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shit faced
adjective
Alternative spelling of shitfaced
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We tried not to snicker -- no one laughed at Rambo -- but we were all pretty sure he'd be shit faced for at least a week, just like the rest of us.
It's the root of an ever evolving list of profanities -- bullshit, shit storm, shit faced, shit from shenola, shiterade, shitdamnmuthafucka -- second only to that other dirty word naming another familiar compulsion.
There's a story, and it's wonderfully off the wall: the King of All Cosmos, a planet-sized deity, got totally shit faced on a bender and accidentally wiped out all the stars from the night sky.
"Since I was the cute young thing, most of the time I'd end the night not really spending any money at all everyone would buy me drinks until I was shit faced, then my friends would take me home and I'd pass out," he told me.
One incident that seems to have been unfortunately neglected in the national discourse is that he kicked off the election to the tune of Nickelback's "Burn It to the Ground," a song which features such Nickelbackisms such as "Oh, we got no class, no taste, no shirt, shit faced".
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Tate Donovan, who plays Boudreau, does the best "Oh shit" face I think I've ever seen.
When our cameraman was punched in the stomach, and shit- faced local politicians started picking fights with people, hands on their parangs, we felt it was time to move, and spent a good two hours queueing to climb the narrow steps.
Bikram Yoga makes me feel 19 again I used to go on tour, get shit-faced after gigs then pass out.
But in banking you are definitely expected to get shit-faced with your colleagues every once in a while, then make something of a tit out of yourselves.
Specifically, their boorish student fringe, as epitomised by the Riot Club, a fictional dining and destruction society that is not officially based on the Bullingdon Club, in which David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson once, presumably, got shit-faced.
Many of Nickelback's hits are party anthems about whiskey and tequila ("Oh, we got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit-faced")., but the band can't quite sell this flavor of hard-rock idiot insouciance — you get the sense, listening to them, that Kroeger and his bandmates are drinking water while their fans are doing the Jäger shots.
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