The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink
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- Whisky for breakfast, champagne for lunch, and then the serious drinking begins. But could Harry Wallop keep up with Winston Churchill s typical daily alcohol intake?
Whisky for breakfast, champagne for lunch, and then the serious drinking begins. But could Harry Wallop keep up with Winston Churchill s typical daily alcohol intake?
Whisky for breakfast, champagne for lunch, and then the serious drinking begins. But could Harry Wallop keep up with Winston Churchill s typical daily alcohol intake?
The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink
The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink
The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink
Oh i get it, this guy does it and he’s matching Churchill but i do it and i’m an alcoholic
He'll stop later. Alcoholic Can't stop later.
Stop tomorrow, tomorrow never comes.
its all about presentation.
@@TwiggehTV precisely
I feel like youtube knows I killed half a bottle of bourbon before noon today and is mocking me
I was reading an autobiography by someone who had dinner with him once and he said it was just extraordinary. He would have a sip port, then a mouthful of food, then a sip of champagne, a puff on his cigar, more food, then more champagne, he never seemed to stop. But what he also noted was that Churchill never seemed to stop talking as well. He was baffled how he managed to achieve it.
Being a high level functioning alcoholic.
because he was a god
@@johnw1954 or because your fantasy bordering on fetish makes gods out of the most ordinary of people, and you just overestimate people’s ability. God only knows the army of unknowns, civil servants and what not, who actually made this drunkard look good. You probably think speeches are written by whoever delivers them too...
@@kencur9690 you're looking in too deep bro. "a god" in gen z terms is anyone who's highly capable.
my brother, there are better ways to spend your sunday. maybe go read a book or perhaps rub one out 🤷♂️.
have a good day sir.
His body mass index
Churchill after the third whiskey and ginger ale: “This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is I think, perhaps, the end of the beginning”
“Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.”
Henry Chinaski (AKA Charles Bukowski)
Perfectly fitting - and taken from his speech given at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon celebrating the victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. He viewed that as the hinge of fate, the turning point of the war - I wonder how much champagne he drank to celebrate.
*whiskey and soda
"...of the bottle".
Kingsman 👍
Churchill was a sly alcy. Those "little" eye-openers in the morning we're probably to stave off withdrawal, but seemed innocent enough because they were just a tipple. Progressively drank more throughout the day, nap mid day because you know you can't drink the whole day and stay up until midnight without other substances or a nap.
Definitely a functional alcoholic. That he lived as long as he did wasn't because he didn't drink a lot. Just lucky. For every Churchill there's a Christopher Hitchens who actually does get the cancer or liver damage or heart attack/stroke.
Golfer (and professional drinker) John Daly once exclaimed that he had never had a hangover. "I just get up and do a couple shots of vodka, and I'm good" he said, without a hint of irony.
& yellow snow isn't sweet
@@jada6632 While i dont do it now, my pandemic routine was basically continual drinking and online work from home and yeah as long as you space the drinks out and ride the "level" you can do it pretty indefinitely without feeling ill. Never had so much as a headache, never been nausious or thrown up.
the people who are going for a headrush are the ones who drive themselves into the ground because they are chaseing a sensation, if your just trying to be mildly relaxed and loose theres not much thats going to hurt you *immediately*
long term its bad for you because, no duh
Yes most historians agree that Churchill’s drinking rarely interrupted or got in the way of his daily life which is amazing
@@masondinsmore Its worth noteing his DR notes iluded to amphetamine use aswell which can explain both the wakefullness and mental acuity exhibited under that level of alcohol use
And he lived to be 90.
In awe of that lad's liver, the absolute unit.
They just don't build em like they used to.
When he died they had to beat his liver with a stick.
@@jarniwoop 🤣
Someone has been watching a lot of modest pelican. Lol jk
His liver would make excellent fois gras
it was Churchill who declared: “Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s champagne!”
Alcoholic British man help save the day lmao
@@samsunguser3148 and?
@@jonnysupreme Congrats on writing a useless comment.
@@jonnysupreme “When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.” - Winston Churchill
No they weren’t, they were fighting for super wealthy bankers
“I’ve taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” -Sir Winston Churchill
Considering he was obese for most of his life it’s astonishing he lived to 90. I feel like if I drank like him I’d die at 65-70.
He also smoked some unimaginable amounts so he must have been a superhuman
That or some very strong genes.
If you started this bullshit in your early 20s you'd be lucky to make it to 55.
I binge on a mickey of kraken once a week but at 34 I already have high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. I really don’t care if I die early to be honest. My dad and grandma won’t live forever and that I’ll be all alone in life. I’ll take 55 any day.
@@Nicefail87 You were born in 87?.... same here (August 26th). If I lost both my Dad and Grandma I wouldn't know what to do. I know I would have my: friends, aunt, cousins but still. I've already lost my: Sister, Grandpa and Mom so..... cherish those who are still here because they could be gone tomorrow.
Everyone: "Never mix grape and grain."
Winston: "We shall drink Johnnie Walker, we shall drink Paul Roger, we shall NEVER surrender."
That's mostly pseudoscience anyway
beer before wine: that's fine
wine before beer: oh dear
@@Axyo0 "mostly" monkaS
It wasn't "British fortitude" that has the Brits standing up to Hitler, it was a constant, belligerence-inducing hangover.
there will be blood, sweat and memory lapses
He drank all morning, took a nap, and drank the rest of the day but still got work done. Sounds like *functional* drunk history.
And he lived past 50 which is the astonishing part…
@@bingobongo1615 and he won fucking WW2
@@xxkrischxx Gives a whole new meaning to the term “functional alcoholic”
@@xxkrischxx Russia won ww2
@@SO-ud6ro agreed
Add to this the constant smoke of those infernal cigars the size of tree branches, and the diet, which I imagine consisted entirely of soft-boiled eggs, caviar, oysters, and steak prepared rare, or maybe a roast goose. Lived to be 90. My man.
Red meat is not nearly as deadly as you think. The main piece of data linking red meat with shorter life expectancy comes from the carnivorous Inuit... who also live on a sheet of ice infested with polar bears. These are probably contributing factors to their shorter life expectancy lol.
@@trequor red meat is fukcing sick and based
The ultimate badass , legend
@@trequor They also started smoking as children when that data was collected.
@@halvard3755 Neat factoid.
Interestingly , there is a non alcoholic drink served in Turkish cafes named after Churchill . Its’ made by adding a bit of lemon juice and salt to mineral water . Appearantly it was what he had ordered when he visited Turkey .
you tossed away lives in Gallipoli like they were scraps off your plate
@@lilben4184 For a Turk it is an honour to die for your nation, our ancestors did not fear death.
Yeah so he could put his whisky in it.
@@lilben4184 Your whole miserable country is the size of one state
@@lilben4184 British and ANZAC forces got annihilated compared to the Turks, such a humiliating defeat that people try to forget about it today in Britain
He started sounding more and more like Churchill as the video went on.
yeah exactly :))
So maybe that's where all the slurry speech came from
"sichdo tof xj, socks od thefrej, deics ot colck, six o cjdkoc, six o clock! six o clock"
Pretty impressive. Now you need to go up a level and do hunter S Thompson’s daily drink and drug regime
Dough Boy yes!!
Yo
@@Gblonkers Don't forget the copious amounts of cocaine.
that's like 3 levels
Isaac Plumbo of course
Reading about these great men from history always left me with the same feeling. These guys were all alcoholics. Amazing what they could accomplish despite the obvious serious stress.
Hitler was a teetotaler.
I think the reason that they were alcoholics was the insane amount of stress.
I can only imagine how hard it must be to fall asleep at night while constantly thinking about all the issues they had to decide on
@@mathijs1781 absolutely. It's really forgivable when you realize that Churchill knew that there was a very real possibility that had they failed Europe as we knew it would have been done.
@@tarisco614 you mean half of Europe communized and the British empire liquidated
@@didymussumydid9726 well had the Nazis succeeded the Soviets wouldn't have cowtowed and the Americans would've pushed to drop more atom bombs, so all of Europe would be a steaming pile.
More of a steaming pile 👽
Love that Churchill take took little doses through the day but once night hits it’s time to get after it. Dude was an absolute Unit of a man
Microdosing Johnny Walker
"It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it, if it were easy." - Tyrion Lannister
Indeed.
Hes right, it's really fucking hard. Speaking from experience.
Pretty easy once you’re used to it
emiel x Brother?
True but being sober all the time isn't easy either
We shall drink on the beaches, we shall drink on the landing grounds, we shall drink champagne in the fields and in the streets, we shall drink whiskey in the hills; we shall never surrender our sobriety!
and the rest of u can drink puddle water
I have full confidence that if all do their duty and nothing is neglected and the best arrangements are made, and they are being made. Then will shall have a great party.
You mean we should never surrender our drinks
@@sgttau9870 We shall never surrender FOR sobriety. most likely.
Everyone: Has to drink water to survive.
Churchill: Has to consume an entire liquor store each day to survive.
Probably 20 drinks a day.
i used to be a heavy drinker and can not stress what tolerance does, i could drink a six pack while hiking like it was water a year later and i cant do more then two doing nothing lol
I understand you were matching him drink for drink; but imagine implementing his cigar smoking with this.
Yeah! It's a wonder he lived as long as he did. Also god knows what he ate, as he wasn't exactly the picture of health physically was he. From what I remember reading too, like Hitler, he relied on a personal doctor and a cocktail of drugs too, uppers and downers almost daily, painkillers etc.
The British are known for their stubbornness. It wouldn't surprise me if he kept himself alive through pure force of will.
mattbenz99 [Canadian Gambit] we call Canadians softies
Paul and Ancila The Nixon era in the USA had those glorious leaders using upper and downer pills to function while running the show.
He was far too busy and far too annoyed to die.
The fact that I'm not impressed by the amount of alcohol at all makes me realize i need to get my shit together drinking-wise, thank you.
Same
@@devanman7920 God speed to you in your endeavors gentlemen. You'll find you have a bit more cash on hand...
Or maybe you just need to run for prime minister
Hitler was bang on meth all night then sedated to sleep for years.. Churchill had it maintained lol
@@blakestone75 true story. My first year sober I saved enough money to buy a new Rolex submariner. That was in 2013 when they were still somewhat affordable (7500 usd) but you get the point.
Really makes you understand why Churchill was constantly slurring in his speeches
I love the fact as he continues with this, he starts sounding like Churchill.
1:02 - that definitely fizzed over the edge didn’t it 😂
Yea
He only had the weight of the world on his shoulders
So true!
Well.. It's a double joke I guess?
It's how you see it lol
Smith Ed
Oh yeah, it was a great responsibility for him to join up with Stalin to stop Germans destroying Communism. Churchill was known to hold official meetings with his senior staff while he was sitting in a hot bath. He was in the bath because by mid-afternoon he was so drunk that he had crapped in his pants.
So he is responsible for the continuation of civilisation as we know it? Prolly a good time to stay clear-headed then.
Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Hunter S. Thompson daily routine.
He was a big dude, paced himself and usually drank while eating. Absolutely do-able.
Then do it
Well Apparently lol
Big time
And amphetamines
Fairly large guy myself and yeah i can maintain a one drink per hour rate more or less indefinitely. The champagne at lunch and dinner would be a strong dose though
This video is incredible. More people need to be seeing this.
How To Drink your name says it all
Name five drinks and have them steadily through the day. WTF is revelatory about that?
Are you German? Your grammar gives it away
GREG!
Also, hi.
Hi, Greg.
"I have taken more out of alcohol, than alcohol has taken out of me"
Winston Churchill
I remember Keith Floyd quoting that, he was in a bad state, not long before he died. People roll the dice with alcohol, for every lucky person, there's many victims.
I think that sums it up nicely, delightfully apt.
I don't know if the story is apocryphal, but I read somewhere that one pint champagne bottles were made exclusively for the British market, but French producers continued bottling some of their output in this size throughout the occupation as a sign of defiance (and presumably as a vote of confidence that the market would return in due course). Churchill expressed his preference for one pint bottles based on his judgement that a standard 70 cl bottle is too much for one person to have with lunch, but not enough for two (which is a good call IMO).
I think 70cl is quite enough for two, unless you are intending to actually get drunk, or you drink regularly.
@@MrHrman12 I'm teetotal now, but back in my drinking days I certainly found 1/2 bottle each to be a bit parsimonious. You'll only get around four decent sized flutes from a 70 cl bottle, which means only two proper glasses each - enough to slake a thirst, but not quite enough to satisfy! So when you go to top up your glass, you find the bottle is empty, which is rather sad and inhospitable (especially if you're entertaining a lovely woman). However, opening a second bottle at this stage might result in your getting more tipsy that frisky, if you know what I mean 🙂
@@MrHrman12
What's the point of drinking it if you're not intending to get drunk?
@@afriedli
You can close the bottle again.
Use one of those plastic corcks or squeeze the original back in.
Champagne bottles are 75 cl, 70 is the regular size for spirits.
It's funny how his day progressed, he started slurring the same way that Churchill did. 😂
winston churchhill was also a lot bigger and had more mass than you to be able to take that much alcohol. The man was not a thin man...
Bigger but small 5' 7" No idea if having a lot of fat helps the liver
@@2adamast he did live to, like, 90, and stoped working at his 80s, though.
caveman Versace or had built up a high tolerance to alcohol plus he is British and we can’t ‘alf drink 😉😏
@Name Holder that's completely false. You are mass does matter quite a bit. That is why they have to adjust dosage of medication given the size of the person taking it
@Name Holder not everyone reacts the same to drugs, BRO
And yes his body mass does matter. You think teeny tiny person drinking all the alcohol in the video would be coherent at the end?
And of course there are functioning drug addicts in the world (Prescription and otherwise), sub optimal is still functional. some people's intoxicated = you at your best (e.g. Churchill, h.thompson) Which is not to say that it should be glamorised
"If I were your wife I would poison your tea!"
"If I were your husband I would drink it."
I'm sure he wouId have survived poison tea too 🤣
"Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"
_"My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course..."_
"Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"
_"Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"_
"Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price."
you can’t drink like Churchill unless you eat like him too. You’re besotted by lunch - but to a trained alcoholic on a 4kcal+ daily diet, this is a light day of drinking.
Essentially like… what, 8-10 drinks? Usually bad if done everyday like Churchy, but in general, 8-10 drinks over 14 hours should be an almost imperceptible level of intoxication.
Church probably just rode a steady low buzz for his entire life, and that’s how he stayed comparatively/relatively stress free and lived to 90.
Thats really probably what it boils down too, alcohol is very bad for you, but so is stress so its possible that for some individuals, particularly ones not generically prone to cancer or heart disease, the alcohol may be the lesser of two evils if they can keep it like you said, a low level buzz
@@therideneverends1697 somewhat true. I suspect i might be one of those guys. because i see churchill and know i could out drink him
“We must work. We must work and we must drink.” Words to live by, my friend
One can’t start at Sir Winston’s level. It takes a lifetime of steady drinking.
Absolutely fine statement, yes indeed
That's not even the level of the average alcoholic.
Also you can adapt to alcohol super quickly.
If you drink anywhere close to that, you're worse than an average alcoholic@@MrCmon113
It also requires a stupid amount of money, servants and secretaries to do all your physical activities for you, the ability to work from home, and a chauffeur.
so basically he was an alcoholic
A functioning alcoholic ;)
not basically, he was an alcoholic
Yep, it wasn't an unusual condition back then.
What else was there to do?
no shit, imagine a world without the interwebs
Not going to try and discover what it is, but something about this video keeps pulling me back and puts a smile on my face every time.
Good to see the Telegraph doing great journalism as always.
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill
Your forgetting one thing: Churchill was MASSIVELY obese and ate insane amounts of food, allowing the drastic absorption of the alcohol.
absolutly made my day :D MASSIVELY obese xD
Absolute unit
@Here's Johnny Maybe the Brits thought him worth every Kcal.
Churchill wasn't actually that obese. Look up pictures of him. He was fat by the standards of his day, but today he would probably only be called 'overweight'.
He really didn't even drink that much.
“My afternoon nap was, uh, very, un, very restorstarative.” Yeah, it was really kicking in there.
I'm still baffled that Winston managed to live into his 90s, IMPRESSIVE!!! 😳
I imagine he drank as much as he did as a result of Gallipoli and then joining the fight first hand in the Western front in WW1.
I'm guessing after that is when it got to this habitual level
@skankhunt 42
WW1.
After everything that happened at Gallipoli he was dismissed from his position in office. He then enlisted and even if he didnt necessarily fight he was still touring trenches and hospitals in the conditions with the soldiers.
Did i really have to specify WW1 when I said Gallipoli? He did parts in both wars ya Skank
@skankhunt 42
In fact, he joined the Royal Scot Fusiliers on the western front feeling a lot of guilt for what happened in Gallipoli and wanting to further serve his country.
@skankhunt 42 Adolf refused to serve in the Austrian army because of the mix of races in their army. After trying to avoid conscription, he was returned to Salzburg where he failed the physical exam for conscription.
The only qualities of leadership he demonstrated was his ability to indoctrinate the desperate and impoverished into following him towards Germany's utter collapse. Immediately following his prominent rise to power he invaded his homeland of Austria, slaughtering innocent kinsmen in the procedd.
Real leader.
@skankhunt 42 how is babylon an insulting term
Alcohol. The original medication for PTSD. That and Opium, I would imagine.
Do wolf of Wall Street daily drug routine
lol
It's easy to do cocaine
@@christiferschmuck5691 too easy...
Can't. Ludes don't exist
@@oghaz3y7 Ludes still exist, It's still very legal in South Africa.
Lol, great video, thanks! I actually can feel a connection with Winston Churchill now!
Marlin, this was an amazing show of your dedication to historical accuracy
Oh no, officer - I'm not drunk. I'm Churchilled.
I'm going to borrow that the next time I get pulled over.
Churchilled ✌️🎩 awesome quote!
I'm totally Winstoned! I'm using that next time anyone asks
An alcoholic and a chain smoker and yet, lives longer than many many people.
The worlds oldest man and woman smoked. It's all about genes and luck some got cancer and bad lungs really young and some never no matter how much shit they consume.
@@hnorrstrom Actually it does matter and you practically saying nonsense. He lived for 89 years which is long enough. However, if he didnt smoke and drink he would have most certainly made it to a hundred.
@@kirihara147 YUP! it's amazing how frequent consumption of booze and tobacco shave off 10 to 20 years of your lifespan.
@@kirihara147 LOL very unlikely. 89 was a very good age for him to see. It still isn't common for people to make 100
poison and shite pipes and cigars can still give you lip, mouth and throat cancer.
His favourite wine was Melnik 55 from a small village in bulgaria, i stumbled across the village by chance whilst backpacking and bought a bottle from the original winery that sold to churchill, hasnt changed much in 80 years
All this is is a functioning alcoholic keeping the shakes away till he can get drunk again in the night
Except he worked at night also, he routinely held meetings till 2 in the morning - to the dismay of the cabinet members and top military figures, etc, who had to attend. At least during WW2. He claimed this work schedule with a midday nap enabled him to make two days out of one. But yes, maybe that was also an excuse so he could nap to pace his drinking so he could drink the rest of the day and evening.
With his job and responsebility i would be a heavy drinker too.
Well Darth Bane, beeing a Sith Lord is also kinda hard.
@Western Unity and he killed himself 🤷♂️
@Western Unity heroic would have been to shoot at his enemy and die in Battle not shoot himself.
This isn't even much drink.. he has the littliest drop
Western Unity he was off heroin
360p? Did you film this with Churchhill?
It looks fine. 360p isn't bad.
@@mattsmoo5378 You say this at a time when mobile smartphones are adopting 1440p as a standard.
@@FumbleMybees in the US maybe. My data if I were not with WiFi would die at 1440
@@FrancoCeriani Ah my data generally handles 720p/1080p
I'm watching on a 46" HD TV and the clip looks fine.
It's more about the composition of the shot than anything else.
“We must work. We must work and we must drink” sounds like it could have come straight from Churchill himself
Thank you for your service
Remember, 'If you wanna run cool, you've got to run on heavy, heavy fuel' - Mark Knopfler
Think it was Chris Rea?
One of his roadies used to say this.
@@Beechgoose1 Dire Straits + Chris Rea = DireRea
@@elgerardoedwardio2498 ✴ 😳
Low expectations for this random video but I loved it hahaha, so genuine.
Since covid started and I started working from home, I get Winston's vibe. I was doing 4 fingers of Johnny black label and sprite ever hour. Would go through the big bottle every 2 days
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me!"
defeated by glasses of whiskey? wheres that churchill spirit?
We will drink them on the beaches and on the ocean and in the air. We will never surrender
Doesn't seem too bad (I say that as an Irishman), but doing it every day for an extended period of time would be the killer.
irish think that they drink alot...just like anglos they confuse getting drunk everyday with 2 beers with holding well your liquor
If I had his pressure and responsibility during the war, I would probably drink too. But he still came out victorious!
It's that restraint that gets him through the day. If I start drinking I'm the morning I don't think I'll be able to hold back getting super wasted by the time dinner rolls around
So Churchill used to micro dose whiskey... hmm
Both spellings are correct, I just depends on what part of the world you’re in.
Whisk(e)y
Whisky - Scottish
Whiskey - Irish
@Walnut What bastardization of the English fucking language is that? Go back to school.
@@WelfareDude Nope, he's right. The 'e' in whiskey/whisky can only be present if the nation it's produced in has a letter 'e' in the country's name.
United States Of America - Whiskey
Japan - Whisky
Ireland - Whiskey
Scotland - Whisky
New Zealand -Whiskey
1:30-1:47 Now I'm beginning to understand why Sir Churchill talked like that.
he had a slight lisp and a speech impediment.
@@richardturner9317 he was a bigot and a spacker?
@@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361 L. Ron Hubbard was a black man.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."
Pope Gregory the 9th
“ if you were my husband I would poison your tea”
“ madam if I was your husband I would drink the tea”
When someone says a weak drink they don't mean 0.01oz of whiskey
Call it what you want. If that's what he had, then that's what he had.
This might be just me, but I’d imagine maybe Churchill started off weaker in the very start of the morning with what’s basically just whisky flavoured soda water but then got progressively more neat as he went on. Or perhaps he just drank it extremely weak all day because he knew he was going to get pissed all the same anyway on a variety of all the drinks he was having, and maybe drinking it as essentially just watered down whisky flavoured soda water was his version of drinking water. I mean we know water wasn’t as great back then and people weren’t as healthy when it came to regular hydration so my theory would be that he wasn’t keen on tap water and instead like to drink his water carbonated with a whisky twang and that’s why he drank so many of those ‘whisky sodas’ as just his go to refreshment.
Do you guys measure alcohol in Oz? Ok i realize you meant he was filling up the glas waaaay to little, but what is a standard us/Uk glas of whiskey then? For sweds it would be like 4cl of whiskey in a resturant.
@@hnorrstrom a shot is 1.5oz . if i was making a drink id use at least that amount of scotch, probably more
@@lxxwj thanks! That's about the same as here in sweden then. Or even more...
Now do Boris Yeltsin
YESSSSSSSS
The fact that this man led Britain through a world war hammered and Boris Johnson cant even lead it sober is quite something
And to think that in these very concrete routines Debord and Churchill would have admired each other mutually.
As a heavy functional drinker myself you really have to live and enjoy day drinking to understand the subtleties of some of the combinations and the schedules of these proud drinkers.
The time you realize when one of the greatest leaders of the Free World was practically drunk the mosr of the time.
If I had to guess, all of the drinking of champagne and soda water was a method to treat indigestion that he probably had for being overweight. He probably suffered from Gerd or acid reflux and back then they didn’t know what it was but he had found out as I did years ago that drinking something like a Coke or a Pepsi or in his case just soda water helps the digestion tremendously. He just like to put a little bit of scotch in there because it made it like a cocktail rather than just bland soda water is my guess. And Champagne is probably a lot more enjoyable to drink with dinner then plain soda water.
It was very common back then to have an apéritif before dinner and a cognac afterward so that doesn’t surprise me that he would follow those traditions nor would it have surprised me that he would have a glass of wine or whatever during meals.
He was also a noted cigar smoker which also gives you bad indigestion in a lot of cases. I used to work for two different people that smoked a lot who both ate baking soda right from the box with a spoon to treat their indigestion and heartburn. So again he may not have realized exactly why this diet of soda water was helping him but I do think he was using it because it made him feel better.
These are the explanations that best make sense to me anyway.
Winston was a connoisseur. Or a enthusiast if you will. Gotta admire that
sweet jesus this was outstanding!
For the very small amount of drinks in the morning, the body should be able to more than easily process that if you keep it at a drink per hour. Afterwards the other bigger drinks might be a bit of a problem but tolerance does get built up over time. I will say, he probably was not acting sloshed like this guy is by 6pm.
It makes Mr.Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches..." speech that much more impressive when you realize he was likely thoroughly hammered when he gave it. If I drank half of that, I'd be fucked up as a football bat.
I wish at the end of the video he would've recited some of Churchill's famous quotes, because he probably would've totally nailed em
I got an ad for alcohol free beer before this vid, the irony
Churchill was much much heavier than this guy, and his scotches weren't consistently light
When your first is at 9am you know it’s going to be a wild day
I watched this and was immediately reminded of the Mitchell and Webb sketch 'The Inebriati'. Basically it's about a secret society that believes that every human is at their peak when very slightly tipsy - specifically, 1 and a half glasses deep. The reasoning is that you're drunk enough to be more self-confident, relaxed, and friendly, but not drunk enough that you're starting to fuck shit up.
Funny to think you worked at drinking. He drank while working. 😂 cheers!
Anyone else worried by the fact that this looks doable, if not downright easy? 😳
I honestly think the only problem would be sticking to only one drink per hour etc. and then burning out too quickly.
This guy did one an hour, I guarantee the Johnny Walkers were much more frequent than that for Churchill.
if you dont have a tollerence this would be mind destroying
if you do have a tollerence enough to do this its because youve worked yourself up to it, and frankly is probably a sign you should back off it a bit
Yeah, it's pretty pointless. I'd never get drunk this way, just tired and groggy.
Alcohol must be consumed in bulk over a short time.
You wouldn't just take meth over the whole day either.
@@therideneverends1697
Churchill was kinda short and old. A young, tall man can probably drink more than that out of the box.
Honestly if every decision I was making ended with men dying, no matter whether it was the right or wrong choice, I would probably drink that heavily as well
sounds like he was just trying to stay buzzed through out the day lol
we must work and we must drink. Very well said
He was so big it probably gave him nothing more than a moderate buzz throughout the day. If you drink with a large meal, which I assume he did you barely feel the affects of alcohol
...it's called an " eye opener" that first drink 👍
I've always known it as a heart starter. Both make sense though. 👍🏼
I love how this dude from The Telegraph was essentially paid to drink all day.
What a legend.
I'd pity him rather than be in awe
"10 30 in the morning, my third whiskey and soda"
Normal routine for me
Red Label is so rough maybe drinking it with majority soda makes sense. Hitchens drank Black label. Much better stuff.
agreed. if you ever have the opportunity, try the blue label. you'll like it, it's much better than black label. Nixon drank it w/ fresh squeezed lemon juice from his lemon farm, he had crates of lemons shipped to the Whitehouse for this purpose.
Red is drinkable if you are having just 1 or 2 with mineral water. But it's quite nice when you put some into pan when frying pork.
I've seen photos of Hitchens with red label bottles in front of him.
As soon as I saw the video preview I knew it is going to be a masterpiece
I can tell how it's so hard to understand Churchill sometimes. He's just always drunk and slurring words so much that he even does it in his rare moments of sobriety
Defeated? Never, never, never give up. Never.
Now that’s a scientist
Best thing was he started sounding like Churchill near the end 😂😂
I love how you weren't defeated by being too drunk to continue. Just too bloated haha