That drinking kept you alive as you were not drinking contaminated water. Like drinking is how Rick is alive and able to be the entertainer we post about here.
Small beer, fine, boiled water and a low but present percentage of alcohol at least kept a lot of the nasties at bay.
Gin with breakfast, and throughout the day was however to dull the monotony and misery of working in a grim factory for ha’pennies.
Fatrick drinks cheap nasty yank swill beer to escape the fact that he is a fat failure.
He is worse than a normal Schlub however.
If he was just some everyday turd with a Twitter, no one would give a shit.
It’s the fact that he is famous enough to have been in spitting distance of the success and respect he thinks he deserves that makes him so funny.
I am actually certain he is consciously aware of this, hence he tries so hard to prove to his trolls that he is in fact a winner.
The futility of this is what drives him to the drink.
He has to be aware that he cheated in the marathon for instance.
Plus it must really fuck him off that he has been on actual TV shows talking about things he thinks he knows about, yet he gets less respect than hobby YouTubers who talk about history.
I know there is cope and delusion too, but he has to be aware on some level.