Are you pissed .. or pissed ??

Tubthumping.. by Chumbawumba.. happens to be one of my favourite songs....
there is a part of song which goes like..
'Pissing the night awayyyyyyy'
I was reading about what Tubthumping or a Tubthumper means.. thats when I came across this very interesting excerpt from an article :

"To piss" has a different meaning in the UK than in the US - "Pissing the night away" would translate to "Drinking (alcoholic beverages) all night." To be pissed in England is to be drunk, to be pissed in the US is to be angry. "

So you can go into a bar at London , waste yourself and say ' I am pissed ' ... people would believe you... as u visibly would be pissed.
So Tubthumping lyrics obviously make a lot more sense now... as to why the lyrics go like..
'It takes a Whisky drink.. It takes a Vodka drink........."

As you must have guessed Chumbawumba is a British band.

And by the way... Tubthumper means a Politician in UK, Tubthumping means campaigning or trying hard to promote your views... all slang ofcourse..

Bhavin