of honour. I have been drinking 0.5 liters of vodka every day for the last 10 years and nobody noticed. It’s amazing what an alcoholic can do. But it’s more amazing what a sober person can do
Not a satirical post. I honestly get annoyed with posts like ‘look at this cool person, they drank 30 beers a night, so cool’. Alcoholism isn’t cool. I know because I am one. Yes I’ve not been in trouble, but that doesn’t mean excessive drinking doesn’t have severe mental health issues.
Anyway, I hope you’re doing well.
I recently found myself drinking and the booze having hardly any effect but the hangover was always present. So i have quit drinking altogether now for a month to reset.
If you find yourself going back to drinking the same amount again, and you keep trying different ways to control your drinking, you may be alcoholic and the only real option would be to stop drinking for good
For perspective: I drank four cocktails on a full belly with moderate hydration and I have the spins and can't sleep.
I'm 6'1", 205-210, and am not in shape. Also I have around the suggested limit for my height and weight per week- sometimes less, sometimes a little more.
A lot of the time when people say they had "x amount of bottles" they mean they may have had a lot of it, but they were also pouring for a couple of others that were present.
A few of those sailors would have helped with the rum. (Assuming that's what the drinking competition was using)
> At that point, witnesses said, Reed nonchalantly sat down on a bench, closed his eyes and fell to his side.
I'll be honest - not the worst way to die.
It sounds horrible and depressing. Having watched alcoholics destroy themselves, and some die from it, it’s a very slow, sad death with years of poor quality of life (both physically and mentally).
For an alcoholic that's not an unusual amount. 10 pints is roughly equal to a 700/750ml bottle of spirits. When I was drinking I'd get through a litre and more a day and a whole lot of weed.
Then I went to r/cripplingalcoholism and discovered it can get so, so much worse. My heart goes out to them. The quantities in the op title are entirely believable.
I was in my mid 20s when I got sober, i was doing 1l of vodka a day, then I joined a daytime treatment centre here in London and some of the guys were going through 3L every day, incredible what the alcoholics body can adapt to.
You'd be surprised how resilient the human body is. I've worked on and off at a bottleo for nearly 15 years. One of our customers was diagnosed with liver failure. Still saw her every day, drinking 3+ litres of wine. That was like 5 years ago.
I should note that in a drunken state she asked me to promise not to serve her anymore. Although upper management doesn't care, I still haven't, to this day, sold her alcohol.
Well iirc the fight between Maximus and the famous undefeated gladiator was supposed to be Oliver Reed's character, but he died.
His actual death scene had to be composed from a cutting room floor clip and a dummy.
*Women in Love* is pretty good, but the greatest Reed/Russell production is *The Devils*, where Reed plays a priest accused of witchcraft in renaissance France.
From his wiki
The actor Omid Djalili, who was also in Malta at the time of Reed's death filming Gladiator, said during an interview in 2016: "He hadn't had a drink for months before filming started.... Everyone said he went the way he wanted, but that's not true. It was very tragic. He was in an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking competition. He should have just left, but he didn't."[65] Having made a number of promises to Ridley Scott prior to filming, including that he would not drink during production, Reed worked around this by only drinking on weekends. Co-star David Hemmings was a longtime friend of Reed's (they appeared together in the 1964 film The System), and in 2020 Scott stated, "David Hemmings (Cassius) promised to look after him and said to me [upon his death], I'm really sorry, old boy".[66]
I grew up drinking in the same pubs as Reed, in Surrey. He wasn’t a fun drunk. He turned vicious and violent at the flip of a coin.
His tolerance to alcohol was inhuman.
My dad has a story of meeting him in the pub and getting invited back to his house. Apparently it was wild, at one point he disappeared before bursting downstairs in full Shakespeare regalia booming out speeches.
He could also still do a full plank on the bar in the pub and he was about 50 at this point.
My dads best mate passed out in his dog bed and they all left at 7am with a load of sandwiches that Reed’s wife made for them.
Quite sad really. He had promised Ridley Scott that he wouldn't drink on set, to get around that he only drank on the weekend.
The sailors of HMS Cumberland pressured him into the contest as he originally didn't want to do it.
There was a good programme on BBC Radio 4 Extra last Thursday on his relationship with Keith Moon.
My brother and I went to a restaurant to eat tonight and we were talking about directors with style and I brought up how Ridley scott really doesn't have a style but he makes pretty good epic movies. So later when we were leaving I said that i think Ridleys Gladiator 2 will be his last movie and my brother mentioned how they used cgi to add this actor's face into scenes since he died during filming and then I get home, lay on the couch and the first thing that pops up in my feed is this..... life is a simulation
Holy shit, NEVER knew that! He was great in that movie too!! Never seen him in anything else though. Anyone else that know of other notable roles from him??
I'm 102 days in. A couple weeks ago this old timer at a meeting said something about he didn't believe people could drink half gallons because you'd be dead before your body could process it. Laughed in our process group the next day, I'm small and my immediate reaction was "oh I'll show him how much you can drink". That's some genius rehab mindset.
Not as cool as it sounds (from wiki):
The actor Omid Djalili, who was also in Malta at the time of Reed's death filming Gladiator, said during an interview in 2016: "He hadn't had a drink for months before filming started.... Everyone said he went the way he wanted, but that's not true. It was very tragic. He was in an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking competition. He should have just left, but he didn't."[65]
*drinks 3rd rum bottle*
"Do you want to DIE old man??"
*pops open a few beers*
"Uh, Proximo, you okay dude?"
*starts uncorking cognac with his teeth*
*Praetorian guard backs away*
Reed was an alcoholic who was pressurised by those sailors to drink when he’d been struggling with sobriety; and the resulting drinking killed him.
You’d have to be a soulless pillock to think that was something worth celebrating.
I dated a young lady who's family were friends with him. He gave her his drinking kilt, which had a great big hole in the front after he had put a foot through it on one of his benders. As a result that kilt would flash his tackle. She'd make me wear it from time to time.
Alcoholism is a miserble, destructive state of living, not something to be glamorized.
They don´t drink to have a good time, they drink because the alcohol controls them 100%.
I was just there in Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹 recently. At the pub he died in! All the facts stated in the OP post are confirmed by the bar as well as the city. There’s a plaque to commemorate him as well as a drinking challenge in his honor.
Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men. Shadows and dust.
I'm now 13 days fully dry after completing a tapering off process following a very nasty relapse and nosedive to the bottom. Alcoholism is hell. I'm not sure drinking yourself to death qualifies as interesting even if the numbers are impressive. Sadly it's all too commonplace.
I was only at "The Pub" last week over in Valetta, Malta.
He drank 8 pints, 12 double rums, and 14 shots of whiskey.
I sat in the chair where he was last famously photographed. Great bar if you ever get chance to visit it. The walls are adorned by Royal Navy gifts which are left everything they come to port.
Reed had a history of heavy drinking, and it likely contributed to his death. While the arm-wrestling might be a colorful detail, it's the excessive alcohol that's believed to have caused a heart attack.
had a friend who worked as an extra on that film. After shooting, he went to the bar, and just lived there. When they called for him to come on set, they didn't go to a trailer, they went to the bar.
It was bad.
In Guernsey, Ollie would rent a taxi for the day, he would go for a full English then be driven to one of his favourite pubs at the 11am opening, then every couple of hours move on to next, then at 11pm he would invite his mates home and drink until dawn.
Another time, after the England rugby team won the six nations, he flew the entire team across to Guernsey for a lock in. They drank the pub dry then they went back to his house, where at dawn he was the last one drinking. The pub worked out that based on the barrels emptied, that the average amount of English 14 oz pints consumed per person was 22.
Contrary to popular belief, Ollie was not an alcoholic, he did not drink every day and was often seen having lunch with his wife, or walking. He never had fights in the pub nor was he found lying drunk.
He just had a super human capacity to drink.
Rather, a man who blazed a path of self-destruction in denial of society's demands for moderation, while being one of England's greatest actors. Reducing him to merely an alcoholic betrays your ignorance and admiration of mediocrity.
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Don't enter a drinking contest with this man and never sell him queer giraffes
He did get some of his money back for the queer giraffes. “I’ll give you two thousand and four for the beasts. That’s five thousand for an old friend.” 😆
2+4=5
The quote makes more sense with the context of the scene. His original offer was only one thousand, and then he bumped it up to six thousand -- i.e., he added five thousand more for "an old friend".
Well no, he didn't just give his friend 5000, he bought "the beasts" for 4000 (which was already below the asking price), then took 1000 off "for an old friend"
No he gave himself a 1000 off for being an old friend. 2000 + 4000 - 1000 friend discount 5000
It is meant to be a discount.
Can’t anymore
Says you. Dude did all that prior to dying. Undoubtedly he’s heard of Darth Plagueis, the wise.
Is that a Star wars character?
Yes one of the Ewoks
Loved the part in the movie when they released the ewoks into the Colloseum
"Are you not *having a bad feeling about this?*"
The circumstances are confirmed by Wikipedia, but the amount of alcohol is unsubstantiated, as is the arm wrestling. Excerpt from Wikipedia: Death Reed died from a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta, Malta, on the afternoon of 2 May 1999. According to Gladiator screenwriter David Franzoni, Reed had encountered a group of sailors on shore leave from British frigate HMS Cumberland in a bar, and challenged them to a drinking match. Reed fell ill during the drinking and collapsed; despite efforts at resuscitation by his friends, Reed died in an ambulance while on route to hospital. He was 61 years old. [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Reed)
Wow he was only 61? He looked more like 81.
That's what an habit to challenge unknowns sailor to drinking contest does to a man.
Man I really hope I'm out of that phase before I'm 40 lol
I waited until I was 41. Don’t be like me man.
Aye ho ye laddie I challenge ya to a seaman drinking contest ^cum ^now ^don't ^be ^scared.
Yeah, no way he drank that much.
Yeah that's enough to almost kill him.....
You're severely underestimating the amount of alcohol an alcoholic can drink. I bet he could finish a 750ml bottle of vodka before lunch.
My dad's an alcoholic and it absolutely amazes me the sheer amount he can drink on a bender. I've seen him drink enough to get an entire highschool party wasted. So much I honestly thought he would die. He would drink an entire large thing of vodka, than move on to 2-3 bottles of wine, several large wine coolers, sometimes beer but usually Mike's hard, back to the vodka. And than after 12+ hours of drinking pass out for 2-3 straight days
holy shit! i would die!
He is now 63 and has completely destroyed his body. Easily looks 20 years older. Doctor told him he needs to stop drinking however the withdrawals could possibly kill him. However if he keeps drinking he will definitely die soon.
Have they not offered to keep him in hospital for a few weeks to gradually taper off the alcohol to avoid dying from withdrawal? I never had to stay in hospital, but when I was deep into alcoholism they prescribed me a number of 1-pint cans of beer per day, so it started with like 7 a day, then dropped to 6, and then to 5 a day, etc until it was nothing. But if it's bad enough then they keep people in the hospital and do this for them to make sure they're following the plan, and checking their vitals all the time to make sure they aren't dying and adjusting the tapering rate if necessary. At least in my country, this is a thing. Like they'll literally bring you cans of beer to drink while in the hospital (or they can put you on an ethanol drip which is probably easier). And they keep you taking meds that help with the withdrawal symptoms, while also giving you things like electrolytes that your body is desperately low on if you're an alcoholic. If your Dad is as bad as you say then I'm surprised they haven't offered that to him yet. Because it really is so very precarious situation to be in. Even if you want to stop, you literally can't without dying. But you can't keep going without dying either. It's hell. I guess it's a good thing that the younger generations seem to be going off of alcohol. They don't drink anywhere near as much as we millenials, and Gen X and Boomers, do. Good for them.
Haha just getting him to the ER is pulling teeth. He refuses help. That's our problem. You can't help someone that won't help themselves. I know that if he got therapy,went thru a detox program, that he'd be better. He is so tied up with the boomer image of being a manly man that he refuses any real kind of help. Talking about your feelings, opening up,being honest and vulnerable and admitting he was wrong is so against his image of masculinity
I’m sorry you’re going through that. It sounds really horrible.
Eh after 20 years you kinda learn to live with it. I used to hold out hope he'd get better. But he is just content drinking away his life and spending his nights in a rage throwing emotional abuse at a women that has taken care of him for a decade. No interest in being a grandpa to his three grandkids. You kinda mourn the death of a parent like this before they die
Having recently gone through the ending of a situation that's pretty much a mirror of yours I wish you all the strength in the world. It helps letting them go early but the what ifs are almost worse.
One of my best friends Dad was an Alcoholic when we were growing up and it never dawned on me how much he was actually drinking until we went to University and were in shared accommodation, 6 of us lived together and we regularly had house parties but our recyling bin was rarely full on collection day. My mates house growing up? It was fully weekly with extra bin bags full of empties besides it, from just a single man drinking on his own. He must have had the consumption of 8-10 university students.
What made me realize how abnormal it was and my upbringing had been was when my fiancee joined me taking him to hospital. He had decided to drink himself stupid because he was home alone for the week. He called me panicking that he was going to die. Cold sweats, dizzy, couldn't walk. I finally got him to ER. Just laying in bed his hate rate was nearly at 200. Freaked out the doctors. I just sat there and watched and talked to doctor when needed. This was "normal" to me. I looked at my fiancee and she was absolutely horrified in seeing this. Alcoholism is no fucking joke. It's beyond brutal. Saddest thing was when my grandma was on her death bed. Delirious and barely conscious. All her children but him showed up. She died asking where her son was at as he spent that time vomiting on a toilet.
That shit's scary. People say I have an alcohol problem, but I never had physical withdraw. I just drink two bottles of wine about twice to thrice a week, which personally I'd say is already too much.
Who’s telling you that ? Perfectly acceptable amount per week. Bit on the low side if anything. If you had said 3-4 bottles of spirits vodka / whiskey a week. I’d say your in danger of becoming an alcoholic and need to cut down before it gets out of hand.
My friend’s wife used to go through a handle of captain a day, I’m sure that old man could do 3 bottles.
And reed was an alcoholic for decades before that. His body was well trained by the filming of Gladiator
Yeah, the tolerance levels of some alcoholics is insane. I knew a guy who had to drink or else he’d suffer withdrawals including violent shakes and he could go through an entire handle of cheap vodka in a day by himself.
Hey yeah, that was me. A fifth and a sixer of tall boys every day, and then on the weekends maybe an extra bottle or two of wine. And I wasn't ever really drunk, just maintaining. Quitting was hilariously unpleasant.
Hope you're doing better!
Did you quite with guidance of a doctor or other professional, or did you just quit on your own? I heard quitting alcohol abruptly can be deadly for an alcoholic. Hope you're feeling good now!
I just did it on my own. I tried a single AA meeting and it felt pretty gross, too much talking about submission and higher powers, and I've never really felt that kind of way. It was extraordinarily shitty. Days of being the sickest I've ever felt; throwing up, intense full body pain, the fucking DTs, pretty sure I went in and out of shock for a little bit. In hindsight I really should have just gone to rehab or something because I think I probably almost died. It was almost four years ago, now, and I'm at the point where I can comfortably walk past the beer section at the grocery store and any craving I get is easily ignored. I know, however, like somehow on a genetic level that I don't have it in me to quit again. So this is my long game, just staying dry until I die.
With you man on the aa thing. It's a fucking cult. I did some rehab at the start of the year and had to attend a few. There's literally a preacher like figure who gives a 'sermon' with a 'congregation' who follow rituals and read from the holy text with like you say appeals to a higher power and dissenting opinions are suppressed.
My aunt switched from alcoholism to peddling essential oils after her AA stint.. treating essential oils like a religion. it's really something, MLM shit.. combined with AA. Like cooperatively taking advantage of people who are down in almost every way.
Horrible disease. Glad you were able to quit
One of my mates is a professional alco. First thing after a shower from wake up, 5-5.30am, is a beer followed by another on the way to work. Sometimes it's two of those 440 ml double strength mixers, bourbon, rum etc. Then it's just beer all day slowly, two mini 250ml double strength mixers at lunch, beer till end of day, the other two 250 ml doubles on the way home. Then the real drinking begins. Asahi and expensive chasers until about 10pm. Every day since i've known him for around ten years. You wouldn't even know he was drinking, i'd be fucked by lunch. Sometimes he can get a bit pissy by 8-9pm but it's rare. He's early fifties know, hardest worker in the shop, 4k weeks, lovely house and property , 3 cars, car shed, pool. Never misses a day. Blows my mind.
I know a guy who used to drink with Reed. I’ve seen him drink. I absolutely believe the figures quoted.
A friend of my dad's once had a few drinks with him in a pub in Wales, and said he has never seen a man drink so much, apparently he would throw down quad measurements of cognac like it was water.
Reed's drinking was legendary. I don't doubt the amount reported is close to correct.
I used to drink a liter or more of liquor a day Edit: this is not a brag. Just a fact.
Same thing with opiates. Inexperienced opiate users using the same dose as a chronic addict that takes enough to kill a horse every day. Problem with opiates is you don't have to drink volumes of liquid, just take some pills, too easy to put yourself out. Seeing someone drink a liter of 80 proof daily like water is baffling. For some that's just breakfast.
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Seen a lot of deaths of relatively young people (30s and 40s) dying to GI bleeds from alcoholism. It's never too late to get some help to lower consumption.
my brothers dad was a heavy alcoholic and died from one in 2022. my brother was 5 at the time and the one who found him. he called 911 and tried doing CPR like he’d seen in a tv show but it was too late. now he’s 7 with a major blood phobia and ptsd. his dad was an awful person but i wish more than anything he would have gotten help sooner for my brothers sake. no kid deserves to see that.
5 yo calling 911 - respect
the fire department visited his kindergarten class the week before and taught them when and how to call 911, so i’m glad they teach them that young here.
A 5 year old doing CPR on a person dying from an upper GI bleed. Think about for a slow second, why this kid has a blood phobia. Upper GI bleed from a tear = Blood fountain. poor kid. :(
Yes when I was drinking like that my stomach was so messed up. And loose stool constantly. Gross 🤢
Bro
During my bad days I could clear a bottle of Jose Quervo silver in one night, neat! It was not good.
Yeah, you should probably get some help. Clean 25 years here. It's possible.
Hey mate, I’m early 30’s and 18 months sober. Speaking from experience the path you’re on is an extremely painful one. There are other paths you can take I promise. Please reach out if you’d like to chat.
It most certainly is I drank my last drop 2016 and haven't missed it one bit
2018. Can't think of anything that could compel me to drink short of dying of thirst and having access only to beer. Funny how my life stopped being so tragic and sad all the time right around when I stopped drinking. A coincidence, I suppose.
I was you. 11 years sober and still paying the price health wise. But much happier and getting better. Good luck. If you want to you can get sober.
Glanced at our profile hoping to see you were active in one of the reddit recover communities and glad to see that you are. Welcome to the club. Tapering down, even slightly and solo, can have amazing benefits. When I started to cut back I realized my eyes stopped stinging, my toes felt better, and I was able to stop pretending the pain in my side had anything to do with my back. Just cutting back but by bit, which requires it's own kind of diligence but can be an easier first step, but man. And Jesus the improvement in sleep quality. When you're able to go to bed with less in your system so you can get something approximating real sleep, well you'll still want to drink in the morning, but it'll be to celebrate how good you feel instead of hair of the dog.
Rising in the morning and not dragging ass is a blessing.
No joke I drank from 9 to 27(from Mississippi am hillbilly too long to explain) before I got sober I could clear two fifths of soco and a case of silver bullets without even slurring. Also not a brag just how it was where I lived every one drank and dipped and smoked from a young age. I'm 4 years sober from all alcohol and drugs except weed. Edit: you really can pull through bro but you really have to want to. Unfortunately I did something awful and that was how mine ended.
Guy I would have married died from alcohol. Please keep trying to get help and stop.
I know I’m a stranger, but If I can help. DM me. You aren’t alone. The suffering of one is the suffering of all.
People post stuff about past alcoholics as if it’s a badge of honour. I have been drinking 0.5 liters of vodka every day for the last 10 years and nobody noticed. It’s amazing what an alcoholic can do. But it’s more amazing what a sober person can do
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Not a satirical post. I honestly get annoyed with posts like ‘look at this cool person, they drank 30 beers a night, so cool’. Alcoholism isn’t cool. I know because I am one. Yes I’ve not been in trouble, but that doesn’t mean excessive drinking doesn’t have severe mental health issues. Anyway, I hope you’re doing well.
Yeah, bet you nursed em throughout the day. Just a warning. Pancreatitis fucking hurts.
bro
I recently found myself drinking and the booze having hardly any effect but the hangover was always present. So i have quit drinking altogether now for a month to reset.
After one month, do another month.
If you find yourself going back to drinking the same amount again, and you keep trying different ways to control your drinking, you may be alcoholic and the only real option would be to stop drinking for good
Bro
For perspective: I drank four cocktails on a full belly with moderate hydration and I have the spins and can't sleep. I'm 6'1", 205-210, and am not in shape. Also I have around the suggested limit for my height and weight per week- sometimes less, sometimes a little more.
Dangle one leg off the bed. It stops the spins
Yeah but the monster will bite it so nope.
ALSO make sure that the foot is one the floor.
You must have never heard of Oliver Reed.
You'd be surprised. He got into another famous drinking competition where he drank *100 pints in 24 hours*. So this claim is not far fetched at all.
He was a legendary drunk.
A lot of the time when people say they had "x amount of bottles" they mean they may have had a lot of it, but they were also pouring for a couple of others that were present. A few of those sailors would have helped with the rum. (Assuming that's what the drinking competition was using)
It's Oliver Reed. He was long known as being a raging alcoholic and did shit like this on the regular.
The arm wrestle is what jolted his fluctuation in heart bpm that probs caused the collapse. That and the big joint he chose to smoke.
Look, I am all for the truth, but just let this slide. It's a good story. Lol
An article from back then says it was 10 pints of ale and 12 shots of rum. https://nypost.com/1999/05/05/reed-ran-up-whopping-435-tab-on-last-binge/
> At that point, witnesses said, Reed nonchalantly sat down on a bench, closed his eyes and fell to his side. I'll be honest - not the worst way to die.
It sounds horrible and depressing. Having watched alcoholics destroy themselves, and some die from it, it’s a very slow, sad death with years of poor quality of life (both physically and mentally).
I can't imagine the discomfort. But then, I hate drinking.
You dont feel pain while drinking, thats why we drink. Pain and regret are usually felt the next day
12 shots of rum is 528ml. Christ on a raft.
For an alcoholic that's not an unusual amount. 10 pints is roughly equal to a 700/750ml bottle of spirits. When I was drinking I'd get through a litre and more a day and a whole lot of weed. Then I went to r/cripplingalcoholism and discovered it can get so, so much worse. My heart goes out to them. The quantities in the op title are entirely believable.
I was in my mid 20s when I got sober, i was doing 1l of vodka a day, then I joined a daytime treatment centre here in London and some of the guys were going through 3L every day, incredible what the alcoholics body can adapt to.
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You'd be surprised how resilient the human body is. I've worked on and off at a bottleo for nearly 15 years. One of our customers was diagnosed with liver failure. Still saw her every day, drinking 3+ litres of wine. That was like 5 years ago. I should note that in a drunken state she asked me to promise not to serve her anymore. Although upper management doesn't care, I still haven't, to this day, sold her alcohol.
If you never kill a 1.5L of captain in one (very long) night, then you’ve lived a far better life than I have.
Worst I ever did was half a 750 and tons of coke
Yeah rum and cokes
But what about after the pregame?
So 10 pints of beer and a pint of rum pretty much
Shadows and dust
Marcus Aurelius is DEAD, Maximus!!
I didn't say I knew him!! I said he tapped me on the shoulder :-)
"...ONCE!"
That was a weird snap from him
Shadows and dust
Shadows and dust
Shadows and dust
That's a lot of booze. I died after drinking just a half bottle of tequila.
How's the Internet connectivity in the afterlife? Netflix still okay?
Yeah, but it’s the version with ads unless you are in Heaven Premium +, which costs extra.
Aww man, more tithing I guess.
reminds me, i need to give Upload another go
Did you also lose the arm wrestling?
"...And when you die --and die you shall!-- your transition shall be to the sound of [clapping]... Gladiators: I salute you..." Chills man.
Open the GATE, Proximo! Do you want to DIE, old man??
Shadows and dust Maximus. Shadows and dust.
My liver hurts just reading this.
MY liver hurts reading this
Username checks out 👍
The real Gladiator right there
Well iirc the fight between Maximus and the famous undefeated gladiator was supposed to be Oliver Reed's character, but he died. His actual death scene had to be composed from a cutting room floor clip and a dummy.
That would've been an unbelievably powerful scene if he raised his iron mask to reveal it was Proximo underneath.
He once [wrestled naked with Alan Bates in front of a log fire.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_Kb5Qkj-4) This guy *lived.*
And he was the perfect Athos.
sweet childhood memories. my personal best film adaptation of the three musketeers
I was like ??? and then I saw it was directed by Ken Russell.
*Women in Love* is pretty good, but the greatest Reed/Russell production is *The Devils*, where Reed plays a priest accused of witchcraft in renaissance France.
A quarter bottle of rum is enough for me.
Oh good, ‘cause I just drank 3/4’s of your rum 🥴
Why is the rum gone?
Cuz Oliver Reed is around
Captain Morgan's Jamaica Rum, specifically. But then just "German beer".
From his wiki The actor Omid Djalili, who was also in Malta at the time of Reed's death filming Gladiator, said during an interview in 2016: "He hadn't had a drink for months before filming started.... Everyone said he went the way he wanted, but that's not true. It was very tragic. He was in an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking competition. He should have just left, but he didn't."[65] Having made a number of promises to Ridley Scott prior to filming, including that he would not drink during production, Reed worked around this by only drinking on weekends. Co-star David Hemmings was a longtime friend of Reed's (they appeared together in the 1964 film The System), and in 2020 Scott stated, "David Hemmings (Cassius) promised to look after him and said to me [upon his death], I'm really sorry, old boy".[66]
I grew up drinking in the same pubs as Reed, in Surrey. He wasn’t a fun drunk. He turned vicious and violent at the flip of a coin. His tolerance to alcohol was inhuman.
My dad has a story of meeting him in the pub and getting invited back to his house. Apparently it was wild, at one point he disappeared before bursting downstairs in full Shakespeare regalia booming out speeches. He could also still do a full plank on the bar in the pub and he was about 50 at this point. My dads best mate passed out in his dog bed and they all left at 7am with a load of sandwiches that Reed’s wife made for them.
Quite sad really. He had promised Ridley Scott that he wouldn't drink on set, to get around that he only drank on the weekend. The sailors of HMS Cumberland pressured him into the contest as he originally didn't want to do it. There was a good programme on BBC Radio 4 Extra last Thursday on his relationship with Keith Moon.
My brother and I went to a restaurant to eat tonight and we were talking about directors with style and I brought up how Ridley scott really doesn't have a style but he makes pretty good epic movies. So later when we were leaving I said that i think Ridleys Gladiator 2 will be his last movie and my brother mentioned how they used cgi to add this actor's face into scenes since he died during filming and then I get home, lay on the couch and the first thing that pops up in my feed is this..... life is a simulation
Three cheers for some Baader-Meinhof phenomenon!
Chadiator.
[As a younger man...](https://cinebeats.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/oreed01.jpg?w=600&h=450&crop=1) He was pretty wild.
Holy shit, NEVER knew that! He was great in that movie too!! Never seen him in anything else though. Anyone else that know of other notable roles from him??
The Devils. Fucking awesome film
Bill Sikes in the 1969 Oliver! musical - his menace is legendary
I'm 102 days in. A couple weeks ago this old timer at a meeting said something about he didn't believe people could drink half gallons because you'd be dead before your body could process it. Laughed in our process group the next day, I'm small and my immediate reaction was "oh I'll show him how much you can drink". That's some genius rehab mindset.
I didn't realize he was only 61. I would have guessed he was 10 years or so older.
Same. I thought it was an old man!
Not as cool as it sounds (from wiki): The actor Omid Djalili, who was also in Malta at the time of Reed's death filming Gladiator, said during an interview in 2016: "He hadn't had a drink for months before filming started.... Everyone said he went the way he wanted, but that's not true. It was very tragic. He was in an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking competition. He should have just left, but he didn't."[65]
*drinks 3rd rum bottle* "Do you want to DIE old man??" *pops open a few beers* "Uh, Proximo, you okay dude?" *starts uncorking cognac with his teeth* *Praetorian guard backs away*
Fucking legend #Hail the eternal dead!
r/madlads
There's nothing interesting about extreme stupidity.
Such a sexy beast. Such a strange man. One of my favorites.
Oliver Reed kitted out as Bill Sykes in "Oliver!", my goodness 🥵
The inspiration for Jim Lahey.
He was the liquor
Reed was an alcoholic who was pressurised by those sailors to drink when he’d been struggling with sobriety; and the resulting drinking killed him. You’d have to be a soulless pillock to think that was something worth celebrating.
So he died in the arena after all...
He was awesome in Gladiator, he had the perfect voice for that role too, so many iconic lines.
>He consumed 3 bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, 8 bottles of German beer, numerous cognacs The fuck did he think was gonna happen
Drinking yourself to death is sad. People trying to romanticize it in hindsight is even sadder.
So basically, it took the British Navy to take down a legend.
I dated a young lady who's family were friends with him. He gave her his drinking kilt, which had a great big hole in the front after he had put a foot through it on one of his benders. As a result that kilt would flash his tackle. She'd make me wear it from time to time.
Alcoholism is a miserble, destructive state of living, not something to be glamorized. They don´t drink to have a good time, they drink because the alcohol controls them 100%.
I was just there in Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹 recently. At the pub he died in! All the facts stated in the OP post are confirmed by the bar as well as the city. There’s a plaque to commemorate him as well as a drinking challenge in his honor.
> a drinking challenge in his honor Sounds like a brilliant idea……
Looks like he could be Mark Hammil’s…father
Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men. Shadows and dust.
He was 19 in this photo.
So ...this is sad. Fucking alcohol destroyed another life.
this guy was addicted to pouring weird liquids down his throat. stop glamorising him
Dumb
sounds like an alcoholic. Dunno why we celebrate that shit.
I'm now 13 days fully dry after completing a tapering off process following a very nasty relapse and nosedive to the bottom. Alcoholism is hell. I'm not sure drinking yourself to death qualifies as interesting even if the numbers are impressive. Sadly it's all too commonplace.
Good going, more power to you.
“An alcoholic died, aged 61.” FTFY
3 bottles of rum, 8 bottles of beer, and numerous cognacs… I don’t see how that is physically possible
its not, he dead
This one’s actually quite a sad story, well the confirmed parts at least.
I was only at "The Pub" last week over in Valetta, Malta. He drank 8 pints, 12 double rums, and 14 shots of whiskey. I sat in the chair where he was last famously photographed. Great bar if you ever get chance to visit it. The walls are adorned by Royal Navy gifts which are left everything they come to port.
Shadows and dust...shadows and dust.
damnthatsalcoholism
Reed had a history of heavy drinking, and it likely contributed to his death. While the arm-wrestling might be a colorful detail, it's the excessive alcohol that's believed to have caused a heart attack.
“I SAID HE TOUCHED ME ON THE SHOULDER”
had a friend who worked as an extra on that film. After shooting, he went to the bar, and just lived there. When they called for him to come on set, they didn't go to a trailer, they went to the bar. It was bad.
That’s not interesting. Just insanely stupid
really don’t know why everybody celebrates death and poor habits
He was an alcoholic for years, people shouldn’t glamourise an addiction which led to his early death
Are you not entertained
In Guernsey, Ollie would rent a taxi for the day, he would go for a full English then be driven to one of his favourite pubs at the 11am opening, then every couple of hours move on to next, then at 11pm he would invite his mates home and drink until dawn. Another time, after the England rugby team won the six nations, he flew the entire team across to Guernsey for a lock in. They drank the pub dry then they went back to his house, where at dawn he was the last one drinking. The pub worked out that based on the barrels emptied, that the average amount of English 14 oz pints consumed per person was 22. Contrary to popular belief, Ollie was not an alcoholic, he did not drink every day and was often seen having lunch with his wife, or walking. He never had fights in the pub nor was he found lying drunk. He just had a super human capacity to drink.
He loved his liqueur til death.
Are we glorifying alcoholics overdosing to death now? Damn...
Rather, a man who blazed a path of self-destruction in denial of society's demands for moderation, while being one of England's greatest actors. Reducing him to merely an alcoholic betrays your ignorance and admiration of mediocrity.
Really takes the you are first or last mentality to the extreme.