Free booze!!

This graffiti was painted on the Swedish equivalent to the bottle shop (Systembolaget). It says "Free booze please!". Fantastic.

Well actually it more accurately says "free drunkenness please!". But I realised I don't think there is a good colloquial expression for the noun intoxication (drunkenness / insobriety / tipsiness) in English. At least I can't think of one! How can that be?

"Fylla" is such a useful word. It can be used to describe being out on the piss, it can be described as a way of getting drunk or the actual intoxication itself. Of course Swedish has many words for these things. (See previous posts about the weather - that would explain why people take to the bottle...)

Any suggestions on English words that has the same usage? Surely the Irish would have one at least!