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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Dublin whiskey fire took place on 18 June 1875 in the Liberties area of Dublin.[1] It lasted a single night but killed 13 people (from alcohol poisoning), and resulted in €6 million worth of damage in whiskey alone (adjusted for inflation).[2]People drank from the 6 inches (15 cm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe.[3] None of the fatalities suffered during the fire were due to smoke inhalation, burns, or any other form of direct contact with the fire itself; all of them were attributed to alcohol poisoning from drinking the undiluted whiskey running through the streets that had been stored in casks that exploded; this alcohol was much more potent than whiskey offered at retail in bottles.[4]

Fucking hilarious.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

A flood is coming, wanna die?

Ew, no thanks!

It's whiskey!

You son of a bitch, I'm in!

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What a shame that the cheese and red wine flood didn't happen at the same time. It would've been a feast!

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 month ago

Book your time travellers grand tour feast of flood beer, butter, cheese, whiskey, wine and chocolate.

For the cheaper package, there's the toxic runoff, coal and radioactive material tour.

[–] Bags@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For a time in middle school, my brother's personality could be summed up by "Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919"... He learned it in a book somewhere and thought it was the funniest thing and just brought it up all the time, drew pictures and comics of it, and just generally was a molasses-themed menace.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That killed my like great great whatever grandpa

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Aww.. that's a sad story. He sounds sweet

Your brother sounds like a funny kid

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

my brother's personality could be summed up by

Haha I love it when people get so comically obsessed with things

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hello i would like to introduce you to the collective menace that is the neurodivergent community

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

'Of course I know him. He's me.'

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Molten chocolate and butter probably smelled delicious

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 month ago

50% of the list is "The great chocolate and beer flood, where everyone got drunk and full." And the other half is "The terrible toxic fossils fuel slip or ecological disaster and death", except both have equal deaths.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

New fear unlocked.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

*Sam O'nella theme plays*