h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

NZ - drunk as a skunk, rotten, pissed, half-cut, mullucked, legless, off his/her face,

A few to start you off with Ginger. I'm sure I will think of others.

Cheers Looney - have updated it!

Here a few from Ireland:

langered, staving, sh*tfaced (you might wanna leave that one out).

If I think of any others i'll post them too

Hi all!

As this forum effectively started "at home" I thought I'd better come visit and contribute!

One of my favourite colloquialisms for being drunk - which may be one that only an Australian could truly think funny - is "plastic": that is, half way between "plastered" and "spastic" (both of which I have heard used as euphemisms for drunkenness). This is not all tha frequently used, except when in the condition described.

Another euphemism, which as a result of frequent references in the news and mass media has passed into colloquial usage is "tired and emotional". This has always been one of my personal favourites for explaining to my parents how I feel, and why I feel that way, in one easy phrase!

"Maggotted", "wasted", "pissed as a newt", "pissed as", "hammered", "rotten", "blind"...

This is hard to think of. I only usually have to find the word when I either am, or when I'm recovering from having been, ahem, "ripped off my tits".

Bubster - are you UK? I need to know where to put the entries.

Sorry, Ginger - didn't think of that! No, I'm a differently-hemisphered denizen of the wide brown land of Oz...

Explains a lot about why you were eating your tea while we were at work yesterday!

And signing on for the USA...

First, those already mentioned that are popular here as well:

hammered, out of it, tanked, tipsy (usually referring to just a little drunk... "Nah, I wasn't drunk, just a little tipsy."), wasted (also and more commonly used to refer to reefer-induced intoxication ), Drunk as a skunk (an oldie), Sh*tfaced (a really big one).

And some others:

three sheets to the wind, soused, bonkered, feeling no pain, happy, invincible... And more!

Quite a collection, eh? But I guess it's understandable where the average town contains 12 churches, 8 banks, 15 bars and 3 houses.

US Steamrollered, Jackhammered, Waiting for a call on the White phone (arms around the toilet), Schnockered, Weeding out the bad brain cells. Verschnickled (from Mel Brook's "Men In Tights")

This one's not so much for being drunk, just for some of the less pleasant side effects...

worshipping at the great white porcelain altar of Thomas Crapper

another few from Ireland: ossified, bolloxed, on the floor (usually face-down)

Have a nice weekend!

More from Oz:
pissed => pissed as a newt => nissed as a pewt, paralytic=>para, legless, off his/her face, out of it, happy, shitfaced, blind.
Plus any off-the-cuff phrase that is suggestive of a form of sensory alteration and/or suffering after-effects and/or constant drinking i.e. 'Making friends with the gutter', 'topping up the alcohol/blood ratio' (referring to the usual usage - 'blood/alcohol ratio'), 'meeting nice people', etc.

For afterwards: Driving the procelain bus

More commonly known as "Worshipping the porcelain God."

UK: Monstered, smashed, arseholed, sozzled, trashed, under the alcafluence of incahol, wasted (usually alcoholic, I find. Drug induced tends to be 'caned', 'high', etc. in UK. Allegedly.).

Er... I'll think of some more when I am any of the above!

I somehow knew you would find this page eventually

*Geordie accent* What're ya sayin' like?

My mate from Dublin always uses the term "polluted".

Hey a new face. Welcome to h2g2. I've added your contribution in.

Hi there Ginger, How about 'Sloshed'. 'Drunk as a Lord' and (though it may not be a colloquialism exactly) 'Inebriated',
Best wishes, A.M..

Oh, and 'Totally Slamied' as used by our mentor Ford Prefect in HHGG. Not sure which catagory that falls into though.A.M.