I'm talking the number of bars visited in one night and the amount of beer consumed in one night. Is there anywhere in the world this could be attempted? And would it be possible that you'd still be alive after 12 pints and a couple random shots?
shareI think you would be unconscious, if not dead, after eight or nine pubs.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.
Done similar crawls a few times in my youth, as others have said in most towns (in the West of Scotland anyway) completing a semi-defined route is a right of passage. In my hometown of Paisley you could do an East/West or a North/South crawl quite easily taking in a dozen or so pubs. The main problem was usually getting into the last pub or two. No doubt we ended up in some right dives - that I can't quite remember where probably says it all!
Wouldn't fancy it nowadays!
Why do folk use "west of Scotland/west coast" just to refer to the Glasgow overspill? West of Scotland is more like places like Oban, Campbelltown, Fort William or even Stranraer not the Glasgow travel to work area...
Rant over.
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Because that's where the bulk of the population live and if the town in question is in the west of Scotland, why not? Dismissing towns, many with hundreds of years of distinct history as mere "Glasgow overspill" is just as arbitrary an assumption as mine.
It's an interesting POV, and technically correct, but I'm not even sure that the residents of the towns you mention would locate themselves in the "West of Scotland" (the term I used) but would instead choose either "Highlands & Islands" or in the case of Stranraer "south-west".
Sorry it's a gripe of mine. I'm from the north...
Glasgow isn't even on the coast really anyway... you'd have to go past Greenock/Dumbarton before you're beginning to get out of the river. Ironic that Central Belters complain about the Home Counties and do the same themselves.
Edinburgh kind of on the coast but the centre's well inland and the Leithers don't think they're Edinburgh...
Scotland will be better if it starts thinking in wider terms than the central belt IMHO... which is where we've ended up being herded into by clearances and industry...
Anyway rant over.
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West Of Scotland is west of Falkirk/Cumbernauld and south of Ben Lomond, Including Argyll, Renfrewshire and Ayrshire. And maybe even including some of Dumfries and Galloway but not all of it.
Maybe Oban is included but that's about it.
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Absolutely. Twelve pints is a big night for most, but it's perfectly doable. Back in my student days there were times I'd pile into the student union with a few friends when it opened at 11am and stay there till it closed at 11pm; we'd do 12+ pints in a day no problem.
There are hardcore drinkers for whom 12 pints in a day is nothing.
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Uhm its not this much, i mean 6 liters over minimum 8 hours, easy
shareit can be done with ease: I have done it more than once but probably would struggle now.
Back in my Uni days we had a sponsored 4-legged beer race during Rag Week which helped raise money for charity. The 4-legged bit consisted of 3 people, the middle person having their left leg tied to the right leg of the person on their left and their right leg to the left leg of the person on the right. There was a 4th person that went ahead and got the beers in for the team. There were 8 pubs on the route.
We got round in about 40 minutes and came 3rd. It was only then that we read the rules properly: pints in the first and last, halves in pubs 2-7. We had done pints in each one.
Flushed by success, we did a lap of honour of all 8 pubs again, so 16 pints in all.
[The following year I was on a team with two ladies, which resulted in my only visit to a ladies toilet in a pub part way through. That was an eye opener in many ways! They had toilet paper for one, soap for another...]
I drank eight pints as a youth, and know quite a few who drank 12. It is possible, with enough time, a bit of exercise and a bit of grub along the way. It would be an epic piss-up.
shareHonestly yes, but it takes a lot of "training", and I also thought that they were aiming a little low ;)
In the peak of my binge drinking career I drank at least 9 to 10 steins at Oktoberfest in about 18 hours. That's equivalent to about 17 or 18 pints. It's doable if you space them out, like 1 an hour, although yes you're still going to get very drunk.
So 12 in something like 12 hours, with food and water, seems pretty feasible without risking dying or any other kind of long term damage.
12 pints? Yeah son.
shareAged 20-30? No problem. You could write off the next day, and possibly the one after, and you might have damaged system and knocked 6 months off your life expectancy but you’d make it through.
Any older and you’d be risking some permanent organ damage and possibly, but unlikely, death.