Everybody is either respectable or a villain. I mean they had a good reason to get pissed. Now they just get pissed ’cause they wish they were dead. So do I. Alan Bleasdale, Boys from the Black Stuff: George’s Last Ride, BBC 1982
I’ve got the mother of all fucking hangovers. Oh my God like you wouldn’t believe – If I have a heavy night, I er compensate the next morning – exercise, antioxidants, you know … Ex Machina 2015 starring Domhnall Gleeson & Oscar Isaac & Alicia Vikander & Sonoya Mizuno & Symara A Templeman & Elina Alminas & Gana Bayarsaikhan & Tiffany Pisani & Clarie Selby & Corey Johnson et al, director Alex Garland, Nathan to Caleb
My passion is as mustard strong;
I sit, all sober sad;
Drunk as a piper all day long,
Or like a March hare mad … John Gay, A New Song of New Similes
Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many when sober have art enough to conceal. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
It was a very narrow street – a ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching towards one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse. All the houses were hotels and packed to the tiles with lodgers, mostly Poles, Arabs and Italians. At the foot of the hotels were tiny bistros, where you could be drunk for the equivalent of a shilling. On Saturday nights about a third of the male population of the quarter were drunk. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Peggy once gave a lunch for Pollock at the Chelsea Hotel. Pollock was belligerent and got so drunk that he threw up. A guest told Peggy, ‘You should frame the carpet; it could be worth millions someday!’ Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, BBC 2016
Looking forward to your summer holiday abroad? Better hope you’re not stuck on a flight with this lot. On Panorama tonight we investigate the rise in drunk and disorderly passengers and the chaos they are bringing to UK flights. Panorama: Plane Drunk, BBC 2017
Whether subsidising cheap flights through alcohol sales is leaving passengers and crew with a nasty hangover. ibid.
Drunk passengers threatening to kill or open plane doors and even attempts to enter the cockpit. ibid.
£25 VIP lounge: you serve yourself and you can drink as much as you like in the three-hour window. ibid.
When you’re drunk, you’re never bored. House of Cards I II III IV ***** Charles to Mattie, BBC 1990
The alcoholism capital of Africa. One favourite type of booze the locals make is called Waragi … War Gin aka The Drunkest Place on Earth aka Uganda’s Moonshine Epidemic, Vice TV 2012
Basically, making Uganda the drunkest place on Earth. ibid.
People were going blind and dying from drinking Waragi cut with industrial chemicals. ibid.
Running up to Uganda’s 2006 election, Museveni and the now political National Resistance Movement abolished presidential term limits. ibid.
There’s nothing wrong with BLTs and getting drunk. Trailer Park Boys s5e5: Jim Lehey is a Fuckin’ Drunk & He Always Will Be, Ray
When you come to the end of the line with a buddy who is more than a brother and a little less than a wife, getting blind drunk together is really the only way to say farewell. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019 starring Leonardo diCaprio & Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie & Emile Hirsch & Margaret Qualley & Timothy Olyphant & Julia Butters & Austin Butler & Dakota Fanning & Bruce Dern & Mike Moh & Luke Perry & Damian Lewis & Al Pacino et al, director Quentin Tarantino
You know, people often say to me, Alexie, why are you drunk all the time? And I say, Because I can afford to be. Alexie Sayle’s Stuff s1e2: From Avogadro to Eva Gardner, BBC 1988