The bartender tells Pony that he can have the stout but no more whiskey. If Pony has had enough to drink, why doesn't he just kick him out? I am not sure why he allows him to have one alcoholic beverage and not another.
I don't have the answer, and you are STILL not helping.
My only intention with my original reply was to backup the OP and support them after an unnecessary and useless attack from an obvious troll who has too much time on their hands.
Firstly the question has already been answered for most part. It was about getting Pony to chill out plus the fact that a shot of whiskey is a lot stronger than a pint of stout which is about 95% water/ingredients. This answer is pretty obvious/should be pretty obvious even to none drinkers.
Secondly, at what point are you trying to assert I misread you then??
I don't care who has the last word but if you leave a comment that warrants a reply I will obviously reply you numpty.
Firstly the question has already been answered for most part. It was about getting Pony to chill out plus the fact that a shot of whiskey is a lot stronger than a pint of stout which is about 95% water/ingredients. This answer is pretty obvious/should be pretty obvious even to none drinkers.
Should have just left that reply months ago and saved everyone a lot of time and effort...
And just because something is "pretty obvious/should be pretty obvious" to you, doesn't make it so for the rest of the world. Again, you should have just answered the question like a kind human being instead of...
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I'm guessing stout is a beer and whiskey is hard liquor. The bartender is punishing Pony by making him drink the weaker drink. Now what Darby meant by a "drop of poteen I found in the bog", well, I had to google that one.
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The only answer I can think of is that the barman likes to make money,and his bar will be safer if Pony has a pint to drink thru rather than a shot to gulp before a fight
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The stout is a compromise. Itll take him longer to drink it than pounding a shot back would, so itll slow down Pony from getting drunk too quickly. If he told him no more alcohol period, Pony would have caused a bigger scene, but if he gives them the stout hell probably just chill out and drink it.
I guess I should have just replied directly to you instead.
Hopefully you'll get a good answer from somebody eventually. Sorry the pitfalls of the internet evidently got you. It's pretty pathetic, but sadly not completely unexpected.
I agree with the other (intelligent) replies. But would add that in a lot of Europe and especially Ireland, drinking stout or a beer is not really "drinking/getting drunk" so much as it having a drink with a meal.
There was this notion in those years that beer didn't "count" when it came to alcohol abuse.
Cf. the Mad Men episode "Six Month Leave," with Roger trying to convince Freddy to get treatment for his drinking problem: "My podiatrist went to Hazelden, came back a new man with great stories. He only drinks beer now."