My friends, I hate to break it to you but real life alcoholics consume 16+ beers per day, every day. People that feel like a degenerate for having 6-7 beers a day just need a hug. I've worked with and currently work with alcoholics. Guys that buy a 30 rack EVERY DAY and chug them down all night long. Guys that can drink down 30 beers and wake up the next day and work harder than just about every other person. A degenerate is a non-functioning alcoholic, or someone who literally spends their entire day at a bar.
I went to this guy Luis' house... Well, not HIS house, he lived at his sisters house... IN HER DAUGHTERS PLAY HOUSE out in the back yard. Nicest guy in the world, but there he was sitting on his bed with a 30 rack of beer (or what was left of it) watching TV in this playhouse in the back yard. Luis was one of the hardest working people at that place, he just loved beer. Does that make him a degenerate, or does living in his sisters back yard inside of a children play house make him a degenerate?
^^100% true story. I won't even talk about this guy Steve, or a couple of the current people.