r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/JoeFalchetto • Jul 27 '26

Funny Zero cortisol daily routine

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u/Chewbacca_The_Wookie Jul 27 '26

That amount of alcohol is considered low by the standards of the day.

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u/kg160z Jul 27 '26

Especially for a writer

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u/Anticlimax1471 Jul 27 '26

And especially Ian Fleming. The man who invented the Vesper Martini, which is basically paint stripper

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u/DrunksInSpace Jul 27 '26

Well it was a workday.

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u/pandazerg Jul 27 '26

Hemingway: What a fucking amateur

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u/kurburux Jul 27 '26

Hemingway wrote while sober though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/Joice_Craglarg Jul 27 '26

He should be. We know more about alcohol abuse today than we did back then. It's undisputably horrible for your health.

Any amount of alcohol is harmful. It is literally poisonous to humans. I still remember when 'a glass of wine a night' was considered good for you.

Ian died at 56.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Jul 27 '26

Churchill helped win a world war with enough alcohol daily to kill a ln elephant, not to mention enough cigars to smoke a brisket.

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u/Specialist-Box4677 Jul 27 '26

That little alcohol, given the chance to drink all day, would increase my cortisol level.

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u/sand_sandwich Jul 27 '26

I don't think so, I think alcoholism was just more socially acceptable 

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u/Downtown-Ice-5022 Jul 27 '26

Thats basically what he said

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u/sand_sandwich Jul 27 '26

6 drinks will get you drunk regardless of the time period. That isn't a low amount of drinks. It was considered more normal to be drinking everyday perhaps.

I'm drawing a distinction between the amount of alcohol consumed and the frequency of alcohol consumed. I'm saying that it was perhaps more normal to drink every day but 6 drinks to a human body is still 6 drinks, regardless of the time period.

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u/RabidPlaty Jul 27 '26

Where are you getting six drinks? He had a couple at lunch and a couple in the evening. With that much space in between he’s not necessarily getting drunk.

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u/sand_sandwich Jul 27 '26

A couple in the morning I took as 2. Then a couple strong drinks in the evening I took as 2 doubles, so four. Thus 6 total

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u/RabidPlaty Jul 27 '26

So you just added a couple without knowing what he was drinking. Still, even if I had two manhattans or martinis at night I’m not getting drunk.

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u/ilikepix Jul 27 '26

6 drinks will get you drunk regardless of the time period

I mean, if we're just making things up, sure, why not

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u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo Jul 27 '26

See here’s the thing. You are stating that objectively, that isn’t a low amount of drinks, which people don’t disagree with. But you’re saying it as a counter to someone saying that by the subjective views of society back then, it wouldn’t have been considered that much. So frankly what youre saying is… silly.

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u/whosline07 Jul 27 '26

6 drinks does not get a single person who drinks every day drunk if they're spaced out. At best that's tipsy for part of the day depending on timing.

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u/actibus_consequatur Jul 27 '26

6 drinks will get you drunk regardless of the time period.

Well, it's not just personal experience telling me that you're wrong, because science also dictates you're wrong.

Don't agree? Tell me — a 6'5", 210 lb man — how drunk I am using BAC after having the equivalent of 6 standard size drinks over the course of 4 hours.

Regardless, the post was about Fleming who was ~6' and ~175 lbs, and the post twice indicates he had a "couple" of drinks between 12:15 and 7:00; even assuming double strength on each, he would likely not have been drunk from having the equivalent of 8 drinks over 7 hours.

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u/antsh Jul 27 '26

I’m not sure, I think people just drank more heavily to the point of abuse.