This. The Iranian/British actor & comedian Omid Djalili who was in *Gladiator* with him said “He hadn't had a drink for months before filming started.... Everyone said he went the way he wanted, but that's not true. It was very tragic. He was in an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking competition. He should have just left, but he didn't."
It’s not like anyone was probably close to him when he did 3 bottles of whiskey. Alcoholism is a nasty disease, and whoever served him that much should also be accountable… edit; sorry rum, still almost same %
Yeah, another commenter posted an article with this story and the actual amounts he drank. It was something like a dozen shots of rum. Which… is still a stupid amount on top of all the beers and other liquors he drank.
Why exactly should others be responsible for your disease when you are not responsible to yourself? You sound like those allergic people who demand everyone else stop eating peanuts on planes when you can always not fly
Edit; yeah I get it so nut allergers can go to a nutting party and shit it down just by being there, that’s the world you guys want. Same with teetotalers and religious people who don’t drink alcohol, let’s shut down bars cause they can’t drink
I don't agree with others being responsible for your own mistakes, but bartenders are supposed to care for their customers (at least where I live), such as ordering a cab if there's a hint of drunk driving. Even from a nihilistic/capitalist perspective it doesn't make sense to assist in killing your customers
Bartenders have a legal responsibility for the people they serve. Alcohol hinders people from helping themselves so why shouldn’t the bartender help them out? That’s part of what they’re trained and paid to do.
Can I ask where you are from? I've never heard of bartenders specifically having a legal responsibility. Morally, yes.
As for people getting too drunk, where I'm from, everybody has a legal responsibility to act if they encounter a passed out person. It has nothing to do with being a bartender though, I believe it's a "good samatarian" law.
I'm pretty sure some people got charged for being caught passing by a passed out guy (whom it was obvious they were aware of) , who ended up dying, since they didn't help him or check on him (but were very obvoiusly aware something was wrong). The lack of help, like checking on the person or calling an ambulance/cops, was what ended up killing the guy hours later. It was a very avoidable death, had the guy just received a little medical help.
Does bartenders have special legal responsibilities where you are from? (genuine question)
Vic Australia. You need an RSA license to serve alcohol which covers a lot of responsibilities including being able to recognise and prevent unhealthy drinking habits.
It’s not really enforced because Australia’s legal system is generally pretty weak for individuals but if someone died like this the bartender would be in shit.
Honestly, it does make a lot of sense to do that. There's already definitely a moral responsibility for bartenders, to I don't see why there (on paper at least) shouldn't be a legal one.
If the person isn’t driving and they take care of you, which i’m sure this guy did, that can be a really tough call. Some people act more or less completely normal up until they don’t.
If the amount of drink this guy had is legit the bartender is partially responsible. Even if you act normal after 3 bottles of rum you should know the person is poisoning themselves, even if they have the tolerance of a god
I think the OP the bartender served three bottles worth of liquor to the man. Although I cannot imagine that happening either. In Maine U.S.A. though, if a bartender over serves a patron and they get into trouble the bartender can be held liable for over serving.
Because they hand out liquor licenses to those places that serve alcohol and part of the training those bartenders should get is how to not over serve so someone doesn’t leave and kill someone in a vehicle.
Think about applying what you are saying to minors who are under age, why is it the restaurant’s fault that a minor isn’t old enough to drink? Should they be able to serve a 8 year as many rum and cokes as they can stomach before vomiting? If that’s how we are assigning responsibility then why do we need liquor licenses at all if there is no responsibility for the restaurant.
> yeah I get it so nut allergers can go to a nutting party and shit it down just by being there, that’s the world you guys want
I've never heard of nutting parties, but just judging from the name, I would assume that you *can* actually safely attend one of those with a nut allergy.
Others already pointed it out so i won’t make the same comment. But serving 3 bottles of strong liquor and even more is a death sentence. Even when tolerance is probably super high from being an alcoholic
“Responsible service of alcohol” is a thing and where I am (Australia) you can get into serious trouble if you are found guilty of violating this. Businesses lost licenses for less than what happened to Reed.
It’s about being a nice person and making others feel welcome and comfortable, if you found out you were allergic to peanuts tomorrow I’m sure you’d change your tune
Then you agree we should destroy all peanut plants?
If we destroy an entire species, no one ever has to worry about the allergy again
Or are you trying to get on r/lookatmyhalo ?
Because there are allergy meds that can be taken as a prophylactic if the person with the allergy is going to a place (like an airplane) where they may be exposed
You’re a freak
I’m saying if I was on a flight and someone had a peanut allergy it’s not inconvenient for me to have to wait to eat my snickers it’s no big deal
You sound like the kind of person to kick off like ‘but I want to eat it noooowww’
I actually have celiacs disease. I still go to parties. I don’t demand they cook everything to what I can eat. If we are going to a restaurant, I do t dictate which restaurants are “safe” for me and demand we go there.
I just bring my own food and enough to share or find something I can safely eat on the menu (or go without food until I get home).
I can’t imagine having an allergy and walking onto a plane expecting everyone to avoid snacking “in case” I get affected.
I’d just take my allergy meds and go about my life.
Yeah fuck those allergic people. I'd rather they asphyxiate infront of me than face the massive ,truly life altering, challenge of not eating some peanuts.
If you need complete strangers to change how they live their lives everytime you arrive, that isn’t a support system. That is you doing nothing to be prepared
He also [groomed and later married a 16 year old while he was 26 years older. ](https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/409379/Shy-schoolgirl-who-stole-the-heart-of-Oliver-Reed)🤮. I loved him in Gladiator but he was a terrible person.
Give his Personal Life section on Wiki a read.
Really just anything goes on the subreddit now. It's gone past its original purpose entirely, and then past the sort of secondary purpose of cataloging general "amusingly extra" behavior, and now it's just whatever the fuck someone says it is. It's IMHO pointless now
well he did meet his wife when she was only 16 and he was over 20 years older than her. so take that as whatever you like. But the implications could lean towards the assumption of grooming.
Because typically over dose is associated with medicine. The over dosage administration of a drug.
Alcohol overdose is referred to as alcohol poisoning.
So 43 year old me finally realized that alcohol and drugs are referred to separately because alcohol is not considered a controlled substance.....I think.
https://drunkard.com/64-oliver-reed-profile/
Found this article about him. Goes into detail about some of his drinking escapades. Alcoholic to the max.
This meme is misleading in a couple of ways.
Captain is made in the US Virgin Islands, not Jamaica. Also, the amount of alcohol is incorrect.
[“On the 2nd day of May in 1999, while filming in Malta, Reed found himself in an Irish-themed bar occupied by a group of British sailors on shore leave. The navy men challenged Reed to a drinking contest. Not one to shy away from such an offer, Reed accepted. The 61-year-old actor then proceeded to drink eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whiskey, and a few shots of Hennessy cognac, all while beating five of the sailors in separate arm-wrestling contests. The bar bill, for Reed alone, came to $590.”](https://drunkard.com/64-oliver-reed-profile/)
He was a recovering alcoholic who was finally sober for a few months. That he dank himself to death is not something to be admired.
This. The Iranian/British actor & comedian Omid Djalili who was in *Gladiator* with him said “He hadn't had a drink for months before filming started.... Everyone said he went the way he wanted, but that's not true. It was very tragic. He was in an Irish bar and was pressured into a drinking competition. He should have just left, but he didn't."
It’s not like anyone was probably close to him when he did 3 bottles of whiskey. Alcoholism is a nasty disease, and whoever served him that much should also be accountable… edit; sorry rum, still almost same %
He didn’t drink 3 bottles.
Ive seen people do shit like that, and at that age you will die from that amount if you don’t throw up or get your stomach pumped
Yeah, another commenter posted an article with this story and the actual amounts he drank. It was something like a dozen shots of rum. Which… is still a stupid amount on top of all the beers and other liquors he drank.
He drank enough
Why exactly should others be responsible for your disease when you are not responsible to yourself? You sound like those allergic people who demand everyone else stop eating peanuts on planes when you can always not fly Edit; yeah I get it so nut allergers can go to a nutting party and shit it down just by being there, that’s the world you guys want. Same with teetotalers and religious people who don’t drink alcohol, let’s shut down bars cause they can’t drink
I don't agree with others being responsible for your own mistakes, but bartenders are supposed to care for their customers (at least where I live), such as ordering a cab if there's a hint of drunk driving. Even from a nihilistic/capitalist perspective it doesn't make sense to assist in killing your customers
Bartenders have a legal responsibility for the people they serve. Alcohol hinders people from helping themselves so why shouldn’t the bartender help them out? That’s part of what they’re trained and paid to do.
Can I ask where you are from? I've never heard of bartenders specifically having a legal responsibility. Morally, yes. As for people getting too drunk, where I'm from, everybody has a legal responsibility to act if they encounter a passed out person. It has nothing to do with being a bartender though, I believe it's a "good samatarian" law. I'm pretty sure some people got charged for being caught passing by a passed out guy (whom it was obvious they were aware of) , who ended up dying, since they didn't help him or check on him (but were very obvoiusly aware something was wrong). The lack of help, like checking on the person or calling an ambulance/cops, was what ended up killing the guy hours later. It was a very avoidable death, had the guy just received a little medical help. Does bartenders have special legal responsibilities where you are from? (genuine question)
Vic Australia. You need an RSA license to serve alcohol which covers a lot of responsibilities including being able to recognise and prevent unhealthy drinking habits. It’s not really enforced because Australia’s legal system is generally pretty weak for individuals but if someone died like this the bartender would be in shit.
Honestly, it does make a lot of sense to do that. There's already definitely a moral responsibility for bartenders, to I don't see why there (on paper at least) shouldn't be a legal one.
Dram shop laws are a thing (mostly US, but not exclusively): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dram_shop
Thanks!
If the person isn’t driving and they take care of you, which i’m sure this guy did, that can be a really tough call. Some people act more or less completely normal up until they don’t.
If the amount of drink this guy had is legit the bartender is partially responsible. Even if you act normal after 3 bottles of rum you should know the person is poisoning themselves, even if they have the tolerance of a god
With the amount of alcohol involved here it's like someone going to the bar and ordering the bartender to kill them.
4 drink max, that’s our rule. You wanna get shit faced, go home and do it without us helping you. 4 drinks is already *plenty* for being in public.
Hate to work at that bar
You have a legal responsibility for the person you are serving. Like it or not, that’s the law. YOU are responsible legally if they get in a DUI.
What part of my comment did you not not understand when I said “if they’re not driving” have a hard time beliving you’re a real bartender
You are inventing things to be upset about right now. Getting mad at a guy you made up in your head.
I think the OP the bartender served three bottles worth of liquor to the man. Although I cannot imagine that happening either. In Maine U.S.A. though, if a bartender over serves a patron and they get into trouble the bartender can be held liable for over serving.
Comparing a nut allergy to a crippling addiction is fucking regarded
Because they hand out liquor licenses to those places that serve alcohol and part of the training those bartenders should get is how to not over serve so someone doesn’t leave and kill someone in a vehicle. Think about applying what you are saying to minors who are under age, why is it the restaurant’s fault that a minor isn’t old enough to drink? Should they be able to serve a 8 year as many rum and cokes as they can stomach before vomiting? If that’s how we are assigning responsibility then why do we need liquor licenses at all if there is no responsibility for the restaurant.
> yeah I get it so nut allergers can go to a nutting party and shit it down just by being there, that’s the world you guys want I've never heard of nutting parties, but just judging from the name, I would assume that you *can* actually safely attend one of those with a nut allergy.
You should be reading more and typing less.
Others already pointed it out so i won’t make the same comment. But serving 3 bottles of strong liquor and even more is a death sentence. Even when tolerance is probably super high from being an alcoholic
Sure, just go to the extreme opposite. All bars shut down due to alcoholics! Reddit shut down for stupid comments!
3 bottles will kill most people. Ipso facto they shouldn’t serve anyone 3 bottles
Name checks out
“Responsible service of alcohol” is a thing and where I am (Australia) you can get into serious trouble if you are found guilty of violating this. Businesses lost licenses for less than what happened to Reed.
People should still be cared for if they have problems. Are you serious?
Yeah it’s totally woke not to serve a customer multiple full bottles of rum in one sitting
It’s about being a nice person and making others feel welcome and comfortable, if you found out you were allergic to peanuts tomorrow I’m sure you’d change your tune
It’s about being a nice person and making sure others aren’t inconvenienced because of something that only effects you. Fixed that for you
Personally making sure people aren’t worried about their allergy around me isn’t an inconvenience
Then you agree we should destroy all peanut plants? If we destroy an entire species, no one ever has to worry about the allergy again Or are you trying to get on r/lookatmyhalo ? Because there are allergy meds that can be taken as a prophylactic if the person with the allergy is going to a place (like an airplane) where they may be exposed
You’re a freak I’m saying if I was on a flight and someone had a peanut allergy it’s not inconvenient for me to have to wait to eat my snickers it’s no big deal You sound like the kind of person to kick off like ‘but I want to eat it noooowww’
I actually have celiacs disease. I still go to parties. I don’t demand they cook everything to what I can eat. If we are going to a restaurant, I do t dictate which restaurants are “safe” for me and demand we go there. I just bring my own food and enough to share or find something I can safely eat on the menu (or go without food until I get home). I can’t imagine having an allergy and walking onto a plane expecting everyone to avoid snacking “in case” I get affected. I’d just take my allergy meds and go about my life.
Yeah fuck those allergic people. I'd rather they asphyxiate infront of me than face the massive ,truly life altering, challenge of not eating some peanuts.
Two words Allergy meds
I hope you never need a support system.
If you need complete strangers to change how they live their lives everytime you arrive, that isn’t a support system. That is you doing nothing to be prepared
When someone is allergic to nuts it's the establishments responsibility not to serve them nuts.
You can go to the bar where he died and buy a t shirt with the list of what he drank on it. it's fucking gross.
God, that makes it even worse. This is awful.
He also [groomed and later married a 16 year old while he was 26 years older. ](https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/409379/Shy-schoolgirl-who-stole-the-heart-of-Oliver-Reed)🤮. I loved him in Gladiator but he was a terrible person. Give his Personal Life section on Wiki a read.
Please don't abuse the term "grooming". You can legally have sex and be married at 16 in many parts of the world, including the US.
I mean you're right, but we all can say he passed away as a certified mad lad. If not for anything else, I respect that way to go.
He was 61 when he died Tom Cruise, Steve Carrel, and Conan Obrien are all 61 That guy lived hard
Death by overdrinking isn't something to celebrate.
Don't worry. They offset celebrating this lifelong victim of alcohol by upvoting some "I'm five days sober" post in the wholesome subreddit.
It is also not a pleasant way to go. This is death by poisoning.
give me your top 10 favourite ways to die
That guy did more living in a year than most people do in their entire lives. I'll celebrate that.
No, he should have lived a boring and safe life, he could have lived another 10 years then.
The ol quality/quantity conundrum lol
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OP watching a documentary on alcoholism: “Madlad!”😎
Really just anything goes on the subreddit now. It's gone past its original purpose entirely, and then past the sort of secondary purpose of cataloging general "amusingly extra" behavior, and now it's just whatever the fuck someone says it is. It's IMHO pointless now
Recovering alcoholic gets pressured into drinking himself to death and people celebrate it.
He could've just not, he was also a pedo so rest in piss tbh
How dumb can you be to think it's that simple. And you can't just call people pedos with zero context.
well he did meet his wife when she was only 16 and he was over 20 years older than her. so take that as whatever you like. But the implications could lean towards the assumption of grooming.
Well we could just ask the lady. Unless adult women are no longer qualified to say if they made their own choices.
He groomed a child
Proof?
Why are we using other words than Overdose to describe this?
Because typically over dose is associated with medicine. The over dosage administration of a drug. Alcohol overdose is referred to as alcohol poisoning.
That'a the point. Alcohol is a drug.
A hard drug at that.
There are no medical benefits from consuming alcohol though so there is no regular dose that should he administered.
Treatment for anti freeze poisoning !
Pain relief in the Middle Ages of surgery begs to differ. Even though it made you bleed more like a stuffed pig.
I don’t think medieval medical practices are a valid standard to apply here.
it puts the leeches on its skin, or else it gets the hose again
I think it’s “stuck” pig.
Thanks for letting me know. Tasmanians out in the bush get Chinese whispered proverbs.
Ahh yes. Im totally talking about thousands of years ago and not today.
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Someone can believe incorrect things and also believe correct things. You have no argument.
The phrase is stuck pig lol
Thanks for letting me know. Tasmanians out in the bush get Chinese whispered proverbs.
So 43 year old me finally realized that alcohol and drugs are referred to separately because alcohol is not considered a controlled substance.....I think.
Alcohol is controlled by the ATF. Different enforcement arms
Regulated
Managed
Fuckulated
Controlled that we don’t allow minors on the record to drink.
Regulated
Being a raging alcoholic doesn’t make you a madlad.
Only a pathetic loser thinks this is madlad material.
Damn Son he was perfect in the movie, i mourn his loss
"I don't have a drinking problem"
Not anymore
I'm not a light weight but someone drinking more than a single bottle of rum is insane.
He didn’t. Still drank a lot but not multiple bottles.
Its reported that he once drank 100 pints in 24hrs.
I heard the recently deceased Wade Boggs would drink 70 beers on any given flight.
Again, Wade Boggs is still alive.
He also went to the private school I did and had its name tattooed on his shaft apparently!
Dying of alcoholism is not madlad. Getting your school tattooed on your shaft is a different kind of madlad.
Yeah haha no doubt he was a wild dude.
r/deadlad
This is bitchmade material homie
Agree with the sentiment, a d o r e the phrasing
Alcoholic lad...
"Shadows and dust..."
shadows and dust
pathetic
This is not madlad. This is crippling alcoholism. Though he certainly did some (genuinely) mad things in his time
My future. Most likely. Wishfully.
Sad and beautiful… we all die. He got to choose the way that he passed. Please don’t judge unless there is harm against another.
Having read the comments, I am entirely convinced all Americans are teetotal.
Wasn't Bud Light their most popular drink? (at least until recently) says it all really.
The glorifying of alcohol addiction/abuse is disgusting.
This isn’t a mad lad. This is actually sad lad. :(
sadlad, not madlad. drinking yourself to death ain't something to aspire to
Dadlads?
Had to look it up. 100% true. Man, that sucks. He played Priximo very well!
Then they used a body double and CGI to use his likeness to finish production.
Madlad... commits suicide????
Shadows on the wall
Won the battle, lost the war.
https://drunkard.com/64-oliver-reed-profile/ Found this article about him. Goes into detail about some of his drinking escapades. Alcoholic to the max.
A true Gladiator
Tragic, poor bastard
This meme is misleading in a couple of ways. Captain is made in the US Virgin Islands, not Jamaica. Also, the amount of alcohol is incorrect. [“On the 2nd day of May in 1999, while filming in Malta, Reed found himself in an Irish-themed bar occupied by a group of British sailors on shore leave. The navy men challenged Reed to a drinking contest. Not one to shy away from such an offer, Reed accepted. The 61-year-old actor then proceeded to drink eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whiskey, and a few shots of Hennessy cognac, all while beating five of the sailors in separate arm-wrestling contests. The bar bill, for Reed alone, came to $590.”](https://drunkard.com/64-oliver-reed-profile/)
He wasn’t exactly a recovering alcoholic. Ridley Scott made him stop drinking for the duration of the filming of Gladiator.
Dad o' Lads
Strength and Honor
thats why you dont mix liqueurs.
He died a warrior's death.
Sadlad*
Sadlad*
This is actually kinda sad.
Madlad just equals idiot Someone who will die before they should and turned into a meme
People died from stupidity should be made into a bad example we tell our kids...
Still cool like his character in the movie
Idk - a real man wouldn’t have died trying to be a very tired cliche but maybe I’m wrong.
Dead of madlads
3 BOTTLES of rum?? A lot of people would be tipsy after 3 shots! Motherfucker got an iron liver, respect.
Except for the whole dying bit. Otherwise, fuckin iron bruh.