Levels of drunkenness

[SweetNess_666]

When I do drink I go to the yellow line when I feel I'm getting to the red I hit a few pints of water then continue drinking . Although sometimes that doesn't work. If I'm in a rock bar or somewhere playing rock/metal n I'm having a really good night its easy for me to red line in that case just gotta ride it out

 

[dex-dex]

five stages of drinking (six if your live in a trailer park)
I go with these stages.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

Yellow-line:
At this level, you think more clearly/better, and you are more social. You can carry on more philosophical conversations and understand more philosophical conversations at this level, than when you are normally completely sober.

I don't think there's ever a point while drinking that makes me think more clearly. Unless you're drinking like, rum and coke and the caffeine works as a stimulant. But rum and coke is for sissies.
The only thing is that you might believe you understand philosophy better, but really you're talking b-plop.

 

[pearcinator]

Im a relatively occasional drinker (once or twice a month). However, when I drink it's not really a light drink. I usually aim for the Yellow Line and try to make it to the Red Line but normally dont drink enough to make it there (I know when to stop...most of the time)

I believe there are 5 stages...for me anyway... (I am not changing any of yours, except I am calling your 'Yellow Line' the 'Orange Line' and putting my own 'Yellow Line' in)

Green-line:
At this level, you have had 1-2 beers/drinks and you can feel that you are drinking, but there are no adverse effects to your drinking yet.

Yellow-Line:
At this stage you have had a few, you are starting to feel the effects such as 'lag' in vision when turning your head and time seems to be slower (I always smile when I look at my watch and realise it's still early). However, you still feel like yourself and are still in control. You are happy at this stage...I also believe that this is the longest stage (Red might feel the longest but to me the yellow-stage lasts a while)...However, this is the stage where you make the decision to stop now OR you decide to drink more and push yourself to the Orange and Red lines.

Orange-line:
At this level, you think more clearly/better, and you are more social. You can carry on more philosophical conversations and understand more philosophical conversations at this level, than when you are normally completely sober. You are also super talkative and your social inhibitions are neutralized almost entirely. The only draw-back to this level, is that it is difficult to maintain, because it is very easy to slip into red-line.

Red-line:
At this level, you have had way too much to drink. It is very likely that you will throw up or pass out soon. Either way, at this point, you are unable to think clearly/quickly, and whenever you talk to someone, you find yourself repeating yourself often and talking loudly. It is unlikely you realize you are talking loudly, but others will notice this right away. it is also very unlikely you are able to carry on intelligent conversation at this point. The "generic" drunk signs are also prevalent: difficulty with spelling, walking, talking, inability to stay still, drowziness, etc.

Black-Line:
This is the final line, you have just thrown up from too much alcohol or you are about to pass out. There are what I believe 3 outcomes to this stage, depending on personality and gender.

1. You don't want to socialize or talk to anyone. (unaggressive, applies to both genders)

You may be embarrassed about throwing up or drinking too much. (This is me when I "black-line")

2. You want to pick a fight. (aggressive, mostly applies to Males)

You are angry for some reason and want to pick a fight, most of the time nothing happens or you end up picking a fight and likely will lose. Maybe you just kick something cos you are pissed off. (observation of other wasted people)

3. You are over-emotional and start crying (unaggressive, mostly applies to Females)

You start crying for almost no reason or telling 'sad' stories that make you tear up (when they aren't even that sad) and make others roll their eyes at how pathetic you look/sound/are (observation of a few of my friends)

So yeah, this is my extension to your levels of drunkenness. Yours are perfectly reasonable and all fit in. I just think that you were missing a couple of levels. Personally, non-drinkers at most stay at the green line. Most occasional drinkers only get to the yellow-line and try for the Red but mostly miss. Alcoholics go for the Red every time and many times slip into the Black line.

Im only 20, so are my friends, but in my short experience I believe there are 5 stages of drunkenness. I know this post is long but I had fun writing it I think I will try to "black-line" this Friday! Or at the very least get to Red Line. (it's a friends 21st party and I need to get drunk cos its been a month and I am back at uni and pissed off about it already, definitely need to drink!)

 

[DanielBrown]

Red-lined.
I'm bad at controlling myself, so I keep drinking until I pass out.

My old friends got a bit tired of having to drag me home every time we went out. Cant say I blame them.

 

[Thedayrecker]

Yellow-line:
At this level, you think more clearly/better, and you are more social. You can carry on more philosophical conversations and understand more philosophical conversations at this level, than when you are normally completely sober. You are also super talkative and your social inhibitions are neutralized almost entirely. The only draw-back to this level, is that it is difficult to maintain, because it is very easy to slip into red-line.

Alcohol never stuck me as a philosophical drug.

Then again I don't drink too much, so I'm not the best judge of it.

 

[rokkolpo]

Not at all actually.
Well I get green, but I have more like a orange (likely because I'm Dutch) afterwards between yellow and red.
Which is where I tend to dwell most of the night.

After that there is only shitfaced.
Which is beyond red.

 

[rokkolpo]

Im a relatively occasional drinker (once or twice a month). However, when I drink it's not really a light drink. I usually aim for the Yellow Line and try to make it to the Red Line but normally dont drink enough to make it there (I know when to stop...most of the time)

I believe there are 5 stages...for me anyway... (I am not changing any of yours, except I am calling your 'Yellow Line' the 'Orange Line' and putting my own 'Yellow Line' in)

Green-line:
At this level, you have had 1-2 beers/drinks and you can feel that you are drinking, but there are no adverse effects to your drinking yet.

Yellow-Line:
At this stage you have had a few, you are starting to feel the effects such as 'lag' in vision when turning your head and time seems to be slower (I always smile when I look at my watch and realise it's still early). However, you still feel like yourself and are still in control. You are happy at this stage...I also believe that this is the longest stage (Red might feel the longest but to me the yellow-stage lasts a while)...However, this is the stage where you make the decision to stop now OR you decide to drink more and push yourself to the Orange and Red lines.

Orange-line:
At this level, you think more clearly/better, and you are more social. You can carry on more philosophical conversations and understand more philosophical conversations at this level, than when you are normally completely sober. You are also super talkative and your social inhibitions are neutralized almost entirely. The only draw-back to this level, is that it is difficult to maintain, because it is very easy to slip into red-line.

Red-line:
At this level, you have had way too much to drink. It is very likely that you will throw up or pass out soon. Either way, at this point, you are unable to think clearly/quickly, and whenever you talk to someone, you find yourself repeating yourself often and talking loudly. It is unlikely you realize you are talking loudly, but others will notice this right away. it is also very unlikely you are able to carry on intelligent conversation at this point. The "generic" drunk signs are also prevalent: difficulty with spelling, walking, talking, inability to stay still, drowziness, etc.

Black-Line:
This is the final line, you have just thrown up from too much alcohol or you are about to pass out. There are what I believe 3 outcomes to this stage, depending on personality and gender.

1. You don't want to socialize or talk to anyone. (unaggressive, applies to both genders)

You may be embarrassed about throwing up or drinking too much. (This is me when I "black-line")

2. You want to pick a fight. (aggressive, mostly applies to Males)

You are angry for some reason and want to pick a fight, most of the time nothing happens or you end up picking a fight and likely will lose. Maybe you just kick something cos you are pissed off. (observation of other wasted people)

3. You are over-emotional and start crying (unaggressive, mostly applies to Females)

You start crying for almost no reason or telling 'sad' stories that make you tear up (when they aren't even that sad) and make others roll their eyes at how pathetic you look/sound/are (observation of a few of my friends)

So yeah, this is my extension to your levels of drunkenness. Yours are perfectly reasonable and all fit in. I just think that you were missing a couple of levels. Personally, non-drinkers at most stay at the green line. Most occasional drinkers only get to the yellow-line and try for the Red but mostly miss. Alcoholics go for the Red every time and many times slip into the Black line.

Im only 20, so are my friends, but in my short experience I believe there are 5 stages of drunkenness. I know this post is long but I had fun writing it I think I will try to "black-line" this Friday! Or at the very least get to Red Line. (it's a friends 21st party and I need to get drunk cos its been a month and I am back at uni and pissed off about it already, definitely need to drink!)

This seems about right.
I gradually go through the levels rather quickly.
Never really got in the black luckily.

 

[olliefrom1990]

Normally I'm a yellow line drinking, but if I get "dragged" out for a proper night out it will most certainly end up in red line.

 

[Aulleas123]

I love the yellow line, usually with beer but sometimes with a bit of whiskey too.

Even if I'm not driving, unless I've had a really bad week, I usually stay out of the red. Its not fun to be helpless and its not fun to be sick.

 

[StBishop]

Of course, this only applies to people who drink alcohol, so if you don't (at all), you can stop reading this.

I came up with three grades of drunkenness a few years ago, and have not been able to come up with any better summary of drunkenness since.
As such, I would like you fellow Escapist drinkers of alcohol to tell me how these categories of drunkenness, summarize your drunkenness.

Green-line:
At this level, you have had 1-2 beers/drinks and you can feel that you are drinking, but there are no adverse effects to your drinking yet.

Yellow-line:
At this level, you think more clearly/better, and you are more social. You can carry on more philosophical conversations and understand more philosophical conversations at this level, than when you are normally completely sober. You are also super talkative and your social inhibitions are neutralized almost entirely. The only draw-back to this level, is that it is difficult to maintain, because it is very easy to slip into red-line.

Red-line:
At this level, you have had way too much to drink. It is very likely that you will throw up or pass out soon. Either way, at this point, you are unable to think clearly/quickly, and whenever you talk to someone, you find yourself repeating yourself often and talking loudly. It is unlikely you realize you are talking loudly, but others will notice this right away. it is also very unlikely you are able to carry on intelligent conversation at this point. The "generic" drunk signs are also prevalent: difficulty with spelling, walking, talking, inability to stay still, drowziness, etc.


So fellow Escapists that consume alcohol, how do these three categories sum up your drunkenness?

I think there's more like 5 levels.

0 being sober

1 being what you discribed as greenline

2 being when you start to feel a little numb or silly, things are funnier but you are still able to maintain dignity and you don't necessarily lose inhibitions

3 being Yellow line.

4 being a little less than redline, you are still capable of standing/walking/maybe dancing, but you're an obnoxious git and think that you're much better at things than you actually are.

5 being well beyond understanding anything, from cause and effect to the idea of self preservation, you can't stand properly, you probably can't walk, you probably forgot to put it away after pissing. No bar tender in the world would serve you, even if he hated you (which he probably does) and you're lucky if you're not in the gutter by now. You better hope your friends like you because you probably hit one of them and got all of you kicked out at some point in the night. You smell like vomit.

 

[Versuvius]

Border between yellow and red line unless i have something important to do or to stay awake for. Intoduce a bit of pot in the mix and odds are my lower body will switch off for hilarious shennanigans when i want to head upstairs.

 

[Zantos]

I tend to go yellow/red. Not much throwing up though, just get sent to bed

 

[Arafiro]

I don't think there are enough lines, really. When you predrink for a club you ideally want to be somewhere inbetween yellow and red.

That said, being out and in the "red-line" category with a load of people that are also in said category can be a bloody entertaining experience.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

I've hit red about twice in my life, both times when gunning for it. Normally my friends get drunk before me so I slow up and take care of them.

Yellow doesn't exist people think they're thinking more clearly but they're not, as someone who can hold his drink and is a philosophy major I get to see a lot of people hit the 'yellow line' and start coming out with the most inane rubbish I've ever heard.
So it's there but don't think you're clever when you're at it, to anyone who's less drunk than you are you sound like a nonce.

I normally drink a fair amount but alcohol has little effect on me, mentally it slows my processes down and physically I start to lose a bit of balance and co ordination but I never stumble around and I don't get silly or rowdy, perhaps frustrated at my inability to think quite as clearly. I tend to skip over all of that and go straight for hurling, both times I purposefully got wasted I was drinking steadily and relatively slowly and never did anything stupid, just went from a little dumb to throwing up in the toilet. My friends insist it's because I'm Scottish.

 

[Versuvius]

You can have the best conversations and occasionally the most far out and still sort of reasonable in a inhebriated logic kind of way. Just sayin'.

Of course captcha, ntlynati honesty indeed.

 

[trollnystan]

As the token sober one when people are drinking, I've seen all three lines - and the multitude of lines between - although my take on the yellow line is that most people THINK they're thinking clearer/better but aren't really.

I hate witnessing the red line and I personally don't understand why people WANT to get that drunk. When I was younger I skirted the red line twice and I hated it. Not to mention peoples common sense and/or courtesy seems to go out the window and they do stupid shit like breaking bottles in playgrounds and harassing passersby. Sorry for the mini-rant. *slinks off*

 

[Dma]

I can't believe my first post is in a drunkenness thread but there you go.

I'd have to say the yellow-line. Still in control but aware that I'm not my usual self. If I'm having a good night I just want to remember it and not end up in a drunken rage which always ends badly and full of regret the next day.
But then again you could always be one of the people that just fall asleep when they hit the red-line and require being dragged around lifelessly the rest of the night which doesn't look suspicious to passing police officers at all. Fun times if you can remember it.

 

[Ambi]

Yellow or green line (I don't drink much, I'm not sure):

I stood on a seventh floor balcony and gazed out at the pretty lights, and wondered why everything looked so much more romantic and exciting from afar and drew parallels between that wonder and feelings of anticipation for the future. I thought of the bricks, weed-ridden concrete, street lights, commercial blandness and the like (but mostly the weedy concrete) that converged to make up the beautiful view before me. I then contemplated the evolutionary psychology of it. I turned back to the sliding door and noticed my friend's copy of "Jesus and You" (or something along those lines) lying on the tiles with a packet of cigarettes and a UDL. I thought it was beautiful so I wrote it in my notebook.

I contemplated whether or not the alcohol consumed was wasted because none of us were really drunk, and looked across at the table with a confused type of contempt because everything seemed so typical and faux-grown-up ("we get together and we drink and that's just what's done when you're 18+"), and then proclaimed I was bored so I was going to drink some more, only to have someone whisk the bottle away. I thanked him.

Not a perfect and linear account, but you get the gist of it.