Great drunks

1.618034 said:
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Was he a good drunk though.
 
Blue Mist said:
The thread title states GREAT drunks, there is nowt great about that drunk. Please remove your offensive post. (wow I typed that and felt like a Mod !!)
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I’d say the same about quite a few mentioned. Quite a lot of them were arseholes when drunk.
Never heard a bad story about Paul McGrath abusing anyone when drunk.
Don’t know. Only ever met him when he was on the dry in a pub in Kerry and he was an absolute gentleman. Had a nice conversation with the guy and a photo taken that is God knows where, now.

But quite a lot of drunks are messy when plastered.

My dad was a barman all his life and had his ribs broken by Brendan Behan with a chair in a bar brawl in Dublin.

By all accounts he was obnoxious when hammered, which was a lot.
 
dickie davies said:
The bar owner where Reed suffered his heart attack and died was quoted as saying, "he'd drunk six pints and six double G&T's and was warming up for a decent session "
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Yeh he was arm wrestling sailors in Malta whilst shooting Gladiator - went out on his shield as he would have liked I imagine.......
 
mike1923 said:
He used to go in a pub in Ireland I’ve been in. Apparently used to drink double gin with white win as a mixer
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Bloke at work mentioned this concoction to me at one point - not only does it sound revolting but I can't imagine getting through too many pints of those........
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I had a boss who will be unnamed. He was one of the finest financial brains in a Ftse 100 company. He was also one of the biggest piss heads I have ever encountered. I was fortunate enough to see this at first hand in numerous cities and some of the finest restaurants in the world. In short, he was a legend. I have walked into the busiest bars in Stockholm, Boston, edinburgh, London, Birmingham and Dublin and bar staff would recognise him irrespective of how long it had been since his last visit. Once encountered, never forgotten.
In London, we gatecrashed a media do in a disco and he ended up presenting prizes. In Boston he won the best Irish jig on a table top.
in Dallas, best not go there.
i have never seen anyone drink so much alcohol and still remain coherent and hilariously funny. Who else would pull a pretend gun on some ‘boys from the hood’ in downtown Boston. Laugh? I damn near shit myself. In airports, always ordering another round of drinks seconds after the announcement our luggage was about to be offloaded.
pity he supported the Jambos rather than City.
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He didn't bag Debbie did he?
 
The famously hellraising, bisexual Islamic poet Abu Nuwas is a less well-known example. Here are some samples of his poetry taken from Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas (translated by Alex Rowell).


I Miss Al-Hira*

By God, I dearly miss
Al-Hira and its wine
And the ‘oud strings’ sound at dawn
As the church bells chime,
And I miss the taverns at
The sacrifice time**
And spending, on drink and
Beardless youths, my every dime
By God, were you to hear
The Poems I’ve devised
Their splendour would leave you in
Despair till your demise

*formerly a famous centre for Nestorian Christianity in Iraq
**the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Adha


Take Revenge on Ramadan

Take revenge on Ramadan
With the fine wines aged in clay
And spend Shawwal in revelry
As the songstress plays
May you be, without exception
Drunk at least twice a day
Shawwal has been most generous
Our thanks must be conveyed
It brought festivity and song
And kept the fast’s shackles at bay
The months I find most agreeable
Are, from Ramadan furthest away

The late John Boswell's discussion of Moorish Spain is also worth briefly quoting when it comes to the issues of wine drinking and homosexuality in relation to Islam. Nowadays, we hear a lot about intolerance and extremism within Islam, thanks to the Saudis and the Iranian theocracy promoting their brands of Islamism throughout the Muslim world.

But is hasn't always been like that.

'Although the Qur'an and early religious writings of Islam display mildly negative attitudes towards homosexuality, Islamic society has generally ignored these deprecations, and most Muslim cultures have treated homosexuality with indifference, if not admiration.

Almost without exception, the classic works of Arabic poetry and prose, from Abu Nuwas to the Thousand and One Nights, treat gay people and their sexuality with respect or casual acceptance...The Arabic language contains a huge vocabulary of gay erotic terminology...Erotic address by one male to another is the standard convention of Arabic love poetry; even poems really written to or for women use male pronouns and metaphors of male beauty: it is not uncommon to find poetry addressed to a female in which the object of the poet's affections is praised for 'a dark mustache over pearly white teeth', or the 'first downy beard over damask skin'. Poems about the physical allure of a young man's first beard constitute an entire genre of Arabic poetry...'
 
Jeffrey Bernard
Francis Bacon (the painter)

And here is Dennis Hopper on his own habits:

‘Most of the time, I could drink half a gallon of rum a day, mixed with like fruit juices and stuff, 28 beers or so, and do three grammes of cocaine to sober up and basically go through a working day without seeming that disoriented’.

Then there’s Hunter S Thompson, Charles Hawtrey, Rachel Roberts, Truman Capote, Ian Hendry, Yootha Joyce and Peter Cook.
 
One of my mums pals husband. He was hysterical and you would all have loved him.

He was a painter and decorator and used to get the people to lock him in so he couldnt fuck off to the pub.

One day the cops came to a door he was locked behind.

Knock knock.

Who is it?

It's the Police.

How do I know it's the polis?

It is, can you open the door.

I dont believe you. Look through the letterbox so I can see you.

He did. Crouching down.

Fuck off, you're not a cop. They're much bigger than that.
 
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