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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much time does one spend actually drinking?

If you really simplify a lot of the math, and even make fairly slow estimates on imbiption rates as ~1oz/sec, and assume everyone needs and is actually getting the old 8 16oz glasses a day, you get 10000 hours of 'practice' happening over 281250 days, or ~770.54 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What if we add the time you might take savoring wine, whisky etc.? I suppose swallowing is separate from swishing it around in your mouth, but I definitely managed to get some in the wrong pipe in the 'swishing around' stage more than once ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Even if you include an hour of 'oral fluid handling practice' every day, that's 9656 days, or 26.4 years. Much more possible in a human lifespan, but that's a lot of swishing.