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heartSagan5 lemmy.zip heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-27
#52 · Quote Reply

What happens in Vegas… Hey what’s with this false marketing. I feel misled

Well, it’s a rich person’s paradise these days. Not much point in going, anyways.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#53 · Quote Reply

Poor man… he just wanted a dance partner for this cool dance from Spain he had heard so much about 💃

confused it with FLAMENCO.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#54 · Quote Reply

He was drunk... Why is an establishment serving 30 beers to a person?

its las vegas,

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Photonic lemmy.world Photonic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-12
#55 · (edited) Quote Reply

confused it with FLAMENCO.

Yes, that was the joke.

Ah well, he made an honest mistake, bless his soul

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a_non_monotonic_function lemmy.world a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-10-22
#56 · Quote Reply

I haven’t opened the article yet, but I’m gonna guess it’s the Flamingo casino. Edit: Bingpot: Police say Mitchell Fairbarn, a 34-year-old tourist from Ontario, Canada, was caught on surveillance footage in March hopping a fence to get inside the flamingo habitat at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino — and stealing a flamingo named Peachy

Over the course of my entire life, I've never heard of a flamingo casino.

Good on you for your specialized trivia knowledge.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In lemmy.world Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#57 · Quote Reply

Authorities say Fairbarn, who faces two counts of animal cruelty, was drunk at the time of the theft. Now on trial, he told a Nevada court on Friday that he took the bird as a “silly pranky joke” after drinking between 30 and 40 beers. He denied malicious intent to hurt or kill the flamingo. Peachy suffered seven to eight missing feathers, broken shafts and blood loss consistent with trauma and...

Peachy is just peachy.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#58 · Quote Reply

Not the flamingo!

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#59 · Quote Reply

The Flamingo casino in Vegas has a bunch of actual flamingos in one of the courtyards outside where you can eat. It wouldn't be hard to get one, even if you're drunk, because they're already pretty used to people.

Ok up until this comment I thought they were talking about a plastic flamingo and I didn't see what the big deal was.

A real flamingo huh.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#60 · Quote Reply

Why is a casino on trial?

The flamingo is connected with the mob.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#61 · Quote Reply

Flamingo themed casino where a little zoo area with live flamingos is how they differentiate themselves from the competition

"You don't like to lose money on our slots? Well how about if I put flamingos? Everyone likes flamingos!"

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#62 · Quote Reply

There's a flamingo themed hotel. The hotel, like everything in Vegas, sucks. But it's fun if you're an idiot.

"Why does a casino have flamingos?"

"It's a flamingo themed casino!"

"Why is there a flamingo themed casino?"

"Because of the flamingos."

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#63 · Quote Reply

I haven’t opened the article yet, but I’m gonna guess it’s the Flamingo casino. Edit: Bingpot: Police say Mitchell Fairbarn, a 34-year-old tourist from Ontario, Canada, was caught on surveillance footage in March hopping a fence to get inside the flamingo habitat at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino — and stealing a flamingo named Peachy

You sure put those clues together, Sherlock!

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#64 · Quote Reply

Authorities say Fairbarn, who faces two counts of animal cruelty, was drunk at the time of the theft. Now on trial, he told a Nevada court on Friday that he took the bird as a “silly pranky joke” after drinking between 30 and 40 beers. He denied malicious intent to hurt or kill the flamingo. Peachy suffered seven to eight missing feathers, broken shafts and blood loss consistent with trauma and...

"He once rescued an abandoned llama and six ducks."

From the Grand Llama and Six Ducks casinos, respectively.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#65 · Quote Reply

confused it with FLAMENCO.

Half a point for Gryffindor.

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Ann Archy lemmy.world anarchy79@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#66 · Quote Reply

How can people possibly afford that??

Don't spend money on anything else.

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FistingEnthusiast lemmy.world FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-18
#67 · Quote Reply

Authorities say Fairbarn, who faces two counts of animal cruelty, was drunk at the time of the theft. Now on trial, he told a Nevada court on Friday that he took the bird as a “silly pranky joke” after drinking between 30 and 40 beers. He denied malicious intent to hurt or kill the flamingo. Peachy suffered seven to eight missing feathers, broken shafts and blood loss consistent with trauma and...

Peachy would be doing better if they weren't stuck in a casino as an attraction

It's grotesque how animals are treated as novelties in 'Murica, and especially Vegas

That place is beyond revolting

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FistingEnthusiast lemmy.world FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-18
#68 · Quote Reply

30 beers is bullshit. He would have died of alcohol poisoning.

Am from New Zealand

30 is totally doable, and then some

Especially weak 'Murican beers

It takes a hell of a lot to die from alcohol poisoning

It's actually quite difficult to do, and impossible with beer because you'd have to consume such a huge volume of liquid that you would be vomiting it up before it could be absorbed into your blood stream

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kunaltyagi programming.dev kunaltyagi@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-12
#69 · Quote Reply

Multiple bars and bartenders.

That makes some sense, didn't think of this. I don't usually visit multiple places to get drunk

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
#70 · Quote Reply

It’s Vegas. If he had been hanging out in a casino those beers were probably free.

Nothing is free in Vegas. You get drinks when you are ID'd as a sucker .

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
#71 · (edited) Quote Reply

Why does a casino have a flamingo... ? The fuck is wrong with the US?

Umberto Ecco wrote a book about how Americans uniquely crave second best. Travels in Hyperreality. They make fake versions of international attractions locally instead of visiting the real thing because they might catch socialism.

I.e. the Parisian fake Eiffel Tower, the Bellagio fake Italian foundations.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
#72 · Quote Reply

I haven’t opened the article yet, but I’m gonna guess it’s the Flamingo casino. Edit: Bingpot: Police say Mitchell Fairbarn, a 34-year-old tourist from Ontario, Canada, was caught on surveillance footage in March hopping a fence to get inside the flamingo habitat at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino — and stealing a flamingo named Peachy

a 34-year-old tourist from Ontario, Canada

Canadian Randy Marsh.

This chud was convicted. If he had done this to a Canada goose he would have had Wayne to deal with and I suggest you let that marinate.

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NotAnOtter lemmus.org NotAnOtter@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-09-26
#73 · (edited) Quote Reply

Most American beers tend to be weak, usually under 6% ABV (especially macrobrews, which rarely go above that and usually hover around 4%). Drinking a 30 pack of a macro is easily doable if you don't eat anything all day, especially if you're not pairing it with liquor. An experienced drinker could literally drink American macrobrews all day long and maintain a steady buzz without getting drunk....

4% is the lower end even for macrobrews. Budlight is the lighetest mass produced brew and that's ~4.2%, but the standard set you'll find at most generic bars (corona / budweiser / blue moon / lagunitas) at 4.5% / 5% / 5.4% / 6.2% and there are some common brands in the 8%+ range. It's a weird narrative that American beers are all light, it's like people think we ONLY drink bud light when in reality the majority of beer drank by Americans are non-light.

Once you get into the 10%+ range you're not really drinking a "chill and watch the game" type drink anyways. And as you conclude, there are more efficient ways to get there than drinking a 14% lagar.

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NotAnOtter lemmus.org NotAnOtter@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-09-26
#74 · (edited) Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

A person can only drink about 3L of liquid per day.

So unless each beer was 100ml -> less than a standard beer can, this bullshit on the physics alone. And everyone here claiming "30 is totally doable, and then some" while ignoring the sheer volume is making themselves look like an idiot. And that's before you consider the effect of the beers from 6am being long gone by the time you're drinking your 12pm beer. Maybe if you're drinking teeny tiny beers..

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