Can you tell when somebody is drunk?

DEFTLEFTHAND

My maternal grandfather was an alcoholic, two of his daughters followed his path including my own mother, she also abuses subscription medication.

They're very convincing at times, they can be loaded on gin and functioning normally. I've been fooled myself on many occasions.

Me myself I start stammering and stuttering when I get too drunk, it's very noticeable.

Yep, it's always in the eyes. They can often hide slurring and unsteadiness, but never the glassy/sleepy eyes.

Ficheall

Shirley, you can have glassy/sleepy eyes when sober

KERSPLAT!

I dunno. Sure if I can't tell if they're drunk or not how can I tell if I know if someone is drunk or not...

Huh?

Atlantic Dawn

The eyes never lie.

The flying mouse

Ask them a sensible question and wait for sensible answer and wait and wait and wait...

Your Face

I know I'm drunk when I log in to boards.

rubadub

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

I dunno. Sure if I can't tell if they're drunk or not how can I tell if I know if someone is drunk or not...

Huh?

You might find out later. I know a few guys and it would be hard to tell if they are drinking a lot, then the give away could be them repeating the same thing over and over, I would have know they had a few drinks but not that they were utterly locked and possibly in the midst of a blackout.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Depends on what you drink though?
I know I can drink vodka and quite a lot of it and still pass for "just on my second". Back in the glory days I'd down a shoulder and a bit of a second one during pre drinks and still be sober enough to get into pubs on a night out.

Cider blows the head off me to kingdom come. Three pints of cider and I'm ****ed. It's lunatic soup.

Can't drink beer, makes me sick I think I'm allergic to wheat.

Shots write me off too.

I'm a functioning drunk on wine.

Vodka is the only thing that leaves me waking up the next day with a numb face still absolutely plastered. Even though I'm not actually wrote off drinking it

KERSPLAT!

Drink Sambuca for the night, settles your stomach apparently. Will most likely have you off your face after a few though

Spanish Eyes

I know someone is drunk when they are pretending not to be....

One eyed Jack

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Yep, it's always in the eyes. They can often hide slurring and unsteadiness, but never the glassy/sleepy eyes.

Yeah, good luck with that...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned when you get the smell of mints off their breath and the whiff of drink off them! It's easy tell when someone is drunk in so many ways!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Drink Sambuca for the night, settles your stomach apparently. Will most likely have you off your face after a few though

Lord id be going home with a charge sheet

OldMrBrennan83

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B.A._Baracus

'what seems to be the officer, problem?'

DEFTLEFTHAND

The eyes are the window to the soul, but I still don't pick up on it when my mam is pissed.

For instance today I called over to cut the grass and she was perfectly presentable. But afterwards when I was fustering around the kitchen I found a half drained bottle of Gordon's underneath the table.

indioblack

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The eyes are the window to the soul, but I still don't pick up on it when my mam is pissed.

For instance today I called over to cut the grass and she was perfectly presentable. But afterwards when I was fustering around the kitchen I found a half drained bottle of Gordon's underneath the table.

My mother went the same way. She died 16 years ago - and to this day I cannot abide the smell of gin.
A few years before she died she went home to Cork - and her drunken behaviour drove away her remaining relatives. She'd already alienated the English ones. No one would come to her funeral. It was a sad day with myself, my sister and the undertakers - they were embarrassed for us.
It wasn't all down to drink - she just seemed to have that kind of nature.
But in the last years, it was the booze that dominated. She was just an unhappy person.
We used humour to be able to put up with it - the daft things that happen when people get drunk. But it wasn't funny - finally it was tragic - a waste of a fine mind.
She rarely acknowledged it - a few months before she died, when she knew she was dying, she simply said, "I don't need it anymore".

andekwarhola

I repeat most sentences twice when drunk. Three or four times if the sentence is a particularly urgent point, apparently.

So I would fail as a clandestine alcoholic

Olishi4

I can always tell if someone has been drinking. Theres kind of a softer look in their eyes i think.

A few years ago i went on a family holiday with my brother, his wife and their child, my parents and my husband. My dad and my husband went out drinking early one afternoon and they were late to meet us at dinner. When they arrived, they were pissed and we were laughing but kind of rolling our eyes at the same time because they were so loud and my oh kept picking me up. My brother was giving them awful stick.

So the next day, they were going to watch a match and my brother joined them and again they were late to meet my mam, sister in law and myself at dinner. We were sitting in the hotel restaurant, one of those all inclusive places so we had a set time for dinner, waiting on them and across the room, i just saw my brother come in and he gave me a little wave and the big happy head in him, oblivious to the fact that he was as drunk as my dad and husband were the night before.Completely different from the night before when he was rolling his eyes.