WE all love a Swift Half, and quite often a few more.
But raise a drink, or a couple of thousand, to Jon May, a 25-year-old from Sheffield who is drinking 10 pints a day for 200 days and live-streaming updates to his growing army of fans.
May embarked on the formidable task after discovering that a man had set a personal challenge to consume 1,000 pints in a year, and he believed he could smash that.
“On the one hand, you’re essentially killing your liver, and on the other, you’re doing something mildly impressive,” May told Vice.
“I’m too young for hangovers … and you can’t get hungover unless you’re sober anyway,” the boozer – who is necking the NHS’s recommended weekly limit by lunchtime every day – added.
He is also proud of his £8,000+ investment which, in his words, is “propping up the UK economy”.
While the TikTok challenge is humorous it is also sparking serious concerns on social media with many questioning if the experiment is healthy. (We’re no doctors but we think we can guess the answer)
One user said “‘I would strongly advise you not to mate. It’s really not good.”
Another added: “5 beers a day is crazy unless you’re drinking like a 2 percent beer.” Imagine what ten does then?
The binge drinker – who has promised to ‘have a scan” once he completes the feat – has garnered the admiration of over 80,000 TikTok followers. He has also become a local legend in the pubs of Guildford where he is undertaking the challenge.
May is diligently maintaining a detailed log of his progress in a spreadsheet – counting costs and calories – and he is also streaming the majority of his pints directly from the pub to to prove he’s actually drinking them.
As well as being hailed a legend May has had some bizarre in-person encounters.
“I was at a wedding the other day, and some random guy started kissing my shoes,” the booze hound said.
But not everyone wants to buy May a beer.
“If you look at a video with 1.3 million views, I’d say about 75 per cent of those comments are hate,” he told Vice. “It used to get to me, but now I’ve realised they’re just jealous they can’t drink pints as well as I can.”
During the challenge Jon has quit his full time job to focus solely on TikTok and he plans to review beers to social media lovers after the binge.
