and how many words do eskimos have for 'snow'?

drunk,• adj,

euphemisms include:

Ankled (Bristol)
Badgered, Banjaxed, Battered, Befuggered, Bernard Langered, Bladdered, Blasted, Blathered, Bleezin, Blitzed, Blootered, Blottoed, Bluttered, Boogaloo, Brahms & Liszt, Buckled, Burlin
Cabbaged, Chevy Chased, Clobbered
Decimated, Dot Cottoned, Druck-steaming, Drunk as a Lord, Drunk as a skunk
Etched
Fecked, Fleemered (Germany), Four to the floor
Gatted, Goosed, Got my beer goggles on, Guttered (Inverness)
Had a couple of shickers, Hammer-blowed, Hammered, Hanging, Having the whirlygigs, Howling Inebriated, Intoxicated
Jahalered, Jaiked up (West of Scotland), Jan'd - abbrev for Jan Hammered, Jaxied, Jeremied, Jolly
Kaned
Lagged up, Lamped, Langered (Ireland) [also langers, langerated], Laroped, or alt. larrupt, Lashed, Leathered, Legless, Liquored up (South Carolina), Locked, Locked out of your mind (Ireland), Loo la
Mad wey it, Mandoo-ed, Mangled, Manky, Mashed, Meff'd, Merl Haggard, Merry, Minced, Ming-ho, Minging, Moired, Monged, Monkey-full, Mottled, Mullered
Newcastled, Nicely irrigated with horizontal lubricant
Off me pickle, Off me trolley, On a campaign, Out of it, Out yer tree
Paggered, Palintoshed, Paraletic, Peelywally, Peevied, Pickled, Pie-eyed, Pished, Plastered, Poleaxed, Pollatic
Rat-legged (Stockport), Ratted, Ravaged, Razzled, Reek-ho, Rendered, Rosy glow, Rubbered, Ruined
Saying hello to Mr Armitage, Scattered, Schindlers, Screwed, Scuttered (Dublin), Shedded, Slaughtered, Sloshed, Smashed, Snatered (Ireland), Snobbled (Wales), Sozzled, Spangled, Spannered, Spiffed, Spongelled, Squiffy, Steamin, Steampigged, Stocious, Stonkin
Tanked, Tashered, Tipsy, Trashed, Trollied, Troubled, Trousered, Twisted
Warped, Wasted, Wellied, With the fairies, Wrecked
Zombied

(from here)

sobering

On the evening of Monday July 6 Paddy Higgins, of Surrey, was enjoying a night out drinking with friends in Newquay, the party capital of the South West. He was celebrating finishing his exams and was no doubt looking forward to a relaxing summer holiday. Just a few hours later, he lay dead on the town's Tolcarne beach after falling from 70ft cliffs. Paddy was only 16 years old and the exams he had completed were GCSEs. That night, despite being underage, he had been able to buy Corona beers and sambuccas without having to show any ID.
Just a few weeks earlier, 18 year old Andrew Curwell, of Lancashire, was also found dead at the foot of cliffs in Newquay after a night out drinking in the town. (find it here)

I can't think of a single British institution, from sixth-form to university to the average British workplace, where your peers won't like and trust you more for the ability to knock back a few bevvies. In short, adult Britons think that drinking is cool, exciting and newsworthy, with the inevitable result that their children do, too. (find it here)

i gotta feelin'

Good Wine & Glad Hearts

The thesis: Historically the church has excelled in producing good beer & wine .... and then in drinking it.

[Is it really true that John Calvin was given over 200 litres (or gallons?) of wine as part of his yearly stipend?]

Liberalism & feminism = no more wine

Alcohol is good (not on the job though)

Drunkenness is a sin. So serious that drunkards cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Unless repented of.

Being drunk leads to or is connected with ... brawling, mockery, sexual sin, poverty, violence, dumb drinking games (& then the bragging about the 'legendary' antics of last night), getting really loud, sleepiness, getting others drunk so as to see them naked, depression, futile attempt to escape from life's problems, sleeplessness.

We often read into drinking our past experiences (or of those close to us).

There are 3 perspectives:
prohibitionist (all drinking of alcohol is wrong, evil etc.), but this is silly, God created it to gladden the heart of man (and Jesus turned water into wine! 100-180 gallons of the good stuff). Jesus was accused of being a drunkard. Because he never drank? Come on! But he NEVER was drunk ... he was without sin. So are you holier than Jesus?

abstentionist (not a sin, but because so many people abuse it we should never drink alcohol), God gave Israel loads of stuff that they used for sin. Has God given you a tongue, or hands or mind that you have misused? Is there anything on planet earth that someone has not used to sin with? No! We'll have to absain from everything.
And then we'll line up with those who killed Jesus when he broke their rules.
Swearing. Speeding. Gluttony. Rape.
Speaking. Cars. Food. Women (or men!).
The Bible???!!!
Der! Just learn use them rightly to God's glory.
Did Jesus drink in a day when people abused alcohol and overindulged? Yes.
So are you holier than Jesus? And God makes evil things?

moderationist (drinking alcohol is not a sin, somepeople can drink, some can't - down to conscience)
distinguishes between universal and particular sins.
Universal sins: Murder, adultery, rape etc. are ALWAYS WRONG FOR EVERYONE.
But not all sins are like that.

So the key is to ask the right questions that make this distinction (like Scripture): Who is drinking it? Why? Where? How much? How often? With what effect? etc.

And then act in love with regard to those in the 'other' category to you. [Romans 14]