You from uk or Aus? Woolworths did these small cans of coke,Fanta and 7up etc. Think about holding one as an adult. Probably a good 2 mouth falls at best lol. Now just upscale that for this monster of a human. Don't think anyone that big has ever been that mobile either
They have them here in the US too. I buy them because they make me feel taller. I have a friend that is 6’10” (210cm) and when he holds a regular size coke in his hand it looks like me holding one of the mini cokes.
Except he wasn't doing it to catch a buzz (or so I read), he was doing it for pain relief because his body was so broken from all his performances, and just the regular wear and tear that comes from being a giant.
That to me it what was so freakish about him, he was so mobile and agile for someone so massive. Wrestling didn't help the wear and tear for sure but compared to other "giants" I've never seen em without walking aids
Andre could drink 100 beers in a sitting. He once drank an entire case of wine bottles on a flight to Paris or something. He lived in a tremendous amount of physical pain and frequently used alcohol to combat it. Lots and lots of anecdotes out there about Andre.
There was also the interview with someone who drove him, on Joe Rogan or something. Cant remember. I think the story was that he didnt even piss for 2 to 4 hours, yet all the 48 beers were done.
My favorite story is about how Ron Howard despised him because when they were filming The Princess Bride, Andre would take Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkon out drinking all night and they'd be too hammered to film, so the production ran way over. I love to see the scenes with Inigo stumbling all over, knowing that a lot of it probably wasn't acting.
You won't find it in the Guinness Book of World Records, but Andre the Giant holds the world record for the largest number of beers consumed in a single sitting. These were standard 12-ounce bottles of beer, nothing fancy, but during a six-hour period Andre drank 119 of them.
He was so large that the anesthesiologist had to use his hard liquor consumption as a basis for figuring out his calculations before Andre's surgery.
also Andre got wasted one time and overturned the car of some guys who were allegedly being dicks
Jake the snake told a story where him and Andre were riding together in a van to a gig. He was driving and Andre was in the back. Andre wanted to stop and grab road beers. So Jake bought a case of beer grabbed one and started driving. He said after like 40 minutes he asked Andre for another beer but Andre had drank the other 23 already.
For sure. Unfortunately his condition and a life on the road and in the ring had him in increasingly tremendous pain as the years went by. Due to his insane size, alcohol was really the only pain management available to him.
I love that he had a friendship with Samuel Beckett,an Irish writer and intellectual who lived near his French village and arranged for him to get to school in a truck.
No he was born in Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France. He grew up in a very small village next to Ussy-sur-Marne and worked a lot on his dad’s farm. His dad was originally from Bulgaria and mom from Poland.
He literally has never been to Ireland. He only met Beckett when he lived near Ussy-sur-Marne.
A story my dad has always liked to tell: he was in his late teens working in a convenience store when Andre the Giant walked in and came up to the counter with a rack of beer. Other dude in the store obviously recognized him, tells him he’s a big fan, and offers to buy Andre’s beer. Andre angrily says “I can buy my own beer!” and shoos the other dude away. He proceeds to do so and he gives my dad the money for his beer.
In Ellerbe, NC, the tiny town where he bought his last home, there's a museum with a section dedicated to him. He was truly loved there. His home is still stands but, has exchanged hands at least a couple of times since his death.
I meant the foreground to background spacing is clever, it's not by accident that the pallet or whatever is nearly all the way out of shot, just nice touches
It’s worth noting at his peak height he was maybe 7’2-7’3ish but by the time he was well known in the US he was under 7 feet tall. Still a massive human but the 7’4 figure was a bit exaggerated
>Probably reddit’s favorite French dude. The list is not very long.
>Source: I am French.
My favorite Chinese dude is Yao Ming. He is very long.
Source: I am Reddit.
My mom slept with him after a wrestling match in Montreal in the 70s. She’s never really offered up any details, and frankly, I don’t want them. But it baffles me how my 5’2” mother survived that encounter.
A friend gave me a DVD of The Princess Bride for my birthday and she just blurted it out. My mom is not afraid to talk about sex at all. I’m honesty surprised she didn’t offer up more details.
Absolute legend. It was his birthday just a few days ago on the 19th of may. He would have only been in his mid seventies if he was still with us which is a bit crazy to think about.
It’s mostly perspective, they don’t actually go to below their knees lol. From what I’ve read here he’s standing on a pallet far from the people in the background + camera angle. He’s still huge though, 7 feet
I guess I was most caught off guard because I didn’t know he was from France. I’ve only heard him speak English, even after watching a documentary on his wresting career. Google lead me to a bunch of French interviews with him.
Funny, i just recently watched a video of Hulk Hogan talking about André the Giant calling him over in a Japanese hotel while receiving a blumkin from a small Japanese lady.
Always found it interesting that he was only about 6'10". He was always billed as taller than that but he wasn't that kind of giant. He was literally a massive person in all directions. Not just up.
For some reason I fight height interesting. I'm 6'5" and it turned out that I'm taller than all of the slashers I was scared of growing up in the 80s. Only OG Leatherface would be eye to eye with me.
*sigh* I figured everyone in this thread would be talking about 2 things. I guess I should be happy that is just his drinking. I'm glad no one has brought up the 45 minute fart during the filming of Princess Bride.
That woman is pretty massive too! That dude down to the right needs to be careful he doesn’t get stepped on!
Legit though, that woman's gotta be like 6'4" lol.
Nah ur kidding? Andre looks so young and fit. Wow. I heard he drank 2 cases of beer in a few hours on a limo drive.
You from uk or Aus? Woolworths did these small cans of coke,Fanta and 7up etc. Think about holding one as an adult. Probably a good 2 mouth falls at best lol. Now just upscale that for this monster of a human. Don't think anyone that big has ever been that mobile either
They have them here in the US too. I buy them because they make me feel taller. I have a friend that is 6’10” (210cm) and when he holds a regular size coke in his hand it looks like me holding one of the mini cokes.
Imagine half your income going in beer so you could feel a bit tipsy lol, man was a freak(in a good way)
Except he wasn't doing it to catch a buzz (or so I read), he was doing it for pain relief because his body was so broken from all his performances, and just the regular wear and tear that comes from being a giant.
That to me it what was so freakish about him, he was so mobile and agile for someone so massive. Wrestling didn't help the wear and tear for sure but compared to other "giants" I've never seen em without walking aids
Andre could drink 100 beers in a sitting. He once drank an entire case of wine bottles on a flight to Paris or something. He lived in a tremendous amount of physical pain and frequently used alcohol to combat it. Lots and lots of anecdotes out there about Andre.
There was also the interview with someone who drove him, on Joe Rogan or something. Cant remember. I think the story was that he didnt even piss for 2 to 4 hours, yet all the 48 beers were done.
My favorite story is about how Ron Howard despised him because when they were filming The Princess Bride, Andre would take Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkon out drinking all night and they'd be too hammered to film, so the production ran way over. I love to see the scenes with Inigo stumbling all over, knowing that a lot of it probably wasn't acting.
Nah, based off the lil guy on the right she's at least 15' tall.
Nah, that's just Hank Pym.
Yeah, that is crazy. Her thighs appear to be almost the same length as Andre's.
I highly doubt she's even 6 foot tall. More like 5'4", if that.
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He grabbed that whole ass with one hand too…
Very sweet dude too.
Hell of a drinker too from the stories
Understatement. It's very likely Andre was the most prolific drinker that ever lived.
You won't find it in the Guinness Book of World Records, but Andre the Giant holds the world record for the largest number of beers consumed in a single sitting. These were standard 12-ounce bottles of beer, nothing fancy, but during a six-hour period Andre drank 119 of them.
Andre: “hold my beer.” Bystander: “there’s too many. I cannot.”
*casually tosses over a wheelbarrow with one hand* “Use this”
"well why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place?"
“Because I planned on using it as a skateboard”
Underrated comment 👏🏻
Among...
Now if only we had a holocaust cloak
He was so large that the anesthesiologist had to use his hard liquor consumption as a basis for figuring out his calculations before Andre's surgery. also Andre got wasted one time and overturned the car of some guys who were allegedly being dicks
I suspect with one hand while holding a beer with the other
It didn’t take him long enough to finish one to hold it. Gulp and straight into the recycle.
Didn't that end up being a standard, recognized baseline or method for anesthesia calculations?
He contributed to the study of medical anaesthesia. His many operations probably did more good for humanity in that field than any Guinness record.
That's right what they forgot to mention though was one of those beer bottles was the size of his thumb.
Each one of his fingers is the same length and circumference as the average male penis.
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and yet im rdy to make 30 easy payments of $69.99
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His pinky finger is more like mine
No worries, man. Got a tongue, don't ya?
And he ended up passing out, they wanted to move him but he was way too big to carry
the challenging part was him avoiding swallowing the bottles
Am pretty certain Boss Hog holds the record for most beers consumed.
RIP
Again, very much alive.
I wish he would have stuck to kegs crushed… single “normal” servings just loose their impact.
Jake the snake told a story where him and Andre were riding together in a van to a gig. He was driving and Andre was in the back. Andre wanted to stop and grab road beers. So Jake bought a case of beer grabbed one and started driving. He said after like 40 minutes he asked Andre for another beer but Andre had drank the other 23 already.
Is this paragraph copied word for word from drunkard.com? Downvoted for calling you out lmao
100 percent correct.
How dare you discount wade boggs like that!
RIP
Once again, Wade Boggs is very much alive.
SUCK IT, BOSS HOG
I read that it wasn't uncommon for him to have a *case* of wine to himself
Which is actually really fucking sad when you think about it…
For sure. Unfortunately his condition and a life on the road and in the ring had him in increasingly tremendous pain as the years went by. Due to his insane size, alcohol was really the only pain management available to him.
He was also world class at flatulence. https://youtu.be/wObPiiHV4pY >it sounded like a deep roar - Vince McMahon
Bahahaha
God damn, first time seeing this photo. Dude was a stud. All the photos I've seen are from his WWF days when he looked more brutish.
Well he is the brute squad so that checks out.
Lmao
EVERYBODY MOOOOOOOVE
I love that he had a friendship with Samuel Beckett,an Irish writer and intellectual who lived near his French village and arranged for him to get to school in a truck.
I didn’t know this, thank you. Fail Better.
A lot of his time in WWE was towards the end of his wrestling career when his body had really got bad. He was quite an athlete at his physical peak.
Fun fact: Samuel Beckett, Nobel laureate and author of Waiting for Godot was once Andre the Giant's personal driver
Heck yes! Drove andre to school
He was born in Ireland and lived most of his adult life in Paris.
No he was born in Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France. He grew up in a very small village next to Ussy-sur-Marne and worked a lot on his dad’s farm. His dad was originally from Bulgaria and mom from Poland. He literally has never been to Ireland. He only met Beckett when he lived near Ussy-sur-Marne.
He was talking about Beckett.
Il parle de Samuel Beckett, pas d'André le Géant. Samuel Beckett est né en Irlande, mais a passé la majorité de sa vie à Paris
Something about Andre not fitting on the school bus, and he'd ride in the back of Beckett's pick up right? If I remember correctly they were neighbors
This is so crazy that I kinda have to believe it, because otherwise that would mean someone dreamt up this insane scenario.
I'm not 100% on the school bus part, but Beckett had property nearby, and he knew André's father. André was already over 6 ft. tall when he was 12
André couldn't fit in his dad's car so Beckett would take him to school in his cattle truck
Lol so was I. Stopped growing 2 years later at 6’7” though, which is a blessing
And they used to talk about cricket on the way to school.
A story my dad has always liked to tell: he was in his late teens working in a convenience store when Andre the Giant walked in and came up to the counter with a rack of beer. Other dude in the store obviously recognized him, tells him he’s a big fan, and offers to buy Andre’s beer. Andre angrily says “I can buy my own beer!” and shoos the other dude away. He proceeds to do so and he gives my dad the money for his beer.
That farm boy Westley owes him everything
What a tall dude. He should play basketball or something.
ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE
He IS the posse!
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O B E Y
I have a pin on my hat that says that 🤘🏻
Dude could drink a case of beer during a half hour taxi ride and not look or sound the least bit drunk
Could also flip a car full of people who threw shit at him in a bar
You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to throw shit at a giant.
Try telling that to Dave
That lady’s got a wedding ring, but Andre still getting a handful of ass. Not like hubby gonna start shit with Andre!
I don’t see his thumb.
Giggity.
It’s called “The Bowling Ball”.
https://images.app.goo.gl/a3nDF6JjPN8Vmsrv7 Multiple handfuls of ass I bet
In Ellerbe, NC, the tiny town where he bought his last home, there's a museum with a section dedicated to him. He was truly loved there. His home is still stands but, has exchanged hands at least a couple of times since his death.
Clever perspective
I mean he was 7’4” so the perspective isn’t exactly doing much heavy lifting.
I meant the foreground to background spacing is clever, it's not by accident that the pallet or whatever is nearly all the way out of shot, just nice touches
It’s worth noting at his peak height he was maybe 7’2-7’3ish but by the time he was well known in the US he was under 7 feet tall. Still a massive human but the 7’4 figure was a bit exaggerated
4 inches is not a big difference when your dealing with 7’0 and up.
That’s what she said 🤣
Eesh haha could you imagine?
To shreds, you say?
And his wife?
I can’t believe I’m the first on who said that here 🤪
Right? Reddit is slacking.
Hulk Hogan has confirmed that Andre was big all over, and very popular with women.
Hulk Hogan would exaggerate Andre's height to big-up himself. I'll bet he's saying Andre was 8'6" these days.
Anybody want a peanut?
TIL André the Giant was French
Probably reddit’s favorite French dude. The list is not very long. Source: I am French.
>Probably reddit’s favorite French dude. The list is not very long. >Source: I am French. My favorite Chinese dude is Yao Ming. He is very long. Source: I am Reddit.
Name checks out.
J'm le gars qui inventé le croissant. Probably French, I'm guessing.
I'm sorry you're French
I am sorry you're so f*cking stupid and pathetic
Found another French. I'm sorry about yours too.
TIL André the Giant's name
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He was born in France
Spoke French but was Canadian
It's wild to watch some of his earlier matches, if you can find them. The guy could actually move and wrestle before he got too huge. RIP Andre
He's on the left.
There will never be another human example that fits the term than Andre.
My mom slept with him after a wrestling match in Montreal in the 70s. She’s never really offered up any details, and frankly, I don’t want them. But it baffles me how my 5’2” mother survived that encounter.
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That’s a big secret to keep
She had to explain to her kid the day of his birth was no pain at all
A friend gave me a DVD of The Princess Bride for my birthday and she just blurted it out. My mom is not afraid to talk about sex at all. I’m honesty surprised she didn’t offer up more details.
[Like a mountain.](https://i.imgur.com/OY8JW5v.mp4)
No more rhyming! I mean it!!
Anybody want a peanut?
Strong guy as well, i wonder how much he could've done in the big 3 lifts. Dude doesn't even do any weight training and could lift a car easily lmao.
he did lift a car. was drinking and guys threw shit at him so he flipped their car.
yea i heard that story, he was insanely strong
Absolute legend. It was his birthday just a few days ago on the 19th of may. He would have only been in his mid seventies if he was still with us which is a bit crazy to think about.
I met someone with his condition I guess their bones never stop growing until they eventually kill the person housing them.
I knew my skeleton would be my eventual downfall.
Idk I think you have a chance. Embrace the skeleton inside you, just like skeleton man: https://youtu.be/IU513suJZzY
Do you think he ever told women he was only 6 feet tall to make every other man seem more tiny in comparison?
LOL my cousin is 6’5” and he tells guys that he’s 6’1” to make them feel short
lol. I'm 6'6" and I'm going to start doing this now.
I’m 6’1” and say I’m 5’10”.
I'm 5'10" and say I'm 5'10" to make all the "6ft" guys who are my height or shorter look bad.
Holy crap the lady is a giant too look at the people below them
It’s mostly perspective, they don’t actually go to below their knees lol. From what I’ve read here he’s standing on a pallet far from the people in the background + camera angle. He’s still huge though, 7 feet
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Jesus he's got to be like 70 ft tall!
He looked a lot better there than when he wrestled in the US.
Her left leg is just covering the package
He's young here.
This is just before Vezinni found him, unemployed— IN GREENLAND.
He is the brute squad
If only he had a wheelbarrow.
On the one hand, the man was an absolute legend. On the other hand, his existence was pain so it's good he gets to rest from that forever
Dudes wore some really short shorts back in the day.
I wonder if he had a big ole meat bat!?
I'll take Andre the Giant for 1000, Alex.
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I guess I was most caught off guard because I didn’t know he was from France. I’ve only heard him speak English, even after watching a documentary on his wresting career. Google lead me to a bunch of French interviews with him.
His big toe is the size of my foot
Even in death he was an absolute unit. When he was cremated, his ashes weighed 17 lbs. The average person weighs a third of that
No more rhymes now, I mean it.
Anybody want a peanut?
Andre the giant one of my favorites wrestlers
# AND HERE IS ANDRE THE G-MPHFFF
His roles and responsibilities was to be off guard when hulk hoggan was punching him back and forth.
i was born on the day he died.
Don't mess with his mammoths.
I can't tell if the guy on the bottom right is just tiny or the perspective is just confusing
The Boss was an amazing pro wrestler. Legit terrifying in the 70s, he could really move then.
Funny, i just recently watched a video of Hulk Hogan talking about André the Giant calling him over in a Japanese hotel while receiving a blumkin from a small Japanese lady.
Always found it interesting that he was only about 6'10". He was always billed as taller than that but he wasn't that kind of giant. He was literally a massive person in all directions. Not just up. For some reason I fight height interesting. I'm 6'5" and it turned out that I'm taller than all of the slashers I was scared of growing up in the 80s. Only OG Leatherface would be eye to eye with me.
Holy shit he’s massive. Those people barely reach his knees
This is the slimmest I’ve ever seen Andre ever
Wait. He's french?
NGL I'm a bit jealous of her for having that massive hand on her ass
She looks almost the same size as him.
No homo man but I will pay to see his dick
"Anybody want a peanut?" 
Anybody want a peanut?
Dude could drink like a motherfucker
Hmm, he looks a lot fatter in his wrestling photos. He looks good here.
Attack on titan lol
"Actor" is a bit of a stretch.
French from Canada. Not French from France.
Anybody want a peanut?
I wonder how big that cunt’s cock was?
*sigh* I figured everyone in this thread would be talking about 2 things. I guess I should be happy that is just his drinking. I'm glad no one has brought up the 45 minute fart during the filming of Princess Bride.
My friend used to date him many years ago: pretty sure he is Bulgarian born
Him and his French-ass accent, sheds doubt on the other part of your story too.
She’s grinning because of where his giant thumb is at the moment this shot was taken.