If you're "hammered," are you more or less intoxicated than if you were "drunk"?
What about blitzed, smashed, plastered, tipsy, sloshed, tanked, soused or any of the other words people use to mean intoxicated to one degree or another.
How do they compare to each other?
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Degrees of drunkenness.
Keet
9/5/2021, 1:07:54 PM
@PotomacBob
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/how-drunk-are-you-let-me-count-the-ways/
Degrees of drunkenness.
Thank you very much - an especially helpful answer!
I wonder what the English alternative for that would be, but in direct translation from Latvian, the ultimate drunkard would be our idiom of "to step/climb on a raft" or "to be/sit on a raft" with describe near-incoherent-state drunkenness that is maintained for a duration measured in days in a row, with acute or potential catastrophic consequences to one's work and/or social life. Or at least an acute drinking that has significant risk to develop into any such. But definitely not a general alcoholism as addiction if it's managed in way that not (yet) readily obvious.
I think even translated it's rather obvious as an idiom, describing drifting, being flushed downstream in an uncontrollable way.
Interestingly, the derivative from the above idiom use of the verb "rafting" as description of drinking in progress, points to the process of very heavy, unhinged drinking, but doesn't necessarily imply any duration for it.
Yes, this probably is a question.
describe near-incoherent-state drunkenness that is maintained for a duration measured in days in a row
This can be described as someone who has gone (or is going) on a bender. It would be okay to say he or she went on a three-day bender. This could be using alcohol or drugs.
From Urban Dictionary:
Term used to describe a time span of over a couple days where you get extremely drunk or high and are too shitfaced to remember the events that occurred within that time period. You have to be wearing the same clothes you were before you started the bender or else it's not considered one.
ETA: I think it's still a bender if you end up with less clothes than what you started with. You just probably won't end up in different clothes.
I like how cops will arrest people for drunk driving then get off work, go to a bar, get drunk, drive home and get pissed at the cop who pulled them over.
Personally I would propose that inebriated drivers be arrested for Premeditated attempted murder because they intentionally consumed a substance that allowed then to climb into a loaded weapon for the purpose of killing a pedestrian, cyclist, or driver/passenger in another vehicle.
As a teetotaler for the last 40 years I have no love for those who drink that I can't even be around anyone who is drinking.
The main thing I hate about drunk drivers is that they survive the crash more often then others.
It wasn't that long ago the they got off by claiming they were to drunk to know they were to drunk to drive.
It wasn't that long ago the they got off by claiming they were to drunk to know they were to drunk to drive.
I used to think that if you wanted to murder someone, a good way would be to mow them down with a car then drink a bottle of whisky before the cops arrived, since the ethos at that time was that drunk driving deaths were accidents.
AJ
Unfortunately it still is. Especially if it is hit and run
No. All but three US states (Alaska, Montana, and Arizona) now have vehicular homicide statutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_homicide#United_States
If a drunk driver can get home before the cops get there he/she can claim that he/she only started drinking after they got home.
Apparently, according to UK police I talked to, this is not true (if caught within an hour or thereabouts) - they can chart the changes in BAC and establish how much was consumed recently, and so how much was consumed earlier.
ETA: Of course, they can claim anything, but if they claim this and it's shown that they didn't, that opens them up to further charges.
If a drunk driver can get home before the cops get there he/she can claim that he/she only started drinking after they got home.
That won't necessarily help. My understanding is that the vehicular homicide laws in most US states do not required intoxication as a cause.
