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A tourist holidaying in Jamaica has died after attempting to drink all 21 cocktails on a bar’s drinks menu, an inquest has heard.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
  1. This is incredibly sad for him and his family, a tragedy no matter the circumstances.

  2. Any time I have been on a vacation in a warm-weather Anglophone location, the people who are beet-red sunburned and still outside drinking all day are almost invariably English.

I'm sure it's a tiny, tiny percentage, but the people who combine a Little Britain mentality with a determination to get value for money and a bit of functional alcoholism certainly make themselves known. Terrible American tourists are often much worse to be around, but the specific "wobbly lobster" variety seems to skew English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This reads like The Onion material.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He only had like 10 of the drinks and went back to his room and died but here is the salient part:

"brandy and beer throughout the morning."

remember folks. Beer before boze and your gonna lose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Beer before liquor, you'll never be sicker.

Liquor before beer, you're in the clear.