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ok, so here's the scenario.

You go out to a bar, have... say.... 5 drinks in an hour and a half and come back to your house with 6 friends who dare you to funnel a handle of vodka. You agree to do it; judgment is not part of this hypothetical scenario, nor is the efficacy with which you or any human can funnel a handle. The question is simply this...

Unassisted by medical attention and without puking how long until you pass away?

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It depends a lot on tolerance (and consequently setting, as tolerance is setting-dependent), but probably unless you are extremely heavy and a severe alcoholic this will kill you within 1-2 hours

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i call the first "but you will puke inevitably" cause oot is nitty

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is a handle a 1/5th or a 1/2 gallon?

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handle the biggun

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buck says half gallon

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a pint's a pound the whole world round

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If you drank a half gallon and somehow managed to suppress your puking reflex, I'd say 2-3 hours before you're gone. If you're a real hardcore alcoholic or if you weigh 400+ lbs, you might be all right anyway, but your average 2+2er would die within 3 hours if they couldn't puke.

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Gone in 60 seconds.

Puking and drowning on own puke after funnel is removed, gg world.

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Good call. I should have pasted it in exactly as typed, instead of searching for "handle of liquor"

You indeed piz0wn0red me.

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The determining factor here would be how much you've had to eat. Also, I'm pretty sure that even hardcore alcoholics can't just do this without dying. If you drink this much this fast, and keep it down, you're going to die. edit: assuming we're not talking about 350lb+ people here.

I'd say on an normal stomach normal man, maybe 2 hours till death. I don't think I know a lot of people who could actually keep this down though.

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My immediate thought was: if you drink this and you keep it down, you're going to die. So I found some calculators:

1.75 liters = ~59 ounces. Let's call it what, 80 proof? According to this calculator , that's going to give a 200 lb guy a BAC of .88. That's without including the drinks you've already had.

According to Wiki, you're in easy death range. But how long will it take for you to actually expire? I couldn't find a quick answer, but I'm going to hazard 3-4 hours, because that sounds right.

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Okay, here's a story from my freshman year of college that may be somewhat relevant. I didn't witness this, but several close friends of mine did.

A group of freshman guys were hanging out drinking beer on a Friday night and there was a handle of rum lying around too. The hero of this story (5'10", 170ish) had about 3 beers when he decided it would be cool to impress everyone with his high tolerance. He proceeded to fill one of those red Solo cups completely full with rum (probably about 8-9 shots worth) and chug it in one gulp. About 5 minutes later he filled another cup with rum and, before anyone knew what was going on, he chugged that one too. It didn't take long for the people he was hanging out with to realize that this guy was going to need medical attention, so they called campus security to take him to the health center. They showed up about 10-15 minutes after he had chugged the second cup, and he was already really [censored] up. They decided to call and ambulance to take him to the hospital, and he slipped into a coma just before he got to the hospital, which was probably about 45 minutes to an hour after drinking the second cup. He ended up being okay, but it was a pretty scary story.

So 3 beers + 16-18 shots --> coma in ~ 45-60 minutes

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I don't know the correct answer to OP's question, but you should not do this, I don't care how fat or how much of an alcoholic you are.

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If you could drink it over time you might be able to do this but to have all that alcohol at once I would think it would kill you if you weren't taken to a hospital to have stomach pumped.

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ill bet andre the giant could do it. he was freakin huge and also a massive alcoholic

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couple hours i'd guess.

theoretically a huge dude could do it, but fat doesn't add to your tolerance. I'm guessing that there is no one alive right now who can do this and survive without medical help. there could be a handful of people, but they would be very close to dying regardless.

hell i'd prob need to go to the hospital after chugging a fifth and i weigh 190.

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I doubt this very very much.

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I doubt this very very much.

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5 dirnks in an hour and a half followed by an entiere handle? i would say theres' less than 10 people on earth (all giants) woh could handle htis withotu dying

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This seems like a math problem. Can someone calculate the approximate bac of someone who is like 300 pounds after doing this?

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handle= a,most 4 0drinks. anyone shors of an alcohilc giant can't do this

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he might be able to do it.

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john daly could do it.

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I think you might be right

http://www.dunkfu.com/index.cfm/dsp/detail/blog/391

"It has been estimated that Andre the Giant drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day. The figure doesn't include food. Just booze."

"On one tour, Andre's Japanese sponsors rewarded him with a case of expensive plum wine. Andre settled down in the back of the bus and started drinking. Four hours later, the bus arrived at the next venue, and Andre was polishing off the last bottle of wine."

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even without the drinks before hand, you're gonna puke and/or die within 5 mins of finishing I'd guess

(unless youre Andre the giant)

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this wouldn't be very easy. a 400 pound guy will come out as being able to do it on a bac calculator, but they're not taking into account that his body is all fat. Maybe they could do it though, i dunno.

what we need is a fat person to experiment on.

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Drinking a bottle of vodka with one sip is sick. I've once witnessed it and I will not tolerate anyone drinking that much with one heap.
Guy started to puke his guts out and passed out in toilet taking a dump. Obv he puked all night and we had to watch him.

I'd say 30mins and you're done. 1 hour till pass out.

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If someone did this, it will end in one of two ways: abruptly or badly. Being a large man myself (300+ lbs) and also a regular consumer of alcoholic beverages, there is no amount of money you could pay me to do this. Even if you diluted it with some sort of mixer and was asked to drink this is an hour I'm not sure it would be worth it.

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i saw a kid chug a 1/5 of jack daniels in 1 gulp...

15 minutes later, he was pulling off his [censored]-filled boxers and puking severely, naked, in the bathroom for an hour...

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There are morbidly obese people who weigh 800+ pounds. I'm sure someone like that could absorb the alcohol and survive.

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i don't see how you could funnel a handle w/o vomiting.

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Trip Report:

I once downed 9~10 shots (right around half a bottle) of 80 proof real cheap bourbon when I took the rest of the handle to my face. I was sure I would vomit it back up once I had finished it because it sat so awkwardly in my stomach. After about 2 minutes, I had no sense of my stomach any more and felt great. It was cool seeing how the drunk kept creeping. Slowly but surely, I was getting pretty plastered and I could easily notice these changes between sentences. At the peak, I was flirting with blackout since some of the things I did I couldn't recall later that night or the next day. But I didn't pass out for about 8hrs. I'm 5'11" 225.

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there was this kid who when we were 17, kept bragging about how he could drink a bottle of vodka, whisky then drink 12 beers. I 'demonstrated' this to us, downing 2/3rds of a 70cl bottle of jack daniels in one swig. within ten minutes he was plastered, twenty minutes falling over with his trousers falling down all the time, so we took him home. he later went into a coma for 16 hours

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I don't understand why it reportedly takes so long for [censored] to hit the fan for the chugger. It would seem to me that after chugging a handle, within about 25 minutes you would feel at least 20 deep with none of that 20 motabilized. I would think this would be enough to put you into a prompt coma and have you dead within an hour. Apparently not though, right?

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I know a guy who's pretty big (around 6'5", 300lbs) who's also a big alcoholic. His typical night is to funnel a fifth of scotch in about 1 minute, and drink 10-12 beers throughout the rest of the night. I've seen him do it, and he's totally out of control but it's pretty standard for him and he not only stays awake/alive, he rarely pukes. He usually does piss himself at some point though.

One story comes to mind - the first time I met him, he funneled a bottle of scotch and followed it up with about a pint of vodka all in under 5 minutes and then switched to beer. About 4 beers into it (maybe 30 minutes after the liquor) he complained of his stomach hurting so he ate a houseplant to settle it. He was moving the next day so all his stuff was in boxes, he peed all over all the boxes, said it was too much hassle to actually move them, lit them on fire and went to bed.

So yeah, theoretically possible, but a really bad idea.

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I don't know the correct answer to OP's question, but you should not do this, I don't care how fat or how much of an alcoholic you are.

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