The Inebriation Scale
0- Stone cold sober. Brain
as sharp as an army bayonet.
1- Still sober. Pleasure senses activated. Feeling of well-being.
2- Beer warming
up head. Crisps are ordered. Barmaid complimented on choice of blouse. Barman complimented on nice trousers.
3- Crossword
in newspaper is filled in. After a while, blanks are filled with random letters and numbers.
4- Barmaid complimented
on choice of bra. Barman complimented on his boxers. Partially visible when bending to get packets of crisps. Try to instigate
conversation about bras. Order half a dozen packets of crisp one by one.
5- Have brilliant discussion with a guy at
bar. Devise fool-proof scheme for winning lottery, sort out cricket/tennis/football problems. Agree people are same world
over except for the bloody French.
6- Feel like a Demi-God. Map out rest of life on beer mat. Realise that everybody
loves you. Ring up parents and tell them you love them. Ring girlfriend/boyfriend to tell them you love them and they still
have an amazing arse.
7- Send drinks over to woman/man sitting at table with boyfriend/girlfriend. No reaction. Scribble
out message of love on five beer mats and frisbee them across the room. Boyfriend/girlfriend gets pissed off. You buy him
a Long Island Iced Tea.
8- Some slurring. Offer to buy drinks for everyone in room. Lots of people say yes. Go round
the pub hugging them one by one. Fall over. Get up.
9- Head-ache kicks in. Beer tastes off. Send it back. Beer comes
back tasting same. Say "that's much better". Fight nausea by trying to play quiz machine for ten minutes before seeing out
of order sign.
10- Some doubling of vision. Stand on table shouting abuse at all four barmen. Talked down by barman's
wife, who you offer to give a baby to. Fall over. Get up. Fall over. Impale head on corner of table. Fail to notice oozing
head wound.
11- Speech no longer possible. Eventually manage to find door. Sit and take stock. Realise you are sitting
in pub cellar, having taken a wrong turn. Vomit. Pass out.
12- Put in taxi by somebody. Give home address. Taken home.
Can't get key in door. Realise you've given address of local football club. Generally pleased at way evening has gone. Pass
out again.
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Are you a drunk?
You know you're a drunk when:
1.
You lose arguments with inanimate objects.
2. You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth.
3.
Your job interferes with your drinking.
4. Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream.
5. Your
career progression is stuck at 'Member of Parliament'.
6. The back of your head keeps getting hit by the toilet seat.
7. You sincerely believe alcohol to be the elusive 5th food group.
8. 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a crate
- coincidence?? - I think not!
9. Two hands and just one mouth... - now THAT'S a drinking problem!
10. You
can focus better with one eye closed.
11. The car park seems to have moved while you were in the bar.
12.
You fall off the floor...
13. Your twin sons are named Barley and Hops.
14. Hey, 5 beers have the same number
of calories as a burger. The hell with dinner!
15. Dogs keel over after biting you.
16. At AA meetings you
begin: "Hi, my name is... uh..."
17. You wake up in the bedroom, your underwear is in the bathroom, yet you are
fully clothed (other than your missing underwear).
18. Everybody in the pub says 'Hi' when you come in...
19.
You think the Four Basic Food Groups are Caffeine, Nicotine, Alcohol, and [Women or Men].
20. Every night you find
your roommate's cat more and more attractive.
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Hangover Ratings
1 star hangover No pain. No real feeling of
illness. You slept in your own bed and when you woke up there were no traffic cones in there with you. You are still able
to function relatively well on the energy stored up from all those bacardi and diet cokes. However, you can drink 10 bottles
of water and still feel as parched as the Sahara. Even vegetarians are craving a Cheeseburger and a bag of fries.
2
star hangover No pain, but something is definitely amiss. You may look okay but you have the attention span and mental
capacity of a stapler. The coffee you hug to try and remain focused is only aggravating your rumbling gut, which is craving
a full English breakfast. Although you have a nice demeanour about the office, you are costing your employer valuable
money because all you really can handle is some light filing, followed by aimlessly surfing the net and writing junk e-mails.
3 star hangover Slight headache. Stomach feels crap. You are definitely a space cadet, just not so productive. Anytime
a woman or a man walks by, you gag because the perfume/aftershave reminds you of your alcoholic friends after the bouncer
kicked you out at 1:45 am. Life would be better right now if you were in your bed with a dozen doughnuts and a litre of
coke watching daytime TV. You've had 4 cups of coffee, a gallon of water, 2 Sausage Rolls and a litre of diet coke, yet
you haven't peed once.
4 star hangover You have lost the will to live. Your head is throbbing and you can't
speak too quickly or else you might spew. Your boss has already lambasted you for being late and has given you a lecture
for reeking of booze. You wore nice clothes, but you smell of socks, and you can't hide the fact that you (depending on
your gender) either missed an oh-so crucial spot shaving, or it looks like you put your make-up on while riding the dodgems. Your
teeth have their own individual sweaters. Your eyes look like one big vein and your hairstyle makes you look like a reject
from a second-grade class circa 1976. You would give a weeks pay for one of the following - home time, a doughnut and
somewhere to be alone, or a Time Machine so you could go back and NOT have gone out the night before. You scare small
children in the street just by walking past them.
5 star hangover You have a second heartbeat in your head,
which is actually annoying the employee who sits next to you. Bacardi vapour is seeping out of every pore and making you
dizzy. You still have toothpaste crust in the corners of your mouth from brushing your teeth. Your body has lost the
ability to generate saliva, so your tongue is suffocating you. You'd cry, but that would take the last drop of moisture
left in your body. Death seems pretty good right now. Your boss doesn't even get mad at you and your co-workers think
that your dog just died because you look so pathetic. You should have called in sick because, let's face it, all you can
manage to do is breathe ...... very gently.
6 star hangover You arrive home and climb into bed. Sleep
comes instantly, as you were fighting it all the way home in the taxi. You get about 2 hours sleep until the noises inside
your head wake you up. You notice that your bed has been cleared for take-off and is flying relentlessly around the room.
No matter what you do you now, you're going to chuck. You stumble out of bed and now find that your room is in a yacht
under full sail on a rough sea. After walking along the skirting boards on alternating walls knocking off all the pictures,
you find the toilet... If you are lucky you will remember to lift the lid before you spontaneously explode and wake the whole
house with your impersonation of walrus mating calls. You sit there on the floor in your undies, cuddling the only friend
in the world you have left (the toilet), randomly continuing to make the walrus noises, spitting, and farting. Help usually
comes at this stage, even if it is short lived. Tears stream down your face and your abdomen hurts. Help now turns
into abuse and he/she usually goes back to bed leaving you there in the dark. With your stomach totally empty, your spontaneous
eruptions have died back to 15-minute intervals, but your body won't relent. You are convinced that you are starting to
turn yourself inside out and swear that you saw your tonsils shoot out of your mouth on the last occasion. It is now dawn
and you pass your disgusted partner getting up for the day as you try to climb into bed. He/she abuses you again for trying
to get into bed with lumpy bits of dried vomit in your hair. You reluctantly accept their advice and have a shower in
exchange for them driving you to the hospital. Work is simply not an option. The whole day is spent trying to avoid
anything that might make you sick again, like moving. You vow never to touch a drop again and who knows for the next two
or threehours at least you might even succeed.
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