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20 Nov 00 - 01:36 PM (#344061) Subject: 40 degrees of being drunk From: okthen Following on from McGrath of Harlow's suggestion in an earlier thread, a scot's friend of mine once told me there were 40 colloquial scottish words defining the different degrees of inebriety, the only one I remember is "stortin" which applies to when you are walking along the pavement bouncing off the wall in a series semi-circular loops. I've often wondered what the other 39 variants were, any ideas? I know the word "stocious" (stow-shus) is in there somewhere but not if it comes before or after. Can't think why I should be so interested in this subject,but I'll drink to that anyway cheers bill |
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20 Nov 00 - 01:41 PM (#344068) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Greyeyes You're not really drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. |
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20 Nov 00 - 01:58 PM (#344083) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Uncle_DaveO Man lying in the middle of the street face down, smelling of moonshine. Along comes the sheriff, and starts to haul him away. "Whatcha takin' him in fer, sheriff?" "Fer drunk." "Aw, sheriff. he ain't drunk! I just seen his fingers move!" Dave Oesterreich |
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20 Nov 00 - 03:37 PM (#344118) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: MK I was watching "The Simpsons" the other night on TV, and they were giving a breathalizer in the bar to patrons to determine if they were safe to drive. The meter from lowest to highest had the following indexes more or less - can't remember the exact wording except the last one. Not drunk Tipsy Pissed Boris Yeltsin
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20 Nov 00 - 04:00 PM (#344126) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Kim C Schnockered, pissed, wasted, toasted, three sheets to the wind, drunker than Cooter Brown (whoever he was), shitfaced, stewed... that's all I can think of right now. |
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20 Nov 00 - 04:25 PM (#344135) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Ely Smashed, if you're a college kid. Or you can "have a buzz on", which is when you're just starting to feel it. |
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20 Nov 00 - 05:36 PM (#344174) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Greyeyes "A bit whirly" is used in my local in South Wiltshire. |
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20 Nov 00 - 05:41 PM (#344178) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Kim C Whirly! I like that. |
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20 Nov 00 - 07:51 PM (#344226) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Willie-O John Steinbeck gave a classic description of the various states of inebriation as one goes through two large jugs of cheap wine in his novel "Tortilla Flat". I think the Inuit have as many different words for types of snow as the Scots have for degrees of pissedness. W-O |
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21 Nov 00 - 03:45 AM (#344332) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: okthen greyeyes, if a young lady should have a little too much to drink, would she then be a "whirly-bird"? cheers bill |
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21 Nov 00 - 11:00 AM (#344526) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: GUEST My great grandmother used to call it "the pure blind staggers," as in, "that ole boy's got the pure blind staggers." I guess that would be closer to the 40th degree than the 1st degree. |
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21 Nov 00 - 07:45 PM (#344846) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Amergin I tend to use the term "fuckered up" or when I'm really lickered up I say, "I'm feelin pretty good damn." or so I've been told.... |
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21 Nov 00 - 07:53 PM (#344848) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Morticia langers is an irish expression we use.....also bloatered, (scots, I think),paraletic and my personal favourite......pissing-down-your-own-leg drunk....descriptive, isn't it? |
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21 Nov 00 - 07:54 PM (#344850) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Amergin Morty, that last one brings back so many fond memories.... |
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21 Nov 00 - 10:15 PM (#344904) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Mooh Um...sloshed, plastered, shit-faced, knackered, soused, polluted, hammered... One may have to get there to describe where one is. Mooh. |
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21 Nov 00 - 10:50 PM (#344913) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: paddymac "Blitzed", "floor-crawling", "pot-hugging", "tongue-twisted", and "wall-bouncing". |
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22 Nov 00 - 08:40 AM (#345043) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Mooh The last degree, except maybe death, could be talking on the big white telephone, or yawning in technicolour. Mooh. |
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22 Nov 00 - 08:52 AM (#345051) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Tomsk "Mullered" seems to be common at the moment. Makes me think of "Mulled" or perhaps "lightly stewed"??
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22 Nov 00 - 12:52 PM (#345189) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Irish sergeant You guys asked. Gutter crawling, paralized, talking to god, talking to the porcelain microphone, bug-eyed, slurry, bombed, riding the beer wagon, toddy stricken (surprized you missed that one Kim C), bit by the creature, drunk as a lord, as a judge, as a sailor, crawled in a bottle for the night, pissed, hugging thew commode, dipsy, pre-hungover, in the final stages, delivering street pizza, talking to your shoes, yawning at the sidewalk, face walking, pavement kissing. and at last but no least, "I'm not as think as you drunk I am." Kindest reguards, a sober but somewhat bemused, Neil |
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22 Nov 00 - 02:05 PM (#345225) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Kim C Toddy-stricken! Whirly-bird! Yee-haw! Is there a clever expression for when the room spins around? That's the last stop for me; thankfully I do not get there often. I normally stop at the giggly/sleepy/talking way too fast stage. Although I have met the porcelain god once or twice. (I think just twice, believe it or not, and I didn't like him much either time.) Neil, I did read a Civil War diary of a young lady near Paris, VA, where she says they drank apple toddies at Christmas, and she got "rather tight." |
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22 Nov 00 - 02:54 PM (#345250) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Bert Three parts Olivered. Newted. Pissed as a newt. Drunk as a skunk. |
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22 Nov 00 - 03:03 PM (#345257) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Morticia shedded and faceless (or sans visage) were two I missed |
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22 Nov 00 - 05:10 PM (#345312) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: harpmolly Can't think of any good drunken expressions, but Terry Pratchett discourses hilariously on hangovers in "Lords and Ladies" (a book I'll bet a lot of 'catters would garner some amusement from...folksongs are quite topical!). He goes on for awhile about "hangover machismo", i.e. "Here's one for the lads, hoho, we supped some stuff last night, hoho, landlord, another nineteen pints of lager, hoho..." and then goes on to say, "Anyway, you can't describe a scumble hangover. The best part of it is the feeling your teeth have dissolved and coated themselves on your tongue." Moll |
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22 Nov 00 - 05:21 PM (#345317) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: mousethief In my french text back when I took french 101 at college, there was a series of drawings to indicate the words/phrases for "a little," "a lot," "more" etc. They showed a SYT sitting at a cafe table, drinking wine. At first she had a little in her glass and the caption said, "un petit peu du vin." Then she got more and looked a little happier and it said "plus de vin." And so forth, with varying amounts of wine and increasing happiness, until she was under the table and it said "too much wine." Alex |
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22 Nov 00 - 06:15 PM (#345371) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Morticia One drink is always my limit Two, at the very most 'Cos three finds me under the table And four finds me under the host Carol Burns......I think. |
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22 Nov 00 - 06:24 PM (#345376) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: mousethief Sounds like Dorothy Parker. |
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22 Nov 00 - 06:28 PM (#345378) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: okthen thanks all, but don't appear to be any nearer the other 39 definitions, oh well I'll just have to go to Scotland and do some research. as for hangovers, that's a different subject,personal worst (so far) "my teeth itch" I'll drink to that cheers bill |
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22 Nov 00 - 09:33 PM (#345480) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: GUEST,Bardford Blootered. As in "he's absolutely blootered out his heid." i found this at this link Click here Cheers, Bardford |
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22 Nov 00 - 09:59 PM (#345491) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Uncle_DaveO I've read this thread in fits and starts, so I'm not sure of this: Has anyone mentioned "Three sheets to the wind"? Dave Oesterreich |
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22 Nov 00 - 10:45 PM (#345506) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Rollo A scotsman told me there were no scotch words for different stages of being drunk. Because you were either sober (probably having a big hangover) or completely in the land of happy pink elephants dancing around you and asking if you had seen the white mice. Everything in between would only be a twilight zone to be crossed as fast as possible. Well, we were alltogether loaded like howitzers when we were enlightened with his wisdom. |
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23 Nov 00 - 01:55 AM (#345567) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) The best I've ever heard was from the bartender at a pub I play at, upon returning from a visit to his cousins in Galway. "Bhí sé ina chaora" (He was like a sheep) Rich |
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23 Nov 00 - 02:58 AM (#345577) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Terry K There is of course the rather elegant "paralytic" which I believe the Scots corrupt to "pallatic"? And the rather less than elegant "bladdered". My favourite is the somewhat refined "I was as refreshed as a newt". Cheers, Terry |
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23 Nov 00 - 10:45 AM (#345683) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Noreen And 'tired and emotional', Terry? (Not you personally, you understand). But to bring it around to music... "...and we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, Noreen |
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24 Nov 00 - 09:25 AM (#346031) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: GUEST,ANDY heres a few from my old school, bladdered, wasted, boshed, wrecked, hooped(a particular favourite), rumbled, trashed, throwing chunks, and quite simply FUCKED |
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24 Nov 00 - 09:29 AM (#346032) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Irish sergeant I have to tell you I just love these intellectual threads. Dave three sheets to the wind was mentioned One I remember from my Navy days that wasn't mentioned was in the scuppers as in He's so drunk, he's in the scuppers. Kindest reguards all, Neil |
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24 Nov 00 - 10:06 AM (#346047) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: A Wandering Minstrel Pallatic is from the Geordie as in:- "Wy man Aa hed six broons and I was that pallatic, Jorney inti spyace ye knaa!" "soused as a pigs face" and "blue blind bleezin drunk" are heard up there too |
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24 Nov 00 - 10:15 AM (#346053) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler On coined, or at least used, by Evelyn Waugh: "hog-whimpering drunk" RtS |
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24 Nov 00 - 10:28 AM (#346054) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: GUEST,degsy Old Irish expression: "Bhain se an dha thaobh den bhothar" which translates as "He took the two sides of the road". And I have many a time and will again tonight. |
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24 Nov 00 - 10:59 AM (#346065) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Bert I remember one time Frankie Howerd on 'Up Pompei' was going through different places. It went something like....'We got sloshed in Syracuse, and rotten in Rome and I won't say what we did in Pisa....' A little later in the show he says...'We got plastered in Paris as well' Two jokes at once, that guy was brilliant. Bert. |
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24 Nov 00 - 02:02 PM (#346136) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Diva Don't think anyone has mentioned this one yet. Fu' as a puggy. Guttered is quite descriptive. |
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24 Nov 00 - 02:04 PM (#346137) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Diva and I've just remembered...puggled. |
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24 Nov 00 - 02:24 PM (#346143) Subject: RE: BS: 40 degrees of being drunk From: Dave Swan One beyond the eight. Eight being the number of pints a drinker should be able to keep under control. My uncle used to describe the condition of a drinker who hadn't yet crossed the line to inebriation. I think he was quoting Munro. "He'd had a drink, but not a drop more than he could carry as a gentleman." |