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Only 55 people attended (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I mean. Everyone's gonna be properly drunk, but that's not that absurd an amount of booze for a party esp. in an era where pretty much everyone is an alcoholic.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Two and a half bottles of wine per person in and of itself is a lot. Not unreasonable, for professional alcoholics, but the cider, punch, whiskey, and beer on top of that sounds absurd to me.

    Maybe they're small bottles, or weren't all finished though

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I would suspect each table had at least a bottle of each drink involved and many may have been half-open

    And also apparently early America really loved drinking, like a lot. To regular binge drinkers, the amounts aren't even that big assuming it was a long evening.

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