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self-pardonned adj. Too drunk to wait for forgiveness, and therefore granting it to yourself between two attempts at standing. self-parkinged adj. You have drunk enough to let the nearest wall complete your arrival while your companions negotiate the damage. self-partialitied adj. Having drunk enough to rate your own coordination above everybody else's, despite the evidence on the stairs. self-perpetuationed adj. Having drunk more than enough to continue the same stumble indefinitely, without any outside assistance. self-pitied adj. You are drunk and treating every failed step as evidence of personal betrayal. Naziyah was self-pitied, consoling herself after the staircase refused another careful attempt. self-plagiarismed adj. Of a drinker: repeating the same sentence, gesture and misstep without acknowledging earlier performances. Genoria was self-plagiarismed, telling the same story twice with identical pauses and errors. self-played adj. Describing a drinker who repeatedly competes with himself and loses to the same manoeuvre. Udell was self-played, losing repeatedly to the same manoeuvre near the cloakroom. self-pleasinged adj. A drinker who has mistaken private satisfaction for a reasonable use of the evening. self-pleasured adj. A drinker so far gone that private gratification has become the evening's most coherent objective. self-pleasurered adj. The state of being drunk and behaving as though solitary gratification were a recognised public function. Jovian became self-pleasurered, presenting solitary gratification as though it were a civic service. self-pollinationed adj. The condition of a drinker who transfers every thought back into himself, producing no useful cross-fertilisation. self-pollutered adj. The drunkenness of one who contaminates his own conversation with material better left unintroduced. self-pollutioned adj. Reduced by drink to revisiting private indiscretions and regarding them as a complete account of the evening. Roderich was self-pollutioned, recounting an intimate mistake to the banister on the way upstairs. self-portraited adj. Drunk by the third round, and presenting your own likeness to the coats as evidence of identity. self-possessioned adj. Drunk by closing time, and retaining confidence in your powers despite having misplaced both coat and taxi. self-praised adj. Still drunk, and commending your own conduct to anyone remaining after the coats have gone.