Ben Franklin made a list of 228 synonyms for the word drunk, two of them were cherubimical and nimplopsical.... which just goes to show that you shouldn't list synonyms when you're shitfaced, I suppose!
"Shitfaced" has been in use in Zild forever. I've never heard it on TV or radio shows from overseas, yet it seems to be in common use everywhere from the posts above. Perhaps we've finally stumbled over the lodestone of Noam Chomsky's universal grammar at last!
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the drive to achieve drunkeness turned out to be some kind of universal constant. Elephants walk up to 80 miles in Namibia to feed on fermented bananas, and chimps and gorillas have been observed off their faces on fermented juices from various fruits. Even my last dog used to go out of her way to eat cherries which had started fermenting. A dog with a hangover is a sight to behold, let me tell you!
